Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Reading while sheltering in Place

Since we never have time to read and discuss those lengthy books - over 450 pages I put together a list of longer books that I would recommend. Googling for such lists is interesting, but I know nothing about who put them together. So I made my own list which is here.

Mary’s Recommended Readings

Outlander Series
Harry Potter Series
Lord of the Rings Series
Don Winslow’s Border Trilogy
The Stand – King
100 Years of Solitude or Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez
Count of Monte Christo
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Gulag Archipeligo
The Tin Drum
Shogun
A Suitable Boy
The Goldfinch
Rutherfod city series
Michener
Gone with the Wind
Woman in White


NONFICTION
Blowout – Maddow (oil industry)
Bottle of Lies – Eban (generic drug industry)
Catch & Kill – Farrow (Weinstein)
Educated – Westover 
The Only Woman in the Room – Benedict (Heddi LaMarr)
Front Row at the Trump Show – Karl
The Splendid and the Vile – Larsson (Churchill’s 1st yr as PM)
Russians Among Us – Corera (the source for the series The Americans)
Know My Name - Miller
She  Said - Kantor & Twohey
Will the Cat Eat my Eyeballs
The Kiss of the Sweet Scottish Rain - McWilliams
Shout - Anderson

I have read several. others that are political in nature such as: 

Threat - McCabe
Apprentice - Miller
Seige - Wolf
Factfullness - Rosline

Short but worth reading!
Things Fall Apart - Achebe
Woman at Point Zero - El Saadawi



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