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The Guardian asked readers a fortnight after the conclusion of McCrum's list to name the novels that they wish had been on the list. The book with the highest number of votes was Chinua Achebe 's Things Fall Apart , the second Arundhati Roy 's The God of Small Things , and the third Toni Morrison 's Beloved .
Many publishers have lists of best books, defined by their own criteria.This article enumerates some lists for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by ...
Articles relating to military fiction, a genre of fiction, focusing on military activities, such as war, battles, combat, fighting; or military life. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
War novels, including written military fiction [6] [7] War films, military fiction in cinema [8] [4] Military and war video games [5] [9] Subgenres of military ...
That’s true of all the tomes on our list of the best books of all time. To land in the top 100, a book needed to truly stand out in the stacks. We considered best sellers, award winners, and ...
The list was compiled by Time Magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo. [1] The list includes only English language novels published between 1923 (when Time was first published) and 2005 (when the list was compiled). As a result, some notable 20th-century novels, such as Ulysses by James Joyce (published in 1922), were ineligible for ...
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
He went on to write a number of detective novels; Sven Hassel, Danish-born penal regiment soldier; Robert A. Heinlein, Lt., graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Served in U.S. Navy aboard USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Roper (DD-147), Philadelphia Navy Yard (Stranger in a Strange Land) Joseph Heller, served in 12th Air Force