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Short Stories

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East West Street

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Books chosen by friends of The Reading Room

Middlemarch

Simple Gifts

History Play: The Lives And Afterlife Of Christopher Marlowe

Dark Tides

Girl, Woman, Other

Don’t Touch My Hair

Brit(ish)

Ordinary People

Queenie

The Vanishing Half

The Fair Botanists

Commonwealth

A Long Way Gone

Kossoh Town Boy

Happiness

Atonement

Moby-Dick

Dear Life

Trick

Cape Cod

Pride And Prejudice

The Paper Palace

The Poisonwood Bible

Suite Française

Poetry

The Kite Runner

Crime And Punishment

Love In A Cold Climate

Mr Wilder And Me

The Pursuit Of Love

Bleak House

The Fortunes Of War

The House Of Mirth

Right Ho, Jeeves!

The Rattle Bag

Peanuts

Wuthering Heights

Therapy

The Uncommon Reader

The Fortnight In September

Ariel

Heart Of Darkness

The Rings Of Saturn

The Sea Around Us

One Hundred Years Of Solitude

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler

The Short Stories Of Guy De Maupassant

Swann In Love

Missing Person

Wind, Sand And Stars

Comic Books

The Old Man And The Sea

The Hours

Selected Poems

Machines Like Me

Barcelona Dreaming

War And Peace

The Silence Of The Lambs

Wide Sargasso Sea

The Sisters Brothers

The Inugami Curse

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Whose Body?

Out

The Poisoned Chocolates Case

The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd

Sherlock Holmes

Brighton Rock

Swann’s Way

West With The Night

The Battle Of The Atlantic

Lustrum