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Julie Parson’s Old Books

Description: From a 2018 article in the Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-old-books-i-turn-to-in-the-middle-of-the-night-when-sleep-is-elusive-1.3333933

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1

by Stephen King

23,304 members

453 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

13,014 members

289 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Truman Capote

23,857 members

467 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

by Randy Shilts

2,933 members

64 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

5

The Garden Party and Other Stories (Everyman Selected)

by Katherine Mansfield

73 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

by Laura Hillenbrand

7,935 members

155 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

7

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,493 members

125 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

8

An Invitation to Indian Cooking

by Madhur Jaffrey

500 members

3 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

9

by Russell Hoban

1,346 members

25 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

10

What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

by Raymond Carver

3,876 members

61 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

11

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13,008 members

202 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ahef1963

12

A Fatal Inversion

by Barbara Vine

759 members

20 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, ahef1963

13

The Honourable Schoolboy

by John le Carré

4,017 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

14

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

3,587 members

95 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ahef1963

15

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

14,128 members

317 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ahef1963

16

650 members

5 reviews

4

Member: aprille

17

by Marilynne Robinson

6,388 members

214 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ahef1963

18

The Book of Jewish Food

by Claudia Roden

714 members

7 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: aprille

19

A Guest of Honour

by Nadine Gordimer

273 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: aprille

20

The Untouchable

by John Banville

1,567 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

21

The Summer Before The Dark

by Doris Lessing

1,051 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

22

Survival In Auschwitz

2,256 members

25 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

23

by Margaret Drabble

933 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

24

by Joseph Brodsky

634 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

25

by Susanna Moore

692 members

19 reviews

3.1

Member: aprille

26

3,222 members

60 reviews

4

Member: aprille

27

The Camomile Lawn

868 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

28

The Butcher Boy

by Patrick McCabe

1,561 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

29

271 members

1 review

4

Member: aprille

30

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

1,951 members

70 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

31

2,636 members

42 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

32

Sexing the Cherry

by Jeanette Winterson

3,197 members

47 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

33

We Couldn't Leave Dinah

by Mary Treadgold

58 members

3.9

Member: aprille

34

by J. M. Coetzee

1,130 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

35

by Bruce Chatwin

3,558 members

59 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

36

by Vasily Grossman

3,455 members

89 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: aprille

37

902 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

38

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

13,049 members

279 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

39

A diary of love

by Maude Hutchins

14 members

1 review

5

Member: aprille

40

by Elizabeth David

830 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

41

The Woman of Rome

by Alberto Moravia

742 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

42

by Ryszard Kapuściński

952 members

20 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

43

by Justin Cartwright

40 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

44

Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder

by Gitta Sereny

666 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

45

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

10,832 members

253 reviews

4

Member: aprille

46

1,735 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

47

by John McGahern

329 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

48

The White Album

2,473 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

49

3,103 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

50

by Graham Swift

2,421 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

51

703 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

52

by Elizabeth Jane Howard

265 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

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