Recs if you like The Emigrants...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
on not being home
in which characters (real and fictional) deal with being refugees, exiles, or immigrants, sometimes staying in exile and sometimes journeying back home “if mastering the language is too hard, only be patient; the telegram imploring your return won’t need translation.”
Bending The Rules - 50 Novels
Unconventional and experimental novels that play with syntax, style, narrative and structure Tristram Shandy - the grandfather of experimental Pale Fire - intertwines a poem and commentary Dictionary of the Khazars - in the form of a dictionary Man Eating typewriter - written in Polari Exercises in style - 99 retellings of the same story Hopscotch - designed to be read in multiple ways If on a winter’s night a traveller - a story within a story within a…
my 2027 reading menu
Rather than a TBR I like to have a list of menu options
Where To Start With: A Handy Guide by the Guardian
The first book from each of the authors profiled as part of the Guardian’s “Where to start with” series. https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/where-to-start-with
Each book represents the chosen entry point.
