Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for April 2023 are:

Love and Comedy

to help with choosing nominations, I have updated the threads containing the full list of books in each of these categories, showing which books have already been read - hopefully these are useful:

Love List

Comedy List

so let's have those suggestions...

love : Waterland by Graham Swift
comedy: According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge

love: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
comedy: A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift

comedy: curious incident of the dog in the nighttime (haddon)

love: the passion (winterson)

love: Strait is the Gate by André Gide
comedy: The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

love: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
comedy: Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau

Thankyou all for those :o)

I will put Polls up later today...

Love :
Waterland by Graham Swift (1983) 368 pages
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856) 329 pages
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (1987) 160 pages
Strait is the Gate by André Gide (1909) 104 pages
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961) 355 pages

Comedy:
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge (2001) 244 pages
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift (1704) 208 pages
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003) 226 pages
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark (1970) 103 pages
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau (1959) 157 pages

Polls are up!

Which two books do you want to read in April? (one Love, one Comedy):

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...