Which LIST book did you just finish? Showing 8,301-8,350 of 10,244

[Karen]

The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon
Quite enthralling story set during the Irish Civil War and with only 51 ratings as of 2/26/2022.

[Mia]

Today I started and finished Chess Story by Stefan Zweig.

[Diane]

Mia wrote: "I finished Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. I didn't enjoy it as much as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit."

Have you read The Passion yet? That is far and away my favorite by her. I highly recommend it.

[Diane]

Karen wrote: "The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon
Quite enthralling story set during the Irish Civil War and with only 51 ratings as of 2/26/2022."

I'm not sure why it is so obscure. It is even on KindleUnimited. I enjoyed it, too.

[Mia]

Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "I finished Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. I didn't enjoy it as much as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit."

Have you read [book:The Passio..."

I have not but it looks interesting.

[Mia]

I finished The Green Hat by Michael Arlen. I have no idea why it's on the list.

[Karen]

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

[Dina]

Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

[Alice]

Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg and Foundation by Isaac Asimov

[Bob]

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

[Diane]

Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot.

[Alice]

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Loved loved loved this book!

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "I finished Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson...."

Have you read The Passion yet? That is far and away my favorite by her. I highly recommend it."

The Passion is number three on my to-reads list, so I'm looking forward to it. I've only read her Written on the Body before.

[Sean]

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. I had no idea what to expect here. I liked it.

[Sean]

The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis.

Strangely organized and written with a conversational tone that is very odd too. It was ok.

[Bob]

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

[Diane]

The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter.

[George P.]

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville. 4 stars. A poignant story thankfully much shorter than his Moby Dick. Some readers may not care for the extravagant vocabulary (keep a dictionary at hand or read on a Kindle).

[Alice]

The Third Man by Graham Greene

[Kathleen]

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Did they really remove it from the list? Do you still count it here for challenges?

It's a monster, but in the end it completely won me over.

[Diane]

Aaron's Rod by D.H. Lawrence.

[Sean]

Kathleen wrote: "The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Did they really remove it from the list? Do you still count it here for challenges?

It's a monster, but in the end it comp..."

It's a monster. But it's a good one!

Yes it still counts for the challenges. Almost always (unless we are talking about books added, removed, changes from edition to edition) when we talk about the LIST we are talking about the combined list. 1318 books.

[Sean]

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Journey to the Center of the Earth. I seem to be making 2022 the year of the adventure. This one was entertaining, and highly unbelievable. But in an entertaining way.

[Kim]

The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek

[Kathleen]

Sean wrote: "Kathleen wrote: "The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky ..."

"Yes it still counts for the challenges. Almost always (unless we are talking about books added, removed, changes from edition to edition) when we talk about the LIST we are talking about the combined list. 1318 books."

Yay! Thanks for clarifying, Sean.

[Yrinsyde]

I've nearly finished The Last World. It's a slim novel so I can post to someone in Australia if anyone is interested.

[Diane]

Shroud by John Banville.

[Peter]

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

This book is undoubtedly an important piece of social history but it's also an uncomfortable read. I personally would never recommend it being read to youngsters, hence the lowly mark.

[Karen]

Homo Faber by Max Frisch and Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel

[Sean]

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. As I was reading I was very ho hum about this book, but after I was finished and I thought about it as a whole I rather liked it.

[Kathleen]

I finished The Sun Also Rises too, and also had a mixed reaction--liked the style, not the story so much.

[Bob]

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I did not like the first half of the book because I detested the father, Nathan. I began to like the book during the fourth section after he was mostly out of the picture.

[Karina]

Beloved by Toni Morrison

[S.L.]

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

[Carol]

Love in Excess by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Oh, the melodrama!

[Sean]

The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga.

Oh, the family drama! :p

[Pamela]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré. Bleak but compelling, I loved it

[Storm]

Siddharta

[Pamela]

The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

[Dina]

On The Seaboard by August Strindberg.

[Karina]

Embers by Sándor Márai

[Diane]

Finished:

The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen
The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
The Thinking Reed by Rebecca West

[Sean]

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry. Deliciously dark. Could be a study in dark imagery

[Sean]

By the Open Sea by August Strindberg.

More in a couple days on the group read thread.

[Bob]

Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

[Colleen]

Just finished The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. Interesting, quirky, introspective quick read.

[Joy D]

Just finished:
Adam Bede by George Eliot - 4* - My Review

[Sean]

The Waves by Virginia Woolf. Not sure I can put into words why I liked this book so much. Beautiful descriptions of everything from the physical to the metaphysical. Perfect organization and a unique style.

[Bob]

Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli. A serious indictment of colonialism but told, at times, with humour.

[Joy D]

In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul - My Review