1947 Club
As those of you who follow Simon’s excellent Stuck in a Book blog will know (and I assume that’s all of you!) our next club read is for 1947. There are some marvellous books from that year, and so please share your thoughts and reviews and I will try to link to everyone’s posts! Happy reading!
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Plague by Albert Camus
A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren
Part 1 – Intermittencies of the Mind
Part 2 – Intermittencies of the Mind
Chatterton Square by E.H. Young
Adventures in reading, writing and working from home
The Iron Clew by Alice Tilton
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout
Close Quarters by Michael Gilbert
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Dancing With Death by Joan Coggin
Helen Passes By by E R Punshon
Let the Tiger Die by Manning Coles
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Museum of Cheats by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Fall of the Magicians by Weldon Kees
The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger
Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson
An Avenue of Stone by Pamela Hansford Johnson
Abbie by Dane Chandos
Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
The Ghost and Mrs Muir by R.A. Dick
Fools Die on Friday by A.A. Fair
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
Undercover Girl by Elizabeth P. MacDonald
Julian Maclaren-Ross – Of Love and Hunger
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Mr Whittle and the Morning Star by Robert Nathan
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Kate Hardy by D.E. Stevenson
Private Enterprise by Angela Thirkell
Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann
The Path to the Spider’s Nest by Italo Calvino
Gentleman’s Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson
Black Bethlehem by Lettice Cooper
The Bull Calves by Naomi Mitchison
The Comrade by Cesare Pavese
A Dolls’ House by Rumer Godden
Silver Nutmeg by Norah Lofts
The Middle of the Journey by Lionel Trilling
Mrs. Tim Gets a Job by D.E. Stevenson
The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravio
Share your thoughts here! :D