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[Mia]

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson.

[Joy D]

Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks - 5* - My Review

[Kathleen]

Coming Up for Air by George Orwell. As a nostalgic person, I loved it!

[Bob]

He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

[Nocturnalux]

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

[Karen]

Home by Marilynne Robinson

[Maddy]

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. It's probably much better in Russian...

[Alice]

The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima (#4 and final book of The Sea of Fertility)

[Pamela]

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

[Ellinor]

A Day Off by Storm Jameson

[Mia]

The Green Man by Kingsley Amis. Well, he can write, I just don't care about the things he writes about.

[Joy D]

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - 4.5* - My Review

The Satanic Verses

[Maddy]

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. What an adventure!

[Tim]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
5 Stars - Everyone should read this!

[Alice]

Notre-Dame de Paris The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

[Karen]

Burmese Days by George Orwell

[Aileen]

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

[Mia]

Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson.

[Pamela]

The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín

[Peter]

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.
A Marmite book you will either love or loathe it.

[Ellinor]

Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot

[Mia]

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. Not my kind of book.

[Stacey]

I just finished my first book from the list. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

Edit to add: this has been on every year's list since 2006.

[Pamela]

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

[Bob]

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

[Karina]

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

[Carol]

I finished The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole on 9/21/22

[Jake]

Carol wrote: "I finished The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole on 9/21/22"

I've been thinking about reading that since I've been trying to get a better understanding of gothic horror. How does it hold up all these centuries later?

[George P.]

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion (US). A short but powerfully-written work about a depressed actress. Very good.
Also a couple weeks ago, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (France), also very good, though I suggest skipping the chapter on old Paris architecture unless you're interested in that.

[Mia]

House Mother Normal by B.S. Johnson.

[George P.]

Fools of Fortune by William Trevor (Ireland). Interesting story, nice writing. Works in some 20th century Irish history.

[Bob]

The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

[Joy D]

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai - 4* - My Review

[Ellinor]

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. Loved it.

[Mia]

The Professor's House by Willa Cather.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Jake wrote: "Carol wrote: "I finished The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole on 9/21/22"

I've been thinking about reading that since I've been trying to get a better understanding of gothic horror. How does it hold up all these centuries later?"

I read it last year. It's not a difficult read but a bit dull at times. It stands more as the mother of Gothic Fiction than on its own literary merits.

[Karen]

Finished --
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin
Misericordia by Benito Pérez Galdós
Love in Excess by Eliza Fowler Haywood
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

[Karen]

Mia wrote: "Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson."

What did you think of it? It took me forever to get through it. I could only manage 1 to 2 pages a day!

[Pamela]

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

[Stacey]

Book 2

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

[Mia]

Karen wrote: "Mia wrote: "Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson."

What did you think of it? It took me forever to get through it. I could only manage 1 to 2 pages a day!"

It definitely wasn't easy read. Original idea I suppose, but honestly I just didn't understand it so I didn't get anything from it.

[Mia]

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat. I'm little disappointed, I was looking more from it.

[Jacob]

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

[Alice]

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

[Carol]

The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon

Not a happy book, but I enjoyed reading it more than I thought I would!

[Karen]

[Maddy]

Finished The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano over the weekend. A bit dry in places, but still worth reading.

[Alice]

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

[JenniferAustin]

I just finished The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna. What a demented and wonderful book! I have already requested the only other Paasilinna title my library owns.

My review: "This book is a gem. Think a Finnish mashup of Don Quixote, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Monty Python and the Holy Grail...."

[James]

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Love his stuff and am embarrassed that I hadn't read this one before.