Which LIST book did you just finish? Showing 4,151-4,200 of 10,248

[Karen]

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.

[Dee]

Finished reading The Enchanted Wanderer by Anton Chekhov. One of his longer stories, almost a short novel in length. I really enjoyed it, it's a fantastically picaresque adventure told by a somewhat unbelievable narrator.

[Karen]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Carol]

Rabbit Is Rich
read all the rabbit books recently (except rabbit at rest) liked them alot

[Carol]

Yrinsyde wrote: "Emu wrote: "I just finished Candide by Voltaire. It surprised me at being a quick read and really funny. I had somehow gotten the impression that this would be a long ..."
That book was great, very funny should read again

[Diane]

Finished Deep River by Shūsaku Endō. Very good.

[Tim]

Just finished - Life, The Universe and Everything - by Douglas Adams - part 3 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[Karin]

Just finished
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
I liked the book. Was surprised how few pages the book was.
I really like it.

[Peter]

Underworld by Don DeLillo. In excess of 800 pages so OK but overly long IMHO.

[Chuck]

The Bluest Eye. Pretty amazing 1st novel and my first read of Morrison. Already seemed to be playing with creative formats and perspectives. Transcending all style is how Morrison zeros right into the heart of self-hatred, including our collective self-hatred. Very timely.

[Karen]

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

[Wendy]

Just finished Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and it didn’t exactly resonate with me. It felt long for such a short book, but I did like the last section more than the beginning. Siddhartha came off as a jerk most of the time, and it wasn’t until after Id started that I realized that he was not THE Siddhartha from Buddhism (though that one makes a brief appearance).

[Diane]

Chuck wrote: "The Bluest Eye. Pretty amazing 1st novel and my first read of Morrison. Already seemed to be playing with creative formats and perspectives. Transcending all style is how Morrison zer..."

Great book. My favorite by Morrison.

[Diane]

Finished Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary.

[Tim]

Finished High Rise by J. G. Ballard

[Diane]

Finished Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov.

[Karina]

Just finished City of God by E.L. Doctorow and all I can say it was awful

[Julie]

Just finished The History of Love. Couldn't get into it maybe it was just wrong book at the wrong time!

[George P.]

Karina wrote: "Just finished City of God by E.L. Doctorow and all I can say it was awful"

That's not one of his higher rated books by Goodreads averages. He has half a dozen with avg rating of 3.7 to 3.9. Good chance you would like one of those better, like Ragtime. I liked Ragtime and Loon Lake. I didn't like Welcome to Hard Times as much.

[Ellinor]

Finished La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes. It‘s not a genre I normally like but this one was really good.

[Eva]

I finished Passing by Nella Larsen. A really good read - and also a short and quick read, if you need to check off a book from the list.

[Heather]

Just finished Great Expectations. Enjoyed the humour of the first two-thirds. Pip's reactions as a child in particular seemed real, and thus really funny. The last third was a bit of a slog. Quite compelling action scene on the river near the end made me think that if Dickens had been alive now, he would have been a half-decent screenwriter. now onto Jack Maggs - Peter Carey's post-colonial reflection upon and partial retelling of the same story from another perspective - a sort of fanfiction I suppose!

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Heather wrote: "Just finished Great Expectations. Enjoyed the humour of the first two-thirds. Pip's reactions as a child in particular seemed real, and thus really funny. The last third was a bit of a slog. Quite ..."

I never connected Jack Maggs with Great Expectations--I'd long forgotten Pip's benefactor, but I'm guessing it was Maggs? Carey has been kind of a toss-up writer for me--I did like his collection of short stories, and I thought True History of the Kelly Gang was okay--but not so great I wanted to rush out and read Maggs. Thinking of the GA connection makes it sound more interesting though

[Aileen]

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Her second for me, after The Waves. Not found her any easier to read!

[Ellinor]

Madame Bovary.

[Diane]

Finished The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

[Karen]

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Or How Violence Develops and Where it Can Lead by Heinrich Boll
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee

[Angelique]

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

[Diane]

Finished The Monk by Matthew Lewis.

[Laura]

I've just finished the Tenant of Wildfell Hall. A lovely easy read from start to finish, with plenty of drama and a happy ending!

[Kirsten]

Laura wrote: "I've just finished the Tenant of Wildfell Hall. A lovely easy read from start to finish, with plenty of drama and a happy ending!"

That is one of my favorite Bronte sister books - right after Jane Eyre. What I like is how she presented a case of domestic violence, before anyone else.

[Sammy]

I just finished The Island of Dr. Moreau. Great little read. That makes two list books completed so far this year, and on the way with the third!

[Karen]

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih.
Gripping story about post-colonial Sudah.

[Karen]

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov.
This excellent translation was done by Vladimir Nabokov with his son Dimitri. Also, the annotations are very opinionated!

[Cara]

Finally finished Dracula. Parts of it were really entertaining, and other parts were just so slow (and by other parts, I mean the majority of the book). But by the end of it I was kind of hoping that Dracula would just eat them all.
I did enjoy the fact that the story was told through letters and journal entries.

[Karen]

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
Excellent 1930s noir.

[Julie]

Mrs Dalloway.

[Diane]

Cara wrote: "Finally finished Dracula. Parts of it were really entertaining, and other parts were just so slow (and by other parts, I mean the majority of the book). But by the end of it I was kind..."

I really enjoyed that one, too.

[Diane]

Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović.

[Tatiana]

Karen wrote: "A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov.
This excellent translation was done by Vladimir Nabokov with his son Dimitri. Also, the annotations are very opinionated!"

I have read Nabokov's lectures on literature and was shocked how opinionated he was!

[Dree]

So far this yea I have finished Cider With Rosie and Women in Love.

[Karen]

Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
The author describes this book as "A Perverse Mystery!" A very apt description for a weird yet comic book.

[Tim]

Finished The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham

[Ellen]

I just finishedThe Vicar of Wakefield it was an enjoyable read.

[Diane]

Finished All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom.

[Karen]

Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff
Also known on the Boxall list as "The Life of a Good-for-Nothing."

[Diane]

Finished Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi.

[George P.]

Finished The Shadow Lines from the 2008 to 2012 list editions, by Amitav Ghosh of India. I claim bragging rights as the 1st of my Goodreads friends to read this excellent novel. Ghosh wrote a lot of other novels that also have very good ratings.

I've also finished a few books this month that aren't List books by writers who have books on the list (White Fang by Jack London, A Supposedly Fun Thing... by D F Wallace, and A Room of One's Own by V Woolf).

[J_BlueFlower]

Finished Gulliver's Travels today. Ticked that off a large number off lists. A fine read. Still fresh today. Glad I did not read this as a child. It somehow has the reputation of a children's book. I think most children would not understand the satire and the various power struggles.

[Karen]

Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee
Tough book, but very thought-provoking.