Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, RK Narayan, Vikram Seth’s books feature in BBC’s 100 ‘novels that shaped our world’ | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, RK Narayan, Vikram Seth’s books feature in BBC’s 100 ‘novels that shaped our world’ | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By Lifestyle Desk |New Delhi |Published: November 7, 2019 2:00:03 pm

Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, RK Narayan, Vikram Seth’s books feature in BBC’s 100 ‘novels that shaped our world’

The list has been divided into 10 categories — identity, love, sex and romance, adventure, life, death and other worlds, politics, power and protest, class and society, coming of age, family and friendship, crime and conflict and rule-breakers, the names — with 10 books each.

The list throws up some expected and some unexpected names. (File Photo)

Stories might be made out of life, but they make life worth living. Recently, British Broadcasting Corporation came up with a list that features 100 novels that changed the world. A panel, consisting of “leading writers, curators and critics” chose these “genre-busting novels that have had an impact on their lives, and this is the result.”