{"id":2587,"date":"2014-10-26T12:06:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2014-10-26T12:06:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T17:06:51","slug":"updike-makes-another-best-novels-of-all-time-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/10\/26\/updike-makes-another-best-novels-of-all-time-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike makes another best novels of all time list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Telegraph<\/em> in September (how did we miss that?) posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/4248401\/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html\">&#8220;100 novels everyone should read; the best novels of all time from Tolkien to Proust and Middlemarch,&#8221;<\/a> and Updike made the list:<\/p>\n<p><strong>43 The Rabbit books by John Updike<\/strong><br \/>\nA former high school basketball star is unsatisfied by marriage, fatherhood and sales jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Updike\u00a0contemporary Ian McEwan made the list (#30, <em>Atonement<\/em>), as did Muriel Spark (#48, <em>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie<\/em>), Toni Morrison (#50, <em>Beloved<\/em>), Don DeLillo (#51, <em>Underworld<\/em>), JD Salinger (#52, <em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em>), Margaret Atwood (#53, <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em>), Vladimir Nabokov (#54, <em>Lolita<\/em>), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (#60, <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em>), Joseph Heller (#77, <em>Catch-22<\/em>), and Jack Kerouac (#87, <em>On the Road<\/em>). It&#8217;s very much a classics list, with George Eliot&#8217;s <em>Middlemarch<\/em> coming in at #1, followed by Herman Melville&#8217;s <em>Moby-Dick<\/em>, Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s <em>Anna Karenina<\/em>, Henry James&#8217; <em>The Portrait of a Lady<\/em>, and Joseph Conrad&#8217;s <em>Heart of Darkness<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph in September (how did we miss that?) posted &#8220;100 novels everyone should read; the best novels of all time from Tolkien to Proust and Middlemarch,&#8221; and Updike made the list: 43 The Rabbit books by John Updike A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/10\/26\/updike-makes-another-best-novels-of-all-time-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}