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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 .
The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [2] [3] The list triggered comments from critics and other news agencies.
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [ 4 ]
Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy: The Forever King (1992) is a trilogy of books set in modern-day about a boy who is King Arthur reincarnated and his protector Hal, a former police officer who is the reincarnation of Galahad. Susan Cooper: The Dark Is Rising Sequence is a five volume young adult fantasy collection (1965–77).
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.
Candy (Brooks novel) The Canticle of Whispers; The Carbon Diaries: 2015; Castle in the Air (novel) The Cat of Bubastes; Cherry Crush (novel) The Children of the Lost; Clay (novel) Click (novel) Cold Tom; Collision Course (Hinton novel) Come Clean (novel) A Company of Swans; Coram Boy; Corydon and the Island of Monsters; A Countess Below Stairs ...
This category is for novels in which a school is the main setting or the focus of events.. For novels set in an elementary or primary school (middle school), a high school or secondary school (middle school), a boarding school, or a university or college, see Category:Novels set in elementary and primary schools, Category:Novels set in high schools and secondary schools, Category:Novels set in ...
Another significant late 19th-century novelist is George Gissing (1857–1903), who published 23 novels from 1880 to 1903. His best-known novel is New Grub Street (1891). Also in the late 1890s, the Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), an important forerunner of modernist literature, began publishing his first novels.