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OT: Books for Lockdown
As suggested by former chap from former school etc. Quite good. Organized by sub-sections etc.
Plague:
La Peste, Albert Camus.
To Calais, In Ordinary Time, James Meek: published at the end of last year, this is a historical novel set in C14th England, set against the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death. A linguistic tour-de-force, much of it is written in an imagined Middle English Cotswold dialect. (For further context, Barbara Tuchman’s brilliant depiction of the ‘calamitous’ C14th Europe, A Distant Mirror, is narrative history with pace, colour and lucidity.)
Sweet Thames, Matthew Kneale (Old Latymerian): cholera epidemic, London 1849.
Quarantine, Jim Crace: winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award.
A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe: the Great Plague of 1665, first published in 1722.
Lockdown:
Affinity, Sarah Waters
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood (anything by Atwood will be rewarding to read!).
The Collector, John Fowles.
The Playmaker, Thomas Kenneally: transported convicts in Australia mount a restoration drama.
Classics I should have read!
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens: his last completed novel full of wonderful comic characters. Vivid depictions of London from Rotherhithe to Twickenham.
The Warden, Anthony Trollope: an ideal length introduction to Trollope; high politics in the cathedral close.
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton: exploration of mid-C19th manners in upper-class east coast America.
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell: published in the same decade as Dickens’ satirical Hard Times, this is a richer book about the depredations wrought by the Industrial Revolution.
Memoir:
On Chapel Sands, Laura Cumming: compelling, wise, sensitive exploration of writer’s family history arising from the kidnap of her mother, aged 3.
My Father and Myself, J R Ackerley: an investigation into the mysterious personal life of the author’s father, this is simultaneously a self-analysis of Ackerley’s gay life, written before but published after Wolfenden. Supremely stylish writing.
B_ad Blood_, Lorna Sage; personal memoir of childhood but also an insightful social history of 1940s and later. Often VERY funny.
Thrillers:
Kolymsky Heights, Lionel Davidson: mainly set in Siberia, a cold war thriller that asks serious questions.
A Legacy of Spies, John Le Carre: George Smiley’s final outing comes to ingenious denouement.
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg: investigating the death of a child, Miss Smilla stumbles into environmental scandal set against the colonial relationship between Denmark and Greenland.
Shakespeare – but not as you know it:
Hag Seed, Margaret Atwood: a re-imagining of The Tempest, set in a prison. Jaw-droppingly ingenious.
Nutshell, Ian McEwan: Hamlet as narrated by the Prince as embryo. Very clever.
The Prince of West End Avenue, Alan Isler: Jewish retirement home in NYC put on production of Hamlet. Laugh out loud funny and very erudite.
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley: King Lear re-imagined in Iowa, from a feminist perspective.
Murder – true stories fictionalised:
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote: a one-off story of extraordinary power and immediacy.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt: murder, sex, Savannah – a world you will never have encountered before.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale: mid-C19th murder of young boy in rural England prompts investigation by the eponymous Inspector, one of the first police detectives.
Blood Rites, Hannah Kent: historical novel concerning the last woman in Iceland sentenced to death for murder. Marvellous evocation of different time and space.
Oppression:
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler: Stalinist show trial. As relevant today as in 1940.
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (NOT H G Wells!): racism in 1950s NYC. Groundbreaking work – you might also enjoy Ragtime by A L Doctorow.
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck: an indictment of capitalist exploitation of poor share-croppers in 1930s Oklahoma and California.
Books in Translation:
Alone in Berlin, Hans Falluda.
The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende.
The War of the End of the World, Mario Vargas Llosa.
A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler.
The Rural World:
H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald.
The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane.
In the Place of Fallen Leaves, Tim Pears.
Travel:
The Towers of Trebizond, Rose Macaulay..
Arabia Through the Looking Glass, Jonathan Raban
Songlines, Bruce Chatwin.
Comedy:
Calypso, David Sedaris.
Skios, Michael Frayn.
The World According to Garp, John Irving.
Redemption:
The Color Purple, Alice Walker.
Larry’s Party/The Stone Diaries Carol Shields.
The Shipping News, E Annie Proux.
Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes: read in conjunction with Ariel, poems by his wife, Sylvia Plath.
Comments
Danilov The Violist, Vladimir Orlov
good vs evil vs art
Lockdown forced me to finish Alan Moore’s 1200+ page Jerusalem. Feel slightly lost now it’s done, but On Some Faraway Beach, the Eno biog is plastering over a few cracks. And after that it’s the 700 page Copendium.
But size isn’t everything, as Mrs Monzo often points out to me.
Camus’ The Plague is on YouTube as a recorded book. Two versions. Go with the Brit narrator.
Also recommend Wilbur Smith novels. The African Courtney series.
Thanks for compiling this great list Jonnny. I loved your recommendation of the book by one of Janis Joplins boyfriends a while back, Seth Morgan’s Homeboy was a blast
Roosevelt,Champion of Freedom, Conrad Black. The God Delusion,Richard Dawkins , book, pdf, U-Tube.