#Arthur Jacobson

[fayestardust]

Painting of Sam Rosenthal as Arthur Jacobson in Masters of the Air. What an amazing experience that must have been for him.

[kalinara]

Dream Movie

It's the Dream Show challenge again! This time, it's a movie! I hope you enjoy it!

The Marvelous Ms. Marbell

Quick Synopsis:

Sweet elderly Ms. Mary Marbell has quite the reputation for solving murders. But when an unpleasant business man with more money than sense, and more enemies than either, is found dead in his office, Ms. Marbell's investigation takes on some interesting complications.

Annette Badland - Ms. Mary Marbell, amateur detective extraordinaire. But does she have some secrets of her own?

Annie Murphy - Nicole Fletcher, Ms. Marbell's trusted aide. Ms. Marbell has the sharpest of minds, but she isn't exactly adept at wiggling through windows or creeping into closets. So when the investigation requires a bit more physical legwork, young Nikki is happy to oblige.

Elden Henson - Detective Jack Winchell, the investigating officer. He's never worked with Ms. Marbell before, and he's quite skeptical of her reputation. At least until he sees her results.

Michael Shanks - Darren Holt - Our victim. An entirely disagreeable fellow who any number of kind, simple folk would love to see dead. But who could have done it? And why duct tape?

Jeff Goldblum - Aaron Jacobson - One of many potential suspects, but the one with the most recognizable face. He lost a lot of money due to one of Darren Holt's shady business deals. He also made his fortune in hardware, particularly duct tape. Could he perhaps be the murderer?

Sonequa Martin-Green - Tara Mars - An American blogger and investigator who has teamed up with a like-minded British counterpart. Ms. Marbell once proved her father guilty of murder, but Tara still has questions.

John Boyega - Stephen Smith - A British blogger and investigator. He's been following Ms. Marbell's exploits for years, and he thinks he's started noticing a few concerning patterns.

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Full Synopsis:

Businessman Darren Holt has been murdered and Ms. Marbell is on the case. Despite the skepticism of her new "partner", Detective Winchell, Ms. Marbell thorough and gentle examination of witnesses and evidence soon bring results, and Aaron Jacobson is arrested for the crime.

But that's when Tara Mars and Stephen Smith show up, with a lot of questions. While Ms. Marbell has been investigating murders, they've been investigating Ms. Marbell and they've come up with one heck of an alternate theory for the crimes.

Is Ms. Marbell simply a brilliant, yet underestimated, amateur detective? Or is SHE the murderer, carefully choosing the most unlikable, distasteful victims so that she can send her real targets to prison instead?

Complicating the investigation is the discovery that Stephen Smith and Nicole Fletcher had once been very close friends in their shared Ms. Marbell fandom.

Ultimately, the murderer is revealed to be Nicole Fletcher. She'd long admired Ms. Marbell, and as the elderly sleuth's reputation began to fade, she'd taken it upon herself to provide new cases. She's imprisoned, Aaron Jacobson is set free, and a devastated Ms. Marbell returns to her sad, empty home.

In the coda, Ms. Marbell is visited by her long estranged grandson, Philip (as played by Arthur Darvill). As they enjoy the fresh air, she notices a very angry fellow shouting at the women on the street. "That one next," she tells her grandson, who nods solemnly as they continue their pleasant walk.

Bonus:

[mastersoftheair]

(reminder: sam rosenthal, rosie rosenthal's grandson, will also be in the show, playing lt. arthur jacobson)

[zablife]

I Have OCs???

Feeling jealous of my lovely moots for having such amazing OCs when my dumbass just realized I've created EIGHT!!!

