The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

Given by The Guardian

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Choosing holiday reading doesn't have to be about stuffing the latest blockbuster into your suitcase. From Renaissance Florence to the shores of Madagascar, we select the timeless novels that will

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Year Awarded:
2009
Werk
Het grote avontuur (1959) door Alain-Fournier
Het huis met de geesten (1982) door Isabel Allende
I Like It Here (1958) door Kingsley Amis
Trioloog (1991) door Julian Barnes
Het dak van de hemel (1949) door Paul Bowles
The Lady in the Lake (1943) door Raymond Chandler
Moord op de Nijl (1937) door Agatha Christie
Amours de Voyage (1858) door Arthur Hugh Clough
Imogen (1978) door Jilly Cooper
The Alexandria Quartet (1957) door Lawrence Durrell
Romola (1862) door George Eliot
Teder is de nacht (1934) door F. Scott Fitzgerald
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) door E. M. Forster
Het liefje van de Franse luitenant (1969) door John Fowles
Chosen by Grayson Perry, artist
De magiër (1965) door John Fowles
Flashman's Lady (1977) door George MacDonald Fraser
Kroniek van een aangekondigde dood (1981) door Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Het strand (1996) door Alex Garland
De zomer van de reine-claudes (1958) door Rumer Godden
Chosen by Sophie Dahl, writer and ex-model
Onze man in Havana (1958) door Graham Greene
Chocolat (1999) door Joanne Harris
The Reconstructionist (2001) door Josephine Hart
The Go-Between (1953) door L. P. Hartley
En de zon gaat op (1926) door Ernest Hemingway
Ripley, een man van talent (1955) door Patricia Highsmith
De schoonheidslijn (2004) door Alan Hollinghurst
Mannen die vrouwen haten (2005) door Stieg Larsson
Chosen by Richard Eyre, director
Voetsporen in de sneeuw (1962) door John le Carré
Cider with Rosie (1959) door Laurie Lee
De grootmoeders (2003) door Doris Lessing
Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) door Paule Marshall
Chosen by Jackie Kay, poet and novelist
De villa op de heuvel (1941) door W. Somerset Maugham
Boetekleed (2001) door Ian McEwan
Summer's Lease (1988) door John Mortimer
De zee, de zee (1978) door Iris Murdoch
Een huis voor meneer Biswas (1961) door V. S. Naipaul
De Engelse patiënt (1992) door Michael Ondaatje
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs (1963) door Marcel Pagnol
In de schaduw van de bloeiende meisjes (1918) door Marcel Proust
Chosen by Andrew Marr, presenter and journalist
De kant van Swann (1913) door Marcel Proust
Sargasso Zee : Roman (1966) door Jean Rhys
Bonjour tristesse (1954) door Françoise Sagan
Heft hoog de nokbalk, timmerlieden ; Seymour, een introductie (1955) door J. D. Salinger
Body Surfing (2007) door Anita Shreve
Moedermelk (2006) door Edward St. Aubyn
De dood van Iwan Iljitsj (1852) door Leo Tolstoy
Chosen by Alain de Botton, author and philosopher
De tijgerkat (1958) door Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Chosen by Simon Schama, historian and TV presenter
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) door Evelyn Waugh
French Leave (1956) door P. G. Wodehouse
Something is Going to Fall Like Rain (2009) door Ros Wynne-Jones
Chosen by Rosie Boycott, chair of Food London

Beschrijvingen

Choosing holiday reading doesn't have to be about stuffing the latest blockbuster into your suitcase. From Renaissance Florence to the shores of Madagascar, we select the timeless novels that will turn the most restful holiday into an exotic adventure.

(English, Award granter)
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/05/summer-reading-books-recommendations
A list from The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009... (English, Door lid geschreven)

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