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    Top Fiction & Poetry

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    The Stubbings list
    Favourite Novels:

    I am not suggesting that these are the ‘best’ novels ever written - they are just a
    personal and subjective list of my favourites - (that I have actually read as of
    March 2021). For the sake of variety and a fairly even time spread I have only
    listed 3 or 4 titles by favourite writers like Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charles
    Dickens, and George Orwell etc. - even though I could have included more by
    each of them. I have included novellas, but not short stories. There are many
    novels that I have no doubt will have to be on the list when I finally find the time
    to read them - I have included a short list of these at the end.
    Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote 1605-1615
    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1719
    Captain Singleton 1720
    Memoirs of a Cavalier 1720
    Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels 1726
    Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews 1742
    Tom Jones 1749
    Voltaire Candide 1759
    Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield 1766
    Tobias Smollett The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker 1771
    Johann von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774
    William Godwin Caleb Williams 1794
    Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 1811
    Pride and Prejudice 1813
    Mansfield Park 1814
    Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818
    Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket 1838
    Stendhal The Charterhouse of Parma 1839
    Mikhail Lermontov A Hero of Our Time 1840
    Honoré de Balzac A Murky Business 1841

    Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls 1842

    Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers 1844


    The Count of Monte Cristo 1844
    Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights 1847
    Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 1847
    William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair 1848
    Charles Dickens David Copperfield 1850
    Bleak House 1853
    Little Dorrit 1857
    Our Mutual Friend 1865
    Herman Melville Moby Dick 1851
    Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford 1851
    George Eliot The Mill on the Floss 1860
    Middlemarch 1872
    Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons 1862
    Virgin Soil 1877
    Leo Tolstoy The Cossacks 1863
    War and Peace 1869
    Anna Karenina 1873-1877
    Hadji Murad 1904
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground 1864
    Crime and Punishment 1866
    Demons 1871-1872
    The Brothers Karamazov 1880
    Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days 1872
    Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree 1872
    Far From the Madding Crowd 1874
    The Trumpet Major 1880
    The Mayor of Casterbridge 1886
    Tess of the d’Urbervilles 1891
    Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island 1883
    Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884
    Anton Chekhov The Shooting Party 1884
    William Morris News From Nowhere 1890
    Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891
    Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage 1895
    H.G. Wells The Time Machine 1895

    Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 1899


    The Secret Agent 1907
    Victory 1915
    Rudyard Kipling Kim 1901
    Puck of Pook’s Hill 1906
    Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks 1901
    The Magic Mountain 1924
    Jack London The Call of the Wild 1903
    Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands 1903
    Hermann Hesse The Prodigy 1906
    Siddhartha 1922
    Steppenwolf 1927
    Arthur Schnitzler The Road to the Open 1908
    E. M. Forster Howards End 1910
    A Passage to India 1924
    Anatole France The Gods Will Have Blood 1912

    Franz Kafka Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared) 1914


    The Trial 1915
    James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1915
    Ulysses 1922
    D. H. Lawrence The Rainbow 1915
    Women in Love 1920
    Lady Chatterley’s Lover 1928
    John Buchan The Thirty-Nine Steps 1915
    Greenmantle 1916
    Willa Cather My Ántonia 1918
    Rose Macaulay What Not 1918
    Yevgeny Zamyatin We 1921
    Knut Hamsun Dreamers 1921
    Aldous Huxley Crome Yellow 1921
    Antic Hay 1923
    Brave New World 1931
    Jaroslav Hašek The Good Soldier Švejk 1923
    Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway 1925
    W. Somerset Maugham The Painted Veil 1925
    F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 1925
    Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall 1928
    Vile Bodies 1930
    Scoop 1938
    Sword of Honour - Trilogy 1952-1961
    Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises 1926
    A Farewell to Arms 1929
    For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940
    Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front 1929
    Joseph Roth Right and Left 1929
    Radetzky March 1932
    The Emperor’s Tomb 1938
    Patrick Hamilton Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky 1929-1934
    Hangover Square 1941
    Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities 1930-1942
    P. G. Wodehouse The Luck of the Bodkins 1935
    Graham Greene England Made Me 1935
    Brighton Rock 1938
    The Third Man 1949
    Karel Čapek War With the Newts 1936
    George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying 1936
    Animal Farm 1945
    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
    John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 1937
    The Grapes of Wrath 1939
    The Moon is Down 1942
    The Pearl 1947
    J. R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit 1937
    The Lord of the Rings - Trilogy 1954-1955
    Irmgard Keun After Midnight 1937
    Child of All Nations 1938
    Jean Rhys Good Morning, Midnight 1939
    Wide Sargasso Sea 1966
    Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 1939
    Jean-Paul Sartre The Age of Reason 1945
    Julian Maclaren-Ross Of Love and Hunger 1947
    Hans Fallada Alone in Berlin 1947
    Primo Levi If This is a Man/The Truce 1947/1963
    Ralph Ellison Invisible Man 1952
    Barbara Pym Excellent Women 1952
    Roger Mais The Hills Were Joyful Together 1953

