Announcing the Tag for November

[Anita]

Another close call, but one tag pulled away from the others in the end, and that tag was:

British literature

Please share your reading plans and recommendations below.

Remember, for the regular monthly reads, the book can be shelved as "british-literature" on Goodreads, or be a book that is not yet shelved that way but you feel should be.

One way to find books to read for this tag is to please visit:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

We encourage people to link to additional lists below if they find them.

Happy Reading!!!

[Book Concierge]

Anita wrote: "Remember, for the regular monthly reads, the book can be shelved as "scifi-fantasy" on Goodreads, or be a book that is not yet shelved ..."

I think you mean to say shelved as "british-literature" ....

[Amy]

I actually voted for this one, although I had choices for the three. Never once expected it to win.

[Algernon (Darth Anyan)]

I have just finished a William Boyd novel, and I would like to recommend him to other readers.
Other names that come easily to mind:
Iris Murdoch
Penelope Lively
A.S. Byatt
Rose Macaulay
Anita Brookner
Rosamunde Pilcher
Barbara Vine

Graham Joyce
Iain Banks
Christopher Brookmyre
John Banville
P.G. Wodehouse
China Miéville
Roddy Doyle
Francis Spufford

For myself, I think I will start with the latest from Ian McEwan - What We Can Know

[Ghost of a Rose]

I forgot to vote, but yay! I’m very happy that this won.

I just a few minutes ago received a book from Amazon: The Kingmaker's Daughter, by Philippa Gregory.

It will be perfect!

[Booknblues]

I hadn't researched the tags at all this time, but going through just now, I found a good number of likely candidates on my tbr and I will probably read something completely different, My list:
Rivers of London
When We Were Orphans
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Lolly Willowes
The Beach
They Came to Baghdad
Shuggie Bain
The Crossing Places
Our Wives Under the Sea
Once Upon a River
The Last Bookshop in London
Before I Go to Sleep
Dissolution
Transcription
A Street Cat Named Bob
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
The Secret Book of Flora Lea
The Silence of the Girls
Raven Black

[Robin P]

Well, I read a lot of mysteries and romances set in England, so I think those count as well as literary fiction. I see there are some mysteries mentioned above.

[Booknblues]

Robin P wrote: "Well, I read a lot of mysteries and romances set in England, so I think those count as well as literary fiction. I see there are some mysteries mentioned above."

They were on the list when I looked through it.

[Joanne]

I will be reading Ken Follett's The Armor of Light which has been on the short list for a while now.

[Karin]

Excellent--this was tied for my first choice, but I voted with it as my second. I'm not yet sure what I'll read; none are new territory for me, but I'm sure I have something :)

[Lyn]

This works for me. I have many options on my physical bookshelf, including:
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Atonement by Ian McEwen
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz


I will have to see what my mood is in November:)

[Theresa]

This will push me to finish Bleak House in November.

[Jgrace]

And I will try to finish Little Dorrit.

[NancyJ]

I’m planning to read the next book in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie. I think it also fits November flurries since key characters are veterans of World War I.

[NancyJ]

Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "I have just finished a William Boyd novel, and I would like to recommend him to other readers.
Other names that come easily to mind:
Iris Murdoch
Penelope Lively
[author..."

OK I will give Boyd a try. I liked the masterpiece adaptation of [book:Any Human Heart|77866], and this is a good time to try one of his novels. I’m not sure if I want to start with a thriller or a novel about an entire life. Probably the latter. I was interested in the one involving the Shelley’s because it reminds me of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley.

I’ll see what’s readily available first.
Added - I can easily get: Any Human Heart and Restless. They both sound good to me.

What are your favorites?

[Algernon (Darth Anyan)]

NancyJ wrote: "Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "I have just finished a William Boyd novel, and I would like to recommend him to other readers.
Other names that come easily to mind:
Iris Murdoch
[autho..."

Restless is still on my TBR, but looks good. [book:Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay|23848587] and Any Human Heart would be my first picks from his fictional biographies; Trio, The Blue Afternoon or Waiting for Sunrise from his more contemporary novels

[Booknblues]

Looking through some of my reads, here are some I can recommend that were tagged British Literature:
Circle of Days
Murder on the Marlow Belle(4 tags)
A Peculiar Combination
Universality
Yours Cheerfully
Birds of a Feather
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
The Summer Before the War

[NancyJ]

Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "I have just finished a William Boyd novel, and I would like to recommend him to other readers.
Other names that come easily to mind:
[author:Iris Murdo..."

Great, I think I’ll start with Any Human Heart.

[Robin P]

NancyJ wrote: "Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "I have just finished a William Boyd novel, and I would like to recommend him to other readers.
Other names that come easily to mind:
Iris Murdoch
[autho..."

Which is the one featuring the Shelleys?

[NancyJ]

Booknblues wrote: "Looking through some of my reads, here are some I can recommend that were tagged British Literature:
Circle of Days
Murder on the Marlow Belle(4 tags)


I loved The Love Song of Queeny Hennessy, and a couple other books by Rachel Joyce. I’ll give Miss Benson's Beetle another try. (I couldn’t finish it before the due date last time.) her new book is The Homemade God.

I also own books by Ali Smith, Kate Atkinson and Jeanette Winterson - Spring, Summer How to be Both, One Good Turn, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Passion. The Ali Smith books are short but they always take a long time because I stop to look things up.

Other books that might fit:
The Lost Words
My Friends - Hisham Matar
The Names
Queens of London
The Uncommon Reader

Plus Sense and Sensibility. I feel like I’m forgetting something else I wanted to read for a long time.

[Robin P]

Some longer books:
Oxford Time Travel series by Connie Willis
Family sagas by R.F. Delderfield

Other authors:
Angela Thirkell - humorous
Christopher Fowler - humorous mysteryies
Pat Barker - historical
Charles Todd -historical mysteries
Mary Balogh - historical romance

a very short and effective book is Whale Fall

[Algernon (Darth Anyan)]

Robin P wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "I have just finished a William Boyd novel, and I would like to recommend him to other readers.
Other names that come easily to mind:
Iris Murdo..."</i>
the last tone I read: [book:The Romantic

[Anita]

Book Concierge wrote: "Anita wrote: "Remember, for the regular monthly reads, the book can be shelved as "scifi-fantasy" on Goodreads, or be a book that is not yet shelved ..."

I think you mean to say shelved as "britis..."

Ahh, the perils of copying and pasting!!

[Anita]

Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "I have just finished a William Boyd novel, and I would like to recommend him to other readers.
Other names that come easily to mind:
Iris Murdoch
Penelope Lively
[author..."

Oh, thank you for pointing out that the latest[author:Ian McEwan|2408] is a fit. That's definitely on my radar.

Also considering Our Evenings.

[Joy D]

A few more British authors who are among my favorites:
Barry Unsworth
Tom Rachman
David Mitchell
Hilary Mantel
Martin MacInnes
Hari Kunzru
Robert Harris
Michael Frayn
Aminatta Forna
Louis de Bernières
Sara Baume
Julian Barnes

[Joy D]

Thought of a few more:

Ali Smith
Edward St. Aubyn
Bernard Cornwell
Diane Setterfield
Zadie Smith
Natasha Brown
David Nicholls
China Miéville
Penelope Fitzgerald
Muriel Spark
Siri Hustvedt
Bernardine Evaristo

And don't forget non-fiction:
Simon Winchester
Tim Butcher
Robert Macfarlane

[Karin]

I've read all but 8 of the books on the first page and have no desire to read those, but will check other pages :)