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As members discuss different authors, I will update post #1. I’m really looking forward to hearing everyone’s discussions and finding new books and authors!


Completed: 6/10
*- Currently Reading
*1. Gabriel García Márquez- Finish One Hundred Years of Solitude
✅2. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
3. Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, After the Fireworks
*4. Thomas Mann - Finish The Magic Mountain
*5. Alexandre Dumas - Finish The Count of Monte Cristo
✅6.H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
✅7. Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
✅8. S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
✅9. Kenneth Grahame - The Reluctant Dragon
✅10. Author of choice: Arthur C Clarke - Dolphin Island and Rendezvous with Rama
Some maybes:
*Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Willa Cather - O Pioneers!
Ayn Rand - We the Living
Vladimir Nabokov
author:Franz Kafka|5223] - The Trial, The Castle



Awesome! I hope you enjoy it! I have the Spanish ebook edition checked out but I may not get too far, maybe 1 chapter! I'm going to start with Carpenter's The Lost Steps and try to find the English edition of The Kingdom of This World.

Julietta - That sounds interesting, especially if you can read it in French, but this thread is just for Latin American classics. Although, if a poet is from Haiti or another Latin American country, that works for this thread! We do have a thread under Authors from Around the World called 2022 December Charles Baudelaire/Poetry Month which would be an ideal place to discuss poetry from all parts of the world. Also, under Let's Chat a Moment, there is a thread to discuss any classics you are reading.

Read:
Brave New World - Nov 2021- 3.5 stars
Currently Reading:
Island
Want to read:
Crome Yellow
Those Barren Leaves
Antic Hay
The Crows of Pearblossom - children's picture book
Maybe:
Eyeless in Gaza
Ape and Essence
The Burning Wheel and Leda - poetry

I just read Brave New World this year but I'm willing to reread it. I would like to read Island, his last novel and Crome Yellow, his first novel. I'm also fine with Those Barren Leaves. It might be interesting to compare how his writing changed over the years.
I suggest January 15 - April 15. How about reading them in the order they were published: Crome Yellow, Those Barren Leaves, Brave New World, and Island? Is 3 weeks between each book long enough, with other reads we have going on? After that, if people are still interested in his works, we can choose more books or just read and discuss as we go.
Yes, I agree with the spoiler coding! Sometimes I'm afraid to read these types of threads because of possible spoilers, same with forwards to books and book reviews.

Welcome Julietta to the group! I'm so glad you will be participating in the Latin American buddy read AND that you read in Spanish. That will allow you to possibly read some additional titles that our English readers don't have access to. Do you have a favorite Latin American author?



I suggest we start it on Jan 1 and keep it open for the year. What do you think? He has plenty of books to choose from.

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories by Nikolai Leskov 421 pp
Total added: 805 pp
Group Total: 690,306 pp


Sandy- I’m flexible so whatever you decide is fine w me. Thank you for the archives link. I wasn’t familiar with that source. SimplyE is similar but there’s no time limit for the checkout. They are free open source books through the NY Public Library. They have some unusual ones and a lot of short reads. Lots of sci-fi stories which were published in the old sci-fi magazines. I like that they have broad categories/genres to choose from.