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[Gavin]

Bought some days ago:
Imago
Dawn
The Sun Also Rises

[ALLEN]

Aubrey wrote: "This month's haul:

We Who Are About To... - Joanna Russ (!)
GayBCs: A Queer Alphabet - Rae Congdon
[book:We're Here, We're Queer, We..."

That's quite a haul!

[Tammie]

My copy of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell is out for delivery. I recently started collecting the Wordsworth Classics so I've ordered a lot of them this month.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Aubrey I am loving your titles this times around!

[Micah]

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig (Anthea Bell translation).

[Pillsonista]

Just ordered it:



Wilding: Returning Nature to a Farm by Isabella Tree

I have such high hopes for this book.

It's not the kind of work of non-fiction that usually catches my attention, but after watching a video on youtube about the background that motivated the author to write this book, I was captivated.

I believe it can be one of those books that has the capacity to change not only my own assumptions, but how I perceive the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP3-T...

[Laurie]

Pillsonista wrote: "Just ordered it:



Wilding: Returning Nature to a Farm by Isabella Tree

I have such high hopes for this book.

It's not the kind of wo..."

Loved the video. I wish more large landowners would do this.

[Patty]

While reading The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine, I came across the book English as She is Spoke: The New Guide of the Conversation of Portuguese and English.

“...a 19th-century book...which was intended as a Portuguese–English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations are generally completely incoherent.”
(Wikipedia)

Had to get it as a Christmas gift for a member of my family.


http://www.online-literature.com/twai...

[Pillsonista]

It finally arrived. The one I've been waiting for:



Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence, 1944-1945 of Helmuth James von Moltke and Freya von Moltke

These are the last letters exchanged between Helmuth James von Moltke, the leader of the Kreisau Circle, and his wife Freya during the last four months of his life, while he was imprisoned in Tegel prison (along with fellow prisoner Dietrich Bonhoeffer) until the day of his execution on January 23, 1945.

[Erica]

I went to one of my favorite used bookstores and picked up The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Cynda]

I just odered and received

Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations by D.A. Russell and M Winterbottom. I bought to help read Poetics and other ancient works plan to read/reread. A good GR friend suggested it.

[Pillsonista]

So I no longer believe that Amazon.com is the source of all evil:



Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems & Last Poems by Roberto Juarroz, tr. by Mary Crow

Who's now in heaven? Me.

The fact that I was actually able to find a decent translation of Juarroz's magnificent poetry (which I never expected to find, ever) means that Amazon.com is going to be very, very dangerous to my bank account.

[Cynda]

In honor of hispanic history month, I

Am Reading GN in Spanglish, adapted by Ilan Stavans.

Ordered GN written by Ilan Stavans.

[Ila]

I ordered The Book of Disquiet (finally!), The House of Ulloa, and Christodora. I've been postponing Pessoa for too long.

[Pillsonista]

Ila wrote: "I ordered The Book of Disquiet (finally!), The House of Ulloa, and Christodora. I've been postponing Pessoa for too long."

Be careful, he's dangerous. He may just change your life.



Well, I've set a personal record. I'm now truly good and done until long after the end of the year.

I love it when university libraries (conveniently, I live near two plus a reputable community college) have book sales, especially if they're foolish enough to let you set your own price.

If they're getting rid of books like these, then they're lucky to get a nickel from me in return (I'm sure those federal grants and generous alumni more than compensate for my parsimoniousness). And they set me up for the months to come (with some exceptions that were ordered/bought from elsewhere):

Golo Mann's magnum opus, The History of Germany Since 1789 !!!!
The Besieged City & Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czesław Miłosz
Gérard de Nerval: Aurélia & Journey to the Orient
Thomas Bernhard: Goethe Dies (tr. James Reidel) and Prose (tr. Martin Chalmers)
Carson McCullers: The Complete Novels
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse
Two by Simenon: My Friend Maigret & Maigret at the Coroner's
The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg and The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
Border Districts: A Fiction by Gerald Murnane
Glass, Irony & God by Anne Carson
Trieste by Daša Drndić
Marc Fumaroli's The Republic of Letters
The Dregs of the Day by Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Sentence to Hope: A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader
Islands: Lyrical Essays by Jean Grenier !!!!
Blindly & Microcosms by Claudio Magris
My Struggle: Book Six (finally...) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Benediction by Kent Haruf
The last book in Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy, Kudos
Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories by Samuel R. Delany

