Unlike a lot of my sneering literary colleagues, I was excited to read Fifty Shades of Grey.A naughty novel that American women are going wild for? Sign me up! Imagine my tremendous disappointment, then, to discover that Fifty Shades of Grey didn’t even have all that much transgressive sex in it, certainly not by erotica standards. If memory …
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Aug 07, 2012 · More than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite -adult fiction. Now, after all the nominating, sorting and counting, the final results are in. Here are the 100 best teen novels, chosen by the NPR audience.
After Robert McCrum finished his two-year-long project compiling the best novels written in English, you had a lot to add. Here are the 15 books that received most votes to …
…Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and The Gift by Danielle Steel. Yes, I was an early reader, and my favorite subject was love. Any book with a falling-in-love element was a book I wanted to read, and romance novels always fit the bill. My mother didn’t censor my reading materials, so I was free
Oct 18, 2016 · “Maus,” Jack Kirby’s “Fourth World,” Alison Bechdel, Daniel Clowes, and even Sailor Moon make our list of the best graphic novels of all
Oct 16, 2005 · Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME
100 Best First Lines from Novels. 1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
The book wasn’t particularly well written or original – in fact, it began as Twilight fan fiction. Still, E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey unearthed some ache we’d forgotten we’d had in this age of constant bombardment with sexual imagery.We see sex in movies and on HBO shows; it’s far more rare that we collectively turn to novels.Yet, with Fifty …
John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress begins our 100-part list of the best novels written in English. Robert McCrum explains its enduring appeal