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06/09/2005
Book lovers predict the classics of the future
Contemporary bestselling novels by authors Mark Haddon, Louis de Bernières,
Ian McEwan, Joseph O'Connor, Sebastian Faulks and Margaret Atwood have been
chosen by reading groups around the country as the books most likely to be the
classics of the future.
To mark 15 years of publishing, Vintage, the literary paperback imprint of
Random House, asked over 500 book lovers to predict which novels they think
will be hailed as classics a hundred years from today. Presented with a list
of one hundred Vintage books by some of the 20th century's greatest writers,
the groups were asked to nominate the fifteen they believe will stand the test
of time.
All fifteen books were published on 1st September as limited edition Vintage Future
Classics.
The 15 Future Classics are as follows:
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (first published in 1985)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières (1994)
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (1980)
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (1993)
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles (1969)
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (1997)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (2003)
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1961)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
Atonement - Ian McEwan (2001)
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (2003)
Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor (2003)
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
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