And poetry, of course:

A Transparent Lion and the Selected Poems of Attila József !!!!
Selected Poetry and Prose of Stéphane Mallarmé
The Voice of Robert Desnos, tr. William Kulik & Surrealist, Lover, Resistant: Collected Poems of Robert Desnos
On Earth and in Hell: Early Poems by Thomas Bernhard, tr. Peter Waugh.
Thomas Bernhard: Collected Poems, tr. James Reidel
Telescope: Selected Poems & This Constellation is a Name: Collected Poems, 1965-2010 by Michael Heller
Muriel Rukeyser: The Book of the Dead, The Life of Poetry, and the Collected Poems
The Invention of Influence by Peter Cole
Notturno and Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio
I Promise to be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud, tr. Wyatt Mason
Mark Jarman's Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems

A very good selection of one of my favorites, Clive James:

Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays
Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James
The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001-2005
The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008
Always Unreliable: Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, & May Week Was in June, North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs, & The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years

The great W.G. Sebald:

Vertigo
The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald, ed. Lynne Sharon Schwartz
On the Natural History of Destruction
Campo Santo
Across the Land and Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

And the unjustly little-known Norman Manea:

The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir
The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language
The Black Envelope
The Lair
Compulsory Happiness

A number of Penguin Classics, particularly (but not strictly) Eastern thought and literature:

The Luisiads by Luís Vaz de Camões (another lacuna filled)
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Anonymous, tr. E.A. Wallis Budge and intro by John Romer
The Rig Veda, tr. Wendy Doniger
Upanisads, tr. Patrick Olivelle
The Rāmāyaṇa by Vālmīki, tr. Arshia Sattar
The Mahabharata, tr. John D. Smith
The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous; annotations by Laurie L. Patton
Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook, tr. Wendy Doniger
Buddhist Scriptures, ed. Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
The Story of the Stone, or the Dream of Red Chamber: The Golden Days, Vol. 1 by Cao Xueqin, tr. David Hawkes
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, tr. Martin Palmer
The Nine Cloud Dream by Kim Man-Jung
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

Plus a number from The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library:

Yiddish Folktales, tr. Leonard Wolf
Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Afanasyev
Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece, ed. Gustav Schwab
American Indian Myths and Legends, ed. Richard Erdoes

Saving most of the best for last:

Journeys (tr. Will Stone), & Shooting Stars: Ten Historical Miniatures + The Complete Stories of Stefan Zweig, tr. Anthea Bell
Letters to Freya: 1939-1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke (totally inspired by their prison correspondence)
Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs: The Correspondence, The Correspondence of Paul Celan and Ilana Shmueli, & Paul Celan: Collected Prose
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by Jon Felstiner
Microscripts, The Assistant, & The Walk by Robert Walser, all tr. by Susan Bernofsky
Owen Glendower & Maiden Castle: A Novel by John Cowper Powys
Philippe Jaccottet: Seedtime: Notebooks, 1954-79, Second Seedtime: Notebooks, 1980-94, Obscurity, & A Calm Fire: And Other Travel Writings
Imaginary Lives, The King in the Golden Mask, The Children's Crusade all by Marcel Schwob
Pierre Michon: The Origin of the World, Winter Mythologies and Abbots, & Masters and Servants
Franz Fühmann's The Jew Car: Fourteen Days from Two Decades & At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole
Portraits Without Frames by Lev Ozerov (because the copy I originally ordered got lost in the mail)
Ardor by Roberto Calasso, tr. Richard Dixon
Catastrophe: And Other Stories by Dino Buzzati
Gogol's Wife and Other Stories by Tommaso Landolfi, tr. Raymond Rosenthal
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, ed. Jhumpa Lahiri
The Sleep of the Righteous by Wolfgang Hilbig, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole
The Labyrinth of Tender Force: 166 Love Stories by Alexander Kluge
Miroslav Krleža's On the Edge of Reason
Openwork: Poetry and Prose by André du Bouchet, tr. Paul Auster & Hoyt Rogers
The Walnut Mansion by Miljenko Jergović
The Limits of Art: Two Essays by Tzvetan Todorov
Please Talk to Me: Selected Stories by Liliana Heker, tr. Alberto Manguel

