[Misc] Novel world cup. Summer reads

[Pevenseagull]

The first 64 named go into a straight knockout tournament




Please only name a maximum of 3 each.

If you would have chosen one that has been selected, add another.


I shall draw and administer.


For starters


A Handful Of Dust. Evelyn Waugh
The Power And The Glory. Graham Greene
Nostromo. Joseph Conrad.



Should this work, I propose that the arguments should commence at the last 16 stage.

 

[Beach Hut]

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The Body - Bill Bryson
The Pillars of Hercules - Paul Theroux

 

[Goldstone1976]

The Secret History - Donna Tartt
1984 - George Orwell
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

 

[Bry Nylon]

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

 

[Peteinblack]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell.
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks.
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry.

 

[raymondo]

The Alps. Stephen O'Shea

 

[Flounce]

Catcher In The Rye - J D Salinger
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

The Three Musketeers - Alexendre Dumas

L..A Confidential - James Ellroy

 

[Grassman]

I’m on holiday in Italy and I’m reading Hotel Avocado by my fellow resident of Tun Wells, Bob Mortimer.

 

[super-seagulls]

Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
It -Stephen King
Absolute Proof - Peter James

 

[Brownstuff]

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

 

[Comrade Sam]

King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
Battle Cry of Freedom - James M. McPherson
The Dawn of Everything - David Gaeber, David Wengrow
Sorry don't read novels.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Voyage of the space beagle - A.E. Van Vogt

A vintage space adventure with science and stuff that was an influence on Star Trek and Alien.

 

[Swegulls]

The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
Walking the Amazon - Ed Stafford

 

[Moin]

On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
The Great Gatsby, S Fitzgerald

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

So is this a World Cup for novels, or summer reads, or just books? Asking for a friend

 

[Bakero]

So is this a World Cup for novels, or summer reads, or just books? Asking for a friend

I think people are just shouting book titles

 

[Insel affe]

I think people are just shouting book titles

The Bible - Various

 

[5Ways Gull]

Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolff
50 Shades of.......nah scrub that.

 

[Braggfan]

The Bible - Various

Its not really novel is it