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Great works of literature for lockdown

I'm cracking through more books at the moment that I would normally do at any other time than when I am on holiday. It probably is the time to raise my game a bit because Lee Child has only written so many Jack Reacher novels and I might regret it if I haven't tried anything more improving. Does anyone have suggestions for their favourite classics of English literature that need to be read before we can start going out again?

Mark Evans ● 2172d7 Comments

'100 novels that shaped our world' - should be able to find something here...https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/494P41NCbVYHlY319VwGbxp/explore-the-list-of-100-novels-that-shaped-our-world?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=scotland&ns_campaign=bbc_arts

Lorna Dodd ● 2170d

One hundred years of solitude, Also GG Marques.Don Quichotte. Really funny and utterly brilliant Translation by Edith Grossman. (Cervantes is a contemporary of Shakespeare, he died one day before Shakespeare).

Kim Rugg ● 2170d

The Plague by Albert CamusGabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera

Peter Savick ● 2171d

There are plenty of fine new novels. I've just finished Washington Black for this month's book club (we're going to Skype it).

Susan Kelly ● 2171d

Anything - including the essays - especially the essays - by George Orwell.If you want to stay calm and know this too will pass - Marcus Aurelius.I'm finding reading really had and am about to resort to my comfort reads of Barbara Pym, Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer. But they are a bit girly maybe....

Sara Nathan ● 2171d

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

Tom Fowler ● 2172d

Can it be in English but not English.Currently loving "A prayer for Owen Meany" John IrvingMoby Dick. Melville.Middlemarch.

Kim Rugg ● 2172d