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[Pamela]

Cain by José Saramago. Witty and irreverent.

[Bob]

Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf

[Diane]

Les Enfants terribles (The Holy Terrors) by Jean Cocteau.

[Carol]

I just started and finished (in the same day) Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, et al

[Diane]

Southern Seas by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

[Bob]

I just finished The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis.

[Diane]

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami.

[James]

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

[Mia]

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[Diane]

Patterns of Childhood by Christa Wolf.

[Pamela]

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

[Alice]

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

[Aleksandra]

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

[Jamie]

So far all 5 of the books I've finished this year are List books (library books that were due & not renewable, mostly)
The Summer Book - good, could be a good book to read to kids
Black Dogs - not my favorite from this author, but not terrible
The House of Mirth - surprisingly engaging
The Virgin in the Garden - pretty good, funny
Nightwood - confusing and pretty awful

[Diane]

Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace.

[Bob]

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Mia]

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

[George P.]

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago. My 2nd Saramago, after Blindness. A mix of weirdness and a conventional story. Liked it- 4 stars

[Jamie]

Another World, by Pat Barker.

[Diane]

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke.

[Nocturnalux]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: The Smiley Collection by John le Carré.

[Carol]

City Sister Silver by Jáchym Topol

I gave this a scant 2 stars. As I read this, I kept thinking about A Clockwork Orange -- how good it is and how CSS feels like (to me) a poor imitation. I'm glad this one is behind me.

[Diane]

Broad and Alien is the World by Ciro Alegría.

[Carol]

Vathek by William Beckford

A short little book that I was able to finish in one day

[MaryAnn (EmilyD1037)]

I started and finished The Optimist's Daughter on Sunday. I loved it. One of the few on Boxall's list.

[Bob]

The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth

[James]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Thought it was utterly brilliant.

[Diane]

La Bête humaine by Émile Zola.

[Hubert]

The Joke by Milan Kundera. Excellent!

[Mia]

Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant.

[Nike]

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

[Mia]

Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence. His writing is nice but I just don't like him.

[Pamela]

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago

[Joy D]

I can definitely see why this one is on the list:
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing - My Review

[Diane]

Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth. Not a favorite.

[Maggie]

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I wish I read this as a child. It would have been a magical experience.

[Sean]

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas.

It was quite fun. Quite funny. And quite an interesting style.

[Pamela]

The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee

[Mia]

Sula by Toni Morrison.

[JenniferAustin]

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Snarky, intelligent and funny.

and

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Sweet, light and fun.

[Diane]

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett.

[Sean]

Finished The Woodlanders. More on the group read page.

[George P.]

Alamut by Vladimir Bartol who was essentially Slovenian, though where he was born is now in Italy. An interesting old novel (1938), though not one of my favorites. This was my 400th Boxall list book.

[Joy D]

Glad I finally got around to reading the SciFi classic:
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - My Review

[Diane]

Camilla by Frances Burney.

[Colleen]

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...


The Devil's Pool and The Comfort of Strangers

[Karen]

Finished -- I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson, Embers by Sándor Márai, Under the Net by Iris Murdoch, and Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.

[Pamela]

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

[James]

The Tiger Killers: Part Two of the Marshes of Mount Liang by Shi Nai'an

[Carol]

Evelina by Frances Burney

One of the best books I've ever read!