Romance, passion, fantasy, adventure, historical fiction, war and conflict, horror and vampires, humour, crime and mystery - it's all here.
These are works mentioned in the themed box sections of "The Rough Guide to Classic Novels", as detailed below.
A Fine Romance (1-6)
Sex, censorship and the novel (7-9)
Magic Realism (10-18)
School books (18-23)
Novel sequences (24-40)
La Comédie humaine (the most outstanding 9) (41-49)
Bildungsroman (50-53)
The historical novel (54-62)
The picaresque (63-70)
Novels of the Great War (71-78)
The Chronicles of Bartsetshire (79-84) and The Pallisers (85-90)
Good place, bad place (91-98)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (99-107)
Literary bloodsuckers (108-123)
The first detective (124-130)
The best of Maigret (131-140)
Wodehouse's world:
- Six of the best Jeeves & Wooster (141-146)
- Five great Blandings Castle novels (147-151)
- The best of Psmith (152-155)
This challenge is different to fleurette's one using the same book.