    William Golding Lord of the Flies 1954


    The Inheritors 1955
    Sam Selvon The Lonely Londoners 1956
    Jack Kerouac On the Road 1957
    Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago 1957
    Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard 1958
    Gunter Grass The Tin Drum 1959
    Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 1960
    V. S. Naipaul A House for Mr Biswas 1961
    Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1961
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1962
    August 1914 1971

    Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle 1963


    Slaughterhouse-Five 1969
    Milan Kundera The Joke 1965
    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 1978
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1984
    Immortality 1990
    Chaim Potok The Chosen 1967
    Charles Bukowski Post Office 1971
    Tove Jansson The Summer Book 1972
    Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop 1978
    Human Voices 1980
    The Blue Flower 1995
    Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose 1980
    Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children 1981
    Haroun and the Sea of Stories 1990
    Alice Walker The Color Purple 1982
    Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 1985
    Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia 1990
    Iain Banks The Crow Road 1992
    Bernhard Schlink The Reader 1995
    W. G. Sebald The Rings of Saturn 1995
    Austerlitz 2001
    Philip Pullman His Dark Materials - Trilogy 1995-2000
    Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible 1998
    Michel Houellebecq Atomised 1998
    Sebastian Barry A Long Long Way 2005
    Cormac McCarthy The Road 2006
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun 2006
    Laurent Binet HHhH 2010
    Teju Cole Open City 2011
    Thomas Seethaler The Tobacconist 2012
    A Whole Life 2014
    Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven 2014
    Jarett Kobek i hate the internet 2016

    Some books I should have read, but haven’t


    got round to yet:

    Victor Hugo Les Misérables 1862

    Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure 1895

    Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time 1913-1927

    John Dos Passos U.S.A. - Trilogy 1930-1936

    Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game 1943

    Vasily Grossman Stalingrad + Life and Fate 1959

    David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest 1996


    Favourite Short Story Collections, Long
    Poems/Poetry Collections and Plays:

    Again, I am not claiming that the following list of titles are the ‘best’ - just a list
    of some personal favourites that I have read - presented in chronological order
    (dates for Shakespeare’s plays are possible year of first performance):
    Homer The Odyssey 8th-7th Century BCE (approx)

    Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy 1308-1320

    William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1595


    Much Ado About Nothing 1598
    Henry V 1598
    Twelfth Night 1599
    Hamlet 1600
    Macbeth 1605
    The Tempest 1611

    John Milton Paradise Lost 1667

    Friedrich Schiller The Robbers 1781

    William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience 1794

    William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 1798

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust, Part One 1806

    Alexander Pushkin The Tales of Belkin 1831

    Nikolai Gogol Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod 1832


    The Government Inspector 1836

    Ivan Turgenev Sketches from a Hunter’s Album 1852

    Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass 1855-1892

    Herman Melville Bartleby the Scrivener and other Stories 1856

    Henrik Ibsen Peer Gynt 1867


    An Enemy of the People 1882
    The Wild Duck 1884

    August Strindberg Master Olof 1872


    Creditors 1889
    Easter 1901

    Anton Chekhov Platonov 1878


    Anton Chekhov (continued) Ward Number 6 and other Stories 1892-1895
    The Seagull 1895
    Uncle Vanya 1897

    Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan 1892


    The Importance of Being Earnest 1895

    Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension 1911

    James Joyce Dubliners 1914

    Hope Mirrlees Paris 1920

    T.S. Eliot The Waste Land 1922

    Nancy Cunard Parallax 1925

    Ernest Hemingway The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories 1938

    Anna Akhmatova Requiem 1940-1961


    Poem Without a Hero 1940-1962

    J.B. Priestley An Inspector Calls 1945

    Jorge Luis Borges The Aleph and Other Stories 1949

    Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman 1949


    The Crucible 1953

    V.S. Naipaul Miguel Street 1959

    Philip Larkin The Whitsun Weddings 1964


    High Windows 1974

    Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber 1979

    Günter Grass My Century 1999

    Tom Stoppard The Coast of Utopia - Trilogy 2002

    Nadine Gordimer Life Times - Stories 1952-2007 2011

    W.G. Sebald Across the Land and the Water - Poems 1964-2001 2012

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