The Greatest Books You’ve Never Read (1800-2000) | Adam Walter’s Picks

*- Adam's list is pasted below -*

Please help us to keep having these conversations by supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/solomonsmith/membership

In this video Adam discusses his favourite works of fiction decade by decade, starting in 1800 and going 200 years, decade by decade, until they reach the borders of our present century. If you would like to be interviewed by us about your favourite books, please send an email.

1800s

Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1810s

The Golden Pot - E.T.A. Hoffmann

1820s

Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin

1830s

The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal

1840s

Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac

1850s

Sylvie - Gérard de Nerval

1860s

Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens

1870s

Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky

1880s

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis

1890s

The Christ and Antichrist Trilogy - Dmitry Merezhkovsky

1900s

Hadji Murat - Leo Tolstoy

1910s

In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

1920s

Rakes of the Old Court - Mateiu Caragiale

1930s

A Glastonbury Romance - John Cowper Powys

1940s

The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch

1950s

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar

1960s

Riders in the Chariot - Patrick White

1970s

The Obscene Bird of Night - José Donoso

1980s

Repetition - Peter Handke

1990s

The Rehearsals - Vladimir Sharov

0:00 Introduction

2:23 Adam arrives

7:27 1800s

10:22 1810s

14:28 1820s

18:40 1830s

21:55 1840s

27:42 1850s

30:30 1860s

36:04 1870s

42:30 1880s

44:18 1890s

48:32 1900s

51:12 1910s

59:40 1920s

1:03:19 1930s

1:06:46 1940s

1:10:46 1950s

1:12:55 1960s

1:15:41 1970s

1:21:58 1980s

1:23:35 1990s

1:28:45 Conclusion