One Hundred Best Books

A novelist's hundred best books, chosen “frankly subjective” in 1916 — with an essay on reading that picks a fight with every other such list.

Your Hundred

Powys's list is an examination nobody sets but you. Tick the entries you have honestly read — each one links to his commentary — and the page's address quietly records your progress, so you can bookmark it, or send it to somebody as a challenge.

Ticks are saved in this browser and in the page address itself. Nothing is sent anywhere.