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Ghosh, Amitav "The Hungry Tide" - 2004 I have read a few books by Amitav Ghosh (see here ) and loved them all. So, I was looking f...

Weir, Andy "Project Hail Mary" - 2021 I learned with this book that there is such a thing as hard science fiction . *) I am not a ...

Cela, Camilo José "The Hive" (Spanish: La colmena) - 1951 The Classicics Spin chose #9 from our list this month. Great, I thought...

Frazier, Charles "The Trackers" - 2023 I love Charles Frazier. I have read four of his books, " Cold Mountain " is still...

Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" - 2021 This is such a beautiful book. Don't let yourself get scare...

O'Farrell, Maggie "Hamnet" - 2020 Somebody talked to me about this book. Someone who likes Maggie O'Farrell. I have a vagu...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von "Urfaust. Faust: Erster und zweiter Teil" (German: Faust I + II ) - 1772-1808 After reading " The...

Faulkner, William  "The Sound and the Fury" - 1929 For the Classics Spin #42 , we received #17 and this was my novel. When I reve...

Hammond, Richard "As You Do: Adventures With Evil, Oliver And The Vice President Of Botswana" - 2008 I have always loved Top Gear ...

Aristophanes "Lysistrata and Other Plays" (Greek: Lysistrátē/Λυσιστράτη) - 411 BC For the Classics Spin #41 , we received #11 and...

Mak, Geert "The Dream of Europe. Travels in a Troubled Continent" (Dutch: Grote verwachtingen. In Europa 1999-2019) - 2019 This b...

Brooks, Geraldine "Year of Wonders" - 2001 My goodness, what a story! I have read several books about the plague before or novels ...

Clarke, Stephen "Talk to the Snail. Ten Commandments for Understanding the French" - 2006 I have read two books by Stephen Clarke,...

Worsley, Lucy "Jane Austen at Home" - 2017 My favourite book of the month. As part of the commemoration of Jane Austen's 250th...

Stedman, M L "The Light Between Oceans" - 2012 I must say, I expected more from this novel. But I don't want to spoil it for a...

Garfield, Simon "To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence - A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing" - 2013 I re...

Pamuk, Orhan " To Look Out the Window" aka " Pieces from the View: Life, Streets, Literature"  (Turkish: Manzaradan Parç...

Allende, Isabel "City of the Beasts"  (Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar #1)  (Spanish: La ciudad de las bestias)  (Las memoria...

Tomalin, Claire "Jane Austen - A Life" - 1997 Jane Austen is one of my favourite authors. I have read all her novels, even the on...

Harris, Robert "Fatherland" - 1992 What an awful thought. Hitler resp. the Nazis had won the war. I always say, the Germans didn...