1Q84 Haruki Murakami  (2010) “Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. If you belong to the majority, you

The Color Purple– Alice Walker  (1982) Novel written largely in a black southern dialect phonetic spelling. I’m not a fan of this. The last novel I

Il Gattopardo– Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1956) This book has taken me a long time to read. I started a week before Christmas. When a

Jude The Obscure– Thomas Hardy (1896)  Jude the Obscure is a novel about a common man. The intro says it was the first novel with a lower-class lead

I had to add another shelf to my book wall at home. The top shelf I have for my Bible study tools, and the History