A Wacky, But Oh-So Lovable Classic
Jay’s pick this week is The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, a book that could be maddening or it could be one of the 100 Most Lovable Books in the English Language ...
22 Sep 44min
A Magical Meta John Fowles Novel
The Magus was John Fowles’ first novel, but his third to be published, and its postmodern, metafictional format focuses on a young British teacher on a Greek Island who falls in with an unreliable loc...
15 Sep 48min
Sons and Lovers and Semi-Autobiographical Fiction
Jay’s pick this week for his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language is D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, a novel about a young man’s coming of age in Nottinghamshire, as he navigat...
8 Sep 51min
A Family Saga for the Ages (and Best of Lists)
John Galsworthy’s chronicle of the “new money” Forsyte family is Jay’s pick this week for his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language. The Forsyte Saga focuses on Soames Forsyte, a...
1 Sep 49min
A Beautiful 20th Century Coming-of-Age Novel
Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is this week’s pick for Jay’s list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language. This British novel isn’t as well known in the United Stat...
25 Aug 49min
Old Filth is a Newer Novel on the Lovable Novels List
Jay’s choice this week is Old Filth, a 2004 novel by British writer Jane Gardam. The book focuses on Sir Edward Feather’s quest to understand the life he has lived in the second half of the twentieth ...
18 Aug 47min
A Big Book in a Small Island Package
Jay’s pick this week in the final 10 of his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language is Andrea Levy’s Small Island, a 2004 novel that explores the experiences of the Windrush genera...
11 Aug 46min
Get Haunted by The Woman in White
This week’s addition to Jay’s 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language list is Wilkie Collins' Victorian proto-detective, gothic novel The Woman in White. Wilkie’s chosen structure of multiple ...
4 Aug 50min
