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Not to be confused with The Observer's 100 Best Novels started in 2013, which excludes the translations that are such a feature of this 2003 list. For reasons I have yet to fathom, it excited special notice in Australia." And it would drive them mad (in good and bad ways) all over again. Every now and again, some particular group would tangle with the Observer list. Once the initial furore – why no Updike? How on earth could we exclude PG Wodehouse? – had died down, the creature we had created continued to circulate in cyberspace, sponsoring a rare mixture of rage and delight, apparently without rhyme or reason. Say what you like about lists, but this one rapidly developed a life of its own, like a sci-fi alien. Ten years ago, on 12 October 2003, in a headline-grabbing stunt, writing as literary editor, I compiled (with a lot of help from colleagues) a list, provocatively entitled "The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time". That's an observation for which the Observer can adduce empirical evidence.
"If lists are a guilty pleasure, then book lists are a sinful addiction. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera The BFG by Roald Dahl - not in English Common KnowledgeĪn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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