Here's my list:
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A Long and Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
- Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
- Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn
- The Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower
- The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Month in the Country by J L Carr
- Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman
- Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton
- Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre
- The Diary of a Provincial Lady by R M Delafield
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Marianna by Monica Dickens
- Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoyevky
- The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
- The Brontes Went To Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
- Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruby Ferguson
- Crossriggs by Jane & Mary Findlater
- The Home-maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Magic Goblet by Emilie Flygarde-Carlen
- The Coquette by Hannah W Foster
- Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Horseman on the roof by Jean Giono
- The Odd Woman by George Gissing
- Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Just Like Tomorrow by Faiza Guene
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
- The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
- Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sea by Patrick Hamilton
- The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
- The Ghostwriter by John Harwood
- Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill
- Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
- A Hollow Crown by Helen Hollick
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbold
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
- My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Day by A L Kennedy
- The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
- Longing by J D Landis
- The Victorian Chaise Longue by Marghanita Laski
- Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
- The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
- The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
- The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
- The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini
- Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
- The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
- Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
- Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
- As Music and Splendour by Kate O'Brien
- The World is not Enough by Zoe Oldenbourg
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
- The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
- One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
- Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
- Cullum by E Arnot Robertson
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Dissolution by C J Sansom
- Blindness by Jose Saramango
- Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler
- Katherine by Anya Seton
- The Hopkins Manuscript by R C Sherriff
- The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
- The Far Cry by Emma Smith
- Summer in February by Jonathan Smith
- Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark
- Saplings by Noel Streatfield
- Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor
- The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
- Popco by Scarlett Thomas
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
- Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Cress Delahanty by Jessamyn West
- Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
- Sudden Rain by Maritta Wolff
- One Way of Loving by Gamel Woolsey
- The Daisy Chain by Charlotte M Yonge
- Miss Mole by E H Young
- The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Wish me luck!
Good Luck indeed.
ReplyDeleteYes, we do have some overlap. Looking forward to hearing about your progress.
ReplyDeleteLoved Electric Michaelangelo. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
ReplyDeletewelcome, Jane! you've got some good stuff there!
ReplyDeletejust finished SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS a couple months ago. that was one of the funner reads i've had in a long time.