Monday 1 January 2024

The TO READ/RECOMMENDED List:

The Plausibility Problem ~ Ed Shaw
Sensible Shoes ~ Sharon Garlough Brown
Hotel World ~ Ali Smith
Vita & Virginia: The Lives & Love of Virginia Woolf
& Vita Sackville-West ~ Sarah Gristwood

MCL --
The Man Who Pays The Rent ~ Dame Judi Dench
The House of Fortune ~ Jessie Burton
No Boys Play Here... ~ Sally Bayley
Really good, actually ~ Monica Heisey (G)
Cursed Bread ~ Sophie Mackintosh
After The Funeral ~ Tessa Hadley
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Virginia Woolf:
Genius & Ink . Jacob’s Room. 
The Years . The Waves
A Writer’s Diary . The Common Reader

At The Hive Entrance ~ H. Storch
The War of Wars: The Epic Struggle Between Britain & France ~ Robert Harvey
Sandra Newman: 
The Heavens; Julia 
Good Omens - Pratchett & Gaiman
Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster
Jeanette Winterson:
Sexing the Cherry; Tanglewreck; The Gap In Time
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
The Magus - John Fowles
Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz
Hag Seed - Margaret Atwood
Ragnarok - A.S. Byatt
Little Faith - Nickolas Butler
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Labrador Pact; The Last Family In England - Matt Haig
Fen; Everything Under ~ Daisy Johnson
The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
Dusty Answer ~ Rosamond Lehmann
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing ~ Sofi Thanhauser
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life - Julia Briggs
Virginia Woolf & Her World - John Lehman
Gilead - Marilyn Robinson
.  .  .  .  .

Annie Spence recommends 
Endless Love - Scott Spencer
Fates & Furies - Lauren Groff
Home Land ~ Sam Lipsyte
Love in Lowercase - Francesc Miralles
Mayumi & the Sea of Happiness - Jennifer Tseng
The Gold Bug Variations - Richard Powers
The Intimates - Ralph Sassone
When Tito Loved Clara - Jon Michaud
Women in Clothes - Shelia B Heti 
.  .  .  .  .

Romantic Comedy ~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk - Kathleen Rooney
Where the Wild Winds Are - Nick Hunt
Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut
A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Flannery O'Connor
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
Milestones of the Master - Warren W. Wierbse
Time Lived, Without Its Flow - Denise Riley
A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 
The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
The Bees - Laline Paul
Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
The Reckoning ~ Charles Nicholl

Sleeping On Islands ~ Andrew Motion

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