Recs if you like The Bridge of San Luis Rey...
classic shorties
For when reading a classic feels too daunting. Classics under 200 pages!
Bleakness Is My Weakness
For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.
More to come!
Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!
Bite Size Historical Fiction
Dive into these historical fiction books that are shorter than 300 pages! Selections here tried to stay away from historical fiction with fantasy or magical realism elements.
As always, open to any suggestions for additions to this list! 🙂
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners
(Most) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners since 1918!
A Brief Research Project on God
Fiction that uses every means at its disposal to detail the Deity. MLA Formatted.
Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 Novels
Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.
Time Magazine All Time 100 Novels
Time Magazine’s compilation of the 100 best novels published since 1923.
(101 because “The Berlin Stories” is an omnibus of “Mr Norris Changes Trains” and “Goodbye To Berlin.”)
Catholic Classics
Classic works of literature with Catholic themes or authors
Pulitzer Fiction Prize Winners
"For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life." A list of Pulitzer Prize Fiction winners, starting in the 1920s. For nerds like me
Bestsellers of the 20th Century (USA)
Below are the #1 bestselling fictional novels in the United States for each year from 1900 to 1999, based on annual sales data (traditionally compiled by The Bookman and later Publishers Weekly).
