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
10,123 members
322 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
130 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
41,927 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
3,420 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
47,858 members
1,395 reviews
3.9
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was 7 minutes after midnight.
6
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,270 members
578 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
30,864 members
445 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
32,632 members
559 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
94,035 members
1,448 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
11,476 members
314 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
82,713 members
1,301 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
77,019 members
1,196 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
25,173 members
525 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
5,694 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
93,750 members
1,510 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
38,963 members
875 reviews
4.2
Member
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Explanations
alexa_d: It was a nice day.