❧Talia Solomons-Alfie's wife from the one shot Crossing the Line

❧Evelyn "Evie" Tolbert-Arthur's love interest in the series Dark Games

❧Mary Roberts-Finn's wife from the one shot Welcome to the Family

❧Scarlett Shelby-Tommy's sister and Jack's love interest in the series Little Harlot

❧Louise "Lou" Frasier-Jack's mistress in the series White Picket Chemtrails

❧Elizabeth Nelson-Jack's wife in the series White Picket Chemtrails

❧Emma Jacobson-John's love interest and Tommy's wife in the one shot The Reunion

❧Martha Warren-John's fiance in the one shot My Martha

[kheelcenter]

On this day in 1954 organizer Arthur Jacobson stood outside of James Knitting Mills in Brooklyn, NY urging all workers, new and old, to join the Knitgoods Workers Union, also known as Local 155, International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

Collection 5780/054 Local 155 records consist primarily of correspondence of Louis Nelson, the manager of Local 155 from 1930-1995, as well as tracks the activities of the Local through articles, speeches, and other materials.

[doitinanotherlanguage]

May 2023: My Plan for the 1940s

(You can read more about the Reading Through the Decades reading challenge on my post introducing the challenge. Basically, it’s a year-long reading challenge where we read books - and explore other media - from the 1900s to the 2020s, decade-by-decade.)

Here’s a list of the things I’ve got my eye on for this month:

📖 Gone to Soldiers (1987), Marge Piercy 🎬 Coming Out Under Fire (1994), dir. Arthur Dong 📺 Transatlantic (2023), created by Anna Winger & Daniel Hendler 📺 The Plot Against America (2020), created by David Simon & Ed Burns 📖 The Last Days of New Paris (2016), China Miéville 🎬 明���幾時有 (2017; Our Time Will Come), dir. Ann Hui 🎬 无名 (2023; Hidden Blade), dir. Cheng Er 📺 The Forgotten Army – Azaadi Ke Liye (2020), created by Kabir Khan 📺 A League of Their Own (2022-), created by Will Graham & Abbi Jacobson 🎬 El laberinto del fauno (2006; Pan’s Labyrinth), dir. Guillermo del Toro 🎬 Dom över död man (2012; The Last Sentence), dir. Jan Troell 🎬 Mijn beste vriendin Anne Frank (2022; My Best Friend Anne Frank), dir. Ben Sombogaart 📖 Kätilö (2011; The Midwife), Katja Kettu 🎬 Kätilö (2015; Wildeye), dir. Antti J. Jokinen 📖 Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Kurt Vonnegut 🎬 Дылда (2019; Beanpole), dir. Kantemir Balagov 🎬 Oma maa (2018; Land of Hope), dir. Markku Pölönen 📺 Vår tid är nu (2017-2020, Our Time Is Now / The Restaurant) 📖 Dialektik der Aufklärung (1947; Dialectic of Enlightenment), Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno 📖 Le Deuxième sexe (1949; The Second Sex), Simone de Beauvoir

[oldshowbiz]

Arthur Jacobson, the assistant director on Madame Butterfly (1932), recalled that the racist yellowface make-up applied to actress Sylvia Sidney nearly scarred her for life: 

“In Madame Butterfly, they pulled back and stuck tape on the corner of her eyes to make her look Japanese. It pulled the skin away, and in order to keep shooting they covered the skin with medication and makeup. By the time the picture was finished her skin was very sore, and I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if that had affected her in later years.”

[an-illusion99]

He’s our little prodigy

(The Prodigy 2019), dir. Nicholas McCarthy

[dovebuffy92]

Spoilers Below

The Gilded Age Season 1, created and written by Julian Fellowes, is an entertaining historical drama that wrestles with gender, class, and race. The period drama takes place in 1882 New York City, documenting the fight between new money, a.k.a. the Russell family, and old money represented mainly by the van Rhijn-Brook family. Matriarch Agnes van Rhjin (Christine Baranski) desires to keep the status quo of high society only consisting of those with generational wealth. But, at the same time, the younger Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) uses her husband’s money and intelligence to move up in the world.

While this series doesn’t fit within the realm of radical social commentary, it partly deals with feminism since it’s the women with a lot of societal power. Peggy Scott (Denee Benton), the young upper-middle-class Black writer, pushes the boundaries of her race and gender to gain a position as a reporter at a Black-owned newspaper. The Gilded Age shows that some 19th century Black New Yorkers were business owners and professionals but doesn’t negate the struggles they all went through because of racism.

