jun 16 2018 ∞
jun 16 2018 +
- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- ✔ Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and he Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- ✔ Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
- Nineteen-Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- ✔ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
- ✔ Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- ✔ Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- ✔ The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
aug 10 2012 ∞
jun 16 2018 +
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- The Emperor’s Children - Claire Messud: The best 9/11 novel that’s much more than a 9/11 novel. Weirdly relatable, even though the characters are all pretty much upper-class pseudo-intellectuals.
- What She Saw… - Lucinda Rosenfeld: Important twenties life lesson: Dating losers is not a life sentence (thank God).
- The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies: A wondrously insane and magical (in that it is actually about a magician) three-book series.
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt: The best time to read The Secret History is probably while you’re still in college, because it is about a secret society at a small liberal arts college gone horribly awry, but it is also worth picking up a few years later to be reminded about the intensity of college friendships, and also Ancient Greek.
- Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin: A timeless story of masculinity, desire, and heartbreak that has become particularly resonant for young gay men.
- A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan: These interwoven narratives (some of whic...
may 15 2013 ∞
jun 16 2018 +
- A book recommended by a librarian: Fantomina , Eliza Haywood
- A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long: The Bell Jar , Sylvia Plath
- A book of letters: My Dearest Father , W.A. Mozart
- An audiobook: Minoes , Annie M.G. Schmidt (Carice van Houten)
- A book by a person of color: Queen of the Night , Alexander Chee
- A book with one of the four seasons in the title: The Winter´s Tale , William Shakespeare
- A book that's a story within a story: The Hours , Mihcael Cunningham
- A book with multiple authors: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales , Kate Bernheimer, Gregory Maguire and others
- An espionage thriller: The Scarlet Pimpernel , Emmuska Orczy
- A book with a cat on the cover: The Cat in the Hat , Dr. Seuss
- A book by an author who uses a pseudonym: Middlemarch , George Elliot
- A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read: Hex , Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- A book by/about a person who has a disability: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , Mark Haddon
jan 2 2017 ∞
jun 16 2018 +
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 2000s
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Saturday – Ian McEwan
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
- Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
- The Sea – John Banville
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
- The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
- The Master – Colm Tóibín
- Vanishing Point – David Markson
- The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
- Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
- The Colour – Rose Tremain
- Thursbitch – Alan Garner
- The Light of Day – Graham Swift
- What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
aug 15 2012 ∞
jun 16 2018 +
- A book based on a fairy tale: Mirror, Mirror , Gregory Maguire
- A National Book Award winner: Cold Mountain , Charles Frazier
- A YA bestseller: The Book Thief , Markus Zusak
- A book you haven’t read since high school: She's Come Undone , Wally Lamb
- A book set in your home state: Ik omhels je met duizend armen , Ronald Giphart
- A book translated to English: De Tweeling , Tessa de Loo
- A romance set in the future: Brave New World , Aldous Huxley
- A book set in Europe: De slag om de Blauwbrug , A.F.Th. van der Heijden
- A book that’s under 150 pages: Storia di una capinera , Giovanni Verga
- A New York Times bestseller: Franny and Zooey , J.D. SALINGER
- A book that’s becoming a movie this year: A Man Called Ove , Fredrik Backman
- A book recommended by someone you just met: Del providentia , Seneca / MRS. DALLOWAY , VIRGINIA WOOLF / Witte nachten , Fyodor Dostoyevski / Il barone rampante , Italo Calvino / Il cavaliere nonesistente , Italo Calvino
- A self-improvement book: How to Win Friends and Influence People , Dale Carnegie
- A book you can finish in a day: The Postman Always Rings Twice , James M. Cain
- A book written by a celebrity: Anti Glamor , Carice van Houten & Halina Reijn
- A political memoir: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream , Barack Obama
- A book at least 100 years older than you:... Sense and Sensibility , Jane Austen
mar 13 2016 ∞
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