The Greatest Novel of Every Decade (1800–2000) | Andrew Nixon’s Picks

*- Andrew's list is pasted below -*

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In this video Andrew 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.

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1800s

Tales from Shakespeare - Mary & Charles Lamb

1810s

Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen

1820s

A barren decade.

1830s

The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

1840s

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

1850s

Mada-- Bleak House - Charles Dickens

1860s

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

1870s

Middlemarch - George Eliot

1880s

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

1890s

The Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith

1900s

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

1910s

Howard's End - E.M. Forster

1920s

A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes

1930s

A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh

1940s

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake

1950s

The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy

1960s

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

1970s

Watership Down - Richard Adams

1980s

The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis

1990s

Blue at the Mizzen (representing the full 20-book Aubrey-Maturin series)

00:00:00 Introduction

00:05:11 1800s

00:08:29 1810s

00:13:56 1820s

00:14:45 1830s

00:19:20 1840s

00:22:40 1850s

00:27:48 1860s

00:32:13 1870s

00:38:06 1880s

00:42:20 1890s

00:45:33 1900s

00:51:46 1910s

00:56:20 1920s

01:01:45 1930s

01:08:16 1940s

01:11:51 1950s

01:16:47 1960s

01:22:48 1970s

01:28:06 1980s

01:31:25 1990s

01:36:07 Conclusion