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Reading List

Title	Author	Country	Rating (/5)
81.The Temporary Gentleman	Sebastian Barry	Ireland	4.70
82.One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Marques	Colombia	5.00
83.The Fan Man	William Kotzwinkle	USA	3.90
84. Love in the Time of the Cholera	Gabriel García Marques	Colombia	5.00
85. The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	USA	4.90
86. The Luminaries	Eleanor Catton	New Zealand	4.90
87. My Brilliant Friend	Elena Ferrante	Italy	4.50
88. The Search Warrant	Patrick Modiano	France	4.60
89. Red Sorghum	Mo Yan	China	4.55
90. For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	USA	4.95
91. Zig-Zag Through the Bitter Orange Trees	Ersi Sotiropoulos	Greece	2.75
92. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves	Karen Joy Fowler	USA	4.00
93. All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr	USA	4.25
94. Who Killed Palomino Molero	Mario Vargas Llosa	Peru	5.00
95. 1Q84	Haruki Murakami	Japan	4.50
96. A Universal History of Iniquity	Jorge Luis Borges	Argentina	5.00
97. Preparation for the Next Life	Atticus Lish	USA	4.55
98. The Old Gringo	Carlos Fuentes	Mexico	4.50
99. In the Night of Time	Antonio Munoz Molina	Spain	4.70
100. The Odyssey	Homer	Greece	5.00
101. The Outsider	Albert Camus	France	5.00
102. The Meursault Investigation	Kamel Daoud	Algeria	4.90
103. The Blue Guitar	John Banville	Ireland	4.50
104. Hadji Murad	Leo Tolstoy	Russia	3.80
105. Above the Waterfall	Ron Rash	USA	4.20
106. A Brief History of Seven Killings	Marlon James	Jamaica	4.90
107. I Saw Her That Night	Drago Jančar	Slovenia	4.30
108. The Dream of My Return	Horacio Castellanos Moya	El Salvador	4.20
109. The Story of the Lost Child	Elena Ferrante	Italy	5.00
110. Blood Brothers	Ernst Haffner	Germany	3.40
111. Room	Emma Donoghue	Canada	4.65
112. The Corrections	Jonathan Franzen	USA	3.90
113. Dirt Road	James Kelman	Scotland	3.80
114. Days Without End	Sebastian Barry	Ireland	4.80
115. The Wonder	Emma Donoghue	Canada	4.65
116. The Sellout	Paul Beatty	USA	4.90
117. The Mayor of Casterbridge	Thomas Hardy	England	5.00
118. The North Water	Ian McGuire	UK	4.20
119. A Little Life	Hanya Yanagihara	USA	4.10
120. The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	USA	5.00
121. Moby Dick	Herman Melville	USA	5.00
122. Reeds in the Wind	Grazia Deledda	Italy	4.20
123. A School for Fools	Sasha Sokolov	Russia	3.95
124. Lincoln in the Bardo	George Saunders	USA	3.95
125. Exit West	Moshin Hamid	Pakistan	3.95
126. Solar Bones	Mike McCormack	Ireland	4.50
127. When We Were Orphans	Kazuo Ishiguro	UK	4.50
128. The Quiet American	Graham Greene	UK	4.60
129. His Bloody Project	Graeme Macrae Burnet	Scotland	4.50
130. The Portrait of a Lady	Henry James	USA	5.00
131. Mrs. Osmond	John Banville	Ireland	4.50
132. The Erl-King	Michel Tournier	France	4.15
133. The Lost Musicians	William Heinesen	Denmark	4.00
134. Satantango	László Krasznahorkai	Hungary	5.00
135. Independent People	Halldór Laxness	Iceland	4.70
136. The Risen	Ron Rash	USA	3.90
137. The Shepherd's Hut	Tim Winton	Australia	4.10
138. The Plains	Gerald Murnane	Australia	2.90
139. The Long Take	Robin Robertson	Scotland	4.80
140. The Melancholy of Resistance	László Krasznahorkai	Hungary	4.60
141. Grace	Paul Lynch	Ireland	4.45
142. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead	Olga Tokarczuk	Poland	4.00
143. Milkman	Anna Burns	UK	4.90
144. Warlight	Michael Ondaatje	Canada	4.55
145. Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	France	5.00
146. The Overstory	Richard Powers	USA	4.40
