On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

  

This was not an easy read but wow what a beautiful one!
It is complicated by an interweaving of narrative and personal reflection and as a result it is difficult to discern who is thinking what and which thoughts are the result of whom.

The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene

    

I really enjoyed this novel. It is a powerful, thought provoking and deeply profound novel about love and catholic guilt set amongst British colonial settlers in West Africa during the Second World War.
It is a tragedy where Major Scobie, a 50-year-old Deputy Commissioner, is
passed over for promotion and so becomes forced to borrow money to send his despairing wife away. In her absence he falls in love with Helen, a young widow, and his life is transformed by the experience.However, it does not have a happy ending.

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Washington Square by Henry James

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope wrote this satirical novel as a reaction to the financial scandals of the 1870s in Great Britain.  It is an archetypical Victorian novel, featuring the two big Victorian obsessions - class and women.
It took me a long time to read - it is Trollope's longest novel, but it was enjoyable!
I loved all the disreputable characters. I took an instant dislike to Felix - who basically spends everyone's else money and is a cad! One of my favorites is the seductive Winifred Hurtle, who, they say -- and I love this detail! -- shot a man in Oregon!

The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe Series Book 1) by Raymond Chandler

Set in 1930s Los Angeles, then a sleepy town controlled by the mob as much as the police, The Big Sleep is a non stop action thriller. Chandler’s first book is a classic and would help redefine and reinvent the mystery genre.
Chandler wrote this back in 1939 and it reads like an American classic detective novel should! The dialogues are just perfect!