So many fine novels get published every month and so many of these many fine novels go unread because so many of us already have a backlog of novels from last month and last year and last century to get through and so many fine novels go unread. They are the Oliver Twists of literature (although OLIVER TWIST itself is not, please note, an Oliver Twist – let’s all be on the same page for this metaphor, thank you). And so I present to you ten novels which for whatever reason fell by the bedside but which certainly truly must deserve your eyeballs.
- LITTLE, BIG by John Crowley

- THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK by Jaroslav Hasek

- THE MAMMOTH CHEESE by Sheri Holman

- MUSIC FOR TORCHING by AM Homes

- MRS. CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls

- THE WAY THE CROW FLIES by Ann-Marie MacDonald

- KING DORK by Frank Portman

- THE HOUSE OF GOD by Samuel Shem
- HISTORY OF LUMINOUS MOTION by Scott Bradfield

- THE WINSHAW LEGACY by Jonathan Coe

–from Joshua Corin
Thanks. I have read a couple of these but not all. Ann-Marie MacDonald’s first book, Fall on Your Knees is difficult but gripping.