So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. The Jack Aubrey Novels - Patrick O’Brian. His Dark Materials Trilogy - Phillip Pullman. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway. The Slaves of Solitude - Patrick Hamilton. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Novels That Shaped Our World begins on BBC2, Saturday 9 November at 9pmġ00 Novels That Shaped Our World (BBC) Identity - January. “It is a more diverse list than any I have seen before, recognising the extent to which the English language novel is an art form embraced way beyond British shores.” Jonty Claypole, BBC Arts director, said he asked the panel to choose a “list of world-changing novels that would be provocative, spark debate and inspire curiosity.” The 100 recognises the genius of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and the rise of the graphic novel through Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta.Ĭontemporary classics include Home Fire, the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction winner by Kamila Shamsie, which explores the impact of counter-terrorism policies on British Muslims. 
“I couldn’t get The Portrait of a Lady (by Henry James) or any John Updike in there but there are other titles I knew little about before which I’ve since enjoyed reading.” “The similes such as ‘breasts like poached eggs’ have lived with me for 30 years.” Jilly Cooper is famous for her racy novels (PA) Brontë debateĬould the panel really justify excluding Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily’s Wuthering Heights in favour of Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall? “People might find that questionable,” acknowledged Abell. I remember copies being furtively passed round at school,” Abell reminisced. Riders deserved its place in the list for breaking taboos about sex. “This isn’t the definitive canon but it’s a very interesting, fun-to-read list which reflects the different life experiences of the panel members.” “I’m against middle-class snobbishness about literature,” he said. Stig Abell, TLS editor and a member of the selection panel, defended the choices. The most surprising inclusion is Riders, Jilly Cooper’s 1985 work of erotic fiction, famed for its enthusiastic depiction of sex and adultery set in the bitchy world of championship show-jumping. From Great Expectations to The Goldfinch, the classic novels that critics love - but we hate Bonkbuster Riders makes list
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