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Literary lists #11

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nations

In these troubled times, I thought I would celebrate some of the different nationalities around the globe in my latest list of book titles:

  1. The English Patient – Michael Ondatjee
  2. The Spanish Gardener – A.J. Cronin
  3. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
  4. Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis
  5. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  6. The Danish Girl – David Ebershoff
  7. The Japanese Lover – Isabel Allende
  8. The Indian in the Cupboard – Lynne Reid Banks
  9. Burmese Days – George Orwell
  10. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami

Are there others you can think of?

Literary lists #10

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Birds

My favourite bird, the robin, was keeping me company the other day while I was digging over the vegetable beds.  Unwittingly, he suggested the theme for my next list of book titles:

  1. A Feast for Crows – George R.R. Martin
  2. The Eagle Has Landed – Jack Higgins
  3. Black Swan Green – David Mitchell
  4. The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe
  5. The Owl Killers – Karen Maitland
  6. The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden
  7. Four and Twenty Blackbirds – Agatha Christie
  8. The Snow Goose – Paul Gallico
  9. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
  10. Pigeon Post – Arthur Ransome