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If you follow all the must-read lists published every year in every broadsheet newspaper you'll go through several pairs of reading glasses!
It seems we’re a nation obsessed with lists. Every year, the country’s broadsheets produce endless lists to fill its pages – from the top 100 books to read in your life, to the must-read books for that summer. If you’re browsing through the 1000 novels you should read before you die, you could be feeling its time to invest in more than one pair of reading glasses! Not only that, the categories are broken down into the top 100 crime novels or the top 100 love stories – it can be pretty daunting just getting through reading the lists let alone the actual novels!
Get Your Reading Glasses on
It’s hard to calculate how many hours you’ll need to dedicate to get through the ’1000 novels to read before you die’ list. After all, if you need reading glasses but don’t realise it, it could take you a lot longer to plough your way through the written page. Whereas others could speed read easily without tiring their eyes or brain. And of course there’s the added complication that none of us really know how long we’re on the planet for. By the time you’ve read and absorbed the 1000 books lists you could have read one of the books it recommends!
Invest in a Good Pair of Reading Glasses
However, despite the proliferation of such lists, they can of course be useful if you are looking for a little guidance. If you’re a keen reader, you’ll be aware of the importance of your eyesight and eager to avoid eyestrain. Getting your eyes checked regularly and investing in a good pair of reading glasses can help. If you have resolved to plough your way through one of the many must-read lists, then you may want to consider thinking about a new pair of reading glasses.
Reading List!
If you do decide to embark on a strict reading schedule, here are a few suggestions of must-read books gleaned from various ‘must-read’ lists.
From The Observer’s greatest 100 novels of all time, check out their top ten:
- Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
- Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan
- Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
- Tom Jones Henry Fielding
- Clarissa Samuel Richardson
- Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
- Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
- Emma Jane Austen
- Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Or how about this random selection from the Guardian’s ‘The top 100 books of all time’?
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
- Anton P Chekhov, Selected Stories
- Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
- Thomas Mann, Buddenbrook
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Or the top ten from The Telegraph’s 100 Novels everyone should read:
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Disgrace by JM Coetzee
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
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