Via Norm comes this entertaining, if fairly pointless, parlour game: pick a novelist to represent each letter of the alphabet and a book of theirs you’ve read (and enjoyed!). My list:
A: Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
B: John Buchan, Greenmantle
C: Albert Camus, L’Etranger
D: Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
E:
F: F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
G: Alasdair Gray, Lanark
H: Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
I: Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let You Go
J: Jerome K Jerome: Three Men in a Boat
K: James Kennaway, Tunes of Glory
L: Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
M: Andrei Makine, Le Testament Francais
N:
O: Flann O’Brien, At Swim Two...
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