And a few I pre-ordered:

The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry, bilingual edition
The Gentle Barbarian & All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
The Third Walpurgis Night: The Complete Text by Karl Kraus
Collected Poems of Georg Trakl, tr. James Reidel
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Essays, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole
'I' by Wolfgang Hilbig, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole
Miron Białoszewski: a collection of his poetry.
Horizon by Barry Lopez
Coventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk

[Cendaquenta]

Pillsonista wrote: "Well, I've set a personal record. I'm now truly good and done until long after the end of the year.

I love it when university libraries (conveniently, I live near two plus a reputable community college) have book sales, especially if they're foolish enough to let you set your own price."

THAT is a HAUL! 😲 Did you have to hire a moving van to get all those home? 😋

[Pillsonista]

Cendaquenta wrote: "THAT is a HAUL! 😲 Did you have to hire a moving van to get all those home? 😋 "

LOL If that's what it would have taken... 😉

I was loading them into my car by the boxful and people were looking at me like I'd lost my mind.

But, hey, if they weren't going to buy them, I sure as hell was.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I really enjoyed the first half of Campo Santo, that had the sections of the unfinished book Sebald planned to write before he started on The Rings of Saturn.

I hope we never go to the same library sales--we'd look like parents at Christmas time who fight in the aisles for the last Tickle-Me-Elmo, or whatever The toy was that year.

[Pillsonista]

Bryan "I hope we never go to the same library sales--we'd look like parents at Christmas time who fight in the aisles for the last Tickle-Me-Elmo, or whatever The toy was that year."

LMAO Yeah, that could get ugly.

If you're ever at a library sale and see a woman shoving somebody on crutches out of the way to get to a copy of The Tartar Steppe? That would be me.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I had quite a haul myself the last two days, though I had to go outside my normal shopping circles to get them:

The Short Novels of Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Journey to the West, Volume 1 by Wu Cheng'en (I had actually bought vol II, III, IV several years ago, doubting I'd ever run into vol I, but, hey, there it was)

The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade

The Golem by Gustav Meyrink

The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus

The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk

Fantastic Stories by Andrei Sinyavsky

The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Hit post too soon:

Fables by T.F. Powys (J.C's brother)

and Spenser: Poetical Works by Edmund Spenser

I also grabbed a couple John Cowper Powys books for my dad:

All or Nothing and Lucifer

[Cynda]

Ila wrote: "I ordered The Book of Disquiet (finally!), The House of Ulloa, and Christodora. I've been postponing Pessoa for too long."

Ila I am enchanted by what I see on GR about The House of Ulloa. I will read it for hispanic history month 2020 as I have quite a list for this year already. Thanks for sharing.

[Luke]

Bryan "goes on a bit too long" wrote: "I had quite a haul myself the last two days, though I had to go outside my normal shopping circles to get them:

The Short Novels of Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[book:The Journ..."

Quest for Christa T.! Yes!

[Ila]

Cynda wrote: "Ila wrote: "I ordered The Book of Disquiet (finally!), The House of Ulloa, and Christodora. I've been postponing Pessoa for too long."

Ila I am enchant..."

Really excited to read that one.

Pillsonista wrote: "Ila wrote: "I ordered The Book of Disquiet (finally!), The House of Ulloa, and Christodora. I've been postponing Pessoa for too long."

Be careful, he's..."

Thanks for the heads-up. By God, you have such a variety of books and I have never heard of most of them. My TBR is forever increasing.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Aubrey wrote: Quest for Christa T.! Yes!..."

I know it by reputation only--and that it doesn't pop up in my usual haunts. Based on those two factors, and that I was already splurging, I picked it up. Now you've really got me intrigued.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Guru I actually recognize many of those books and authors on your list now! I’m so proud of myself. That’s is an awesome selection. That probably beats any of my trips!

