November 23, 2021 The House of the Dead – Fyodor Dostoevsky “Here there is a world’s apart, unlike everything else, with laws of its own, its own dress, its own manners and customs, and here…
November 23, 2021 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) – Agatha Christie This is another brilliantly written murder mystery by Agatha Christie. The plot is well structured with a mind-blowing twist at the end which will…
November 23, 2021 The Mysterious Affairs at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) – Agatha Christie This is my first introduction to Agatha Christie. Having never read her before, I was interested in starting her with the Poirot series which…
November 22, 2021 The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard is a story that portrays the end of an era of landed gentry in Russia. With the fall of the nobility,…
November 22, 2021 The Saga of Gösta Berling – Selma Lagerlöf This debut novel of Selma Lagerlöf is an uncommon novel. Belonging to the genre of magical realism, the story is about one defrocked Lutheran…
November 22, 2021 The Misanthrope – Molière Here is an author who knows how to write a play. When it comes to comedy, none amuses me the way he does. His…
November 22, 2021 Death Comes as the End – Agatha Christie Death Comes as the End is by far the best standalone mystery that I’ve read by Agatha Christie. Its ancient setting, making it her…
November 22, 2021 Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley’s Secret is a Victorian “sensational”. My love for “sensational” novels began with The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I read that…
November 22, 2021 Don Juan – Molière “Hypocrisy is now a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues…All the other vices of mankind are subject to censuré, and anyone…
November 22, 2021 A Woman of No Importance – Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance is yet another drawing-room play by Oscar Wilde, where he satirizes the morals, hypocritical conventions, and general views and…