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Review # 1 was written on 2012-09-03 00:00:00 Andrew Dietenberger Anthony Burgess admitted in an interview that he pumped this book out in just two weeks because he needed the money. He could only do that because as a reviewer for The Yorkshire Post he reviewed 350 books in just over two years. It is also true that he liberally plagiarized for the first part of this book. This is less shocking than it might as he plagiarized from himself, in this case, his earlier study The Novel Today(1963). Nevertheless, this remains an interesting introduction from a thoughtful novelist to novels Burgess considered either under-appreciated or "too soon forgotten." Of the 99 I had read just 19 so this has done the job in making me aware of many books I have never heard of that Burgess's brief review indicates to be well worth reading, shining a light on books published between 1939 and 1984. The list, for those interested: Burgess's list of the best 99 novels published in English from 1939 to 1984 Achebe, Chinua - A Man of the People - (1966) Aldiss, Brian - Life in the West (1980) Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim (1954) Amis, Kingsley - The Anti-Death League (1966) Baldwin, James - Another Country (1962) Ballard, J.G. - The Unlimited Dream Company (1979) Barth, John - Giles Goat-Boy (1966) Bellow, Saul - The Victim (1947) Bellow, Saul - Humboldt's Gift (1975) Bowen, Elizabeth - The Heat of the Day (1949) Bradbury, Malcolm - The History Man (1975) Braine, John - Room at the Top (1957) Cary, Joyce - The Horse's Mouth (1944) Chandler, Raymond - The Long Goodbye (1953) Compton-Burnett, Ivy - The Mighty and Their Fall (1961) Cooper, William - Scenes from Provincial Life (1950) Davies, Robertson - The Rebel Angels (1982) Deighton, Len - Bomber (1970) Durrell, Lawrence - The Alexandria Quartet (1957) Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man (1952) Faulkner, William - The Mansion (1959) Fleming, Ian - Goldfinger (1959) Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) Frayn, Michael - Sweet Dreams (1973) Golding, William - The Spire (1964) Gordimer, Nadine - The Late Bourgeois World (1966) Gray, Alasdair - Lanark (1981) Green, Henry - Party Going (1939) Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory (1940) Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter (1948) Harris, Wilson - Heartland (1964) Hartley, L.P. - Facial Justice (1960) Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 (1961) Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea (1952) Hoban, Russell - Riddley Walker (1980) Hughes, Richard - The Fox in the Attic (1961) Huxley, Aldous - After Many a Summer (1939) Huxley, Aldous - Ape and Essence (1948) Huxley, Aldous - Island (1962) Isherwood, Christopher - A Single Man (1964) Johnson, Pamela Hansford - An Error of Judgement (1962) Jong, Erica - How to Save Your Own Life (1977) Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake (1939) Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook (1962) Lodge, David - How Far Can You Go? (1980) Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano (1947) MacInnes, Colin - The London Novels (1957) Mailer, Norman - The Naked and the Dead (1948) Mailer, Norman - Ancient Evenings (1983) Malamud, Bernard - The Assistant (1957) Malamud, Bernard - Dubin's Lives (1979) Manning, Olivia - The Balkans Trilogy (1960) Maugham, Somerset - The Razor's Edge (1944) McCarthy, Mary - The Groves of Academe (1952) Moore, Brian - The Doctor's Wife (1976) Murdoch, Iris - The Bell (1958) Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire (1962) Nabokov, Vladimir - The Defence (1964) Naipaul, V.S. - A Bend in the River (1979) Narayan, R.K. - The Vendor of Sweets (1967) Nye, Robert - Falstaff (1976) O'Brien, Flann - At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) O'Connor, Flannery - Wise Blood (1952) O'Hara, John - The Lockwood Concern (1965) Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Peake, Mervyn - Titus Groan (1946) Percy, Walker - The Last Gentleman (1966) Plunkett, James - Farewell Companions (1977) Powell, Anthony - A Dance to the Music of Time (1951) Priestley, J.B. - The Image Men (1968) Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow (1973) Richler, Mordecai - Cocksure (1968) Roberts, Keith - Pavane (1968) Roth, Phillip - Portnoy's Complaint (1969) Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye (1951) Sansom, William - The Body (1949) Schulberg, Budd - The Disenchanted (1950) Scott, Paul - Staying On (1977) Shute, Nevil - No Highway (1948) Sillitoe, Alan - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) Snow, C.P. - Strangers and Brothers (1940) Spark, Muriel - The Girls of Slender Means (1963) Spark, Muriel - The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) Styron, William - Sophie's Choice (1979) Theroux, Alexander - Darconville's Cat (1981) Theroux, Paul - The Mosquito Coast (1981) Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) Updike, John - The Coup (1978) Vidal, Gore - Creation (1981) Warner, Rex - The Aerodrome (1941) Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited (1945) Waugh, Evelyn - Sword of Honor (1952) White, T.H. - The Once and Future King (1958) White, Patrick - Riders in the Chariot (1961) Williamson, Henry - A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951) Wilson, Angus - The Old Men at the Zoo (1961) Wilson, Angus - Late Call (1964) Wouk, Herman - The Caine Mutiny (1951)

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-24 00:00:00 Jack Harrison I'm going out on a limb here... This is the most useful guide you'll find to reading material in the English-speaking world in the period from the outbreak of WW2 to the year of Orwell's dystopia. He may have had his faults as a novelist but as a critic Burgess was discerning and omniscient. I've even got two copies - one in England and one in Brittany!