Recap of Novels 151 – 160

Average rating of novels 151 – 160:  3.8 stars (out of 5)

 

 

151.  ★★                   The Tale of Genji

152.  ★★★★½          The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

153.  ★★★★             Cry, the Beloved Country

154.  ★★★★             Nicholas Nickleby

155   ★★★                The Stranger
156.  ★★★ ★½         Ragtime
157.  ★★★★             Where the Red Fern Grows

158.  ★★★★             Something Wicked This Way Comes

159.  ★★½                The House on the Borderlands

160.  ★★★★             The Hound of the Baskervilles

Favorite: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

 

Least Favorite: The Tale of Genji

 

Best Hero: Will’s Dad in Something Wicked This Way Comes

Best Heroine: Helen Graham, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

 

Most Villainous: Ralph Nickleby from Nicholas Nickleby

Runner up: Mr. Dark, from Something Wicked This Way Comes

 

Most interesting/Complex character: Coalhouse Walker Jr. from Ragtime

 

Best Quotation: ‘No man can deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him,’ I replied: ‘it cost more to redeem their souls – it cost the blood of an incarnate God, perfect and sinless in Himself, to redeem us from the bondage of the evil one: – let Him plead for you.’ ~ Helen Graham, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

 

Runner Up: The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again. ~ Msimangu in Cry, the Beloved Country

 

Honorable Mention: Three A.M. That’s our reward. Three in the morn. The Soul’s midnight. The tide goes out, the soul ebbs. And a train arrives at an hour of despair…Why? ~ Charles Halloway in Something Wicked This Way Comes

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