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The Gathering – Anne Enright
Book #9b Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily Published in 2007, this novel won the Man Booker Prize in the same year and two further Irish book awards the following year. Set predominantly in Dublin, the narrator is...
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The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Book #242 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel, published in 1985, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Governor General’s Award. The setting is the near future in the...
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Written on the body – Jeanette Winterson
Book #154 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily This is the second of four books by Jeanette Winterson to be reviewed here at the 1001 Books list. The first was Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Having read and...
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Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Book #940 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily After visiting the Regency world by re-reading Emma and reviewing it here at the end of last year, I thought I would continue to reacquaint myself with the four Jane...
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Some Prefer Nettles – Junichiro Tanizaki
Book # 688a Reviewer: Kara Some Prefer Nettles is about Kaname and Misako, a married couple that is no longer in love. Both are having affairs, both are interested in divorce, but both are putting off...
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Home – Marilynne Robinson
Book # 7b Reviewer: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle The accolades for Marilynne Robinson’s Home are splashed across and inside the cover of the copy I borrowed from my local library. “One of the...
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The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Book #770 Reviewer: Kara There is something about Lily Bart that sets her apart for everyone else in The House of Mirth. She is stunningly beautiful, which matters a lot to many of the men in the...
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The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
Book # 326a Reviewer: Kara This classic novel of science fiction is the story of Shevek, a physicist from a 150-year-old socialist-anarchist experimental utopia on a moon. He has begun to see cracks in...
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Emma – Jane Austen
Book #936 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily The option of reading and reviewing a classic by Jane Austen is rather a relaxing entry in to a summer of 1001 Books for me. I had read her entire canon when I was a...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
Book #695 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily I will put my cards on the table right at the start. I have loved Agatha Christie’s work since I was a teenager, when I owned pretty much her entire works in secondhand...
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Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Book # 614 REVIEWER: Kara Out of Africa is a memoir of the author’s 17 years living on and running a coffee plantation in Kenya from 1914 to 1931. She describes animals, plants and scenery, the...
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Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
Book #641 Reviewer: Beth’s List Love (first published July 2, 2012) Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts is a short, bleak book, and while I can appreciate aspects of its art, I’m glad to be away from it...
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The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
Book # 516 REVIEWER: Kara The Adventures of Augie March records a dozen or so years of Augie’s life, a life filled with all sorts of events and details. There is Augie’s jobs, crimes, relationships...
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The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
Book # 203 REVIEWER: Kara I attempted this novel once, back in college, and gave up on it – like many other people, I know! So this time before I began reading it I took the time to do a little...
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What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
Book # 18 Reviewer: Kara This novel is narrated by Leo Hertzberg, an art historian in New York City, who tells of what he’s loved (and lost) in his life. The story begins when he buys a painting by...
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The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Book # 593 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing all of John Steinbeck’s entries on the 1001 list. I started with Of Mice and Men back in 2012 and followed up with...
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Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Book # 975 REVIEWER: Kara Tom Jones is not only Henry Fielding’s masterpiece; it is also considered to be a key stepping stone in the development of the modern novel as a literary form. For this reason...
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2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Book # 389 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily I must confess to never having watched the entirety of the film, of which this novel is the precursor and close colleague, so the story was entirely new to me. The...
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Atonement – Ian McEwan
Book #42 REVIEWER: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain...
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The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Book #92 REVIEWER: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle It’s been a number of years since I first read The God of Small Things, and in order to write this review, I had to flick through a few pages to...
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