The 1961 Club has started! Karen and I are asking everyone to read and review books published in 1961 – share your links below, or put your review in the comments.
Marry in Haste by Joan Aiken Hodge
Staircase Wit
The Body in the Dumb River by George Bellairs
Fanda Classiclit
My Reader’s Block
Rose Under Glass by Elizabeth Berridge
Stuck in a Book
The Streetwalker by Luciano Bianciardi
Brona’s Books
War Isn’t Wonderful by Ursula Bloom
Stuck in a Book
The Mystery of Banshee Towers by Enid Blyton
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
A Stranger at Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston
Calmgrove Books
One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess
Somewhere Boy
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
What is History? by E.H. Carr
Brona’s Books
Daughters-in-Law by Henry Cecil
Literary Potpourri
Abbie and Arthur by Dane Chandos
Stuck in a Book
Just Another Sucker by James Hadley Chase
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
A Lotus for Miss Quon by James Hadley Chase
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary
Staircase Wit
The Mighty and Their Fall by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Somewhere Boy
Stuck in a Book
The Scene of the Crime by John Creasey
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
Heat Wave in Berlin by Dymphna Cusack
ANZ Lit Lovers
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Literary Potpourri
Calmgrove Books
Provincial Daughter by R.M. Dashwood
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson
JacquiWine’s Journal
Just Reading A Book
David’s Book World
The Witch of the Low Tide by John Dickson Carr
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
Stuck in a Book
Pen to Paper by Pamela Frankau
Stuck in a Book
Seven Lean Years by Celia Fremlin
Cross Examining Crime
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
Kaddish and other poems by Allen Ginsberg
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
Book Around the Corner
Marnie by Winston Graham
AnnaBookBel
My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn
Somewhere Boy
Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff
Stuck in a Book
The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
Typings
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
She Reads Novels
Wicked Witch’s Blog
Little Bear’s Visit by Else Holmelund Minarik
Calmgrove Books
Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
What? Me Read?
Household Ghosts by James Kennaway
Somewhere Boy
Pull My Daisy by Jack Kerouac
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Life and Love in the Henhouse by Irena Krzywicka
This Reading Life
The Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Brona’s Brooks
Call for the Dead by John Le Carré
Words and Peace
Books Please
Quaestrio de Cantauris by Primo Levi
Brona’s Books
The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz
What? Me Read?
Winston’s Dad
Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seichō Matsumoto
JacquiWine’s Journal
Conscience by Ana María Matute
Brona’s Books
The Chateau by William Maxwell
Stuck in a Book
Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
746 Books
1st Reading
Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry
Somewhere Boy
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
Fanda Classiclit
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
Calmgrove Books
Janet – LoveBooks, ReadBooks
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Buried in Print
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff by Gil North
Stuck in a Book
My Reader’s Block
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
Rose Reads Novels
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
746 Books
Owls and Satyrs by David Pryce-Jones
Stuck in a Book
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
The Middle Shelf
Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque
Book Around The Corner
The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
1st Reading
The Sneetches by Dr Seuss
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Maigret and the Idle Burglar by Georges Simenon
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Literary Potpourri
Betty by Georges Simenon
Winston’s Dad
Epidemic by Frank G. Slaughter
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
The Ballad of the Running Man by Shelley Smith
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
What? Me Read?
She Reads Novels
Reading Matters
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Words and Peace
Bel Lamington by D. E. Stevenson
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Hopewell’s Public Library of Life
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
Staircase Wit
Fanda Classiclit
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Volatile Rune
I Was Going Anyway by Robert Switzer
The Dusty Bookcase
Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichirō Tanizaki
Winston’s Dad
In A Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor
Somewhere Boy
Stuck in a Book
Treasure of Hemlock Mountain by Virginia Frances Boight
My Reader’s Block
The Blood of the Lamb by Peter de Vries
Typings
Somewhere Boy
The Girl in the Cellar by Patricia Wentworth
Staircase Wit
A Grave Undertaking by Lionel White
Words and Peace
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
Bookish Beck
What? Me Read?