Mid Century


The Bell Jar
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Lolita
Invisible Man
You Should Be So Lucky
The Briar Club
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Giovanni’s Room
Play It As It Lays
Revolutionary Road
Animal Farm
The Mad Wife
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
We Could Be So Good
Exercises in Style by Raymond QueneauThe Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges PerecCosmicomics by Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
...nothing but Oulipo
39 books — 8 voters
We Fight Fascists by Daniel SonabendA Murder Is Announced by Agatha ChristieA 1940s Childhood by James  MarshBrutal London by Simon PhippsLondon 1945 by Maureen  Waller
Living in Post-Second World War Britain
100 books — 12 voters

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha GrimesCelestial Chess by Thomas BontlyThe Dancing Man by P.M. HubbardBorrower of the Night by Elizabeth PetersThe Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters
Midcentury Mysteries
11 books — 2 voters

Just a penis with a thesaurus
anonymous reader on Updike, David Foster Wallace

Harper Lee
I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is. (pg. 182)
Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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