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[Benjamin]

Just finished The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. Fantastic, but God, is that book sad.

[Dina]

Just finished Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis. I don't like it.

[Tyler]

I finished Schooling by Heather McGowan today. It is pretty good. The stream of conscious prose take some getting used to.

[Benjamin]

Just finished Borges' Labyrinths. Wow. What a splendid read. I highly would recommend this masterwork to anyone, especially those in the mood for excellent philosophical/theological studies.

[Mia]

The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.

[Karen]

July's People by Nadine Gordimer

[Tim]

Emma by Jane Austen

[George P.]

Possession by A. S. Byatt- from the 2006 edition, dropped from later ones. This makes 250 Boxall list books for me!
This is a long book that requires a lot of attention to read. I understand how some people think it's great and others didn't enjoy reading it very much. It was awarded the Man Booker prize and is on the Feminista list. I liked the ending a lot. I rated it four *.

[Karen]

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

[Karen]

George wrote: "Possession by A. S. Byatt- from the 2006 edition, dropped from later ones. This makes 250 Boxall list books for me!
This is a long book that requires a lot of attention to read. I unde..."

Congratulations on hitting 250!!

[Bob]

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

[Tyler]

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

[Kirsten]

Tyler wrote: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid"

Better than me, I couldn't finish it.

[George P.]

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Conner, the audiobook read by actor Bronson Pinchot. Pinchot was excellent and added a lot to the experience.

[Karen]

Pepita Jimenez by Juan Valera (first published in 1874).
Really enjoyed this little gem -- Valera tells the story using letters and narrative.

[Benjamin]

Crime & Punishment by Dostoyevsky. What a damn excellent novel.

[Tyler]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

[Mia]

Kukkaanpuhkeavien tyttöjen varjossa 1: Rouva Swannin ympärillä by Marcel Proust. Third book from the "In Search of Lost Time".

[George P.]

Mia wrote: "Kukkaanpuhkeavien tyttöjen varjossa 1: Rouva Swannin ympärillä by Marcel Proust. Third book from the "In Search of Lost Time"."

The title looks impressive in Finnish. The English title is "In a Budding Grove, part one", and the (original) French "A L'ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs" translates literally as "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower", more evocative than the English title I think.

[Peter]

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood.
An enjoyable read but perhaps not a great one IMHO.

[Karen]

Rituals by Cees Nooteboom

[Eva]

The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras

I'm not quite sure what to think of it.

[Peter]

The Graduate by Charles Webb.
This is a quick read and there were elements of the story that I enjoyed but I have to say that overall this is one of those rare occurrences where, for me, the adaptation outshines the original.

[Diane]

Finished Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

[Karen]

Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean Jacques Rousseau

[Ellinor]

The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald. Truly great book.

[Karen]

Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker

Apologies to anyone who loves this book, but I could have happily died without reading it!! Considering that over 250 American books are on the Boxall list, another less represented country should have had its place.

[Ellinor]

Karen wrote: "Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker

Apologies to anyone who loves this book, but I could have happily died without reading it!! Considering that over 250 American books are..."

I read it last year and felt exactly the same.

[Mia]

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg.

[George P.]

Mia wrote: "Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg."

All 6 of my goodreads friends who have read this gave it four or five stars.

[Benjamin]

Just finished The Adventures of Augie March by Bellow. Really liked it.

[Mia]

George wrote: "Mia wrote: "Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg."

All 6 of my goodreads friends who have read this gave it four or five stars."

I didn't like the end but I still gave it a 4 stars.

[Inder]

Just finished Fugitive Pieces. Before that I read The Return of the Soldier; I'm focusing on 1,001 books written by women this year.

[Paige]

Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude. It's a great complete read.

[Benjamin]

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was a quick read. I started and finished it today. I enjoyed it, most definitely, and honestly I can see myself coming back to it, but I don't think it's among my most extraordinary reads of the year. Still, a solid novel, incredibly easy to read (it's all written as if in conversation) and an interesting portrait of the art scene (in various countries) of the early 1900s (people like Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, Pound, T.S. Eliot, Gide, Cocteau, Wyndham Lewis, among others, show up).

[Tim]

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

[Karen]

The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie

[Tyler]

Finished The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides today.

[Benjamin]

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. Another short read, but damn did I enjoy it.

[Diane]

Finished The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie.

[Brenda]

The Giver by Lois Lowry. What an incredible book. I plan on reading her other books.I am going to try to read as many on the list as I can.

[Kirsten]

I didn't know the Giver was on the list.

[Brenda]

Sorry. I think I was mistaken.

[Kirsten]

Don't take my word for it. It's not like I have the list memorized.

[Brenda]

I lost a friend yesterday,so I am muddled right now. I think I got the wrong list. 😔📚📋

[Kirsten]

I'm sorry. Did you just misplace them or is it more serious??

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner. Outstanding.

[Kirsten]

Cphe wrote: "The Grass is Singing interesting and quite a deep story"

I listened to a dramatization of that story on BBC Radio, very intense.

[Tim]

Kirsten wrote: "I didn't know the Giver was on the list."

I can't believe it's on the list.

[Diane]

Finished Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson. Nice, light read.