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✔︎Patricia Highsmith - The Blunderer
✔︎Dorothy Whipple - *High Wages
✔︎Magda Szabó - Katalin Street
✔︎Elizabeth Taylor - *In a Summer Season
✔︎Erich Maria Remarque - The Night in Lisbon
✔︎John Steinbeck - The Moon Is Down
✔︎Barbara Pym - Less Than Angels
Century - Completed✔︎1913 The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
✔︎1923 *Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
✔︎1930 *High Wages by Dorothy Whipple
✔︎1944 My Home is Far Away by Dawn Powell
✔︎1952 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
✔︎1962 The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda
✔︎1970 Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether
✔︎1983 *During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
✔︎1993 *A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
✔︎2005 *Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
Series - CompletedContinue: Mountain Novels
✔︎Book 6 of 7: *Lion on the Hearth by John Ehle
Start: George Smiley series by John le Carré
✔︎Book 1 of 10: Call for the Dead
✔︎Book 2 of 10: A Murder of Quality
Reread - Completed✔︎1. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
✔︎2. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Fiction/NonfictionWestward Expansion
✔︎Fiction: *Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow
✔︎Nonfiction: *Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Ezra Meeker
Americans in Vietnam
✔︎Fiction: The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Nonfiction: *The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
World War II
✔︎Fiction: Katalin Street by Magda Szabó
✔︎Nonfiction: When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
Bestsellers - Completed✔︎1942 The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
✔︎1950 *Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow
Award Winners - Completed✔︎1. 1968 Newbery Medal: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
✔︎2. 1953 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Night in Lisbon (other topics)A Murder of Quality (other topics)
A Lesson Before Dying (other topics)
The Moon Is Down (other topics)
The Moon Is Down (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Ernest J. Gaines (other topics)Magda Szabó (other topics)
Winifred Holtby (other topics)
Louise Meriwether (other topics)
John le Carré (other topics)
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