I've read only some of this list, but I read and loved Nector in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya when I was young, found it later and loved it all over again! Students chose to have me teach Lord of the Flies, which I hated in school and still didn't like while I taught it, but the contrast [talking back] to The Coral Sea is interesting. They were public school boys [in England, that's "private school" to the US] and they brought the brutality of their class with them. And that conch... shells don't become translucent, they go the other way with time.
I've read all of the best known ones but many of the others interest me. I've read a lot of Murdoch, but not Under the Net. I think I might read the Comyns soon because the title alone is great and she was mentioned in a class in my MFA program ( Maud Casey, a class on "Lingering in the Strange"). The strange calls today-- surely these are some of the strangest times since my birth year, 1954.
I’ve read all of best known list except Bonjour Tristesse. I read Lord of the Rings for the first time in the 70s and have reread every 10 years or so and have read everything he wrote plus most of work done posthumously. I began reading C.S. Lewis in the 60s and still do.
I've read only some of this list, but I read and loved Nector in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya when I was young, found it later and loved it all over again! Students chose to have me teach Lord of the Flies, which I hated in school and still didn't like while I taught it, but the contrast [talking back] to The Coral Sea is interesting. They were public school boys [in England, that's "private school" to the US] and they brought the brutality of their class with them. And that conch... shells don't become translucent, they go the other way with time.
I've read all of the best known ones but many of the others interest me. I've read a lot of Murdoch, but not Under the Net. I think I might read the Comyns soon because the title alone is great and she was mentioned in a class in my MFA program ( Maud Casey, a class on "Lingering in the Strange"). The strange calls today-- surely these are some of the strangest times since my birth year, 1954.
And since mine, 1948.
I’ve read all of best known list except Bonjour Tristesse. I read Lord of the Rings for the first time in the 70s and have reread every 10 years or so and have read everything he wrote plus most of work done posthumously. I began reading C.S. Lewis in the 60s and still do.