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John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids

“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”

apocalyptic, John Wyndham, man-eating plants, post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi, The Day of the Triffids

Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

harper lee, lawyers, oppression, prejudice, racism, to kill a mockingbird

John le Carré – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

“Intelligence work has one moral law – it is justified by results.”

Communism, espionage, george smiley, John le Carré, secret agent, spies, Spy thriller, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

The Brothers Grimm – Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Evil stepmothers, Fairy Tales, Grimm, Happily Ever After, Prince, Princess

Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr Ripley

“Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”

crime, impersonation, jealousy, lgbt, multiple identities, murder, patricia highsmith, psychopath, serial killer, The talented mr ripley

Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

aliens, Kurt Vonnegut, PTSD, Slaughterhouse-five, time travel, tragedy, war

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice…”

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Incest, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Spanish, Village life

Albert Camus – The Outsider

“I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.”

Albert Camus, Existentialism, French, The Stranger

Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey

​“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

Gothic, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Satire

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