1. 1984--George Orwell's prophetic dystopian novel.
2. Faggots--The 1978 controversial novel by playwright/novelist/AIDS activist Larry Kramer (1935-2020), who recently died at the age of 84.
3. Any book in Ellis Peters's wonderful 21-volume Brother Caedfael mystery series set in a 12th-century English monastery. (Peters, whose real name was Edith Pargeter, was a medieval scholar.) The books were the basis for a television series that aired on PBS and starred Derek Jacobi as Brother Caedfael, the monk turned amateur sleuth.
4. The Woman in the Window--A. J. Finn's thriller that has been made into a major motion picture.
5. The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad. I read the first volume but never finished the second one.
6. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann. The book is about the 1922 shooting death of film director William Desmond Taylor. I read two previous books on this fascinating true-crime story.
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