The Lit List – Parties

Top 10: the most memorable parties of fiction

‘Tis the season to be jolly. So, grab one or more of these party-tastic books to get you in the mood.

1. The Great Gatsby by F Scott FitzGerald – Gatsby’s Saturday Night Parties
2. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett – Mr Hosokawa’s 53^rd Birthday Party
3. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf – Clarissa’s Parties
4. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh – Lady Metroland’s Party
5. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – Mr and Mrs Fezziwig’s annual Christmas Parties
6. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier – the Manderley Fancy Dress Ball
7. Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier – the Strange Fête
8. Carrie by Stephen King – the Thomas Ewen High School Prom
9. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst – the Fedden’s 25^th Wedding Anniversary Party
10. The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkein – Bilbo Baggins’s Eleventy-First Birthday Party

Bubbling under…

• The Tin Drum by Günter Grass – The Onion Cellar
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kasey – McMurphy’s Ward Party

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