Playing around with Google ngrams, you can undertake an analysis of key-words across all of the books scanned by Google. The graph analysis below shows the enduring popularity of Austen in the English language, compared to some French writers (Balzac,Flaubert,Proust and Stendhal): […]
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Most mentioned authors since 1800
Posted in The List on April 27, 2011 | Comments Off on Most mentioned authors since 1800
Vote results on 21st Century New Writers
Posted in The List, tagged After the Fire, Boxer Beetle, Evie Wyld, Ned Beauman, Results on April 26, 2011 | Comments Off on Vote results on 21st Century New Writers
Thanks to all our voters for the new writers of the 21st Century. Out of the seven proposed new novels, both Ned Beauman’s “Boxer Beetle”, and Evie Wyld’s “After the Fire, a Still Small Voice” gained the most with three votes each. I’m told these two are good choices, although I have yet to read […]
Book Challenge List Test
Posted in The List, tagged Book Challenge on April 9, 2011 | Comments Off on Book Challenge List Test
Test your knowledge of the List of Novels by trying the Facebook based Book Challenge List. Follow this link: http://apps.facebook.com/booklistchallenge/List/?l=322 The average number of Novels selected from our list by our readers is currently 42.
Review of L’équipée malaise by Jean Echenoz
Posted in The List, tagged Jean Echenoz, Review on April 2, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of L’équipée malaise by Jean Echenoz
In the postscript in this novel, Jean Echenoz states that he wants to destabilise the novel from within. He certainly has a talent for destabilising the reader. This novel is the story of two men who once loved the same women. However, they never realise this fact until the last. They have various adventures across […]
21st Century New Writers
Posted in The List, tagged Adam Haslett, After the Fire, Anna Richards, Boxer Beetle, Evie Wyld, Little Gods, Mr Chartwell, Ned Beauman, Pigeon English, Rebecca Hunt, Samantha Harvey, Stephen Kelman, The Wilderness, Union Atlantic, Vote on March 25, 2011 | Comments Off on 21st Century New Writers
This site is always open to new writing, as Margaret Atwood says, new ways of using this story transmission device which most people know as the Novel. The World Book Night event recently opened our eyes to some new up-coming literary talent, and some of these new writers need to be considered as potential candidates […]
Vote result on Dystopian Novels
Posted in The List, tagged Margaret Atwood, Results, The Handmaid's Tail on March 25, 2011 | Comments Off on Vote result on Dystopian Novels
Not so many voters this time on our list of dystopian novels. No wonder as it was such a downer. However, the proposal to add the most “popular” dystopian novel to our “List of Novels you might want to read in your life-time if you get half the chance” has a winner: – The Handmaid’s […]
Vote Result for World Book Night Poll
Posted in The List, tagged A Life Like Other People’s, Alan Bennett, Beloved, Case Histories, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, Kate Atkinson, Results, Toni Morrison on March 5, 2011 | Comments Off on Vote Result for World Book Night Poll
Polling has now closed – Thanks to all our voters. We have the results on the proposal to add some of the World Book Night selection of Novels to the List of Novels you might want to read in your life-time if you get half the chance: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi […]
Review of L’Incident by Christian Gailly
Posted in The List, tagged Alain Resnais, Christian Gailly, L'Incident, Les Herbes Folles, Review on February 22, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of L’Incident by Christian Gailly
In a sense the story is actually secondary to the literary work of Gailly. The chapters are set out in different phases, which relate to the different parts of the relationship between the two protagonists. Marguerite Muir, the dentist and hobby-pilot, who gets her hand-bag snatched in Paris, and Georges the older-man who finds her […]
Review of L’occupation by Annie Ernaux
Posted in The List, tagged Annie Ernaux, L'occupation, Review on February 19, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of L’occupation by Annie Ernaux
At only 76 pages, this novel was almost simply a pamphlet, telling the story of a woman’s decent into obesession following the end of a relationship. Of course, this “occupation” and invasion of her mind was not due to despair, but because of her incredible jealousy over the other woman. This novel will not appeal […]