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The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
BOOK #769 Reviewer: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle The Forsyte Saga is a trilogy about money, class, and morals at the end of the Victorian/start of the Edwardian era. It focuses on a large...
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A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
BOOK #913 Reviewer: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle A Christmas Carol is possibly the most well-known, re-published and oft-adapted of Charles Dickens’ works. Since it was first published in 1843, the...
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All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Book #667 Reviewer: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle It’s been a long time since I read a book that had a such profound effect on me as All Quiet on the Western Front. I think its impact has been...
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The Island of Dr Moreau – H.G.Wells
Book#796 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily The Island of Dr Moreau was first published in 1896 and is another slim work at around 130 pages, requiring only a small investment of time to read. The story is an...
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Elizabeth Costello – J.M.Coetzee
Book #52 Reviewer: Kara Elizabeth Costello is the story of an Australian novelist in her later years. Each chapter of the book features a lecture or debate, hers or someone else’s, as well as...
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Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
Book # 565 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily When I read Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men back in 2012 I meant to follow up immediately with this relatively slim novel. Sadly I moved on and Cannery Row had to wait...
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Beloved – Toni Morrison
BOOK #223 Reviewer: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle Beloved was my first Toni Morrison novel, and golly, what a place to start. This is a powerful story, with memorable characters and a strong sense...
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Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
BOOK #134 Reviewer: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle It has been a number of years since I read Trainspotting, but both the novel and the movie have stuck with me with unsurprising clarity. If you have...
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Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
BOOK #496 Reviewer: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle Lolita is one of those books that I’d heard of, but knew very little about before picking it up from our local library. It is considered one of the...
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Regeneration – Pat Barker
BOOK #170 Reviewer: Beth’s List Love (review previously published February 5, 2014) The books in this trilogy have received awards and huge critical acclaim, but I was having trouble getting excited...
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Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Book # 992 REVIEWER: Kara “I have seen no book of chivalry that creates a complete tale, a body with all its members intact, so that the middle corresponds to the beginning, and the end to the...
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Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
Book # 659 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily I first laid eyes on Vile Bodies back in 1989 while travelling through Europe on my OE with a friend from university. It was my first time reading the very English wit...
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Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
Book # 684 REVIEWER: Kara Steppenwolf is the story of Harry Haller, a man who is miserably struggling to deal with two very different aspects of his personality – one of these he views as a man and the...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Book # 609 REVIEWER: Kara In the opening scene, Janie has just returned home after running away with Tea Cake, a young man she fell in love with. Arriving at her house, she tells the story of her life...
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Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Book # 854 REVIEWER: Kara In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream— Lingering in the golden gleam— Life, what is it but a dream?...
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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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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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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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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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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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