Tag: Bookish Hall of Fame
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2026: Biggest Rises and Falls
One of my favourite things about my Hall of Fame project is seeing how different books jump or stumble in my estimation from year to year. Here’s a list of the five biggest rises and the five deepest falls this year. (Note on ‘relative’ increases and decreases: The overall change is about the number in…
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2026: New Additions and Emeritus Titles
Every year when the dust settles and I take the time to update my bookish Hall of Fame, it’s always interesting to see which books from the previous year made the cut and slipped into my favourite 100 novels of all time. But that means I also have to say goodbye to the books that…
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2025, Part III: 28-1
This week, I’ve been updating my Bookish Hall of Fame to account for the books I read in 2024. (I redid the Hall of Fame in February and March, but never got around to posting the updates until now!) Part I discussed the Hall of Fame Emeritus books (i.e., those books that fell out of…
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2025, Part II: 72-29
Last time, I started my (long delayed) accounting of my updated Bookish Hall of Fame by talking about the Hall of Fame Emeritus books (i.e., those books that fell out of the top 100 but remain much beloved) and the ‘ground floor’ Hall books (100-73). Today I will go through the next two ‘floors’, accounting…
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2025, Part I: Emeritus and Books 100-75
One of the things that I didn’t do this year when this blog was dormant was update my Bookish Hall of Fame posts. For those who haven’t followed the blog from the beginning, this is my evolving list of my 100 favourite books of all time. So, with 2025’s reads knocking at the door, it’s…
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My Bookish Hall of Fame: Introduction
My recent foray back into reading ‘classics’ has got me thinking a lot about what makes a book ‘good’. What are the criteria that make a book work for me as a reader, and how does that relate to a book’s overall quality and reputation? The more I thought about it, the more complicated it…
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