oh dear me... do they really qualify as "truly great" novels? I know you haven't read them geo, but the five I've read certainly don't match up for me. I think a truly great novel has to capture the spirit of the age well enough to project the reader into it. Thus, I have a few which may b...

that's a　Japanese novel by Keigo Higashino. むかし僕が死んだ家 which could be translated as The House where I died long ago or My old House is Dead

anyway, as for closed doors novels, Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country takes place in one house and The Shining also comes to mind.

no room for CS Lewis?

Wow...

I was going to recommend Romance of the Three Kingdoms until I saw that you wanted something modern. But if you believe that the present is a product of the past, this classic would be worth reading. It's such an important part of Chinese culture in that it has influenced so much later art including...

would you care to elaborate on your last comment there Mitya... from the 2010 edition...? It fascinates me how rabidly critical people get about this list, it really does.

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hmmmm. Gambia... whereabouts do you live. My family lived on the MRC compound at Fajara in the early 1990s.

thanks for sharing. I know nothing about paganism so I'd be interested to hear whether what you are reading does fit your beliefs.

hmmm... I'd be interested to know what your questions are... if you don't mind revealing them here.

Hi Suzanne... yes, it's some challenge and pursuing it has totally opened my eyes to areas of literature I'd never have discovered. There have been some clunkers, but on the whole, the books off the list been very good reads. I don't read them in the order they were written, no. I read them as and w...