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Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments Mémoires d'Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar


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Mia | 1222 comments I started to listen The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley.


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Peter | 443 comments In the Forest by Edna O'Brien


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Mia wrote: "Kukkaanpuhkeavien tyttöjen varjossa 2: Paikannimet: paikkakunta by Marcel Proust. Fourth book from "In Search of Lost Time"."

A much more impressive title than the English Within a Budding Grove, Part 2.


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Mercedes wrote: "Invisible Man by Ellison... what a first chapter!"

A remarkable novel- hope you like it- I did!


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Started The Magus by John Fowles, via e-audiobook read by Nicholas Boulton.


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Peter | 443 comments Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan


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Peter | 443 comments Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett


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Alice Yoder | 468 comments The Idiot by Dostoevsky.


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Deborah Bloom | 4 comments The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. I just started listening to the audiobook as narrated by Colin Firth and it is delightful.


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Benjamin | 131 comments Started The Trial by Franz Kafka a few days ago. Absolutely loving it.


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Michelle Bacon (raggedtig) | 11 comments The Awakening by Kate Chopin


RJ - Slayer of Trolls (hawk5391yahoocom) Ben wrote: "Started The Trial by Franz Kafka a few days ago. Absolutely loving it."

I bought that one a few weeks ago. I'm hoping to get to it in 2019.


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Gemma | 55 comments I have taken a bit of a sabbatical from this list lately but I decided to tackle a biggy so I started Les Mis a few nights ago...it's wonderful so far!


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Independent People by Haldor Laxness of Iceland, 1946.


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Karen (karinlib) | 14 comments I started Tale of the Genji.


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Ian | 143 comments I've started Infinite Jest.
Bang goes the first quarter of 2019!


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Alice Yoder | 468 comments The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham


Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

Both this and The Death of Ivan Ilych are included in The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky


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Kirsten  (kmcripn) I'm reading the Everyman's Library edition of Three Novels: Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne


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Started Invisible by Paul Auster.


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Laura Hailstone | 15 comments The 13 Clocks by James Thurber


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Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie.


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Laura Hailstone | 15 comments Notes from Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky


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Laura Hailstone | 15 comments Re-started House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski


Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments Started the first volume of A la Recherché du Temps Perdue--Du Coté de Chez Swann. I don't know if I'll real the other volumes right away or not--I just happened to have this first volume and another group is reading it this month.


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Luís wrote: "Mercedes wrote: "A few days ago I started Mrs. Dalloway...why I treat Woolf's writing as if it were a bull in a china store, I don't know. As Luis has said, "I love her!""

Yes! Surely..."


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ;) couldn't resist.
I'm nearly finished w/ Mrs.Dalloway and still reading Americanah and just started The Postman Always Rings Twice.


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Geneviève Chabot | 21 comments I just started The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt


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Tyler | 207 comments Started listening to Henry James' The Wings of the Dove


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Alice Yoder | 468 comments The Possessed by Dostoyevsky


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Sarah (sarahbethie) | 438 comments Started Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson.


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