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[George P.]

Finished Chaka (aka Chaka the Zulu) by Thomas Mofolo today.
I didn't realize it was a 1001 Books book until today- I was reading it for an "Around the World" group year-long challenge, to read books from 24 countries this year.
I'm working on #21, Holland, now (also a 1001 list book).

[Inna]

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Bucket]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley -- which I somehow got to age 37 without having read. Oversight now corrected. :)

[Diane]

Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht.

[Ellinor]

I just finished The Colour by Rose Tremain which I loved.

[Sean]

I finished In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This would make a great companion piece to Doctor Zhivago.

[Bob]

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith

[Bob]

The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie

[Nocturnalux]

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

[Kimberly]

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

[Ben]

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor. A startling piece of Southern Gothic, which I'd be a sucker for, even if it wasn't as good as this.

[Andi]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

[Diane]

Wild Harbour by Ian Macpherson and Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian.

[Pamela]

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

[Bob]

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg: Demons, and murder, and shape shifters, oh my!

[Diane]

Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel.

[Kimberly]

Woman at Point Zero

[Maddy]

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.

[Karen]

Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
Powerful, realistic novel of the French Sixth Battalion in World War I. Barbusse's writing vividly depicts life in the trenches and the horror of trench warfare. Interspersed with the war narrative are beautifully written descriptions of nature and other events (such as time off in Paris) which make the ugliness of the war stand out even more.

[Yrinsyde]

Joy D wrote: "The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - 5 stars - My Review"

I loved it! I thought it was old fashioned when I started reading it but by the end I had tears in my eyes and was full of emotion. Fabulous!

[Angie]

Over the weekend I read
The Fall of the House of Usher (re-read)
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Purloined Letter

and finished Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë. (This one is going on my "favourites shelf" :-) )

[Alice]

Three Lives by Gertrude Stein

[Nocturnalux]

The Waves by Virginia Woolf.

[Mia]

Evelina by Frances Burney.

[Diane]

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.

[Bucket]

Just finished Voss by Patrick White. I did not expect to love it as much as I did!

[Bob]

On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev

[Karen]

The Years by Virginia Woolf

[S.L.]

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

[Diane]

The Tree of Man by Patrick White.

[Alice]

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

[Alice]

No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez

[Bob]

Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the novella


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carol]

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Surpisingly to me, I enjoyed this book. It's supposed to be the oldest novel ever written. Keeping that in mind, it is understandably non-PC.

[Karen]

Carol wrote: "The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Surpisingly to me, I enjoyed this book. It's supposed to be the oldest novel ever written. Keeping that in mind, it is understanda..."

I love The Tale of Genji. The descriptions of nature were just so beautiful. For me, it was a very calming book, even though I often got exasperated with Genji!

[Karen]

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf -- her last novel finished in 1940 and published posthumously. It would have been so interesting to see what she would have written about World War II.

[Joy D]

Read this earlier this year and did not realize it was on the list:
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - 4 stars - My Review

[Joy D]

Just finished:
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - 4 stars - My Review

[Diane]

Finished The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa.

[Joy D]

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - 4 stars - My Review

[Alice]

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll

[Fran]

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

[Carol]

The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

[Diane]

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.

[Nocturnalux]

With The Waves by Virginia Woolf have reached two milestones: 250 books; 100 authored by women.

[Ellinor]

Nocturnalux wrote: "With The Waves by Virginia Woolf have reached two milestones: 250 books; 100 authored by women."

Congratulations, that's a great milestone!

[Nocturnalux]

Ellinor wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "With The Waves by Virginia Woolf have reached two milestones: 250 books; 100 authored by women."

Congratulations, that's a great milestone!"

Thanks! I timed it so that my 250th title would be a Virginia Woolf book as she is one my absolute, all-time favorites and I had been longing to read this particular one for a long time now.

[Peter]

Whatever by Michel Houellebecq.
There are some interesting ideas within this book but for me at least not a particularly memorable one but thankfully also a relatively quick read.

[Ellinor]

Nocturnalux wrote: "Ellinor wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "With The Waves by Virginia Woolf have reached two milestones: 250 books; 100 authored by women."

Congratulations, that's a great m..."

Perfect!