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[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text by Mary Shelley. It's incredible that she was only 19 when she started it and just 21 when it was published.

I thought that I had read this years and years ago, but so much of it seems unfamiliar to me that I must have started but never finished it. I like it quite a bit--the edition I have has made me think a lot more about it than I probably would have normally, and I'm very surprised at how deep it actually is.

[Tyler]

Started Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.

[Alice]

Finished The Island of Doctor Moreau and started The Invisible Man. Both by HG Wells

[Diane]

Mercedes wrote: "The Maltese Falcon

I think this one's on the list, yes?"

Yes :)

[Diane]

Started War with the Newts by Karel Čapek.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

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

[Sarah]

Started Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

[Diane]

Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.

[Meg]

Started 'The House of Mirth' (Edith Wharton) last night. Lily Bart reminds me strongly of Becky Sharp from 'Vanity Fair'. I think they'd get on like a house on fire!

[Mia]

Oronooko: The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams.

[Alice]

Finished The Invisible Man, on to The War of the Worlds, both by HG Wells

[George P.]

Started The Ogre (or Le Roi des Aulnes) by by Michel Tournier of France a few days ago. I think the French title means "The Elfking". It was a short-lived list book- in the original edition of Boxall, dropped from the '08 edition.

[Jess]

I've finally worked myself up to tackle War and Peace. I read for around 3 hours last night and am still on book 1. This is going to take a while but I'm really enjoying it.

[Genia]

It's surprisingly easy to read, in my experience, for what it is.

[Jess]

Yes I've heard that people can get bogged down by the amount of characters but I'm not finding it too difficult to keep them straight at the moment. Maybe it's because I'm a big Song of Ice and Fire fan!

The only time I've had a problem is when people are being referred to by a different name or title to how they were introduced but I'm coping fine.

[Diane]

The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin.

[Mia]

I started At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Jess wrote: "Yes I've heard that people can get bogged down by the amount of characters but I'm not finding it too difficult to keep them straight at the moment. Maybe it's because I'm a big Song of Ice and Fir..."

If you do find yourself forgetting, the Wikipedia article on the book has a chart of all the characters and their relationship to one another. Just don't read any of the synopsis, or you'll end up reading some spoilers.

[Mia]

I started The Call of the Wild by Jack London and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

[Alice]

Started Tono-Bungay by HG Wells, last Wells book on the list for me.

Also reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

[Peter]

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith.

[Diane]

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark.

[Grada (BoekenTrol)]

I started Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie today. I'm only a few hours in and I love it thus far.

[Diane]

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[Karina]

Starting July’s People by Nadine Gordimer

[Diane]

Randy wrote: "
The Secret History by Donna Tartt"

Loved that one.

[Diane]

Started The Charwoman's Daughter by James Stephens.

[Grada (BoekenTrol)]

Today I started reading The Reader by Bernard Schlink.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Diane wrote: "Randy wrote: "
The Secret History by Donna Tartt"

Loved that one."

No complaints so far. I should finish in a couple weeks.

[Mia]

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow and I started to listen The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[Diane]

Starting Jakob the Liar by Jurek Becker.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

[George P.]

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. This is my 2nd of his 4 Boxall list books (2 of which have been dropped).
It's a group read for the "Boxall's 1001 Books..." group for December.

[George P.]

Mia wrote: "The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow and I started to listen The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson."

They're both in my (next 300) to-read list.

[Diane]

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

[Pillsonista]

Mia wrote: "The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow and I started to listen The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson."

Oh man, I do love me some Augie March.

[Tatiana]

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

[Peter]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.

[Benjamin]

Began Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass . I have not been reading many list books as of late, as schoolwork has rendered me very busy, but finally, I have a relaxed weekend.

[Diane]

The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo.

[George P.]

Tipping the Velvet by Sara Waters. It's a group read for the "Reading 1001" group. I've read her novel Fingersmith, which I enjoyed.
Also, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.
So an old one and a newish one.

[Kirsten]

I love Tenant!!

[Hilde]

Ethan Frome, looking forward to this one.

[Tim]

The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier) - so far so wordy.

[Mia]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

[Diane]

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski.

[Grada (BoekenTrol)]

I just started reading If not Now, When? by Primo Levi. I like it and I'm curious where it's going to take me. I'm now in the Ukrain, August 1943.

[Alice]

Started Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

[Tyler]

Started Beloved and The Color Purple this week.