Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1923

Happy to finally throw P.G. Wodehouse a bone - Leave It To Psmith is a delight.

Passion And Peat

Simply can't beat a title like that! I must read this now.

I once picked up but never finished 'Children Of Orpheus' by Hendrik Bulthuis (probably precisely because it was translated out of Esperanto), but it taught me (as someone who speaks/'fights' for a tiny minority language) a valuable lesson: when you write a work of fiction in a small/endangered language, *do not* make it all about said language as well. Use the language for other things than blatant language promotion. The story suffers for it.

The Radiguet novels and Svevo are wonderful books. Going for the latter.

Roger Martin du Gard getting the snub, yet again (not that I especially mind). Nor has there been any François Mauriac so far iirc (ditto).

Voting Radiguet.

Which one?

Oh right, both were published the same year. Le Bal du comte d'Orgel is the one I had in mind.

voted for Cane, which I haven't read in two decades so don't remember very well but--assuming I'm not mixing it up with another book--I think is excellent

went Sayers, that's good 'un

I suspect there are better books on this list than Whose Body, but I haven't read them, and it's a solid intro to a great series, so that's the one I'm going with.

I really should read Cane, though.

any other great novels about future members of Joy Division coming up?

I did read a chunk of the Aleister Crowley at one point years ago.
Think I've read several Dr Doolittle but not sure which.
Also L Frank baum

I need to read the Svevo. I have it! Charlton's greatest blue plaque

antic hay and murder on the links are both good not bad. decent argument for antic hay being quite groundbreaking at the time and being one of the better things ahuxley wrote.

Cane for me. A hallucinatory masterpiece.

I really need to read that one, it sounds amazing.

Is Antic Hay the one where two guys are talking while one of them scratches a hog's back with a rake or something and the hog is grunting and one of the guys says he wishes he could feel that kind of pleasure? Good moment; the only thing I remember about whichever book it was alas (read it in late 70s, v relatable apparently or wouldn't have retained that much).

OK still relate.

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I voted for Green Wheat wtf!

#shadowbanned

A vote for Crowley!

Quick, check the exits - we've got a secret Crowley fan!

it was not me.

Wodehouse triumphant at last! Glad I didn't include The Inimitable Jeeves, would've split the vote (more of a short story collection anyway).

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1924

Svevo robbed tbh

High on my wishlist is a Leave it to Psmith television adaptation.

There were some interesting ideas in teh Crowley taht I remember. Like the manifestation in this plane of ponly one onion skin like layer of something deific. Stuck in my head since my mid teens.