SiMo's 2023 Buffet

[SiMo]

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse

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[SiMo]

Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge

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[SiMo]

Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads Challenge

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[SiMo]

Challenge #8 –Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year

10 Books of Interest for 1985
1. Il racconto dell'ancella (The Handmaid's Tale), Margareth Atwood
2. Il gioco di Ender (Ender's Game), Orson Scott Card
3. L'amore ai tempi del colera (Love in the Time of Cholera), Gabriel García Márquez
4. Il profumo (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), Patrick Süskind
5. L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales), Oliver Sacks
6. Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove), Larry McMurtry
7. Le regole della casa del sidro (The Cider House Rules), John Irving
8. La fine del mondo e il paese delle meraviglie (Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World), Haruki Murakami
9. Turista per caso (The Accidental Tourist), Anne Tyler
10. Meno di zero (Less Than Zero), Breat Easton Ellis

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[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Your selections for #8 are great. For what it is worth I can speak highly for The Handmaid’s Tale, Ender’s Game, and Lonesome Dove. Happy reading,

[SiMo]

Thank you! I didn't imagine that my birth year was so full of literary masterpieces! It was a nice discovery!

[Irphen]

Good luck with your challenge! :-) I haven't read any of your selections but some seem very interesting!^^