Jim's Bookshelf

Description
Industriously (if incorrectly) alphabetized by first sentence, by a certain amnesiac archangel in A.Z. Fell's Soho antiquarian bookstore, as seen in Good Omens season 2.
1
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
10,141 members
323 reviews
4.1
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
2
No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley
by Rita Marley
132 members
4.1
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: I was an ambitious girl child.
3
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
42,146 members
491 reviews
3.9
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....
4
The Crow Road
by Iain Banks
3,427 members
61 reviews
4
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was the day my grandmother exploded.
5
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
47,969 members
1,398 reviews
3.9
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was 7 minutes after midnight.
6
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,451 members
579 reviews
4.1
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was love at first sight.
7
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
30,990 members
446 reviews
3.9
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
8
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,785 members
560 reviews
4
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
9
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
94,523 members
1,452 reviews
4.2
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
10
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,559 members
315 reviews
4
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
11
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,085 members
1,306 reviews
3.8
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
12
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,316 members
1,199 reviews
3.8
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like…
13
The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket
25,311 members
526 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
14
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,707 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
15
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
94,342 members
1,511 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
16
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
39,155 members
876 reviews
4.2
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was a nice day.