ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>UrbanSpaceman Time 100 Best English-language Novels Bookshelf</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta name="Author" content="UrbanSpaceman" /> <style type="text/css"> body { color:#333; background-color:#dedacb; /*background-image: url(/images/background-yellow-gray.jpg);*/ margin:20px 20px 20px 20px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px; font-size:90%; font-family: "trebuchet ms",verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif; } a{color:#033;} a:visited{color:#966;} a:active{color:red;} a:hover{color:red;} </style> </head> <body> <table border:1px solid #bba; bgcolor="white" width="90%" cellpadding="10" align="center"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <a name="top"> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com"><img src="http://www.bookcrossing.com/images/BC-Google-Search-50x163.jpg" border="0"></a></p> <font size="5" color="#aa9" face="Verdana"> <p align="center"> <b>the UrbanSpaceman<BR>List Central<BR> Page</b></font><BR> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.urbanspaceman.bookcrossing.com"><img src="http://www.urbanspaceman.bookcrossing.com/memberpics/UrbanSpaceman.jpg" border="1"></a></p> <hr><p align="center"><b><a name="menu"></a><b>MENU</b><BR> <BR> <a href="#mbwinners">Man-Booker Prize Winners List<BR> <a href="#observer">The Observer 100 Greatest Novels</a><BR> <a href="#time">The Time 100 Best English-language Novels since 1923</a><BR> <a href="#random">The Random House 100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century</a><BR> <a href="#random">1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die</a><BR> <a href="#sf">David Pringle's 100 Best Science Fiction Novels</a><BR> <a href="#hugos">Hugo Award 'Best Novel' Winners List</a><BR> <a href="#nebulas">Nebula 'Best Novel' Winners List</a><BR> <a href="#accs">Arthur C Clarke Winners List</a><BR> <BR> <a href="http://www.urbanspaceman.bookcrossing.com">My main BookCrossing page</a><BR> <BR> <hr></p></b><BR> <b><u>The List of Lists</b></u></a><BR> <BR> Welcome to <del>Addiction</del> List Central! For reasons that are not clear to me, I have developed an addiction to lists of books. Whether I will ever read all the books on the different lists before I die or go senile is debatable but, hey. I reckon that even if I'm not successful, I should end up more 'well-read' and maybe better able to mix in polite society. :)<BR><BR> <a name="mbwinners"><a href="http://www.celestek.co.uk/usm/mb.htm">The Man-Booker Prize Winners</a><BR><BR> This was the list that started it all. It wasn't my fault, though. I got the idea from another BookCrosser, honest!<BR> -- Current number read = 6/39<BR><BR> <a name="observer"><a href="http://www.celestek.co.uk/usm/ob100.htm">The Observer 100 Greatest Novels</a><BR><BR> This was the second list. Before I saw it mentioned on a book cover, I had no idea that there was such a thing. Once I looked at it, I was hooked - it's a list that contains many classic books that I've always been meaning to get around to.<BR> -- Current number read = 25/100<BR><BR> <a name="time"><a href="http://www.celestek.co.uk/usm/time100.htm">The Time 100 Best English-language Novels since 1923</a><BR><BR> This was the third list, which was assembled by the American magazine <i>Time</i> in 2005. I'm not sure why they chose 1923 to be the start date. There are a lot of books/authors on this list which I haven't heard of before, so I'm hoping for some interesting new reads.<BR> -- Current number read = 25/100<BR><BR> <a name="random"><a href="http://www.celestek.co.uk/usm/rh100.htm">The Random House 100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century</a><BR><BR> This list was selected by <i>The Board of the Modern Library</i>, a division of the US publishers <i>Random House</i> in 1998. <BR> -- Current number read = 19/100<BR><BR> <a name="1001"><a href="http://www.celestek.co.uk/usm/1001.htm">1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die</a><BR><BR> I found out about this list from another BookCrosser which comes from the book of the same name. Sigh.<BR> -- Current number read = 135/1001<BR><BR> <a name="sf"><a href="http://www.celestek.co.uk/usm/sf100.htm">David Pringle's 100 Best SF Novels</a><BR><BR>A list based on a 1984 book. It's a personal selection by David Pringle and undoubtedly a bit dated by now. I guess the Hugo and Nebula award winners would give a broader a more up to date coverage...<BR> -- Current number read = 75/100<BR><BR> <a name="hugos"><a href="http://www.celestek.co.uk/usm/hugos.htm">Hugo 'Best Novel' Winners</a><BR><BR>A list of the international Hugo Gernsback awards in the 'Best Novel' category from 1945 onwards, as voted on by fans.<BR> -- Current number read = 41/56<BR><BR> <a name="nebulass"><a href="http://www.celestek.co.uk/usm/nebulas.htm">Nebula 'Best Novel' Winners</a><BR><BR>A list of the Nebula awards in the 'Best Novel' category from 1965 onwards. Whereeas the Hugos are awarded by fans, the Nebulas are awarded by and to US writers (only). There is still a lot of overlap between the two lists, though.<BR> -- Current number read = 24/45<BR><BR> <a name="accs"><a href="http://www.celestek.co.uk/usm/accs.htm">Arthur C Clarke Award Winners</a><BR><BR>A list of the ACC awards from 1987 onwards. 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