Please list the 5 best British authored books you've ever read. I'm curious of what you've read, and how I can expand on my British literature.
5 isn't doable.
But I'll give you 5 English books that are not Shakespeare or Austen or Wodehouse or Tolkien or Arthur Conan Doyle or the rest of the pantheon of established literary gods that everyone knows about (that does not mean you shouldn't read them. They are excellent).
Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai
Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens
Lord Dunsany's something or other. There is a good Penguin collection of his stories.
Tom Stoppard's Travesties (provided you've already read Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare.
I know I'll change my mind the minute I press submit. 5 really is an absurd number.
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5 best books of British Authorship you've ever read
21/04/2010 08:10:56 PM
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Hmmm. Difficult.
21/04/2010 08:15:31 PM
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Harumph.
21/04/2010 08:51:25 PM
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And of course Huxley's Brave New World.
21/04/2010 08:52:49 PM
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Interesting.
21/04/2010 09:08:35 PM
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Re: Interesting.
21/04/2010 09:19:41 PM
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Without rules, peoples' best "5" becomes meaningless. Hard decisions need to be made.
21/04/2010 10:00:08 PM
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Yes, but then the number was arbitrary to begin with...
21/04/2010 10:26:02 PM
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I was forced to read JUDE the OBSCURE in high school.
21/04/2010 09:50:37 PM
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It's in my top ten books of all time.
21/04/2010 10:02:01 PM
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what are the others in your Top 10 of All Time?
21/04/2010 10:11:29 PM
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Here goes,
21/04/2010 10:36:21 PM
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...I think that's the first time I've noticed Lackey on anyone's top books list. <3
22/04/2010 12:13:26 AM
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As a gay teenager, albeit a happy one in NYC, her books were still powerful for me.
22/04/2010 01:00:21 AM
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I enjoyed it as well
21/04/2010 10:45:53 PM
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The movie version of Jude the Obscure is bad. Really bad. And doesn't make me want to read the book.
21/04/2010 10:28:44 PM
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Leaving aside the usual suspects (Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Chaucer, Hardy, Austen)
21/04/2010 10:49:35 PM
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This is a very difficult task.
22/04/2010 02:16:07 AM
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I love your number one. I love that book
22/04/2010 02:51:15 AM
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It was the book I had in mind when talking about Island at the Center of the World.
22/04/2010 02:57:32 AM
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I suppose it depends on definitions...
22/04/2010 04:34:40 PM
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Irish by accident of birth, English to the depths of his soul by the grace of God. *NM*
22/04/2010 10:12:28 PM
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Oh wow.
22/04/2010 02:29:38 AM
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just remembered the Herriot books.
24/04/2010 03:48:18 PM
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James Herriot has a special place in my heart.
25/04/2010 01:45:50 AM
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I'm going to cheat and give you two different lists
22/04/2010 06:54:18 AM
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Ooo
22/04/2010 06:54:21 PM
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If I wanted to be really specific I could say book 1: The Sword in the Stone
23/04/2010 02:37:24 AM
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Tricky.
23/04/2010 11:12:36 AM
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