tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825233354615407594.post6907804140316641717..comments2021-01-22T16:07:31.439+00:00Comments on A Thinking Head: Celebrating World Book DayRichard Backhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13943157253039118586noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825233354615407594.post-48566510533329337192013-03-09T08:56:52.649+00:002013-03-09T08:56:52.649+00:00Did you mean only books in English? Otherwise 1880...Did you mean only books in English? Otherwise 1880s would have to be Brothers Karamazov (just!), and you would have to include Kafka, Borges and Marquez somewhere.<br /><br />You have to find space somewhere for Salinger. I would go with "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction" and say goodbye to Dick Francis.<br /><br />And there has to be a Copeland in there. I would choose "Girlfriend in a Coma", although "Hey Nostradamus" would be a 2000s preferable to Grisham.<br /><br />And Ishiguro is horriby overrated. How about Amin Maalouf's rather excellent "Samarkand" (OK it was written in French).<br /><br />Good to see HHGTTG get in there though - even though it pushes out the remarkable "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid".<br /><br />DaveDJShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12900468765935685732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825233354615407594.post-90959779714272105442013-03-08T21:10:26.580+00:002013-03-08T21:10:26.580+00:00SO many wonderful books published in the 1950s, bu...SO many wonderful books published in the 1950s, but I think my favourite would have to be 'The Go-Between (1953) [LP Hartley]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com