40 Before 40 | A Long-Term TBR

I read And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini quite a few years ago now. and I just thought it was absolutely amazing. It's somewhere between a novel and a short story collection, and it's just like absolutely superb.

I read Beloved back in 2020, I think, and thought it was fantastic and I just haven't read anything more by Toni Morrison, but I would like to.

I love The Count of Monte Cristo so very much and I also enjoyed The Three Musketeers though not as much.

I read Crime and Punishment as a teenager and really loved it and just haven't read anything else by Dostoevsky over the like second half of my life and I feel like I should.

And I feel like because I love Dickens and I love David Copperfield, will I love Demon Copperhead or will I not?

I read Death in Venice a few years ago and thought it was really interesting and I just haven't read anything more by Thomas Mann.

the three I have read are The Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Dom Casmurro, and The Alienist. I really enjoyed them all, but my favorite is The Memoirs of Bras Cubas, which is really playful with language and reform and just like such a wonderful novel.

Giovanni's Room was just incredible. I thought it was written so superbly and I am not like a reader who is usually obsessed with the writing.

but I read Kindred a few years ago and just thought it was incredible. what a book.

I have read two books again by Victor Hugo before Les Miserables, which I absolutely love, and Notre Dame, which I like less.

Neither of which I loved. Virginia Woolf's writing style is definitely not for me. I'm not really into modernist literature.

I read Nervous Conditions, I want to say last year, but I think it was probably the year before last. and I just thought it was absolutely incredible. Like, genuinely hands down one of the best books I've ever read in my life.

I have read two books again by Victor Hugo before Les Miserables, which I absolutely love, and Notre Dame, which I like less.

So, for a while I've been on the hunt for more African postcolonial feminist literature because over the last couple of years I have absolutely loved Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, and The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta.

I have read one Ann Patchett book before, a very long time ago, pre-BookTube, called State of Wonder, and I really, really didn't like it.

the three I have read are The Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Dom Casmurro, and The Alienist. I really enjoyed them all, but my favorite is The Memoirs of Bras Cubas, which is really playful with language and reform and just like such a wonderful novel.

So, for a while I've been on the hunt for more African postcolonial feminist literature because over the last couple of years I have absolutely loved Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, and The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta.

I really enjoyed them all, but my favorite is The Memoirs of Bras Cubas, which is really playful with language and reform and just like such a wonderful novel.

And I thought, "Well, if it's like The Remains of the Day, which I think is the best book ever written, probably, then I should I should read it and I should give it a go."

I also thought that James Baldwin's non-fiction, The Fire Next Time, was amazing, , so I definitely want to read more by him.

I have read The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene a few years ago which I thought was fine, , but I've heard such great things about The End of the Affair that I would really like to read it.

I love The Count of Monte Cristo so very much and I also enjoyed The Three Musketeers though not as much.

Neither of which I loved. Virginia Woolf's writing style is definitely not for me. I'm not really into modernist literature.

I studied Under the Net by Iris Murdoch at university and loved it.