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Inspired by the BBC Big Read project and my initial plan to read the entire 100 books on the list I thought it might make for more interesting reading if we were to create a Barbelith Big Read list.
I think we should our list should be our top 25 books, and I think people should only nominate one book each. This list is not of the 'best' books (contemporary and classic works of literature that stand out for their fine writing, profound explorations of the human condition and their impact on the direction of world literature) as that would look more like an English undergraduate's reading list. It's a list of comfort reads or books you always go back to, even if it's something you last read in childhood. It's an emotive list rather than one of literary excellence.
The rules are:
The book must be a novel (no plays, short stories or comic books).
The book must be fiction.
The book must be available in the English language (I know, but it makes it easier for everyone to get hold of a copy, and indeed read it).
And if anyone else has any good suggestions for rules that's cool.
I'm not sure how we could do it, except that it would perhaps take 2 threads. One thread (perhaps this one) could be votes, and then when a certain number of votes had been reached the book the votes applied to could be added onto the definitive list.
Alternatively, maybe I could act as vote collator and people could PM me with their suggestions, although that might mean for an awful lot of PM's before we get even one book which has enough votes! |
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