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Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments Invisible by Paul Auster. I'm pretty 'meh' about it at the half-way point.


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The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman which is by Polish author Andrzej Szczypiorski, and is in later editions of Boxall. Rather seldom-read. Short at 200pgs.


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Tim | 331 comments Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley


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Karina | 401 comments Just started Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote. The movie is also available on Netflix as an FYI


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Tim | 331 comments Neuromancer, by: William Gibson


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I'll start Good Morning, Midnight, which is in all editions of the list, tonight or tomorrow. Written by Jean Rhys, 1939.


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Tyler | 207 comments Started Death in Venice by Thomas Mann today. My first Mann novel from the list. Looking forward to it.


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Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments Auto-Da-Fe by Elias Canetti


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God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene (1960). It was added to Boxall list in 2008.


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Mia | 1222 comments I started Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.


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Tyler | 207 comments Started listening to The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt. I think that it is one of the newer editions to the list.


Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments Nostromo by Conrad. Soooo much better than The Secret Agent so far.


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Thomas Of Reading, a really old (1600) and seldom-read one that I was assigned by random. Added to Boxall in '08.


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Mia | 1222 comments I started to listen Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.


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Kirsten  (kmcripn) Mia wrote: "I started to listen Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad."

One of my favorites. I have a great audio edition narrated by Sir Kenneth Branagh.


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Mia | 1222 comments Kirsten wrote: "Mia wrote: "I started to listen Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad."

One of my favorites. I have a great audio edition narrated by Sir Kenneth Branagh."


I've heard from many people that's the best edition. Sadly I'm not listening that one but I'm still enjoying it a lot!


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Tim | 331 comments Dracula, by Bram Stoker


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Luís wrote: "Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson"

I read it last year and really enjoyed it. If you're lucky you have a copy with the Wyeth painting- illustrations.


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Started Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov.


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Rebecca (becstokes) A Tale of Two Cities
Little Women


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Nancy (nlgeorge) | 31 comments Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro


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Nancy (nlgeorge) | 31 comments Mia wrote: "The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind and I started to listen The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton."

Really liked this one. One of my favorites of Suskind's is Perfume.


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Karina | 401 comments To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf


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Peter | 443 comments Platform by Michel Houellebecq


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Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. I've read the first book (The Part About the Critics) and I'm really digging it so far.


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Luís wrote: "Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson...That's a bit different from the last book I've read of him: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ..."

I definitely want to read Jekyll and Hyde one of these days also.


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Just started A Ballad for Georg Henig by Paskov or Paskow of Bulgaria. I've heard it has the highest average Goodreads rating of any Boxall list book at 4.65. It seems to be rare in US libraries, but I was able to check out a copy from the state university library here (Utah).


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Peter | 443 comments Another World by Pat Barker.


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Ella (ellamc) This weekend my plan is to read the three Philip Marlowe books by Raymond Chandler, so I just finished The Big Sleep, and started Farewell, My Lovely. (I'm liking these, so I may not go straight to The Long Goodbye. I may take a detour through the series, assuming they stay as good as these first two.)


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Started On Beauty by Zadie Smith.


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Sarah (sarahbethie) | 438 comments Started Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.


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Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments Started L'Écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) by Boris Vian


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A few days ago I started Midaq Alley (1947) by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz of Egypt, and am enjoying it so far. It was a later addition to the List.


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