I sometimes go through these and raise/lower the scores, but at the minute... The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri The Kite Runner - Khaled Housseini To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh How Many Miles to Babylon? - Jennifer Johnston Guapa - Saleem Haddad The Absolutist - John Boyne Cashelmara - Susan Howatch The Folded Leaf - William Maxwell Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood The Story of the Night - Colm Tóibín A Little Life - Hanya Yanago'hara The Dead - James Joyce (short story) What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin Blood Relatives - Stevan Alcock A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry The Good Son - Paul McVeigh The Illusionist - Jennifer Johnston The International - Glenn Patterson The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Tóibín At the Jerusalem - Paul Bailey Poetry: Mysteries of the Home - Paula Meehan Song of Myself - Walt Whitman And I've got Harry Potter and Adrian Mole there as series but there is a lot of childhood nostalgia tied to those.
The only book I’ve read this year is TONY BLAIR BROKEN PROMISES and I’ve still got a good 100 pages to get through
The Dutch House - Ann Pratchet Circe - Madeline Miller House of Names - Colm Toibin Guapa - Salem Haddad Intimacy Idiot - Isaac Oliver Assassin’s Apprentice - Robin Hobb The Bone Clocks - David Mitchelle Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordan A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin Shadow of Self - Brandon Sanderson The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson The Magician King - Lev Grossman The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn Knife of Dreams - Robert Jordan The Broken Kingdoms - N. K. Jemisin The Likeness - Tana French One Day - David Nichols American Gods - Neil Gaiman It’s been almost ten years, some of them are barely a memory.
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back - Naja Maria Aidt Lucky Per - Henrik Pontoppidan Vinternoveller - Ingvild B. Rishøi The Sound of the Mountain - Kawabata Yasunari Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Hojoki - Kamo no Chomei The Call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft Death in Venice - Thomas Mann The Good Hope - William Heinesen Pan - Knut Hamsun Kalak - Kim Leine Road to Lagoa Santa - Henrik Stangerup Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions - Thomas Rimer The Fishermen - Hans Kirk Snow Country - Kawabata Yasunari Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima A Personal Matter - Oe Kenzaburo The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman The Lost Musicians - William Heinesen The Tower at the Edge of the World - William Heinesen Thirst for Love - Yukio Mishima On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas whew! I even weeded out a few. I stand by all of these though. I've put 5+ books in bold
These are my Goodreads 5-star books... Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt The Secret History - Donna Tartt A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy Down & Out in Paris & London - George Orwell The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
Snow is my second favourite after My Name is Red so I'd highly recommend that. In fact I may also rate that 5 stars. I enjoyed A Strangeness in my Mind but it is significantly inferior to those two. The next unread Pamuk on my shelf is Museum of Innocence.
Snow already ploughed! his ability in both this and My Name is Red to dissect the history of cultures in the guise of mystery novel unlike anything else I've ever read
When I joined Goodreads I had to go back and think of all the books that were five stars then but wouldn't be if I read them for the first time today. I count those. Life of Pi was phenomenal to me at 16. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson The Hours by Michael Cunningham Macbeth by Shakespeare Hamlet by Shakespeare Life of Pi by Yann Martel Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
