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Mahfouz, Naguib "The Beginning and the End" (Arabic: داية ونهاية/Bidaya wa Nihaya) - 1949 I have read several books by this great ...

Swindells, Robert "Abomination" - 1998 A Friend told me about this book and lent it to me. She had taught it at school and was sur...

Vreeland, Susan "The Passion of Artemisia" - 2002 I read " Girl in Hyacinth Blue " by this author a couple of years ago ...

Vonnegut, Kurt "Cat's Cradle" - 1963 We read this with our international online book club in June 2025. While science-fiction...

Groff, Lauren "Matrix" - 2021 A member of our book club tried to convince us that this would be the best novel for our next book c...

Weir, Alison "Katharine Parr. The Sixth Wife" (Six Tudor Queens #6) - 2021 The sixth wife of Henry VIII. And the sixth book in the...

Follett, Ken "The Armour of Light" - 2023 " The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken F...

Westover, Tara "Educated" - 2018 This book has been on my wishlist for a while. But, as you all know, too many books, too little t...

Brooks, Geraldine "People of the Book" - 2008 This is going to be one of my favourite books this year. Such a wonderful story abou...

Kazantzakis, Nikos "The Last Temptation of Christ" (Greek: Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός/O telefteos pirasmos) - 1951 I have read a few b...

Mahfouz, Naguib "Midaq Alley" (Arabic: زقاق المدق/Zuqaq El Midaq) - 1947 This is my fifth book by Nobel Prize winning Egyptian aut...

Buck, Pearl S. "My several worlds: A Personal Exile" - 1954 I read this book ages ago and don't know why I never reviewed it. ...

Sendker, Jan-Philipp "A Well-Tempered Heart" (Burma Trilogy #2) (German: Herzenstimmen ) - 2012 After reading " The Art of H...

Follett, Ken "The Evening and the Morning" - 2020 I love the Kingsbridge series. This one is just as fabulous as the ones before t...

Doyle, Arthur Conan "A Study in Scarlet" - 1887 We read this in our international online book club in October 2022. I hardly ever...

Gotthelf, Jeremias "The Black Spider" (German:  Die schwarze Spinne ) - 1842 A story that is probably as old as mankind. Several ...

Chevalier, Tracy "The Last Runaway" - 2013 I have liked Tracy Chevalier , ever since my first novel written by her, " Girl wi...

Eliot, George "Silas Marner" - 1861 I have read several novels by George Eliot and liked them all. So, it was no surprise that I ...

Robinson, Marilynne "Gilead" - 2004 I like Pulitzer Prize winning novels. And I like Oprah books. This one is both and I'm not...

Waugh, Evelyn "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder" - 1945 This was our international o...