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[Diane]

Christine wrote: "Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Although the subject matter is awful, the writing is superb."

Exactly how I felt. It is one of the best written books I have ever read. It does make you feel guilty to love something that cringy.

[Diane]

Finished The Charwoman's Daughter by James Stephens.

[Tim]

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

[Tim]

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

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Mercedes wrote: "Diane wrote: "Christine wrote: "Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Although the subject matter is awful, the writing is superb."

Exactly how I felt. It is one of the best written books I have..."

Yes, I did know, which makes the writing all the more remarkable.

[GW]

I finished "Meditations" by Marcus Aurilius and "Flowering Judas" by Kathrine Anne Porter Wow! two great books in two days. Still in the top 10 % of books finished for this list but the list has hundreds of new contemporary titles that I've never heard of. The list I checked my read books from was 1,300 titles and seems to grow every year.

[Ann A]

The English Patient
Yes, I liked it a lot, but the best Booker Prize winner in 50 years? Hmmm....

[George P.]

A somewhat obscure one, The Ogre aka Le Roi des Aulnes by Michel Tournier of France. Borrowed from the university library here. It was in the 1st Boxall edition, dropped from the 2nd. I never loved it, but it was so well-written that I gave it a four star. There are no "actual " ogres, but metaphoric ones- not a fantasy of that sort.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. Unfortunately, this one didn't hit the mark for me, though I think it's still fair to include it on the list.

[Diane]

Finished Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker.

[Fran]

Finished The Magus by John Fowles
5 stars, loved it !

[Tim]

The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd

[Karen]

The First Garden by Anne Hébert

[Tyler]

The Grapes of Wrath

[Tatiana]

Life of Pi by Yann Martel which I mostly enjoyed. It was easy entertaining read.

[Tim]

Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Braudigan

[Karen]

Tim wrote: "Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Braudigan"

That was a weird, but funny book!

[Karen]

Like Life by Lorrie Moore

[Mia]

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[Diane]

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

[Hilde]

The Year of the Hare, a sweet and funny little book.

[Mia]

I finished The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade. 2 stars, not really my kind of book.

[Amanda]

The People of Hemso by August Strindberg. Safe to say I am not a Strindberg fan. Review is up on http://www.1001everything.blogspot.com

[Diane]

Finished 3 by Dashiell Hammett:

The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
The Glass Key

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Mia]

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

[Karen]

Silk by Alessandro Baricco

[Peter]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. A rather uncomfortable read but one that deserves to be on this list.

[Mia]

I finished The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley.

[Diane]

RJ wrote: "I finished:


The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
One of my favorites

[Diane]

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

The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Diane wrote: "RJ wrote: "I finished:


...One of my favorites"

Yeah, it's a good one.

[Peter]

In the Forest by Edna O'Brien. I enjoyed the author's writing style yet felt that it lacked that little something.

[Hilde]

Ethan Frome by Edith Warthon. Beautiful, bud sad read. Solid 4 star.

[George P.]

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. Kundera is a Czech who emigrated to France during the soviet days, and I think he wrote this in French. It reminded me in some parts of the postmodern style of Paul Auster. I enjoyed reading it.

[Tyler]

Finished Beloved by Toni Morrison

[Diane]

The Vice Consul by Marguerite Duras.

[Peter]

Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan. A book of its time rather than a riveting read.

[Bill]

Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mémoires d'Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

[Diane]

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.

[Cara]

Little Women and Northanger Abbey.

I expected to like Little Women and wasn't sure what I'd think of Northanger Abbey as I'm not the biggest Austen fan, save for Persuasion. However, I ended up really liking Northanger Abbey and I just couldn't get into Little Women. I was a bit surprised.

[James]

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann. Fabulous.

[George P.]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. I liked it, as I did her sister's Jane Eyre and more than I liked her other sister's Wuthering Heights. A little overlong though.

[Karen]

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Love Philip Marlowe! Finished all Chandler's mysteries on the list but I definitely want to go back and read the rest.

[Yrinsyde]

The Sea The Sea by Iris Murdoch. Wow, just stunned.

[Karen]

Pavel's Letters by Monika Maron

[Diane]

Finished Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.

[Inder]

Since my last update in October, I've read:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Thérèse Raquin
The Bluest Eye
Ethan Frome
Life and Death of Harriet Freane
Passing
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Amsterdam
H is for Hawk

Of these, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the one that stands out as a truly outstanding, beautifully written, and memorable book for me. I also really enjoyed Passing and Therese Raquin.

I am still three books short of my goal for 2018! I am going to knock off an Edgar Allen Poe short story ... any recommendations for short novellas/stories to help me get there?

[Aileen]

Under the Skin by Michel Faber.

A very unusual read. I'm glad I didn't know anything about the story beforehand as I think that would have spoilt it for me. 4/5