This time it's the 50 Greatest British writers since 1945 (with the authors I've read in bold):
1. Philip Larkin
2. George Orwell
3. William Golding
4. Ted Hughes
5. Doris Lessing
6. J. R. R. Tolkien
7. V. S. Naipaul
8. Muriel Spark
9. Kingsley Amis
10. Angela Carter
11. C. S. Lewis
12. Iris Murdoch
13. Salman Rushdie
14. Ian Fleming
15. Jan Morris
16. Roald Dahl
17. Anthony Burgess
18. Mervyn Peake
19. Martin Amis
20. Anthony Powell
21. Alan Sillitoe
22. John Le Carré
23. Penelope Fitzgerald
24. Philippa Pearce
25. Barbara Pym
26. Beryl Bainbridge
27. J. G. Ballard
28. Alan Garner
29. Alasdair Gray
30. John Fowles
31. Derek Walcott
32. Kazuo Ishiguro
33. Anita Brookner
34. A. S. Byatt
35. Ian McEwan
36. Geoffrey Hill
37. Hanif Kureshi
38. Iain Banks
39. George Mackay Brown
40. A. J. P. Taylor
41. Isaiah Berlin
42. J. K. Rowling
43. Philip Pullman
44. Julian Barnes
45. Colin Thubron
46. Bruce Chatwin
47. Alice Oswald
48. Benjamin Zephaniah
49. Rosemary Sutcliff
50. Michael Moorcock
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You might very well enjoy Angela Carter's book of short stories, The Bloody Chamber. It's her take on a number of fairy tales. Twisted is not too strong a term, but elegantly done.
ReplyDeleteI read the story "The Bloody Chamber" last fall. I'm not so sure I have the wherewithal to read any more from that collection. Have you read Wise Children? I have a copy of that. . .
ReplyDeleteI'm, as usual, *shocked* at certain omissions, but no one, of course, asked me....
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David Mitchell (longlisted)
Zadie Smith (longlisted)
Lawrence Norfolk
A.L Kennedy
Terry Pratchett
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I have ~got~ to make time to read Norfolk, don't I? I've read at least one by all the others and they all seem deserving in their own way. . .
ReplyDeleteHey, John, did you hear that Edgerton has a new book coming out this year? Now I'll be three novels behind instead of two.
Must read faster.