Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for June 2023 are:

Crime and Sci-fi & Fantasy

to help with choosing nominations, I have updated the threads containing the full list of books in each of these categories, showing which books have already been read - hopefully these are useful:

Crime List

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

so let's have those suggestions...

I nominate

The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain

I have been meaning to read
News from Nowhere for a while now, so I will nominate that for Sci Fi & Fantasy.

For Crime, there are a few that I would like to read:
No Orchids for Miss Blandish, which I already own, or if I can get them from the library

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Black Sunday

If you want only one nomination. I guess that I'd pick the one I own, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, but I suspect that the other 2 will have more popular appeal.

Dennis, both your choices are great!

I nominate Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
PDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Bladerunner) by Philip K Dick

I nominate for

Crime: The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós

SciFi: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

I nominate for Sci Fi:

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

I don't have a nomination for Crime.

Crime: Fatherland by Robert Harris.

Sci.Fan: The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

To even out the nominations:

Crime: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

SciFi: no nomination

ok thanks everybody
Polls will go up v.shortly...

so these are the possibles for June:

Crime:
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (1922) 268 pages
Fatherland by Robert Harris (1992) 380 pages
The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós (1875) 471 pages
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad (1911) 249 pages
No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase (1939) 189 pages
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1951) 206 pages

Sci-Fi & Fantasy:
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino (1957) 217 pages
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004) 1006 pages
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985) 314 pages
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Bladerunner) by Philip K Dick (1968) 258 pages
News from Nowhere by William Morris (1890) 207 pages
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (1889) 480 pages

ok so which Crime and Sci-Fi/Fantasy titles do you want to read in June...?

Polls are live!
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...