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Month: January 2019

Recent Prize Winner

The Shock of the Fall (Nathan Filer)

29th January 2019 jng 0

The Shock of the Fall Author: Nathan Filer List: Recent Prize Winner Year of publication: 2013 Pages: 310 Goodreads: The Shock of the Fall            

Recent Prize Winner

Life after Life (Kate Atkinson)

27th January 2019 jng 0

Life after Life Author: Kate Atkinson List: Recent Prize Winner Year of publication: 2013 Pages: 622 Goodreads: Life after Life Project: Orpheus            

Open Option

A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)

18th January 2019 jng 0

A Thousand Splendid Suns Author: Khaled Hosseini List: Open Option, Year of publication: 2007 Pages: 372 Goodreads: A Thousand Splendid Suns          

Recent Prize Winner

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan)

15th January 2019 jng 0

The Narrow Road to the Deep North Author: Richard Flanagan List: Recent Prize Winner Category: Orpheus and war Year of publication: 2013 Pages: 467 Goodreads: The Narrow Road to the Deep North       […]

Open Option

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

13th January 2019 jng 0

Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury List: Open Option Project: dystopia – government Year of publication: 1953 Pages: 194 Goodreads: Fahrenheit 451          

Pre-Modern

Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

11th January 2019 jng 0

Oliver Twist Author: Charles Dickens List: Pre-modern Year of publication: 1836 Pages: 300 Goodreads: Oliver Twist          

Pre-Modern

Emma (Jane Austen)

7th January 2019 jng 0

Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen List: Pre-modern Year of publication: 1815 Pages: 474 Goodreads: Emma        

Recent Prize Winner

The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)

5th January 2019 jng 0

The Underground Railroad Author: Colson Whitehead List: Recent Prize Winner Year of publication: 2016 Pages: 306 Goodreads: The Underground Railroad        

Pre-Modern

Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)

3rd January 2019 jng 0

Gulliver’s Travels Author: Jonathan Swift List: Pre-Modern Project: dystopia – government / social injustice Year: 1729 Pages: 306 Goodreads: Gulliver’s Travels          

Open Option

Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

1st January 2019 jng 0

Never Let me Go Author: Kazuo Ishiguro List: Open Option Project: dystopia – technology / social injustice Year of publication: 2005 Pages: 288 Goodreads: Never Let Me Go        

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