After a cruel colleague alerted me to Time’s list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present I had to look at it immediately to see how many I had read. Initially I thought it was a pitiful 31, but then realised I’d missed out F – T, which took me up to a slightly more respectable 42.
It’s still depressing to note how many I read not for the love of literature but because I was studying them. And how few in the last 20 years. Sigh.
Anyway it’s not too late to be well-read as the library owns all but two of the 100; on the outs are Money, by Martin Amis (we do own lots of others ) and A Death in the family by James Agee.
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