100 Novels that Shaped Our World

Responding to the BBC’s new list of 100 novels that shaped our world to mark the 300th anniversary of the English language novel. I chat about my reaction to the books listed and my feelings about the 42 that I’ve read. Let me know your thoughts! Click 'Show More' for links and info.
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Info on the BBC Arts season on the Novels that Shaped Our World: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...

The list of 100 novels: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...

The 50 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels:    • The 50 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels  

Some novels discussed:
Corregidora - Gayl Jones
https://www.bookdepository.com/Correg...
Days Without End – Sebastian Barry
https://www.bookdepository.com/Days-W...
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
https://www.bookdepository.com/Half-Y...
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
https://www.bookdepository.com/Homego...
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
https://www.bookdepository.com/White-...
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
https://www.bookdepository.com/Giovan...
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
https://www.bookdepository.com/Their-...
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
https://www.bookdepository.com/Passio...
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
https://www.bookdepository.com/Big-Sl...
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
https://www.bookdepository.com/Franke...
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
https://www.bookdepository.com/Road-C...
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
https://www.bookdepository.com/Brave-...
Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
https://www.bookdepository.com/Home-F...
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
https://www.bookdepository.com/Lord-F...
V for Vendetta – Alan Moore
https://www.bookdepository.com/V-For-...
Unless – Carol Shields
https://www.bookdepository.com/Unless...
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
https://www.bookdepository.com/Canner...
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
https://www.bookdepository.com/Wide-S...
Golden Child - Claire Adam
https://www.bookdepository.com/Golden...
Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
https://www.bookdepository.com/Oryx-C...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte
https://www.bookdepository.com/Tenant...
American War – Omar El Akkad
https://www.bookdepository.com/Americ...
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
https://www.bookdepository.com/Rebecc...
Bartleby, the Scrivener – Herman Melville
https://www.bookdepository.com/Bartle...
How to be Both – Ali Smith
https://www.bookdepository.com/How-be...
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
https://www.bookdepository.com/Orland...
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
https://www.bookdepository.com/Nights...
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
https://www.bookdepository.com/1984-G...
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
https://www.bookdepository.com/Golden...
We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates
https://www.bookdepository.com/We-Wer...

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