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[Sean]

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

[Leona]

Lianne (The Towering Pile) wrote: "RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I started reading Dashiell Hammett's final novel, the basis for a popular film series during the Great Depression:


[book:The Thin Man|..."

I love watching those old movies.

[Alice]

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

[Rose]

Franz Kafka's The Castle by Franz Kafka

[Karen]

Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year by Carlo Levi.

[Rose]

Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

[Diane]

The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese.

[Karina]

Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

[Pamela]

Wise Children by Angela Carter

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I started reading, for non-Will Smith-related-reasons:


I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Lianne (The Towering Pile) wrote: "I just watched The Thin Man as part of my 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die project! I really liked it. I'm thinking of reading the Dashiell Hammett books soon now."

Leona wrote: "I love watching those old movies."

I liked the book OK, but I hear the film is better. I'll have to check it out.

[James]

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

[Diane]

The Childermass by Wyndham Lewis.

[Bucket]

The Water Margin by Shi Nai'an

[Peter]

Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

[Karen]

Inside Mr. Enderby by Anthony Burgess

[Diane]

Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley

[Karen]

Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski

[George P.]

Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life by British philosophy professor Gillian Rose (who shares my initials- P is my middle name initial). A short one and her sole 1001 list book.

[Diane]

Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós.

[George P.]

Karen wrote: "Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski"

There was a very good movie made from this story in 1958 in Poland, dircted by Wajda. I liked it very much. It has the same title. It's listed in "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die".

[Nocturnalux]

The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

[Pamela]

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

[Dina]

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

[Mia]

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.

[Pamela]

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

[Peter]

White Noise by Don DeLillo

[Karen]

The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll

[Sean]

During the last few days I have started Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol...

...and Extinction by Thomas Bernhard.

[Rose]

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

[Dina]

The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino

[Karen]

Sean wrote: "During the last few days I have started Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol...

...and Extinction by Thomas Bernhard."

Extinction is a hard one!! Good luck!

[Mia]

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.

[Sean]

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Pamela]

Persuasion by Jane Austen

[George P.]

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy. This will complete the (4) 1001 list Tolstoy books for me.

[Peter]

Under the Skin by Michel Faber

[George P.]

I also started Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, another old "core" novel.

[Mia]

The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke.

[Pamela]

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa

[Sean]

Independent People by Halldór Laxness

[Nocturnalux]

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

[Mia]

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.

[Rose]

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

[Alice]

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

[Peter]

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

[Nocturnalux]

Silas Marner by George Eliot

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I started reading my first Tolstoy


The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

[James]

The Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

[Sean]

Karen wrote: "Sean wrote: "During the last few days I have started Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol...

...and Extinction by Thomas Bernhard."

[book:Extinctio..."

It actually wasn't too bad. As long as I didn't have anything on my mind. Took more breaks from it than usual.