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2023 Group Randomised Reading Lists

Here are the lists so you can start your planning. I will add individual threads as and when I get there so bear with me.

Amanda – WL
1. Broad and Alien is the World by Ciro Alegria (WL)
2. Émile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (WL)
3. The Emigrants by W G Sebald (WL)
4. The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese (WL)

Dianne – Standard
1. Eclipse of the Cresent Moon by Geza Gardonyi
2. A Day in Spring by Ciril Kosmac
3. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (WL)
4. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Gail – Standard
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
3. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
4. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (WL)

Hilde – 1 Norwegian & No WL
1. Beatles by Lars Saabye Christensen (Norwegian)
2. The Book About Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
3. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
4. Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg

Karen – Standard
1. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by ETA Hoffman
2. Absalom, Absalom! By William Faulkner
3. The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West
4. Halftime by Martin Walser (WL)

Kristel – Standard
1. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
2. A Disaffection by James Kelman
3. Dispatches by Michael Herr
4. The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy (WL)

Pamela – 1 Italian & No WL
1. Il signor presidente (The President) by Miguel Ángel Asturias (Italian)
2. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
3. Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
4. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

Patrick – Standard
1. The Forbidden Realm by Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (WL)
2. The Nun by Denis Diderot
3. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
4. The Floating Opera by John Barth

Shellie – Standard
1. In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi
2. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
3. The Vice-Consul by Marguerite Duras
4. The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet (WL)

Soscha – Standard
1. New Grub Street by George Gissing
2. Voss by Patrick White
3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Troubles by J G Farrell (WL)

Tatjana – 1 non English
1. We Are Doing Fine by Arno Geiger (Russian)
2. Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
3. Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater
4. Young Törless by Robert Musil (WL)

Valerie – Standard
1. Living by Henry Green
2. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
3. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (WL)
4. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Pip – Standard
1. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2. Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel
3. What Maisie Knew by Henry James
4. Troubles by J G Farrell

Jen – Standard
1. The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote
4. Correction by Thomas Bernhard (WL)

Jamie – Standard
1. The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
2. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
3. Z by Vassilis Vassilikos (WL)
4. The Information by Martin Amis


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