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[Bob]

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

[Ben]

Dangling Man by Saul Bellow. My first Bellow, and it won't be the last.

[Diane]

The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós and The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký.

[Karen]

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
That completes all of the Thomas Hardy books on the list!

Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll

[Sean]

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov.

It had a little bit of an Alumut feel to it.

[Kathleen]

The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch.

I loved it, but it's very odd, and I'm surprised it made the list.

[Mia]

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.

[Diane]

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.

[Pamela]

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Mia]

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. 5 stars.

[Bob]

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

[Sean]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. A lot of good stuff in this book.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. One wild and crazy ride... Don't do drugs, kids!

[Joy D]

July's People by Nadine Gordimer - My Review

[George P.]

On Love by Alain de Botton. He is my 300th different author of whom I've read a list book.
Written in first person but about a fictional couple who fall in and out of love, it has philosophy and psychology at an easy-to-follow level. Humorous at times.

[George P.]

Sean wrote: "A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov. It had a little bit of an Alumut feel to it."

I read Hero of Our Time before Alamut, and since "A Hero" was written first I would say Alamut has a little Hero of Our Time feel to it. But I agree.

[Dina]

The Shining by Stephen King

[Mia]

Passing by Nella Larsen.

[Pamela]

By the Open Sea by August Strindberg

[Diane]

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon.

[Bob]

Albigenses by Charles Maturin

[Sean]

Kafka on the Shore. Only my second Haruki Murakami. I liked this one better than Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Just as weird, but easier to follow.

[Bob]

Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope

[Dina]

Legend by David Gemmell

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished Hemingway's first novel and - as usual - my rating is based on personal enjoyment rather than a measure of literary merit:


The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[James]

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek

[Pamela]

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

[Joy D]

Finished:
The Ambassadors by Henry James - 3* - My Review

[Alice]

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence and
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

[Karen]

The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer

[Joy D]

Independent People by Halldór Laxness - My Review

[S.L.]

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

[Sean]

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré.

Got a little ahead. More in a couple weeks when the group read is open.

[Dina]

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

[Sean]

Pastoralia by George Saunders. Delightfully bizarre. Like Vonnegut and Pynchon had a baby that was only slightly more centered but not really.

[Mia]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

[Alice]

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

[Karen]

In Parenthesis by David Jones
-- Listed as poetry, this book is a powerful reflection on the author's experiences in World War I. A prior reading of some of the World War I books on the list, will make understanding it a little easier. The author does provide footnotes defining terms and explaining his thinking.

[Diane]

The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett.

[George P.]

L'Assommoir by Émile Zola. Also known as The Drunkard or The Dram Shop in English edition. It's the novel that made him famous- a rather dark story towards the end. Good writing.

[Bob]

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

[Kimberly]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished Dashiell Hammett's final novel:


The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Karina]

Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

A pretty enrapturing novella.

[James]

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Actually just finished the last volume, The Captive and Time Regained having read the other volumes over the last 15 years or so.

[Diane]

Finished:

The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
Transit by Anna Seghers
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini (which won't come up in a search for some strange reason)

All of these books were great

[George P.]

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson. Good but not great. I think her Boxall list book Written on the Body is better.

[George P.]

Karina wrote: "Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

A pretty enrapturing novella."

I recommend you try to watch the US western movie "The Jack Bull" which is directly based on Michael Kohlhaas, it follows the book pretty closely. John Cusak and John Goodman are very good in it. It was made for HBO in '99. I enjoyed watching the book "come to life".

[George P.]

James wrote: "In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Actually just finished the last volume, The Captive and Time Regained having read ..."

Impressive accomplishment James. I plan to read the first volume soon.

[Karen]

Cider with Rosie: A Memoir by Laurie Lee

[Karen]

James wrote: "In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Actually just finished the last volume, The Captive and Time Regained having read ..."

Congratulations James. I read In Search of Lost Time during the Covid lockdown. One of my favorite books!