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My most rewarding reads this year:
Fiction
Loving by Henry Green
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Non-fiction
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
East West Street by Philippe Sands
The Work of the Dead by Thomas Laqueur
Madness Rules the Hour: Charleston, 1860, and the Mania for War by Paul Starobin
The only book published in 2017 was Madness Rules The Hour.
Prompted by viewing The Man Who Invented Christmas, I am rereading A Christmas Carol. I can remember being amazed by it when I first read it when I was about 9 or 10. I got that feeling again this time around; a ground-breaking book in many ways.
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