I bought about 8 true crime books to feed my constant craving for it, but i don’t think that will interest anyone here.

[Pillsonista]

BAM wrote: "Guru I actually recognize many of those books and authors on your list now! I’m so proud of myself. That’s is an awesome selection. That probably beats any of my trips!

I bought about 8 true crime books to feed my constant craving for it, but i don’t think that will interest anyone here."

No, definitely count me interested. I've read The Stranger Beside Me and Green River, Running Red. Not long ago I ordered The Last Stone by Mark Bowden (mostly because, as a young journalist, this was the first report he ever filed and there's certain satisfaction that, 30 years later, he's finally able to close it).

I've always found it a slightly alarming coincidence that Ann Rule not only knew Ted Bundy well (or at least thought she did), but lived in the same neighborhood that was the epicenter of the Green River serial killings. Basically, if you lived near Ann Rule... move somewhere else.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I've added a TON of true Crime to my list this past week. I read The Last Stone just this month. Good read!

[ALLEN]

Pillsonista wrote: "BAM wrote: "Guru I actually recognize many of those books and authors on your list now! I’m so proud of myself. That’s is an awesome selection. That probably beats any of my trips!

.b>I bought ab..."

Hello, P., I like true-crime accounts too. It seems that a lot of people don't like true-crime on "general principles" yet those same people often like fantasy and sci-fi.

[Pillsonista]

ALLEN wrote: "Hello, P., I like true-crime accounts too. It seems that a lot of people don't like true-crime on "general principles" yet those same people often like fantasy and sci-fi. "

In fantasy and sci-fi you can escape human reality. True crime does the exact opposite.

Which is not to say that neither science-fiction nor fantasy don't contend with the human condition, because they do, especially the very best of each. It's just that true crime eliminates that imaginary boundary: here you have real victims with actual identities and genuine lives.

Plus, there's a severe paucity of truly great writers who specialize in writing about true crime. With science fiction you can always reference Philip K. Dick or Samuel R. Delany, while with fantasy there's Ursula K. Le Guin. Someone like Anne Rule has her merits, but even she's not on that level. The prose of the vast majority of true crime writers is pedestrian at best and nearly unreadable at worst.

[ALLEN]

I suppose you're right but there are some glorious true crime exceptions: Truman Capote, John Berendt, perhaps Vince Bugliosi, and a few others. Have you tried Columbine by Dave Cullen?

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I have read some truly awful authors but I've read some exceptional ones too. I think the Anne Ruies belong in their own category of crime writing. That type does feed my craving but I always have low expectations for those books.

[Pillsonista]

Yep. I've read Columbine.

I thought it was very good; his research was second-to-none and I thought he handled the actual timeline very well to demolish the myth that so many people believe about what happened. He's very readable; 'high-journalese', I guess I would call it, but compared to In Cold Blood....

I still think that's the gold standard, even if the controversy of how much of it is "true" and how much of it is "art" will never be resolved (and in the end, I don't think it matters). I don't think Capote himself was ever able to reconcile the two, either, and never got over it as a consequence.

As for Cullen, even though I like Columbine, I have no interest in reading Parkland.

[ALLEN]

Have you tried MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL?

[Pillsonista]

ALLEN wrote: "Have you tried MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL?"

I have not read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, even though I own a copy. It's alway's one of those books that I'm about to read, and then I get distracted by something else that comes along.

Everybody whom I've talked to that has read it praise always it to the skies. So it's still something to look forward to.

[Pillsonista]

BAM wrote: "I have read some truly awful authors but I've read some exceptional ones too. I think the Anne Ruies belong in their own category of crime writing. That type does feed my craving but I always have ..."

Which ones do you consider exceptional, B?

[Jon]

I just received "Rebecca" (Daphne Du Maurier), several collected works by Daphne Du Maurier (The King's General, The Flight of the Falcon, and The House on the Strand), and "The Last Full Measure" by Jeff Shaara.
I will be reading Rebecca first, and can't believe it has taken me this long to catch up to it. Very, very moody so far, as I expected it to be.