147. The Vegetarian	Han Kang	South Korea	4.00
148. Pedro Paramo	Juan Rulfo	Mexico	5.00
149. It Can't Happen Here	Sinclair Lewis	USA	3.50
150. The Leopard	Tomasi Di Lampedusa	Italy	5.00
151. Fathers and Sons	Ivan Turgenev	Russia	5.00
152. Tender is the Night	F. Scott Fitzgerald	USA	4.90
153. Boy Swallows Universe	Trent Dalton	Australia	4.30
154. Night Boat to Tangier	Kevin Barry	Ireland	4.95
155. Beatlebone	Kevin Barry	Ireland	4.10
156. The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick	Peter Handke	Austria	T.B.F.
157. Akin	Emma Donoghue	Canada	3.90
158. The Nickel Boys	Colson Whitehead	USA	3.75
159. Lanny	Max Porter	UK	4.55
160. Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	USA	5.00
161. Damascus	Christos Tsiolkas	Australia	4.40
162. Life and Fate	Vasily Grossman	Russia	4.85
163. The Mirror & the Light	Hilary Mantel	UK	4.80
164. Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	USA	4.10
165. Lost Children Archive	Valeria Luiselli	Mexico	4.20
166. The Pull of the Stars	Emma Donoghue	Canada	4.40
167. Actress	Anne Enright	Ireland	5.00
168. Blind Owl	Sadegh Hedayat	Iran	4.20
169. The Fall of the Stone City	Ismail Kadare	Albania	4.30
170. How Much of These Hills Is Gold	C. Pam Zhang	USA	4.50
171. Shuggie Bain	Douglas Stuart	Scotland	4.60
172. The Secret Agent	Joseph Conrad	UK	5.00
173. The Shape of the Ruins	Juan Gabriel Vasquez	Columbia	4.40
174. Mayflies	Andrew O'Hagan	Scotland	4.50
175. Anxious People	Fredrik Backman	Sweden	4.55
176. A Long Way From Home	Peter Carey	Australia	4.65
177. Labyrinth	Amanda Lohrey	Australia	4.25
178. The War of the Poor	Eric Vuillard	France	2.50
179. The Fortune Men	Nadifa Mohamed	Somalia	4.10
180. Afterlives	Abdulrazak Gurnah	Tanzania	4.55
181. The Republic of False Truths	Alaa Al Aswany	Egypt	3.50
182. Stoner	John Williams	USA	4.80
183. This Is Happiness	Niall Wiliams	Ireland	4.65
184. Klara and the Sun	Kazuo Ishiguro	UK	4.50
185. The Choke	Sofie Laguna	Australia	4.40
186. The Lincoln Highway	Amor Towles	USA	3.40
187. Journey to the End of the Night	Louis-Ferdinand Celestine	France	5.00
188. The Rain Heron	Robbie Arnott	Australia	4.30
189. The Sweetness of Water	Nathan Harris	USA	4.50
190. The Power of the Dog	Thomas Savage	USA	4.25
191. Bodies of Light	Jennifer Dowm	Australia	4.60
192. The Colony	Audrey Magee	Ireland	4.70
193. 2066	Roberto Bolaño	Chile	5.00
194. Small Things Like These	Claire Keegan	Ireland	4.00
195. The Passenger	Cormac McCarthy	USA	4.50
196. Birnam Wood	Eleanor Catton	New Zealand	4.30
197. Old God's Time	Sebastian Barry	Ireland	4.85
198. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids	Kenzaburō Ōe	Japan	4.25
199. Limberlost	Robbie Arnott	Australia	4.60
200. Inferno	Dante Alighieri	Italy	5.00
201. Time Shelter	Georgi Gospodinov	Bulgaria	4.30
202. The Truce	Mario Benedetti	Uruguay	4.65
203. Prophet Song	Paul Lynch	Ireland	4.50
204. Aliss at the Fire	Jon Fosse	Norway	5.00
205. Chai Time at the Cinnamon Gardens	Shankari Chandran	Australia	4.40
206. We Need New Names	NoViolet Bulawayo	Zimbabwe	4.75
207. The Years	Annie Ernaux	France	4.70
208. Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	USA	4.3/4.5
209. James	Percival Everett	USA	4.5/4.3
210. Glory	NoViolet Bulawayo	Zimbabwe	4.40
211. Manhattan Transfer	John Dos Passos	USA	4.70
212. Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut	USA	5.00
213. The Bee Sting	Paul Murray	Ireland	4.50
214. My Friends	Hisham Matar	Libya	4.50
215. Dusk	Robbie Arnott	Australia	4.45
216. The Heart in Winter	Kevin Barry	Ireland	4.90
217. Visitation	Jenny Erpenbeck	Germany