Similar to Fellowes’ Downton, Abby, this series also shows the life of the “downstairs.” However, uniquely The Gilded Age explores both the Russell and the Rhijn-Brooke household staff. Along with reveling in the all of white New York city elite rather than just one British-based estate. In this way, The Gilded Age feels like a portrait of late 1800s East Coast “blue blood” society.

Feminism in The Gilded Age Season 1

Julian Fellowes doesn’t usually write political pieces, and The Gilded Age Season 1 doesn’t appear to be the exception. However, there is a bit of a feminist bent to the series. In most cases, the women have the ultimate authority in their households.

The most prominent example is Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon), whose husband, robber baron George Russell (Morgan Spector), ruffles the feathers of the “blue blood” business world. Bertha acts as the foremost authority in her household, deciding everything from moving into an elaborate Stanford White-designed mansion across the street from snobby socialite Agnes to when her daughter Gladys Russell (Taissa Farmiga) comes out to society.

George sees Bertha as his equal partner in taking New York city society by storm and becoming one of the wealthiest families in the United States. He doesn’t even attempt to control her. All the older women in The Gilded Age series are powerhouses who don’t bow down to anybody.

The younger women in this historical drama bend the rules of society even further. Agnes’ niece Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) wants to work, but her aunts forbid her from seeking employment. Instead, Marian volunteers at numerous non-profits. If a socialite can’t work, she wants to help people. She speaks up for Bertha and Sylvia Chamberlain (Jeanne Tripplehorn), who are denied charity board seats.

Marian can’t fathom that a couple of scandals can keep somebody from doing good, especially if they are willing to donate lots of money. Sylvia’s affair with her now-deceased husband (when he was still married to his first wife) makes her a social pariah. Bertha’s only crime is being born into a middle-class household. She befriends the women against Agnes’ orders forming solid friendships.

Marian refuses to buy into the new verse old money battles. She sees everybody as an equal who should not be judged by petty standards like original class or profession.

Race and Womanhood

Peggy revolts against society’s constraints based on her race and gender. Against her father Arthur Scott’s (John Douglas Thompson) wishes, Peggy moves into the servant quarters of the van Rhijn-Brook mansion to work as Agnes’ secretary.

She needs the income to further her writing career, but Arthur wants his daughter to work for him at his pharmacy. He believes that women can’t make a living through writing. Arthur and her mother, Dorothy Scott (Audra McDonald), know that even upper-middle-class Black women can’t thrive in white society. Agnes could live in relative luxury at home with a maid who waits on her. Even with her education, Agnes lives downstairs with the van Rhijn-Brook servants, unable to enter her new residence through the front door.

She writes everything from articles to poems. She gains employment as a political reporter at The New York Globe, a prominent African American newspaper. Important people like the founder of The Red Cross, Clarissa Harlowe Barton (Linda Emond), treat Peggy with respect during their interviews.

Along with the fact, Marian and she form a genuine though complicated friendship. They listen to and help each other throughout the first season. Fellowes reveals the hidden history of New York, proving that some Black educated men and women gained real wealth by the late 1880s.

Racism in East Coast

Fellowes doesn’t pretend racism didn’t exist in America’s East Coast during that decade. Some van Rhijn-Brook household servants don’t even want to eat with a Black woman. The editor at The Christian Advocate refuses to publish one of Peggy’s short stories unless they can keep her identity as a Black woman secret.

White Southern readers might cancel their subscriptions if The Christian Advocate openly publishes an author of color. Even one of her closest friends, Marian, whose relatively progressive, attempts to be a white savior. She makes some racist assumptions about the Scott household. Marian brings some used boots to Peggy’s family home, believing that all Black people must be poor.

The fact that the Scott residence is quite large and luxurious shocks, Marian. Even an educated elite Black woman can’t fully integrate herself into white upper crest New York society.

Last Thoughts

The Gilded Age Season 1 is a fun, entertaining watch with some light social commentary for those who love Downton Abby or historical dramas in general. The creative team does a brilliant job creating costumes, styling hairs, and forming The Gilded Age’s art design in what appears to a novice as period accurate. In addition, both Fellowes, the directors, and the actors like Cynthia Nixon, who performs as Agnes’ sister Ada Brook, masterfully creates a way of speaking that transports audiences back in time.

