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Let's continue with the second half of the nineteenth century.

What are your favourite novels of the period 1850-1899?


Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Leo Tolstoy - War...

Let's continue with the first half of the nineteenth century. What are your favourite novels of the period 1800-1849?

Here are mine:


Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights (1847)
Stendhal - The...

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This thread is meant to browse through the history of literature by letting forum members make their list of favourite literary works by period and genre. I would like to start with novels...

The tragic hero was invented by the Ancient Greeks: someone who means well, but who messes up. Examples are Oedipus and Medea. Later examples are Hamlet and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

The antihero...

Michael Dobbs - House of Cards

The book is very good, although the ending is a bit abrupt. It gives great insight into the manipulations behind the screen in politics, conflicts within a party and...

Hi, everybody,

Would there be enough interest on this forum for a series of polls on everyone's favorite novels by period? I've noticed there are a lot of these polls on film and music websites...

The 1958 film adaptation is an easy way to get into the story. After that you might be more motivated to read the complete novel.

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
Anthony Horowitz - The Sinister Secret of Frederick K. Bower
Astrid Lindgren - Emil of Lönneberga
Astrid Lindgren - Ronia the Robber's Daughter
Astrid Lindgren - The...

Roald Dahl, Nikolai Gogol and P. G. Wodehouse are the masters of the funny short stories.

The only classic author that hasn't been mentioned yet seems to be Nikolai Leskov. His best-known novel is "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District".

A recent crime author is Boris Akunin. He writes...

I read books because they're more interesting than the newspaper.

E. A. Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart
Roald Dahl - William and Mary
Thomas Hardy - Barbara of the House of Grebe

Naomi Klein is the Canadian anti-globalist who wrote "No Logo" and "The Shock Doctrine". In "No Logo" she criticized globalized capitalism and had attention for the sweatshops in Asia where brand...

Maybe we should read one of her books first and judge afterwards.

She's a non-fiction writer and journalist from Belarus. She wrote about Chernobyl and the downfall of the Soviet regime. She was persecuted by the Lukashenko regime and lived in France and Germany...

Victor Hugo. The lesser known of his three novels, "The Man Who Laughs" is as good as the other two, "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".

When a woman is the title character it's often about adultery: Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Thérèse Raquin, Lady Chatterley...

I have read (almost) everything by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Roald Dahl, Jane Austen (not the letters) and Agatha Christie. I read more than half of Dickens. I read everything by Emily Brontë, Harper...

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1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
2. Lev Tolstoy - War and Peace
3. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
4. Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
5. Emily Brontë -...

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Under the Skin - Michel Faber
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Henry Miller?
Douglas Coupland?
Stephen Fry?
Bret Easton Ellis?
James Ellroy?
Michel Faber?

Sometimes I take a pile of books from the library. I don't feel obliged to read all of them completely. You can always go back later if you regret not finishing it.

If I get to about halfway and I...

I'm currently reading "20.000 Leagues under the Sea" by Jules Verne. That must be one of the greatest adventure novels!