I like book lists, so I like to haunt the site, The Neglected Books Page ( http://www.neglectedbooks.com/ ). The editor describes the page as containing “lists of thousands of books that have been neglected, overlooked, forgotten, or stranded by changing tides in critical or popular taste.”
Recently (June), the NBP mentioned writer Lee Sandlin’s ( http://www.leesandlin.com/site/enthusiasms.htm ) list of Ten Novels That Not Enough People Have Read:
- Armed With Madness, Mary Butts
- Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees
- Memoirs of a Midget, Walter de la Mare
- The Asiatics, Frederic Prokosch
- The Curlew’s Cry, Mildred Walker
- A Legacy, Sybille Bedford
- The Stone Book Quartet, Alan Garner
- The Dead of the House, Hannah Green
- Peace, Gene Wolfe
- The Fortunate Fall, Raphael Carter
The editor at NBP tells how he wrote to Sandlin and how Sandlin responded with comments on each book. You can read the comments (a very worthwhile read) at: ( http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=208 ). NBP also tells us where we can find copies of the books in print.
