Thank you for the new thread Southeast
Sorry to stick my very long list in the way. I've discovered it's a nuisance to go back and look for anything if I don't.
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Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday
- The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
- Woke – Titania McGrath
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
- The Familiars – Stacey Halls
- The Hunting Party – Lucy Foley
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
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Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- The Sanctuary Murders – Susanna Gregory
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North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
11. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
12. Night Boat to Tangiers – Kevin Barry
13. Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
14. Homesick for Another World - Ottessa Moshfegh
15. Middlemarch – George Eliot
16. Galatea – Madeline Miller
17. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
18. The Running Hare – John Lewis Stempel
19. The Hidden World of the Fox – Adele Brand
20. The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway #2) – Elly Griffiths
21. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
22. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
23. The Witches Are Coming – Lindy West
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Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli
25. The Confession – Jessie Burton
26. The Wall – John Lanchester
27. The Man Who Saw Everything – Deborah Levy
28. Bone China - Laura Purcell
29.
I Am, I Am, I Am – Maggie O’Farrell
30. Call the Midwife – Jennifer Worth
31. Candide - Voltaire
32. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
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The Mercies – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
34.
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
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The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
36. Such A Fun Age- Kiley Reid
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Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
38. Conviction – Denise Mina
39. Disappearing Earth – Julia Phillips
40. The Illness Lesson – Clare Beams
41. A History of Britain in 21 Women – Jenni Murray
42. Three Things About Elsie – Joanna Cannon
43. Dear Edward – Ann Napolitano
44. Djinn Patrol on the Purplr Line – Deepa Anappara
45. The Outsiders – SE HInton
46. Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
47. The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner
48. Red at the Bone – Jacqueline Woodson
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Nightingale Point – Luan Goldie
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The Most Fun We Ever Had – Claire Lombardo
51. Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane
52. The Death of Mrs Westaway – Ruth Ware
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The Mirror and the Light – Hilary Mantel
54. Sometimes I Lie – Alice Feeney
55. The Confessions of Frannie Langton – Sara Collins
56. Long Bright River – Liz Moore
57. Silas Marner – George Eliot
58. Persona Non Grata (Ruso #3) - Ruth Downie
59. Heroes – Stephen Fry
60. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (POirot #4) – Agatha Christie
61. Lark Rise to Candleford – Flora Thompson
62. The Spire – William Golding
63.
The Furies – Natalie Haynes
64.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
65. The House at Sea’s End (Ruth Galloway #3) – Elly Griffiths
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If You Want to Make God Laugh – Bianca Marais
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A Woman of No Importance – Sonia Purnell
68. A Good Neighbourhood – Therese Anne Fowler
69. The Absolutist – John Boyne
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Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
71.
My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
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Actress – Anne Enright
73. Dominicana – Angie Cruz
74. Fleishman is in Trouble – Tiffany Brodesser-Akner
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Weather – Jenny Offill
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Saltwater – Jessica Andrews
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How We Disappeared – Jing-Jing Lee
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Guest House for Young Widows – Azadeh Moaveni
79. Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver
80. A Thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes
81. When Will There Be Good News (Jackson Brodie #3) – Kate Atkinson
82. Supper Club – Lara Williams
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Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
84. He Said/She Said – Erin Kelly
85. Surfacing – Kathleen James
86. The Other Bennet Sister – Janice Hadlow
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Our Women on the Ground – Zahra Hankir
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The Five - Hallie Rubenhold
89. Dear Mrs Bird –AJ Pearce
90. The Reservoir Tapes – Jon McGregor
91. The Story of My Teeth – Valeria Luiselli
92. Topics of Conversation – Miranda Popkey
93. A Single Thread – Tracy Chevalier
94. The Opposite of Fate – Alison McGhee
95. The Girl With the Louding Voice Abi Daré
96. Miss Austen – Gill Hornby
97. Redhead By the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
98. I Know Who You Are – Alice Feeney
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The Book of Longings – Sue Monk Kidd
100. Akin – Emma Donaghue
101. Out of Darkness, Shining Light – Pettina Gappah
102.
The Sealwoman’s Gift – Sally Magnusson
103. Jonathan Pie Off the Record – Jonathan Pie
104.
Dept of Speculation – Jenny Offill
105.
The Lesser Bohemians – Eimer McBride
106. We must Be Brave – Frances Liardet
107. All the Birds Singing – Evie Wyld
108.
Know My Name – Chanel Miller
109. The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
110.
Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keith
111. Absolution By Murder ( Sister Fidelma #1) – Peter Tremayne
112. The Rise of Darkness (Serailler #3) – Susan Hill
113.
The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places – Neil Oliver
114. The Secretary – Zoe Lea
115. Everyday Sexism – Laura Bates
116. A Bit of a Stretch – Chris Atkins
117. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
118. Three Women – Lisa Taddeo
119. The Yellow Bird Sings – Jennifer Rosner
120. The Uncoupling – Meg Wolitzer
121. Strange Hotel – Eimear McBride
122.
If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin
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A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan – Laura Thompson
124. The Foundling – Stacey Halls
125. St Clare’s Collection – Enid Blyton
126. Days Without End – Sebastian Barry
127. A Thousand Moons – Sebastian Barry
128. The Grove of the Caesars (Flavia Albia #8) – Lindsey Davis
129. The Bookseller’s Tale (Oxford Medieval #1) - Ann Swinfen
130. Clock Dance – Anne Tyler
131. If I Had Your Face – Frances Cha
132. These Women – Amy Pochoda
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Brit(ish):On Race, Identity and Belonging – Afua Hirsch
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134. The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship and Liberation in the 1960s – Maggie Doherty
Narrative non-fiction about 5 women who attended the Radcliffe Institute (now part of Harvard) in the 60s in a program designed to get high achieving women back into academia after marriage and kids. Those with a PhD or equivalent in artistic merit were eligible for a grant to attend the new Institute for Independent Study. This was on the cusp of the Women's Lib movement. Five artistic women admitted as 'Equivalent' to formal education formed a firm friendship that shaped their lives and work. Includes poets Sexton and Kumin, Swan a painter, Pineda a sculptor and Olsen a writer.
I was a bit sceptical at first, but was soon hooked by this lively and productive group. I admit to not knowing of any of them prior to this but they crossed paths with Plath, Walker, Morrison, Steinem and Friedan. This is incredibly well written and a fascinating look at the arts and society in a age where women were rarely taken seriously.
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The Inimitable Jeeves – PG Wodehouse
Jolly japes for some much needed light relief.
Still plodding on with David Copperfield for the Dickens group and slowing working my way through Testament of Youth