So, what do you think of Julian Fellowes’ first significant foray into American television? Let us know in the comments below.

[graceofgosh]

Holmes concluded his argument by citing Jacobson v. Massachusetts as a precedent for the decision, stating "Three generations of imbeciles are enough".[18][19] The sole dissenter in the court, Justice Pierce Butler, a devout Catholic,[20] did not write a dissenting opinion.

Carrie Buck was operated upon, receiving a compulsory salpingectomy (a form of tubal ligation). She was later paroled from the institution as a domestic worker to a family in Bland, Virginia. She was an avid reader until her death in 1983. Her daughter Vivian had been pronounced "feeble minded" after a cursory examination by ERO field worker Dr. Arthur Estabrook.[9] According to his report, Vivian "showed backwardness",[9] thus the "three generations" of the majority opinion. It is worth noting that the child did very well in school for the two years that she attended (she died of complications from measles in 1932), even being listed on her school's honor roll in April 1931.[9]

[power-chords]

Who wants to tell Joseph Arthur about Jacobson v. Massachusetts?

[kwebtv]

For All Mankind  -  Apple +  -  November 1, 2019  -  Present

Science Fiction (10 episodes to date)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Joel Kinnaman as Edward Baldwin

Michael Dorman as Gordo Stevens

Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison

Sarah Jones as Tracy Stevens

Shantel VanSanten as Karen Baldwin

Jodi Balfour as Ellen Waverly/Ellen Wilson

Historical figures

Chris Agos as Buzz Aldrin

Matt Battaglia as John Glenn

Chris Bauer as Deke Slayton

Jeff Branson as Neil Armstrong

Dan Donohue as Thomas O. Paine

Colm Feore as Wernher von Braun

Ryan Kennedy as Michael Collins

Eric Ladin as Gene Kranz

Steven Pritchard as Pete Conrad

Rebecca Wisocky as Marge Slayton

Ben Begley as Charlie Duke

Recurring

Tait Blum as Shane Baldwin

Arturo Del Puerto as Octavio Rosales

Noah Harpster as Bill Strausser

Krys Marshall as Danielle Poole

Tracy Mulholland as Gloria Sedgewick

Dave Power as Astronaut Frank Sedgewick

Mason Thames as Danny Stevens

Olivia Trujillo as Aleida Rosales

Sonya Walger as Molly Cobb

Meghan Leathers as Pam Horton

Wallace Langham as Harold Weisner

Nate Corddry as Larry Wilson

Leonora Pitts as Irene Hendricks

Dan Warner as General Arthur Weber

Lenny Jacobson as Wayne Cobb

[mastersoftheair]

matt gavan as captain charles b. cruikshank (which solves that cruikshank ask once and for all!)

ian bouillion as (possibly) technical sergeant william e. charlton (his cv specifies a “lieutenant charlton”, but there’s only two guys named charlton in the 100th, and only one has any information about him)

louis hoffmann as (possibly) second lieutenant ulrich haussmann (who you can read more about here, here, and here in lieu of a complete bio for him. he was an interrogator at stalag luft iii)

sam rosenthal as lieutenant arthur l. jacobson (he’s, afaik, the only “a. jacobson” there is here)

branden cook as lieutenant colonel alexander jefferson (still alive at the age of 100! he was also a pow at stalag luft iii, which gives an idea of what his episode may be like)

there’s also alexander hartmann playing a luftwaffe sergeant and max themak is playing an ss lieutenant foreman.

[chiseler]

ATOMIC BILL

On August 9, 1945, when the B-29 known as Bockscar dropped an atom bomb on Nagasaki, a civilian named William Laurence gazed out a window of the observation plane flying beside it. He later described the immense column of smoke and fire after the explosion as "a living thing, a new species of being, born right before our incredulous eyes," a "flowerlike form, its giant petals curving downward, creamy white outside, rose-colored inside." He did not mention that this flowerlike creature had just obliterated some 75,000 human beings.

