Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1900

Voted for "Lord Jim" because at one point a character says "do you think me mad with the funk?".

i was going to say 'shamefully' but i'm not actually sure it is all that shameful, but i've only read Lord Jim. I have never read the JKJ Three Men sequel. As always the foreign language ones sound the most enticing.

Same here. This is an opaque decade for me, novel-wise.

I've hated Lord Jim since I was a kid, so I guess it's Claudine At School for me.

Haven't read a thing.

Hjalmar Soderberg - Doctor Glas (1905) is really great tho'.

have only read claudine at school and wonderful wizard of oz. went with claudine since i remember it being very funny and my memory is that the first oz book was not one of the very best.

wow, very cool, some interesting-looking things here.

all I've read is Oz and Lord Jim, very intrigued by the "in the year 2236" and the D'Annunzio

surprisingly I don't think I've read these early Verne works

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With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser transformed the conventional "fallen woman" story into a genuinely innovative and powerful work of fiction. As he hurled his impressionable midwestern heroine into the throbbing, amoral world of the big city, he revealed, with brilliant insight, the deep and driving forces of American culture: the restless idealism, glamorous materialism, and basic spiritual innocence.

The Will Of An Eccentric by Jules Verne

just looked this one up and, uh, wow:

William J. Hypperbone, an eccentric millionaire, living in Chicago, has left the sum of his fortune, $60,000,000, to the first person to reach the end of "The Noble Game of the United States of America." The game he devised is based upon the board game "The Noble Game of Goose"; however, in his version, the players are the tokens and the game board is the United States. The contestants are Max Réal (with his companion Tommy); Tom Crabbe (with his trainer John Milner); Hermann Titbury (with his wife Kate); Harris T. Kymbale (on his own); Lizzie Wag (with her friend Jovita Foley); Hodge Urrican (with his companion Turk) and the mysterious player only known as "XKZ." And who is this mysterious "XKZ" who was added to the game by a codicil to the will? Time and completion of the game will tell.

'westing game' better

Is that Verne book the first example of the "crazy old rich person leaves insane terms for inheritance" trope?

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Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1901

Oh you switched to a yearly basis, my bad.

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should I read Lord Jim? this online course about fiction writing I listened to referenced and upheld it an awful lot

I hated it when I read it at 12, then read it again at 21 and hated it again. So I'm about due to give it another try.

The first two-thirds of Lord Jim is really good, but the ending relies on Noble Savage/White Savior tropes that were already played out in 1900.

I'd say read it anyway, especially as a companion to Heart of Darkness (same narrator).