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message 1: by christene_littlelibrary (last edited Aug 21, 2023 02:07AM) (new)

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Listopia : 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die or https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/20...
Atleast one book per month
Starting August 2023

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Books Read:
#22 The Handmaid’s Tale June-3-2023 4.0⭐
#127 Kafka on the Shore 5.0⭐ (Read in 2021)


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July 2023 - - Most Anticipated Reads of 2023.


1. #29 Hang the Moon August-2-2023 ⭐⭐⭐
2. #45 The Villa August-4-2023 ⭐⭐⭐
3. #195 Love, Theoretically August-10-2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐


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August 2023 - - Women who Solve Crimes


1. #5 The Beekeeper's Apprentice August-6-2023 ⭐⭐⭐
2. #672 Pray for Silence August-14-2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐


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banned 1001 books


1984 by George Orwell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ulysses by James Joyce
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Native Son by Richard Wright
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Rabbit, Run by John Updike


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Christene's 2023 Randomised Reading List

1. The Years by Virginia Woolf (WL)
2. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow 9/14 3.5⭐
3. Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
4. Auto-da-Fé Elias Canetti


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Stephen King

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Agatha Christie

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ReeseBookClub Books

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Belletrist bookclub picks:


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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
The Patient in Room 18 by Mignon G. Eberhart
The Maltese Falcon byDashiell Hammett
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher
A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Beat Not The Bones by Charlotte Jay
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Beast In View by Margaret Millar
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
The Shining by Stephen King
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
Dead Time by Eleanor Taylor Bland
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
When Death Comes Stealing by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Fade Away by Harlan Coben
Killing Floor by Lee Child
Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura
Morituri by Yasmina Khadra
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods
A Place of Execution by Val McDermidQiu Xiaolong
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
Blanche Passes Go by Barbara Neely
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara
Queenpin by Megan Abbott
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Plotters by Kim Un-su
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
The Need by Helen Phillips
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Survivor’s Guilt by Robyn Gigl


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Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
The Murder on the Links (1923)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
The Big Four (1927)
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Peril at End House (1932)
Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Three Act Tragedy (1935)
Death in the Clouds (1935)
The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
Cards on the Table (1936)
Dumb Witness (1937)
Death on the Nile (1937)
Appointment with Death (1938)
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938)
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
Sad Cypress (1940)
Evil Under the Sun (1941)
Five Little Pigs (1942)
The Hollow (1946)
Taken at the Flood (1948)
Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1952)
After the Funeral (1953)
Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
The Clocks (1963)
Third Girl (1966)
Hallowe’en Party (1969)
Elephants Can Remember (1972)
Curtain (1975)
The Monogram Murders (2014)

Hercule Poirot

The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor (1923)
The Affair at the Victory Ball (1923)
The Adventure of the Western Star (1923)
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (1923)
Afternoon at the Seaside (1962)
The Patient (1962)

Miss Marple

The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
The Body in the Library (1942)
The Moving Finger (1942)
A Murder is Announced (1950)
They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
4:50 From Paddington (1957)
The Mirror Crack’d (1962)
A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
At Bertram’s Hotel (1965)
Nemesis (1971)
Sleeping Murder (1976)

Tommy and Tuppence

The Secret Adversary (1922)
N or M? (1941)
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
Postern of Fate (1973)

Superintendent Battle

The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
Cards on the Table (1936)
Murder is Easy (1939)
Towards Zero (1944)

Superintendent Battle

The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
Giant’s Bread (1930)
The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
Unfinished Portrait (1934)
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934)
And Then There Were None (1939)
Absent in the Spring (1944)
Death Comes as the End (1944)
Sparkling Cyanide (1945)
The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)
Crooked House (1949)
They Came to Baghdad (1951)
A Daughter’s a Daughter (1952)
Destination Unknown (1954)
The Burden (1956)
Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
The Pale Horse (1961)
Endless Night (1967)
13 at Dinner (1969)
Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
The Murder at Hazelmoor (1984)

Short Story Collections

The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)
The Hound of Death (1933)
The Listerdale Mystery (1934)
Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories (1939)
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (1965)
The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1974)
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)
While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997


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