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2,000 subscribers! I'm so delighted and bewildered. I started from basically scratch last year, and was cheerfully expecting to kvetch to a handful of friends forever. Hot damn, thanks so much!

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All Buzz and no Bite: Madeline Cash's Lost Lambs, reviewed.
Link: https://t.co/khuwbo8LR0

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On the other hand, Guardian readers apparently really liked A Little Life, and I, uh:
https://t.co/bTPtIciH6f

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The Guardian released their readers' top 100 novels, and my nerves aren't strong enough for the roller-coaster of: 'why didn't I think of that' to 'what is actually wrong with you'. Link 👇

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I included le Carre on my own Unjustly Ignored Canon, but I'm mad at myself for leaving off Umberto Eco and Gunter Grass:
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@Glimpsesofcalm I truly don't understand how it escaped. I'm not complaining, but I am baffled.

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The 100 Best Novels You'll Never See On The Guardian's Best Novels List (and some you will): my genre fiction canon. Link 👇

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Link here: https://t.co/vTvy41BEin

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Charmed, but also bewildered, that my latest post has views from LinkedIn. Unsure how my views on the Guardian's 100 Best Novels list contribute to Gross Domestic Product, but I love it. Welcome.

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@eternalbrook @Glimpsesofcalm I am planning vaguely to write A Thing about Dark Romance, and cheerfully shunt the coughing baby aficionadoes to the hydrogen bomb of bataille

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I don't have serious problems with the Guardian's Top 100 Novels list, but it did get me thinking about influential and beautifully-written genre fiction that wouldn't even be considered (Crime/ thriller/ SFF/ romance etc). Any thoughts as to what ought to be on the list?

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@janhopi But this also gets into how nebulous 'literary fiction' can be as a category, colloquially at least. There may well be sound theoretical arguments for the existence of literary fiction as a distinct category, but in practice I'm not sure.

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@janhopi I've been pushing Georgette Heyer aggressively, personally.

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@janhopi Very hard to avoid whispering 'misogyny' to oneself, sadly.

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@BarrieDarke Any additions to the little list I'm working on 👀
https://t.co/AS8quHSmdx

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Hokie, I have been doing some thinking and I have a rough ordering - not of novels, but of genres from Least Respectable/Most Ignorable to Least Ignorable. Any Thorts?

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@pippercorn @itsevidentvery hammett! fool that i am to miss it. i've got ripley and spy who came in from the cold up top

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@BarrieDarke Elmore Leonard is SUCH a good shout.

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@hardpietdepsi hehehe i'll have to shake your hand respectfully about jane eyre, which is responsible for far too much of my personality for me to travel with you. i haven't read wide sargasso sea, however.

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Hokie, I have been doing some thinking and I have a rough ordering - not of novels, but of genres from Least Respectable/Most Ignorable to Least Ignorable. Any Thorts?

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@hardpietdepsi oo?