They choose Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys but it is far from her best book even if it is the best known so I think it casts doubt on the rest of the list. I wouldn't have picked Brideshead as one of my Waugh choices for instance. And Atonment is a better book than Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or Diary Of A Nobody? And nothing by Salinger?
But that is the point of these top 100 lists; to annoy people so they write in and the paper/website gets free copy.
They choose Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys but it is far from her best book even if it is the best known so I think it casts doubt on the rest of the list. I wouldn't have picked Brideshead as one of my Waugh choices for instance. And Atonment is a better book than Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or Diary Of A Nobody? And nothing by Salinger?
But that is the point of these top 100 lists; to annoy people so they write in and the paper/website gets free copy.