mimi10v3Novels of moral atmosphere and inward transformation, from Mahfouz and Nabokov to Cunningham and Bradbury. Reality may bend, but voice and the pressure of a life remain central.
The recorded ratings average 7.6/10, with 2 perfect tens. Recurring authors include Naguib Mahfouz, Toni Morrison, Carson McCullers.
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Illusions
About the bookRichard Bach's 1977 novel follows a barnstorming pilot who encounters a charismatic stranger claiming to be a messianic figure. Their friendship becomes the vehicle for a philosophical…
10/10Modern Literature : Literary FictionThe Hours
About the bookMichael Cunningham’s 1998 novel reimagines Virginia Woolf’s *Mrs Dalloway* by interweaving the lives of three women across different eras. The narrative moves between Clarissa Dalloway…
9/10Modern Literature : Literary FictionCry, the Beloved Country
About the bookSet against the backdrop of pre-apartheid South Africa, this novel follows Stephen Kumalo, a rural Zulu pastor, as he travels to Johannesburg to identify the body of his son, who has di…
8/10Modern Literature : Literary FictionA Thousand Acres
About the bookJane Smiley’s 1991 novel transposes Shakespeare’s King Lear to the flat, expansive landscape of a modern Iowa farm. When an aging patriarch attempts to divide his land among his three d…
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| A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | 1991 | 8 | Read | → |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | — | — | Read | → |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | — | Read | → |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 1945 | 7.5 | Read | → |
| Children of the Alley | Naguib Mahfouz | 1959 | — | Unread | → |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | 1948 | 9 | Read | → |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 1952 | — | Read | → |
| Illusions | Richard Bach | 1977 | 10 | Read | → |
| Ishmael | Daniel Quinn | 1992 | 6 | Read | → |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | 1970 | 6 | Read | → |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | 8 | Read | → |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1954 | — | Read | → |
| Midaq Alley | Naguib Mahfouz | 1947 | 8 | Read | → |
| Miramar | Naguib Mahfouz | 1967 | 7 | Read | → |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 2007 | — | Read | → |
| Paradise | Toni Morrison | 1997 | 8 | Read | → |
| Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami | 1999 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Beginning and the End | Naguib Mahfouz | 1949 | 7 | Read | → |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | 1970 | — | Read | → |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | 1940 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 1998 | 10 | Read | → |
| The Member of the Wedding | Carson McCullers | 1946 | 5 | Read | → |
| The Thief and the Dogs | Naguib Mahfouz | 1961 | 7 | Read | → |
| The Tortilla Curtain | T. C. Boyle | 1995 | 8 | Read | → |
| White Oleander | Janet Fitch | 1999 | 8 | Read | → |