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Today in Bookish and Literary History, February 4

πŸ™‹πŸ»‍♀️ Have you read any of these books, or do you plan to add any to your TBR list? πŸ”΄ 1922 The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield | New Zealand | πŸ”΄ 1943 The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht | GR | 112 P πŸ”΄ 1944 Antigone by Jean Anouilh | FR | 85 P πŸ”΄ 2009 True Colors by Kristin Hannah | US | 400 [ πŸ”΄ 2020 Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham | Nigeria | 277 P πŸ”΄ 2020 Weather by Jenny Offill | US | 208 πŸ”΄ 2020 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland | US | 266 P | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† πŸ”΄ 2020 Survival Is a Style: Poems by Christian Wiman | US | 112 P πŸ”΄ 2020 Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey | US | 176 P | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† πŸ”΄ 2020 The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler | US | 224 p πŸ”΄ 2020 Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick | US | 176 p πŸ”΄ 2020 A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung (Editor), Mensah Demary | 240 p ...
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, February 3

πŸ™‹πŸ»‍♀️ Have you read any of these books, or do you plan to add any to your TBR list? πŸ”΄ 1951 The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams | US | 352 p πŸ”΄ 2022 The Colony by Audrey Magee | Ireland | 384 p | πŸ† (THE BOOKER PRIZE) πŸ”΄ 2022 Love Marriage by Monica Ali | UK | 432 p πŸ”΄ 2026 To Kill a Cook by W. M. Akers | US | 346 p πŸ”΄ 2026 Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur by Ian McDonald | UK | 128 p πŸ”΄ 2026 And The Ancestors Sing by Radha Lin Chaddah | UK | 432 p πŸ”΄ 2026 This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page | UK | 411 p πŸ”΄ 2026 The Lions' Run by Sara Pennypacker | US | 288 p πŸ”— Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share #OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #february3
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, February 2

πŸ™‹πŸ»‍♀️ Have you read any of these books, or do you plan to add any to your TBR list? πŸ”΄ 1602 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare | UK | 232 p πŸ”΄ 1913 Trees by Joyce Kilmer | US πŸ”΄ 1922 Ulysses by James Joyce | Ireland | 732 p πŸ”΄ 1972 Jumpers by Tom Stoppard | UK | 96 πŸ”΄ 2010 Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah | US | 448 p πŸ”΄ 2020 On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle | DEN | 176 p | πŸ†πŸ† πŸ”΄ 2021 The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah | US | 464 p πŸ”΄ 2021 Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz | US | 208 p | πŸ†πŸ† πŸ”΄ 2021 How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones | Barbadian | 278 p | πŸ† πŸ”΄ 2021 My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee | US/Korea | 496 p πŸ”΄ 2021 Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler | US | 272 p | πŸ† πŸ”΄ 2021 Land Of Big Numbers: Stories by Te-Ping Chen | US | 256 p πŸ”΄ 2021 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell | US | 192 p | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† πŸ”΄ 2021 Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors | DEN | 128 p πŸ”΄ 2021 Milk Fed by Melissa Broder | US | 304 p πŸ”΄ 2021 The Lost Soul ...
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, February 1

πŸ™‹πŸ»‍♀️ Have you read any of these books, or do you plan to add any to your TBR list? πŸ”΄ 1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued by William Dampier after being marooned alone on an island in the South Pacific for 4 years, inspiring Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" πŸ”΄ 1814 Corsair by Lord Byron | UK | 64 p πŸ”΄ 1923 The Young Idea by NoΓ«l Coward | UK | 64 p πŸ”΄ 1948 Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton | South Africa | 316 p πŸ”΄ 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | US | 320 p πŸ”΄ 1987 Fine Things by Danielle Steel | US | 433 p πŸ”΄ 1991 The Firm by John Grisham | US | 432 p πŸ”΄ 2005 The Flood by Maggie Gee | UK | 240 p πŸ”΄ 2005 Saturday by Ian McEwan | UK | 308 p | πŸ†πŸ† πŸ”΄ 2011 The Adults by Alison Espach | US | 336 p πŸ”΄ 2017 Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas | Spain | 214 πŸ”΄ 2022 Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir by Gabriel Byrne | Ireland | 196 p πŸ”΄ 2022 Vladimir by Julia May Jonas | US | 256 p πŸ”΄...
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, January 31

  1901  Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov - RUS The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distraction from the passage of time and from the sisters’ desire to return to their beloved Moscow. 1948  A Perfect Day for Banana Fish by J. D. Salinger - US Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger's very best work--a treasure that will passed down for many generations to come.  1963 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin - US The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest ...
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