Which LIST book did you just start? Showing 2,101-2,150 of 7,241

[Nikki]

just starting JRR Tolkiens Fellowship of the ring

[Nicola]

I've started Cranford, which is about women behaving so correctly it's terrible and Bel-Ami which is about a bad man behaving so incorrectly it's likewise.

[Kirsten]

I've just started reading Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, the story of Mr Rochester's mad wife.

[Jim]

Good afternoon!

Just started the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

Jim

[Casey]

I've just started reading Uncle Tom's Cabin for my book club where I make people read through this list ;)
I'm really enjoying the style and writing so far even thought it's a rough subject matter!

[Nicola]

Now that I've finished Cranford I'm listening to Gilead.

[Elizabeth]

The Black Prince I really like Iris Murdock's writing. Easy to read, enjoyable plots.

[Nicola]

Saturday - My 4th? Ian McEwan book. I've mostly enjoyed the others.

[Nicola]

I've also started A Severed Head - my first Iris Murdoch.

[Mia]

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith and The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.

[Tom]

Started Jane Eyre

[Dree]

I started The Blind Owl, and am struggling to get through the introduction. I often skip intros to American and British novels because I have read widely from those countries, know a fair amount of history, etc. I know very little about Iran and Persian history and nothing of this author, but UGH this intro is pretentious, exhausting, and long. Th book itself has got to be better.

[Nicola]

Dree wrote: "I started The Blind Owl, and am struggling to get through the introduction. I often skip intros to American and British novels because I have read widely from those countries, know a f..."

I never read intro's myself, at least not at the start of the book. The number of times I've seen spoilers in them... Especially for other books. I guess they don't think it counts if they blurt out crucial plot points for other novels the author has written if it isn't actually the one you are currently holding.

[Alia]

Still on The Golden Notebook

[Karina]

I didn't realize Lost Illusions by de Balzac was on the list. I finished the first two parts, and on to part three. I thought it was going to be a boring read, but I've gotten into it!

[Mia]

I just started Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

[Peter]

Just started Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

[Nicola]

Middlesex - I need a nice normal book after reading A Severed Head!

[Mia]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick and Some Experiences of an Irish R.M by Edith Somerville.

[Dree]

Started The Sorrows of Young Werther. Reading this in Serial Reader, so about 18 more days!

[Laura]

I've just started reading The Bell by Iris Murdoch as it was highly recommended by my Mum, seems intriguing so far...

[Kirsten]

Laura wrote: "I've just started reading The Bell by Iris Murdoch as it was highly recommended by my Mum, seems intriguing so far..."

Love Murdoch's writing.

[Nicola]

Fight Club - I'm about a 5th of the way through, enough to know that the movie was a fantastic adaption. It captured the feeling of the novel perfectly.

[Diane]

Started The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble.

[Mia]

I started Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

[Nicola]

The Mysteries of Udolpho - After reading Northanger Abbey for the umptenth time I decided it was finally time to read this as well!

[Laura]

Started Disgrace by JM Coetzee, I'm totally sailing through it

[Laura]

Started Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier, only 1 chapter in but it seems good already, im excited to read this as it has such a high goodreads score & im a massive Hitchcock fan

[Sarah]

Just started A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne. It may be the perfect complement to The Professor by Charlotte Brontë. The latter is a side read that I'm reading to complete the canon.

[Diane]

Starting Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind.

[Emy]

I just started in The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

[Nicola]

Things Fall Apart and Brideshead Revisited

[Sarah]

Starting Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

[Mia]

Rites of Passage by William Golding and The Underdogs: Pictures and Scenes from the Present Revolution: a Translation of Mariano Azuela's Los De Abajo, With Related Texts by Mariano Azuela.

[Nicola]

Mia wrote: "Rites of Passage by William Golding and [book:The Underdogs: Pictures and Scenes from the Present Revolution: a Translation of Mariano Azuela's Los De Abajo, With Related ..."

Cricky that's a long title!

[Dree]

Have started Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

[Kirsten]

I recently started Casino Royale

[Mia]

I'm reading Rites of Passage by Golding and I'm not really liking it, so I started Summer by Edith Wharton.

[Sarah]

Started The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[Diane]

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[Sarah]

Starting The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë.

[Emy]

I started in Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. So far so good.

[Kirsten]

Sarah wrote: "Starting The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë."

I love that one! Deserves a better reputation than it has!

[Diane]

Contact by Carl Sagan.

[Kirsten]

Diane wrote: "Contact by Carl Sagan."

Excellent book, but I do wonder why it's on the list. But you won't be sorry to read it.

[Dree]

Started The English Patient. I am going to struggle with this one. At least it's under 300 pages!

[Kirsten]

Dree - why are you struggling? I haven't read it yet, am interested what makes it difficult for you.

[Dree]

It is overly descriptive yet nothing happens. An entire page about drawing a hopscotch game and then jumping through. One person going one time. YAWN!

[Nicola]

Dree wrote: "It is overly descriptive yet nothing happens. An entire page about drawing a hopscotch game and then jumping through. One person going one time. YAWN!"

Yes it left me cold. Great writing, but it bored the socks off of me.

[Nicola]

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - The first section with the 3 wise men was a trial but it's improved a little now we are past that very tedious introduction.

I'm also finally reading Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy after putting it off for about a year.