Welman Street Film Society

List of Films

Title	Director	Country
1. The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	USA
2. In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	USA
3. Padre Padrone	Taviani Bros.	Italy
4.Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	UK/USA
5. La Strada	Federico Fellini	Italy
6. La Regle Du Jeu	Jean Renoir	France
7. Amarcord	Federico Fellini	Italy
8. Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	USA
9. The Passenger	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
10. The Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
11. My Man Godfrey	Gregory LaCava	USA
12. Room at the Top	Jack Clayton	UK
13. Blazing Saddles	Mel Brooks	USA
14. Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders	Germany/France
15. Nashville	Robert Altman	USA
16. Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	USA
17. The Conformist	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy
18. King of Hearts	Philippe de Broca	France
19.M. Hulot’s Holiday	Jacques Tati	France
20. Grande Illusion	Jean Renoir	France
21.All About Eve	Joseph Mankiewicz	USA
22.Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick	USA
23.Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
24.The Trial	Orson Welles	France
25.Network	Sidney Lumet	USA

*First Welman St Film Festival*	*Director Theme - France*
26. Le Corbeau	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
27. Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
28. Les Diaboliques	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France

29. Eye of the Needle	Richard Marquand	UK
30.Breathless	Jean Luc Goddard	France
31.The Bedford Incident	James B. Harris	USA
32.Tabu	Miguel Gomes	Portugal
33. Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden


*Second Welman St Film Festival*	*National Theme - Italy*
34. Journey in Italy	Roberto Rosselini	Italy
35. Il Divo	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
36. Marriage Italian Style	Vittorio de Sica	Italy

37. North By Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	USA

*Third Welman St Film Festival*	*Genre Theme- International Heist/Caper Films of the 1950s*
38. The Killing	Stanley Kubrick	USA
39. The Lavender Hill Mob	Charles Crichton	UK
40. Rififi	Jules Dassin	France
41. Big Deal on Madonna Street	Mario Monicelli	Italy

42. Death in Venice	Luchino Visconti	Italy
43. Don't Look Now	Nicholas Roeg	UK/Italy
44. The Roundup	Miklos Janczo	Hungary
45. Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks	USA
46. Tender Mercies	Bruce Beresford	USA
47. Lilies of the Field	Ralph Nelson	USA
48. A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson	France
49. Shane	George Stevens	USA
50. The Angels' Share	Ken Loach	UK
51. A Touch of Evil	Orson Welles	USA
52. Ivan's Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky	Russia
53. Room	Lenny Abrahamson	Canada
54. Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu	Japan
55. Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder	USA
56. Andrei Rublev	Andrei Tarkovsky	Russia
57. Broken Circle Breakdown	Felix Van Groeningen	Belgium
58. Locke	Steven Knight	UK
59. Silent Wedding	Horatiu Malaele	Romania
60. Annie Hall	Woody Allen	USA
61. Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger	USA
62. The Olive Tree	Iciar Bollain	Spain
63. Places in the Heart	Robert Benton	USA
64. Walkabout	Nicolas Roeg	Australia
65. The Hustler	Robert Rossen	USA
66. Elektra	Michael Cacoyannis	Greece
67. Gaslight	George Cukor	USA
68. The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	New Zealand
69. Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	USA
70. Burn	Gillo Pontecorvo	Italy
71. Dean Spanley	Toa Fraser	UK/NZ
72. In a Lonely Place	Nicholas Ray	USA
73. Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick	USA
74. Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy

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