Laurence wasn't just any civilian. He was the science writer for the New York Times. Through a top secret arrangement between Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger and the Manhattan Project's General Leslie Groves the previous spring, Laurence was the only journalist in the world allowed inside the atomic bomb program. Sulzberger agreed that nothing Laurence wrote would appear in public until the government had cleared it for viewing. He further agreed that whatever the Times did eventually print would be distributed free to other newspapers. This made the New York Times the world's first source for insider information on the bomb – and, as it turned out, one of the government's principle conduits for disseminating propaganda and even outright lies about it.

William Laurence was not born William Laurence. He was born Leib Wolf Siew in Lithuania, in 1888, in a shtetl where he studied the Talmud and learned to read English, German and Russian. At 17, he avoided conscription into the Czar's army by hiding in a pickle barrel that was shipped to Germany. When he sailed into New York harbor in 1905 the only English he knew was the Shakespeare he'd read. He went on to Harvard, renaming himself William for Shakespeare and Laurence for a street he lived on.

In the mid-1920s he moved to New York City, and in 1930 the Times hired him as one of the first science writers in an American newspaper. That June he wrote a full-page article, "The Quest of Science for an Atomic Energy," a full eight years before the first atom was split. From then on he was such an enthusiastic and awe-struck booster for the potential of atomic energy that he was nicknamed "Atomic Bill" by fellow writers. In early 1939 he was as excited as any physicist to hear that nuclear fission had been achieved. He wrote numerous articles that year and into the spring of 1940 about it. Then the government clamped the lid on press about atomic research. Laurence wouldn't write about it again in the Times until after Nagasaki.

Laurence's "119 days behind the atomic curtain," as he called it, was a dream job. He happily wrote reports for Washington and even press releases for Groves, "in effect functioning as the Manhattan Project's public-relations man," as historian Paul Boyer puts it. He was at the successful Trinity test in July. In his article about it, not published in the Times until September 26, he wrote, "One felt as though he had been privileged to witness the Birth of the World – to be present at the moment of Creation when the Lord said: Let there be light." In a very long article, he scarcely mentioned that it was also a moment of destruction, and made only a fleeting, offhand reference to radioactive fallout.

He went to Tinian, where the Enola Gay took off to bomb Hiroshima on August 6, but was not allowed on that flight. His long report on the Nagasaki bombing started on the front page of the Times on Sunday, September 9, a week after Japan had formally surrendered. He only mentions the city's doomed civilians once, when he recalls musing on the flight from Tinian toward Japan, "Does one feel any pity or compassion for the poor devils about to die? Not when one thinks of Pearl Harbor and of the Death March on Bataan." He describes Fat Man, the plutonium bomb that smashed the city, as "a thing of beauty to behold."

In the days and weeks after the two bombs were dropped, the government made a special effort to deny the effects or even the existence of radioactive fallout. Americans were encouraged to think of the atomic bomb as just a bigger version of conventional explosives, not a new terror weapon that spread lingering death and disease. This made it easier for voters to accept that the bombings in Japan were justified, and to acquiesce to the future testing on American soil that the government planned to conduct.

Laurence and the New York Times were major collaborators in this deception. The Times ran 132 bomb-related items in the first five days after Hiroshima. Only one of them mentioned the dangers of radioactivity – and then only to refute them. This was in response to an International News Service article that appeared in many newspapers around the country on August 7 and 8. It was written by a Columbia physicist, Dr. Harold Jacobson, who had spent two years, in what he admitted was a "minor official capacity," on the Manhattan Project. Jacobson said that the levels of radiation in and around Hiroshima were so high that anyone entering the city was "committing suicide," and predicted the city would remain "a devastated area not unlike our conception of the moon for nearly three quarters of a century." Rainfall would "pick up the deadly rays" and carry them into rivers and seas, killing all the creatures in the water.

The official reaction was immediate and harsh. On August 8, both the War Department and the Manhattan Project's J. Robert Oppenheimer issued statements categorically refuting Jacobson. After being grilled by FBI agents for hours that day, reportedly "ill and upset by the furor his article had engendered," Jacobson issued a statement in which he effectively recanted. The Times article, which ran on August 9, bore the headline "70-Year Effect of Bombs Denied."

