Recs if you like The Sea, the Sea...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.

This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.

Penguin asked its readers in 2022 for the must-read classics. This is that list!

For people who are interested in a long-term challenge to read all of the Booker Prize longlisted books, but before 2001 there were only shortlisted books so I am going to separate these into two different lists. Please see the pinned comment for the 2001+ companion list link and the winners for each year!

I'm going to read every book every

Lives of outsiders rendered in sharp prose style. Descendants of Shelley, the Brontes, and Woolf; forebears to 'Weird Girl Lit'. Title refers to the authors, the subjects of the work may not always be women. Focused on novels published between WW2 and 9/11, with a few memoirs and short story collections.

classics literature written by irish writers

These are mostly in order by year

The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor

A list with unreliable narrators, morally gray characters and uneasy feelings.

The number 1 bestsellers for each year. 1900-1999

A list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, 10 from each decade of Elizabeth II's reign, was selected by a panel of experts and announced by the BBC and The Reading Agency on 18 April 2022.

Nautical fiction that centres the ocean. Classic and contemporary.