Originally posted by umslopogaas
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Often, when I visit a book shop, I rummage around in a somewhat desultory way and finally pick on a couple of volumes by an author I have read before or that have had good reviews. (Incidentally, I think there is a very strong case for a complete ban on any new novel being published for the next five years.) Anyway, I imported the list into Excel and did a simple formula to randomly choose books in the 2000s and 1900s categories - thinking that it would throw up novels that I would otherwise never have even thought of reading.
The first six random selections were:
Süskind, Patrick: The Pigeon
MacInnes, Colin: Absolute Beginners
Timm, Uwe: The Invention Of Curried Sausage
Lawrence, D.H.: Sons And Lovers
Sayers, Dorothy L.: Murder Must Advertise
Mishima, Yukio: The Sea Of Fertility
I'm intrigued by this selection and intend to order the novels today (apart from the Lawrence which I already have) and settle down to reading them over the weeks ahead.
(If anyone would like an Excel file of the list - let me know.)
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