On September 12 the Times published Laurence's "U.S. Atom Bomb Site Belies Tokyo Tales," with the subhead "Tests on New Mexico Range Confirm That Blast, and Not Radiation, Took Toll." Groves and Oppenheimer led Laurence and a carefully selected group of other newsmen into the Trinity site, where Geiger counters barely ticked, proving to Laurence that residual radiation at the site was "down to a minute quantity, safe for continuous human habitation." Claims of radiation poisoning at Hiroshima, Laurence wrote, were "Japanese propaganda… attempting to create sympathy for themselves."

It wasn't until almost a year later, in the August 31, 1946 issue of the New Yorker, that Americans began to get a truer, fuller idea of the bombs' impact from John Hersey's "Hiroshima."

Unlike Oppenheimer, William Laurence never seemed to entertain second thoughts about atomic weapons. He continued to write enthusiastically about the potentials of atomic energy, and in 1956 he was in the press corps for a hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok in the Pacific. That year he was promoted to science editor, a position he held into the 1960s. He died in 1977 at the age of 89.

Further reading: Paul Boyer's By the Bomb’s Early Light; Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

by John Strausbaugh

[creepy-crowleys]

--------------------------- Orochi Group: Manticore Research Group ---------------------------

Please select inquiry  -- Research Log --

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-- Research Log -- 

Please select entry  -- My greatest work --  -- Success! --

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-- My greatest work --

We've finally received funding to upgrade our research. With granted permission to begin my newly designed research program, I can now focus on a way to gain control of the filth infected. This will be my greatest contribution to Orochi and all humanity. If only I can get my colleagues to focus on their duties and deliver more efficient and effective results, the process would progress at more desirable rates. 

In the meantime, I will continue my research in splicing elements of the filth infected with tech received from Manticore Labs. So far, the results have been more than promising and nothing shy of intriguing.

-- Success! --

Success! 

We have finally made the scientific breakthrough we have been waiting for. Filth specimens, through our experimentation, have begun to exude barriers around them — making them more resilient than our previous efforts. The infected have begun to adapt themselves to the infused essences and technology in the most unforeseen way, becoming exceedingly difficult to control and to terminate. 

The results are fascinating. All available weapons have proven to be ineffective against these newly enhanced infected. This has required me to contact my colleague, Dr. Arthur Jacobson from Anansi, and request his team to create a proper method to dispose of these new creatures. 

Until we receive such a method, the enhanced subjects have been corralled and locked away in our central storage space. My colleagues and I have taken all precautions to ensure the storage space will be strong enough to contain them. This should give Dr. Arthur Jacobson the time he needs to fulfill my request.

[cvioletdreamer]

Here are the top 100 books from 2019 voted by New Zealanders in NZ if you need some recommendations!

Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Bronze Horseman Paullina Simons

Educated by Tara Westover

Dr Libby’s Women’s Wellness Wisdom by Dr Libby Weaver

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Jack Reacher: Past Tense by Lee Child

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

Kingsbridge by Ken Follett

The Bible

Big Little Lies: Season 2 by Liane Moriarty

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*** by Mark Manson

Millennium by Stieg Larsson

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Mythos by Stephen Fry

Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Normal People by Sally Rooney

My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Note Through the Wire by Doug Gold

The Women in the Window by A. J. Finn

The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley

A Year at Hotel Gondola by Nicky Pellegrino

The Nighingale by Kristin Hannah

1984 by George Orwell

Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

It by Stephen King

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Riftwar Cycle: The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

War Cry by Wilbur Smith

Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor Towles

Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz

The Passage by Justin Cronin

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Beauty Guide by Dr Libby Weaver

The Martian by Andy Weir

Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Robert Langdon: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

The Choice by Edith Eger

The Dry by Jane Harper

Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and Karen Thompson Walker

Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Russel T. Davies

The Break by Marian Keyes

Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Edmonds Cookery Book by Goodman Fielder

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tony Tanner

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Howard Jacobson

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Jessica by Bryce Courtenay

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Hopefully this helps some people and apologies if there are any spelling mistakes etc

Here’s the link to the list if you want it: https://www.whitcoulls.co.nz/collection/top-100