New additions marked with asterix *
: Pre 1800 :
0001 : The Thousand and One Nights . Anonymous
0002 : The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter . Anonymous *
0003 : The Tale of Genji . Murasaki Shikibu *
0004 : Romance of the Three Kingdoms . Luó Guànzhong *
0005 : The Water Margin . Shi Nai’an & Luó [...]
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July 3, 2008
The “new and improved” 1001 list
July 3, 2008
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction
2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright
2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2005 The Sea by John Banville
2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
1999 Disgrace by J. [...]
June 22, 2008
Listing the Lists of the Lists
I recently read a Sunday Salon blog that was about (yes, another book list!) The EW 100 New Classics book list. My first instict was to scream! Yet another standard to which I’ll never match up! We book listers must be masochistic, that’s all I can say.
My second thought, however, was how could we have [...]
