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Margaret Atwood (1939 – …) The Handmaid’s Tale, 1985 Oryx and Crake, 2003 The Year of the Flood, 2009 The Testaments, 2019 [Recent prize winner 2019 – shared winner] Ray Bradbury (1920 – 2012) Fahrenheit […]
Month: June 2020
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The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
The Book Thief Author: Marcus Zusak List: Open Option Projects: Orpheus | War Year of publication: 2006 Pages: 552 Goodreads: The Book Thief “This complex story is about a girl stealing, and thereby saving books […]
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Orpheus Girl (Brynne Rebele-Henry)
Orpheus Girl Author: Brynne Rebele-Henry List: Open Option Project: Orpheus Year of publication: 2019 Pages: 176 Goodreads: Orpheus Girl “Two teenage girls are sent to a conversion camp to ‘cure’ them from their lesbian feelings. […]
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High Fidelity (Nick Hornby)
High Fidelity Author: Nick Hornby List: Open Option Project: Orpheus Year of publication: 1995 Pages: 340 Goodreads: High Fidelity “After his latest relationship stranded, music shop owner Rob comes to on of his tops fives: […]
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A Long Way Down (Nick Hornby)
A Long Way Down Author: Nick Hornby List: Open Option Project: Orpheus Year of publication: 2006 Pages: 368 Goodreads: A Long Way Down “Four people meeting each other on the rooftop of a building on […]
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall Author: Kazuo Ishiguro List: Open Option (short stories) Project: Orpheus Year of publication: 2009 Pages: 231 Goodreads: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall “Five stories connected by […]
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The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
The Time Traveler’s Wife Author: Audrey Niffenegger List: Open Option Project: Orpheus Year of publication: 2003 Pages: 540 Goodreads: The Time Traveler’s Wife “A romance about a man, uncontrollably travelling through time, meeting a girl […]
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The Tiger’s Wife (Téa Obreht)
The Tiger’s Wife Author: Téa Obreht List: Open Option Project: Orpheus Year of publication: 2011 Pages: 336 Goodreads: The Tiger’s Wife “A story weaving of fragments of events, set during and after the Balkan war, […]
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The Noise of Time (Julian Barnes)
The Noise of Time Author: Julian Barnes List: Open Option Project: Orpheus Year of publication: 2016 Pages: 184 Goodreads: The Noise of Time “‘Being hero is easier than being a coward’. During Stalin’s […]
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The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
The Cellist of Sarajevo Author: Steven Galloway List: Open Option Project: Orpheus Year of publication: 2008 Pages: 235 Goodreads: The Cellist of Sarajevo “A survival novel about the power of music during war […]