Telegraph’s 110 best books
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Spotted in The Telegraph today - another attempt to come up with a definitive list of the 100 (plus ten this time, couldn’t they bring it in at a round figure?) books you should be displaying smugly to visitors, or shouldn’t reach retirement age without reading, or whatever it is this time around. Let a thousand flowers bloom, I say.
Still, it does make interesting reading - and I agree with a surprising amount of it, especially the enlightened inclusion of Douglas Adams, Daphne du Maurier, Patrick O’Brian, Arthur Ransome, William Gibson, Dashiell Hammett and Robert Graves. Although calling I, Claudius romantic fiction is going to lead a few people towards disappointment, I feel.
Here’s a link: