God of Small Things was wonderful, I still think about some parts even though it's been years since I've read it.
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Yes! Free yourself! The right book will find you at the right time.I’ve tried to do the thing where you write each book you have on your TBR shelf on a slip of paper and put it in a jar to pick one out. Great in theory but the first one I pulled I was like “nah not in the mood to read that right now”
It’s gotten to the point where I’m wondering why I bothered buying these books - some have been collecting dust for years! Is it time to just purge if I haven’t picked it up in so long?
Ok this is a little remarkable but I’d never heard of Trollope until today’s posts and I just now came across this in my current read
This is sat in my TBR pile, I will have to pick it up soon!
I heartily recommend it, it's a heartbreaking read but it really stays with you. Hope you enjoy it!
I follow him too - I love his videos. I especially love it when he really wants one to come out in the month and it just never seems to get picked by the wheel, the anticipation is so exciting….yes I have quite a sad little life
Only another 4 for me:
Mansfield Park
The Age of Innocence
Wolf Hall
Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights better be in the Top 20 or I'm declaring the whole thing null and void
Link to the list so far:
I've only read 7 on the list! 
Pleased to see one of my all time faves at 24 - The Remains of the Day. 
Pleased to see one of my all time faves at 24 - The Remains of the Day. 
NetGalley friends, I just finished Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven and loved it so much. Reminded me of the writing style of Patchett. It’s a touch sentimental and a little predictable, but no worse for it. Each chapter is from the POV of a different character, as it tells the story of one family over a lifetime.
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I just finished Wild Dark Shore. What a load of boring claptrap. Thank god that's over.
Of the list so far I’m only on 1 - The Road. Im not a very high brow reader. I like a quick gripping thriller, horror, dystopia or sometimes a YA. I can appreciate the beauty of the books on the list but they’re not necessarily for me. I’ll stick with my easy to read (and easy to forget) KU specialsOnly another 4 for me:
Mansfield Park
The Age of Innocence
Wolf Hall
Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights better be in the Top 20 or I'm declaring the whole thing null and void
Link to the list so far:
I've only read 3 from that list that i remember and another 1- 2 I'm sure I've read but couldn't tell you anything about them. The 3 I definitely read are all Russian so I can see a theme 
Dragging myself through American Fantasy by Emma Straub. People with whom I usually share reading taste raved about it but I think it's putting me through a slump. But I'm past 65% so too late to DNF.
My father reads around 6-7 books a week, he’s always been like that. He gets on my mother’s nerves and it’s a huge bug bear between them. My mother did and continues to gripe negatively on reading, so I always thought it a bad thing. Maybe my love for books is me rebelling
Agree. I've read 18, probably a few more but I don't remember because about half of those 18 were books I had to read because of my English GCSE, A Level and degree.
It's basically a starter pack of books everyone recommends.
I’ve read four in the top 20 and four in the rest of the list so not sure what that says but agree that it’s a very dull list. The people who voted for this have similar ideas of what to put on the English lit gcse curriculum and then wonder why young kids are turned off reading
Some of the top 20 are extremely long books! I'm surprised to see In Search of Lost Time there, and Moby fool is not a book, but a thing to be endured.
I got 15 out of the last 20, and 46/100. My favourite three Austens made the top 20!
I got 15 out of the last 20, and 46/100. My favourite three Austens made the top 20!
I’ve read Jane Eyre three times so can I up my score (gcse, a level (did the departments not talk to each other 
) and for fun)
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