How The Guardian picked its 100 best novels

The Guardian has a new 100 best novels list. These things are generally met with skepticism. But, really, you're going to have fewer negative social problems and meet with more openmindedness from people who have read even 6 books on that list than from those who have read none.

There's a 100 Best Novels list in The Guardian? Shall I read it in hope of NOT finding the usual suspects, (pale, male, stale etc), and most likely come away exasperated, or shall I a rewarding use for my time like reading a book I know I'll enjoy? (Pictures Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football...)

Does it count as having read a book on the guardian list if, hypothetically, your much older boyfriend read it to you in a public park?

The Guardian have made a list for people who like to tell us how many books they've read. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

My guess is that it should be possible to reconstruct a list of the last 20 years of GCSE and A Level English Lit set texts from that Guardian 100 best novels.

With a pleasing informality that is not at all extremely annoying and stupid, The Guardian has listed its 100 Best Novel voters alphabetically according to their first names.

Tried to open that Guardian list, something strange happened to my computer

The Guardian list of the "100 greatest novels of all time" is certainly A list of 100 novels.

That Guardian book list. I've read one, 1984. Which tells you the kind of things I like to read. And design manuals.

I don’t think that Guardian list is that far off the list of ‘novels you should have read/should consider reading’ we were given at the start of A-level English Literature.

I’ve read 26 of the novels on that Guardian list. And I hated every single one of them.

No Vonnegut, no Pynchon, no Ballard, no Amis.. And this is the guardians list?

Only read 13 of the 100 books on that Guardian list, is that because: - my tastes are more highbrow and refined than a populist list of the usual suspects etc etc Or - I spent my teenage years reading books called “Heart of Dartness: my quest to play the entire 1974 Zaïre squad at darts”

The Guardian Best 100 Novels list is now almost complete: numbers 100-21 now listed. The latest tranche pretty solidly packed with established classics. And The Handmaid’s Tale.

About that Guardian list: ”No Angela Carter, PENELOPE FITZGERALD or Iris Murdoch. But this is bearable because…” No it’s not. #Booksky