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TagsBritish lit (373), biography (212), gay/lesbian (209), British History (128), memoir (128), American lit (125), theatre (121), art (84), royalty (72), Holocaust (60) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsA. S. Byatt, David Cannadine, M. F. K. Fisher, Penelope Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Alan Hollinghurst, James Lees-Milne, Brian Moore, Iris Murdoch, George Orwell, Marcel Proust, Barbara Pym, W. G. Sebald, William Shakespeare, Georges Simenon, William Trevor, Anthony Trollope, John Updike, Denton Welch (Shared favorites)

About me2009 books:

1. Louisa, Lady in Waiting; Elizabeth Longford
2. Invitation to a Royal Wedding; Trevor Hall
3. Earl Spencer: Saint or Sinner?; Richard Barber
4. Portnoy's Complaint; Philip Roth
5. Shakespeare's Wife; Germaine Greer
6. The Amsterdam Cops; Janwillem van der Wetering
7. Rancid Pansies; James Hamilton-Paterson
8. City of Falling Angels; John Berendt
9. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
10. William Pitt the Younger; William Hague
11. The Tempest; William Shakespeare
12. Angels and Apes; Adam Gopnik
13. P.G. Wodehouse; Frances Donaldson
14. Bernard Shaw: The Pursuit of Power; Michael Holroyd
15. John Gielgud; Sheridan Morley
16. The Private Patient; P.D. James
17. The Sea and the Mirror; W.H. Auden
18. The Grand Surprise; Leo Lerman
19. Indian Killer; Sherman Alexie
20. Reality and Dreams; Muriel Spark
21. Baron James; Anka Muhlstein
22. Montana 1948; Larry Watson
23. A Man's Head; Georges Simenon
24. 44 Scotland Street; Alexander McCall Smith
25. I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Any More; Ethan Mordden
26. Doubt; John Patrick Shanley
27. Consequences; Penelope Lively
28. The Winter's Tale; William Shakespeare
29. Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah!; Donald Thomas
30. The Children of Dynmouth; William Trevor
31. Ludwig II of Bavaria; Christopher McIntosh
32. Foxy Ferdinand, Tsar of Bulgaria; Stephen Constant
33. Phedre; Jean Racine
34. Michael and Natasha; Rosemary and Donald Crawford
35. A Case of Exploding Mangoes; Mohammed Hanif
36. Rasputin's Daughter; Robert Alexander
37. Quartet; Jean Rhys
38. No Great Mischief; Alistair Macleod
39. Gertrude and Alice; Diane Souhami
40. Out Stealing Horses; Per Petterson
41. Frida's Bed; Slavenka Drakulic
42. The Man of Property; John Galsworthy (re-read)
43. The Duchess of Windsor; Michael Bloch
44. Kings of the Hellenes; John van der Kiste
45. In Chancery; John Galsworthy (re-read)
46. To Let; John Galsworthy (re-read)
47. Macbeth; William Shakespeare
48. The Last Princess; Matthew Dennison
49. Odd Girl Out; Ann Bannon
50. The Millstone; Margaret Drabble
51. The Heather Blazing; Colm Toibin
52. Wellington: The Years of the Sword; Elizabeth Longford
53. Slumming; Seth Koven
54. National Dreams; Daniel Francis
55. Farnsworth House; Maritz Vanderberg
56. Two Women of London; Emma Tennant
57. Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass; Bruno Schulz
58. Last Night at the Lobster; Stewart O'Nan
59. Richard II; William Shakespeare
60. Paradiso Diaspora; John Yau
61. Pack My Bag; Henry Green
62. Death of a Hawker; Janwillem van der Wettering
63. Royal Progress; Hector Bolitho
64. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands; Mary Seacole
65. An Intimate History of New Brunswick; Stuart Trueman
66. A Fine Balance; Rohinton Mistry
67. Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor; Kathleen Burk
68. Espresso Tales; Alexander McCall Smith
69. Lamothe-Cadillac: Sa jeunesse en France; Beverly Matherne
70. The Oultander; Gil Adamson
71. Telling Tales; edited by Nadime Gordimer
72. Marie Bonaparte; Celia Bertin
73. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt; Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
74. Mountbatten; anonymous
75. Djuna; Phillip Herring
76. The New Machiavelli; H.G. Wells
77. Education of a Princess; Grand Duchess Marie Pavlova of Russia
78. Eat, Pray, Love; Elizabeth Gilbert
79. The Things They Carried; Tim O'Brien
80. The View from Castle Park; Alice Munro
81. Millais Portraits; Peter Funnell et. alia
82. Paul Bowles; Virginia Spencer Carr
83. The Lazurus Project; Aleksandar Hemon
84. Collected Poems, John Betjeman
85. Design for Living, Noel Coward
86. Simone de Beauvoir, Deirdre Bair
87. The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt

About my libraryPost-1688 British history; post-1945 British female novelists; contemporary gay literature; historical fiction; theatre; biographies; memoirs and diaries; "classics of literature"; art,artists and exhibitions; some poetry; Canada; the Holocaust; music; film

Real nameChet

LocationUpper Peninsula of Michigan

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Member sinceMar 4, 2007