1857 The Professor was Charlotte Brontë's first novel, written before Jane Eyre but published posthumously. It's a love story between the...

2011, Knopf The Buddha in the Attic opens in the early 1900's. A boat full of young Japanese "picture brides" are on their way to the...

2020, Alfred A. Knopf This is one of several books I've read recently which I would like to post quickly. Why quickly? I'll try to...

1966, Random House This brilliantly written fictionalized version of the 1831 massacre of more than 50 whites by a group of slaves in...

A Start in Life (1981), Providence (1982), A Misalliance (1987), Jonathan Cape Ltd Anita Brookner books are a rather odd mix of...

First published 1957, Victor Gollancz Ltd This thriller is a story of stolen identity between an Englishman and Frenchman, John and ...

Faber & Faber Ltd, UK 2018 HarperCollins Publishers, USA 2018 The first chapter of this book is called "Falling House"; I read just over...

Bright White Light, LLC, 2008 In earlier posts I admitted my aversion to dialogue between animals and humans; however, I don't take issue...

Gallimard, Editions Verdier, 1998 My daughter Julia recommended this short book, after reading it for a class. In 1931, natives of the...

Persephone Books, 2017 The stories in The Journey Home and Other Stories are from the following collections : Frost in April (1929) No...

1929 Little, Brown and Company First published Im Westen Nichts Neues, 1928, Ullstein A.G. Due to some serious lack in my schooling or...

Attention every art student or anyone who has ever had difficulty expressing an idea artistically. Read this short story. I bought it at...

Editions Gallimard 2015 (French translation) I read the French version of this short story which I happened upon at my friend Becky’s...

Haruki Murakami, 2003 English Translation Vintage, 2005 This book, picked up along with Oé’s short story Seventeen from my friend and...

Jonathan Cape (UK), Knopf (US), 2011 Engrossing story and characters. My bookclub read this and none of us could figure out why the...

Jonathan Cape, 2005 Intriguing historical fiction centered around a court case involving Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a lawyer named George...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015 Hilarious satire on current racial conditions in the USA. The main character is on trial in front of the...

Random House 1952 "In a letter to (Richard) Wright August 18, 1945, Ellison poured out his anger toward (Communist) party leaders for...

Secker and Warburg, 1959 A beautiful and heart breaking story of the friendship between two high school boys. Jealous of his best...

Flamingo, 1999 Didn’t finish. Science fiction, found boring. Will soon post some of Lessing's works I find brilliant.