Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1903

The Way Of All Flesh for me. There's a bit in it where a cruel father punishes this toddler for mispronoucing a word that is totally heart rending, couldn't be farther from Victorian sentimentality.

Shout out also to The Riddle Of The Sands, one of the most bafflingly enjoyable reading experiences I've had. All those instructions on how to sail just washed over me like soothing white noise.

These single-year lists are mostly a wash for me, but I was obsessed with Pyle's Arthur and Robin Hood when I was a kid so I voted for that. I think Call of the Wild is the only other one I've read, also in childhood

I've only read one of these. It's the one everyone's read. It's one of my all-time children's favourites (although it's not really for children!) and I probably have to vote for it - the sounding of the call indeed...

only one I've read is The Call of The Wild, and I have forgotten almost all of it, maybe I didn't read the whole thing?

I’ve read Call of the Wild but it didn’t stick with me half so much as White Fang. I’ll wait for the 1906 poll to talk about that one.

This has a lot more on it that I've read than the previous few. Thought about voting The Ambassadors because it's the only Henry James I like, but think I'll have to go with The Way of All Flesh.

Another vote for "I read Call of the Wild as a kid and none of the others on this list".

I re-read it recently with a student. It's legitimately brilliant imo

The Ambassadors

Gradiva for the Freudian cred. Re: London, I've only read White Fang, which twelve year-old me thought was bad-ass (still is).

i think i've read call of the wild but looking back i'm not sure if i read the real book or some classics illustrated version.

The Pit -- kinda feel like Norris is the Len Deighton of muckraker fiction, but I like Deighton and have a definite soft spot for where economics, sociology, and history meet fiction

I've only read call of the wild. Want to read the Erskine Childers even just as a curio for someone involved in amateur RA studies

Lots of unfamiliar books by familiar authors.

Read call of the wild a few years ago and it prompted me to read more Jack London like The Iron Heel which predicts WWII. Quite depressing in its depictions of class war.

I'm not entirely confident that Gradiva is better than Freud's praesee of it, but having read the latter I'm not sure I need to read the former

please tell me I'm not the only one that had to look that word up?

It's a deliberate misspelling of précis, no?

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Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1904