Group 2021 Randomised Reading Lists

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So everyone sees their lists at the same time I am posting this group list. I will be setting up everyone's lists individually however I have real world stuff to do now so that will occur later.

For now please feel free to compare and contrast your lists in one easy place and think carefully about any substitutions you may wish to make.

Leni’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall
2) Brighton Rock Graham Greene
3) The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
4) The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio (WL)

Tatjana’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) The Case of Sergeant Grischa Arnold Zweig
2) Embers Sandor Marai
3) Contact Carl Sagan
4) Petals of Blood Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (WL)

Valerie’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) Gösta Berlings saga Selma Lagerlöf
2) The Late-Night News Petros Markaris
3) Blue of Noon Georges Bataille
4) Indigo Marina Warner (WL)

Kristel’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) Eugénie Grandet Honoré de Balzac
2) Fifth Business Robertson Davies
3) Santa Evita Tomas Eloy Martinez
4) The Case Worker Gyorgy Conrad (WL)

Patrick’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
2) Operation Shylock Philip Roth (WL)
3) The Parable of the Blind Gert Hofman
4) Lives of Girls and Women Alice Munro

Hilde’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne
2) Ragtime E L Doctorow
3) Ballad of Georg Henig Viktor Paskov
4) Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Daniel Paul Schreber (WL)

Amie’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) Ben-Hur Lew Wallace
2) Émile, or On Education Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3) Remembering Babylon David Malouf
4) Down Second Avenue Es'kia Mphahlele (WL)

Daisey’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) The House with the Blind Glass Windows Herbjorg Wassmo
2) The Bitter Glass Ellis Dillon
3) The House of Doctor Dee Peter Ackroyd
4) Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin (WL)

MaryAnn’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous
2) The Gathering Anne Enright
3) Dispatches Michael Herr
4) The Stechlin Theodor Fontane (WL)

Gail’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg
2) The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler
3) Matigari Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
4) The Manor Isaac Bashevis Singer (WL)

Diane’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) Gimmick! Joost Zwagerman (WL)
2) Halftime Martin Walser (WL)
3) Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon (WL)
4) Land Park Kyung-ni (WL)

Karen’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) The Year of the Hare Arto Paasilinna
2) The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
3) Silk Alessandro Baricco
4) Indigo Marina Warner (WL)

Jen’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) Surfacing Margaret Atwood
2) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe
3) The Information Martin Amis
4) Old Masters Thomas Bernhard (WL)

Pip’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) La Brava Elmore Leonard (WL)
2) Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
3) Julie, or The New Eloise Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4) The Real Charlotte Somerville and Ross (WL)

Amanda’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) The Guiltless Hermann Broch (WL)
2) The Rebel Albert Camus (WL)
3) Eclipse of the Cresent Moon Geza Gardonyi (WL)
4) Andrea Carmen Laforet (WL)

Jamie’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle
2) Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman Melville
3) A Day Off Storm Jameson
4) The Manor Isaac Bashevis Singer (WL)

Jessica’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) Blindness Henry Green
2) Cigarettes Harry Mathews
3) Down Second Avenue Es'kia Mphahlele (WL)
4) Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein

Sree’s 2021 Randomised Reading List

1) Compassion Benito Pérez Galdós
2) Justine Lawrence Durrell
3) Delta of Venus Anais Nin
4) Belle du Seigneur Albert Cohen (WL)