Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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These are the best or most memorable amongst the fifty five works of older fiction I read in 2024. My top ten in order they were originally published:

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu c.1000CE translated by Royall Tyler 2001
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 1837
Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 1867
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 1915
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen 1936
The Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes 1952 translated by Ann Goldstein 2023
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence 1964
The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell 1978
Human Acts by Han Kang 2014 translated by Deborah Smith 2017
Marzahn Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp 2019 translated by Jo Heinrich 2022

Thank you to the lovely people I shared some of these books with in buddy and group reads including:
Jo Smith
Sarah @HardcoverHearts
Shawn @shawnbreathesbooks
Priscilla @EveningReader
Sarah @sarah-roadworthy
Ian Powell