Senior year included Johnny Got His Gun, Hamlet, The Bell Jar, and Les Miserables. Frosh or soph year included Romeo and Juliet and Lord of the Flies but I don't remember any others. I think Jr year was split between world lit and contemporary writing. I remember Siddartha, A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, and readings from the Odyssey. I got to Austen and the Brontes on my own.

I finally got around to finishing Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil and I found it ultimately pretty unsatisfying. I think the tone and style of the writing made it hard to feel like the three women were distinct characters, and so when everything finally comes to a head I wasn't invested in any one of them in particular.

If anyone is looking for a good translations of Beowulf by a woman I highly recommend this one [link]

Thanks, sj!

If anyone is interested in a modern day Holmes-verse book about Moriarty and Moran, The Casefile of Jay Moriarty is fun. [link] It’s set up as a series of cases, sort of like the original Sherlock Holmes stories, and you can buy those as shorter stories, individually, too. I never found them them most interesting part of the original ACD books, but Kit Walker does some fun things with the characters.

Seconding "The Casefile of Jay Moriarty". It's also available on Kobo for those who don't like Amazon.

I saw those recommended elsewhere, I forget by whom. At the time I think I could only find the individual stories and didn't really pursue it, but I do have Kobo plus which seems happy to let me hang onto included books for an indeterminate length of time, so onto the shelf it goes...

I'm in the last book of the Centenal Series, Malka Older's work before Mossa and Pleiti (Infomocracy is the first book). A political thriller, I guess, which isn't generally my thing but the world building is extremely interesting - very clear-eyed about politics and bureaucracy without being doom and gloom. And the action-y bits are very fun

I'm reading "A Trade of Blood", the third book in Robert Jackson Bennett's "Ana and Din Mysteries" and am quite enjoying both the worldbuilding and the mystery. I did have to go back and reread the first two books to remind myself of the details of his very bizarre world, which was not a hardship. Recommended.

I have that out from the library to read as soon as I can! Or in the next three weeks, anyway. The granular ordering of my most immediate TBR can get complicated. I read the first two not long ago, hopefully I remember enough to get by - really interesting world

Books read on vacation:

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: Posted upthread. I thought it started out very strong but ultimately needed a bit more plot by the end.

Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep: Very solid modern cyberpunk, recommended for fans of the genre. If classic cyberpunk wasn't your thing back in the day, you might find it incredibly annoying but I had fun the whole way through. LOVED the ending.

The Ministry of Time: Another long-term resident of my TBR, finally conquered by a week at the lake! I liked almost everything about this book, thought it could have been a bit shorter. Another one with a satisfying ending though! (The only disappointment is I'd seen this book on a bunch of "Best LGBTQ+ Books" lists and so I was expecting more than two minor queer characters. But that's not the book's fault.)