Love the war in Heaven concept, even if it isn't explored to my satisfaction. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson, 1985)55. Left me totally hanging. What does the rest of the world see as the greatest British novels? Use of Weapons - To the contrary, one of the least Cultury book, it's just there to give background. I love trying to occupy the mental space of things that are smarter than human. The Swimming Pool Library (Alan Hollinghurst, 1988)42. Loving (Henry Green, 1945)57. I think this thread could be a good resource for new readers. OTP: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel Flush, the other most literary dog I know. Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)50. Use of Weapons was hard for me because the hero wasn't particularly inspiring or sympathetic. Nabokov’s first novel, Mary, published under the pen name V.Sirin, unfolds in a Berlin boarding house, where the former White Guard Officer Lev Glebovich Ganin lives, surrounded by a group of seriocomic Russian émigrés. White Teeth (Zadie Smith, 2000)24. Very casual friendly, if you don't pay attention the book plays like your average adventure sci-fi. Great insight into a totally different aspect of how the Culture murks its way through other civilizations. Daniel Deronda (George Eliot, 1876)69. Memoirs of a Survivor (Doris Lessing, 1974)95. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford, 1915)12. Consider Phlebas is the wrong book to start with because it's really more of a critique of the Culture, delivered before you truly understand it. Hydrogen Sonata - nothing significant happened; just a lot of exposition with no payoff. (Le Carré’s best early sentences are actually in his first novel, A Call for the Dead, No. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895)22. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry,1947)97. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. A House for Mr Biswas (VS Naipaul, 1961)77. I already knew how it would end but it was the drama and intrigue on the way there that kept me hooked. The Code of the Woosters (PG Wodehouse, 1938)99. A fascinating piece of metafiction particularly loved by Russian readers, The Gift was written during Nabokov’s Berlin period. This subreddit is dedicated to the fictional world created by Iain M. Banks in the Culture novels and short stories. Remainder (Tom McCarthy, 2005)34. Matter is like a James Bond movie in the Culture space, perhaps the most cinematic of the novels. A Passage to India (EM Forster, 1924)49. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg, 1824)93. Contains all the elements that make The Culture work - Minds, drones, high-level plotting, and a protagonist who is very much the typical Culture human, totally in over his head. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)39. Possession (AS Byatt, 1990)48. Orlando (Virginia Woolf, 1928)64. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)2. The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen, 1938)87. One of Nabokov’s most famous novels, The Defense is based on the life story of the writer’s friend Curt von Bardeleben, who committed suicide in 1924. It's an adventure book with an angsty shapeshifter. Matter - Too much intro and with the "guy from low tech society gets into high tech adventure" it's too similar to classic stuff that I don't really like. Excession is my personal favorite because I'm into the nuts and bolts of the Culture and how the Minds interact with each other. Also, that cameo. Excession - some promising story development, then some silly deus ex machina and the end?! The Jewel in the Crown (Paul Scott, 1966)80. The very scene from whence this list gets its raison d’être was also famously immortalized in a 12-foot fiberglass form in London’s Hyde Park, before making a tour of local ponds and winding up in Lyme Park, Cheshire, where the scene was filmed. When they weren't just plain horrifying they seemed to bog things down. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)6. Has its ups and downs, but overall I didn't find the moralizing too interesting and the story doesn't make up for it. Excession - The Culture in full swing. The Little Stranger (Sarah Waters, 2009)44. Excession is my personal favorite because I'm into the nuts and bolts of the Culture and how the Minds interact with each other. Use of Weapons - beautiful twists and turns; required a lot of thinking to put the story together and connect the dots; great depth of character in Zakalwe. The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst, 2004)58. 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