14 Books Categorised Under "20th century".

This is probably an incomplete listing as I haven't categorised all the books I've read since 2000 (yet).

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Love and Friendship

17 June 2026

Alison Lurie's first adult novel, set in an New England college felt far more English than American. I'm now halfway through her books!

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The Secret of the Old Clock

20 March 2026

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Blaming

12 March 2026

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In This Sign

19 August 2025

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The Italian Girl

3 August 2025

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The Beautiful Visit

23 June 2025

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

6 February 2025

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The Home

23 January 2025

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Murder on the Links

9 October 2024

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The Light of Day

25 August 2024

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Stamboul Train

28 June 2024

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

13 March 2024

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Gilead

16 February 2024

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Books Do Furnish a Room

5 September 2022

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3 Good Things for 18 June 2026

🕸️Some website changes turned out to be much less of a headache than I expected.

🍦I know I picked ice cream as a good thing yesterday but today I bought a cornet and a lady told me how nice it looked and that was lovely.

💼 Managed to leave my bag, with my laptop, by the cycling parking in the middle of town and cycled home. After doing a rapid turnaround when I got home and noticed it wasn’t on my rack I raced back into town and found it sitting happily where I left it!

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