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Category: ★★★★

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

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

Kevin Sylvester – The Neil Flambé Capers

★★★★ Title: The Neil Flambé Capers #1 – #4 Neil Flambé and The Marco Polo Murders Neil Flambé and The Aztec Abduction Neil … More

cooking, Kevin Sylvester, Neil Flambe, series

Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

France, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

“Can’t repeat the past? …Why of course you can!”

1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jazz age, The Great Gatsby, tragic love story

Elizabeth Fremantle – Queen’s Gambit

“Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.”

Elizabeth Fremantle, Katherine Parr, Queen's Gambit, Tudors

Elizabeth Gaskell – Cranford

‘It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor…I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!’

BBC, Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell, quiet town, steam engine

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