Read What You Own [in Community] 2024 - hosted by bookishcori

January: at least as old as you are
January: At least as old as you (here’s looking at you, 1900’s) - if you don’t have a lot of backlist, do your best
All books added
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

The Optimist's Daughter

Eudora Welty

192 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 by Upton Sinclair

The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000

Upton Sinclair

224 pages • first pub 1924 (editions)

nonfiction challenging reflective medium-paced
Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula

Toni Morrison

174 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine

Love Medicine #1

Louise Erdrich

333 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Tar Baby

Toni Morrison

306 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

fiction literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile

Hercule Poirot #17

Agatha Christie

214 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

The Makioka Sisters

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

689 pages • first pub 1948 (editions) user-added

fiction historical reflective slow-paced
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes #6

Arthur Conan Doyle

189 pages • first pub 1905 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery short stories adventurous mysterious medium-paced
These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac

These Names Make Clues

Robert MacDonald #12

E.C.R. Lorac

254 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery dark lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Puerto Rican Obituary by Pedro Pietri

Puerto Rican Obituary

Pedro Pietri

118 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

fiction poetry challenging dark emotional medium-paced