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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (TBR takedown 1st book) - 1 pointRead and reviewed here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
100 pages - 1 point
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Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov(Randomised reading list - 1st book) - 5 points
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The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
(BOTM) - 3 points
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman22 pages - 1 point
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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (TBR takedown 2nd book - 1 point)
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Extinction by Thomas Bernhard352 pages - 2 points
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The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers356 pages - 2 points
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The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy(TBR takedown 3rd book - 2 points)
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams324 pages - 2 points
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To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
256 pages - 2 points
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou(TBR Takedown 4th book - 2 points)
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Correction by Thomas Bernhard(BOTM - 3 points)
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Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Thomas Bernhard
(BOTM - 3 points)
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Bonus for reading both BOTM - 1 point
Hebdomeros by Giorgio de ChiricoRandomised reading list - 2 points
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I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch(BOTM - 3 points)
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The Nine Tailors: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 11 by Dorothy L. Sayers346 pages - 2 points
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Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey(TBR takedown 5th book - 3 points)
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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming(TBR takedown 6th book - 3 points)
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The Immoralist by André Gide(BOTM - 3 points)
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Her Lover by Albert Cohen (alternative title for Belle du Seigneur)Randomised reading list - 2 points
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Jazz by Toni Morrison
229 pages - 2 points
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Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe(July BOTM - 3 points)
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In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul(TBR takedown 7th book - 4 points)
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Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis(Buddy read - 3 points)
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The Green Hat by Michael Arlen(July BOTM - 3 points)
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+1 bonus point for completing both July BOTM
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro258 pages - 2 points
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The Hive by Camilo José Cela(August BOTM - 3 points)
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Absalom@@ Absalom! by William Faulkner(TBR takedown 8th book - 4 points)
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The World According To Garp by John Irving(Quarterly read - 12 points)
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The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow(September BOTM - 3 points)
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Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos(September BOTM - 3 points)
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+1 point for completing both September BOTM
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh(TBR takedown 9th book - 5 points)
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett386 pages - 2 points
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Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata(October BOTM - 3 points)
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The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley(TBR takedown 10th book - 5 points)
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The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells(Hallowe’en 2023 read - 3 points)
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë(353 pages - 2 points)
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Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry(TBR takedown 11th book - 5 points)
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The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen(330 pages - 2 points)
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Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi(178 pages - 2 points)
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Winter by Ali Smith(TBR takedown 12th book - 5 points)
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne(I actually read it in this edition - Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon - where it is the first 161 pages so 2 points)
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Spreadsheet updated 17th December 2023
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Books mentioned in this topic
Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon (other topics)Winter (other topics)
Gabriel's Gift (other topics)
The Heat of the Day (other topics)
Family Matters (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Jules Verne (other topics)Ali Smith (other topics)
Hanif Kureishi (other topics)
Elizabeth Bowen (other topics)
Rohinton Mistry (other topics)
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January
4 books 10 points
February
2 books 2 points
March
3 books 6 points
April
6 books 15 points
May
3 books 8 points
June
2 books 6 points
July
6 books 18 points
August
3 books 9 points
September
4 books 24 points
October
5 books 15 points
November
3 books 9 points
December
2 books 7 points
Total books: 43
Total points: 134