{"id":3096,"date":"2009-05-29T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T10:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2009-05-29T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:00:11","slug":"summer-reading-top-100-english-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/29\/summer-reading-top-100-english-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer reading: Top 100 English novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summer:<\/strong> m.noun \/\u02c8s\u028cm\u0259(\u0279)\/ (<em>plural<\/em> summers) Long period of time that millions of English-seaking people choose to replace watching silly TV reality shows by reading silly thick paper printed words selected first for their total lack of requirement of brain participation during the operation known as <em>reading<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s contribute to the improvement of knowledge and culture in the Human race: This year, let&#8217;s read English novels of the highest quality. They may come from the old United Kingdom or from the newly liberated colonies of North America. Quality is always here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/locustsandhoney.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/100-greatest-english-language-novels-of.html\">The 100 Greatest English-Language Novels of the 20th Century<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the beginning of the list. Which ones did you actually read?<\/p>\n<p>1. (1922) <em>Ulysses<\/em> James Joyce<br \/>2. (1925) <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> F. Scott Fitzgerald<br \/>3. (1916) <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em> James Joyce<br \/>4. (1955) <em>Lolita<\/em> Vladimir Nabokov<br \/>5. (1932) <em>Brave New World<\/em> Aldous Huxley<br \/>6. (1929) <em>The Sound and the Fury<\/em> William Faulkner<br \/>7. (1961) <em>Catch-22<\/em> Joseph Heller<br \/>8. (1940) <em>Darkness at Noon<\/em> Arthur Koestler<br \/>9. (1913) <em>Sons and Lovers<\/em> D. H. Lawrence<br \/>10. (1939) <em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> John Steinbeck<br \/>11. (1947) <em>Under the Volcano<\/em> Malcolm Lowry<br \/>12. (1903) <em>The Way of All Flesh<\/em> Samuel Butler<br \/>13. (1949) <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em> George Orwell<br \/>14. (1934) <em>I, Claudius<\/em> Robert Graves<br \/>15. (1927) <em>To the Lighthouse<\/em> Virginia Woolf<br \/>16. (1925) <em>An American Tragedy<\/em> Theodore Dreiser<br \/>17. (1940) <em>The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter<\/em> Carson McCullers<br \/>18. (1969) <em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em> Kurt Vonnegut<br \/>19. (1952) <em>Invisible Man<\/em> Ralph Ellison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer: m.noun \/\u02c8s\u028cm\u0259(\u0279)\/ (plural summers) Long period of time that millions of English-seaking people choose to replace watching silly TV reality shows by reading silly thick paper printed words selected first for their total lack of requirement of brain participation during the operation known as reading. Let&#8217;s contribute to the improvement of knowledge and culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}