Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Nov 6, 2019 9:24:23 GMT
Identity
· Beloved – Toni Morrison
· Days Without End – Sebastian Barry
· Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
· Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
· Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
· Small Island – Andrea Levy
· The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
· The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
· Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
· White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Love,Sex & Romance
· Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
· Forever – Judy Blume
· Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
· Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
· Riders – Jilly Cooper
· Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
· The Far Pavilions – M. M. Kaye
· The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
· The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
· The Slaves of Solitude – Patrick Hamilton
Adventure
· City of Bohane – Kevin Barry
· Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett
· For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
· His Dark Materials Trilogy – Phillip Pullman
· Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
· Mr Standfast – John Buchan
· The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
· The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
· The Jack Aubrey Novels – Patrick O’Brian
· The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkein
Life, Death & Other Worlds
· A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
· Astonishing the Gods – Ben Okri
· Dune – Frank Herbert
· Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
· Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
· The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis
· The Discworld Series – Terry Pratchett
· The Earthsea Trilogy – Ursula K. Le Guin
· The Sandman Series – Neil Gaiman
· The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Politics, Power & Protest
· A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
· Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
· Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
· Lord of the Flies – William Golding
· Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
· Strumpet City – James Plunkett
· The Color Purple – Alice Walker
· To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
· V for Vendetta – Alan Moore
· Unless – Carol Shields
Class & Society
· A House for Mr Biswas – V. S. Naipaul
· Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
· Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
· Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
· Poor Cow – Nell Dunn
· Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
· The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne – Brian Moore
· The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
· The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
· Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Coming of Age
· Emily of New Moon – L. M. Montgomery
· Golden Child - Claire Adam
· Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
· So Long, See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell
· Swami and Friends – R. K. Narayan
· The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
· The Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
· The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
· The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend
· The Twilight Saga – Stephanie Meyer
Family & Friendship
· A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
· Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild
· Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
· Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
· I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
· Middlemarch – George Eliot
· Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
· The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
· The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte
· The Witches – Roald Dahl
Conflict & Crime
· American Tabloid – James Ellroy
· American War – Omar El Akkad
· Ice Candy Man – Bapsi Sidhwa
· Rebecca -Daphne du Maurier
· Regeneration – Pat Barker
· The Children of Men – P.D. James
· The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
· The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
· The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
· The Quiet American – Graham Greene
Rule Breakers
· A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
· Bartleby, the Scrivener – Herman Melville
· Habibi – Craig Thompson
· How to be Both – Ali Smith
· Orlando – Virginia Woolf
· Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
· Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
· Psmith, Journalist – P. G. Wodehouse
· The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
· Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
Me : Identity 0, Romance 1, Adventure 6, Class & Society 2, Coming of Age 3, Life, Death &Other Worlds 3, Politics, Power & Protest 3,
Class & Society 2, Coming of Age 3, Family & Friendship 5, Conflict & Crime 3, Rule Breakers 2.
Oh, well over 25% but a lot there I wouldn’t wish to read!