My Booklist for 2006/2007
The beauty about new books are that they encapsulate age-old ideas in the context of our modern society, at the same time, themes prevalent in what may be called evergreens or classics, reverberate through the barriers of time and remind us that the human condition, human delusions and the idiosyncrasies of man are hardly peculiar to any generation. Here are just a few books that I hope you may discover and enjoy for the year to come.
1. Small Island by Andrea Levy
Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, the 2004 Whitbread Novel Award, the 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year, the 2005 Commonwealth Writer's Prize-Best Book Award and the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction-Best of the Best
2. Extraodinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
Republished by Wordsworth Editions under its reference series
3. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
4. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
5. Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald
8. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
9. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
10. The Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas
11. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
12. The Greenmile by Stephen King
All of these books are books that I myself possess not all of been subject to my enjoyment. However, I do choose my books with a tempered spirit, they do not lay dormant on shelves by virtue of some streak of monotony that they may possess but how, they are, I believe, saved for some season for their own, a book I may understand and appreciate more as I grow. I hope you too can enjoy a few books from this list of 12, most of them are 20th century literature, but others like The Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James are magnificient pieces of work in terms of storytelling and their vibrancy does not lose its candour in the light of the distractions we have today.
1. Small Island by Andrea Levy
Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, the 2004 Whitbread Novel Award, the 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year, the 2005 Commonwealth Writer's Prize-Best Book Award and the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction-Best of the Best
2. Extraodinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
Republished by Wordsworth Editions under its reference series
3. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
4. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
5. Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald
8. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
9. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
10. The Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas
11. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
12. The Greenmile by Stephen King
All of these books are books that I myself possess not all of been subject to my enjoyment. However, I do choose my books with a tempered spirit, they do not lay dormant on shelves by virtue of some streak of monotony that they may possess but how, they are, I believe, saved for some season for their own, a book I may understand and appreciate more as I grow. I hope you too can enjoy a few books from this list of 12, most of them are 20th century literature, but others like The Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James are magnificient pieces of work in terms of storytelling and their vibrancy does not lose its candour in the light of the distractions we have today.
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