I'm reading one book from each year of my life. The rules are pretty lose: Has to be a novel, if I come across one that has a "should have read" flair to it (like The Color Purple or The Name of the Rose), I have to read it. Otherwise, trying to find a diverse mix, not just the best-selling thriller; not that I'd be too interested in those. Note that nailing down the actual publishing year is sometimes hard, I went with the earliest year referenced I found, and might be off by a year here or there because of that!
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I'm reading one book from each year of my life. The rules are pretty lose: Has to be a novel, if I come across one that has a "should have read" flair to it (like The Color Purple or The Name of the Rose), I have to read it. Otherwise, trying to find a diverse mix, not just the best-selling thriller; not that I'd be too interested in those. Note that nailing down the actual publishing year is sometimes hard, I went with the earliest year referenced I found, and might be off by a year here or there because of that!
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Joerg says: 1998
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Loitering with intent by Muriel Spark
5 stars
From Publisher's Weekly: "Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of …
Joerg says: 1980 - a wonderful story featuring a resolutely feminist character dealing with the snooty world of rich people bleeding over into reality
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The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
4 stars
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives …
Joerg says: 1981 - I expected a good, but overrated book, since how would it be possible that a massive tome turned into a movie was the most popular book of its years AND also outstandingly good? Well, I was wrong, this is every bit as good as claimed and more. I was very surprised by how Umberto Eco was both
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Joerg says: 1987 -
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Joerg says: 1988
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Joerg says: 1989 - Amazingly written, feeling realistic. The last days of Simon Bolivar far from his former glory. Still admired, but weak and defeated, he struggles through his final journey.
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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, Ros Schwartz
5 stars
‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, …
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Joerg says: 1992
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Joerg says: 1990
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Notes of a Crocodile by Miaojin Qiu, Bonnie Huie (New York Review Books Classics)
Set in the post-martial-law era of 1990s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer …
Joerg says: 1993
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Joerg says: 1996
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Monkey Bridge, published in 1997, is the debut novel of Vietnamese American attorney and writer Lan Cao. Cao is a …
Joerg says: 1997
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5 stars
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.In the small …
Joerg says: 1999
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Joerg says: 2000
