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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 highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
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 ]
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 ...
Pages in category "Novels set in high schools and secondary schools" The following 134 pages are in this category, out of 134 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.
Tom Brown's School Days ' influence on the genre of British school novels includes the fictional schools of Billy Bunter, Mr. Chips, St. Trinian's, and Harry Potter series. [8] [9] The book contains an account of a game of rugby football, the variant of football played at Rugby School (with many differences from the modern forms). The book's ...