Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Nominations are now open for June; please use this thread to suggest any books you want to read during that month for the categories of:

Comedy
State of the Nation

Nominations will be open until April 28th.

Feel free to nominate a book from one category or two, as you please. All nominations will go to the vote at the end of April.

Hi, my nominations are as follows:

Comedy:
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

State of the Nation:
White teeth by Zadie Smith

Comedy:
The Castle

State of the nation:
Things Fall Apart

I'll submit Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis for comedy. I will second Things Fall Apart for state of the nation, as I already have this on request from my library...

I only just realised that Puckoon, which I just read a week or two ago, is on the list. I suppose it would be a bit of a cheat to nominate that now. Instead I'll go for Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.

For the 'State of the Nation' book (rather odd category) I'll nominate GB84 by David Peace.

Hmmmm

State of the Nation:
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

and Comedy:
Zazie dans le Metro

My nominations are:

Comedy - The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
State of the nation - The Plague - Albert Camus

The second one is at the bottom of my to be read pile and it's really about time I read it!

Nominations have now closed for June, thank you all for these suggestions.