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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 .
Six Four (ロクヨン, Rokuyon) is a crime/mystery novel written by Hideo Yokoyama in Japanese and published in 2012. [1] It was the first of his novels to be translated into English. [ 2 ] The novel follows detective Mikami as he prepares for a visit to one of the top police officials in Japan . [ 2 ]
A light novel (ライトノベル, raito noberu) is a style of Japanese young adult fiction primarily targeting high school and middle school students. [1] The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. [2] or, in English, LN. The average length of a light novel is about 50,000 words.
A list of the ten best graphic novels of the period was subsequently published as a supplement to the list. [3] Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons appears on both the 100 Best Novels and 10 Best Graphic Novels lists, giving the combined lists a total of 109 entries.
'How to Love in the Big City') is a novel by Sang Young Park. Its English translation was published in 2021 by Grove Atlantic in the US and Tilted Axis Press in the UK, with Anton Hur as the translator. [1] This is the first work made by Park that was published in English. [2] It was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022.
A web novel or webnovel is a novel published online. Web novels exist in both free-to-read and pay-to-read formats. Web novels are particularly popular in China, with the country producing and consuming the largest amount of web fiction in the world. [14]
Sweet Sixteen, A Coming of Age Story is a 2017 novel by Nigerian politician and writer Bolaji Abdullahi.. The book focuses on Aliya, a young woman who must remind her father that she is no longer a child but a young adult.
Publishers Weekly called The English Assassin a "superbly crafted thriller." [3] However, other reviews were less glowing. Thom Geier writing for Entertainment Weekly gave the novel a "C" rating. Geier noted that "Silva's plotting is as sophisticated as paint-by-numbers" and that his novel suffers from "sloppily written descriptions."