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What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. I feel as if I read all the time but somehow I haven't managed to read mainstream books.)Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellAnna KareninaCrime and PunishmentCatch-22One Hundred Years of SolitudeWuthering...
While spending my inheritance on a copy of "Careless in Red" over at Exclusive Books on line this morning, I came across their "101 Books to read before you die" list. The 101 best novels of all time, as voted for by Exclusive Books customers: [italics = read] The Lord of the Rings - A.A. Milne...
Epidemics make great horror fiction - but recent, misanthropic imaginings don't measure up to the classic acccounts of Defoe and Camus In reality I only needed a bare scratch of top-up Hep A. Yet I'd spent the previous week populating my imagination with a legion of diseases. Given this you'd be...
The shortlist for the Best of Booker has been announced - you'll remember that this is part of the celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize.The six books shortlisted by the judges (biographer Victoria Glendinning, broadcaster Mariella Frostrup and...
Bid adieu to first editions. Original stories from JK Rowling, Doris Lessing and co are to grace some lucky kitchen pinboard Old hat. Photograph: Sean Smith One of the many great things about books is that they're endlessly reproducible - since the invention of the printing press, anyway. Even if...
'How terrible it must be for all the people who had no one to love them so and no one whom they loved so," Antiguan novelist Jamaica Kinkaid reflects about her mother in "The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion." ... by Rob Neufeld • published May 11, 2008 12:15 am...
Want to meet learned and passionate readers? Go to the Arthur C Clarke awards for sci-fi, says Andrew McKie. ... Want to meet learned and passionate readers? One obvious distinction between the Arthur C Clarke Award, for the best science fiction novel published in Britain...
WITH her latest novel Get a Life (2005) Gordimer turns to an entirely new topic, not only in her own oeuvre, but also in South African literature: ecology and environmental protection. ... The novel, most probably the first truly self-conscious "green" novel in South...
Guide Note The Robber Bride is a television movie based on Margaret Atwood's novel about a murder investigation of a woman everyone has motive to kill. This result is currently a stub, a brief collection of the best links for this story. The page will be updated as we...
Bringing flinty CanLit heroine Hagar Shipley to the big screen was a process of discovery two times over for actors Ellen Burstyn and Christine Horne. ... Hollywood veteran Burstyn and Toronto newcomer Horne play the 94-year-old Hagar at different stages in The Stone...