[Pillsonista]

Despite my last haul, there's no such thing as too many books. This beauty just came in the mail today:


C.P. Cavafy: The Complete Poems, tr. Daniel Mendelsohn

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I have lots of purchasing to do for this poetry project dont I?

[Pillsonista]

BAM wrote: "I have lots of purchasing to do for this poetry project dont I?"

Not to worry, from where we're starting, you have over a couple of thousand years until we get to Cavafy. 😉

[Beatrice Apetrei]

I just purchased the first 3 books from the Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov! I am waiting for their arrival now! Can't wait!!

[Pillsonista]

Wow, is this thread inactive. But never mind, I'll change that.

Over the past week+ I've acquired so many new titles that to list them would exceed the character limit. So what I'm going to do is post a different title, or titles, per day to see if that might help get some kind of discussion started again.

And since reading about this kind of pathetic, solipsistic nonsense this morning : https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/us/col...

...what a better way to start than with the two titles I immediately ordered after reading that awful article:



Demothenes: Orations 1-17 & 20, Olynthiacs, Philippics, Minor Public Orations (Loeb Classical Library, Demothenes volume I)
Cicero: Rhetorica ad Herennium (Loeb Classical Library, Cicero volume 1)

My new goal in life: to collect Every. Single. Volume. of the Loeb Classical Library, because I'm truly starting to fear what could happen to it because of a small group of fanatical but academically entrenched maenads with an unhinged axe to grind.

Unfortunately, NYRB Classics will have to take a back seat. But there is the added bonus that if I ever want to learn Latin and/or Greek, I have a great place to start.

[Luke]

I got a very nice spread of translated works, authors that I've previously liked, old, and new this month. Enough of them were already on my TBR shelf (as indicated by an explanation point) that I felt fine buying a number that weren't.

Territory of Light - Yūko Tsushima
62: A Model Kit - Julio Cortázar (!)
You Are Not Like Other Mothers - Angelika Schrobsdorff
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops - Hanan Al-Shaykh (!)
My Heart Hemmed In - Marie NDiaye
Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008 - Nadine Gordimer
Frog - Mo Yan (!)
Valentine - Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress - Fanny Burney

[Katerina]

My copy of The silent patient by Alex Michaelides arrived this week and my last order is Raven black by Ann Cleeves!

[Jen]

It's been a while since I posted - but October is proving to be a really good month for my reading!

More serious books:
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - a wonderful series of vignettes translated from Japanese - it's quickly become one of my new favorite books
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty - really interesting non-fiction about life, and working in a crematorium

Fluff:
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
The Devil’s Due by Bonnie MacBird
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (pre-order)

I haven't read classics for quite some time, as life has been very full-on & I haven't had the concentration - but I'm hoping that I'll get back into 'the swing of things' now life has turned a corner, and some more gentle books have reignited my need to read ^_^

[Pillsonista]

Three gems from Scholastique Mukasonga just arrived:




Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel, The Barefoot Woman, and Cockroaches.

"Cockroaches" is obviously a reference to the infamous term used by radical Hutu politicians and, particularly, hard-line fanatical radio broadcastings to refer to the Tutsi population. It played a significant role in the escalation of the genocidal violence and, eventually, several media executives were found of guilty war crimes at The Hague.

But The Barefoot Woman is the one I want to read most: the imperishable love between one extraordinary woman and her daughter in the face of merciless history, and how memory pays honor to that inextinguishable love.


And possibly the other side of the The Laramie Project, The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard by Stephen Jimenez:



When a book critic condemns a book outright while at the same time announcing, with pride, that he refuses to even read the book in the first place, then that makes it a book I have to read, regardless of the prose.

This must be one dangerous book if it deserves to be denounced unread. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does echo throughout time. And to damn a book unread does have the faint echo of a historical moment from the not (yet) too distant past. The only thing missing, in this particular incident, is the bonfire.

[Tami]

Love the Fall Used Book Sale held by the Friends of Multnomah County Library...

Big History - by, DK Publishing
Building Great Sentences - by, Brooks Landon
Literary Landscapes of The British Isles - by, David Daiches
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything - by, David Christian
Painless Grammar - by, Rebecca S. Elliott

Carry the Sky - by, Kate Gray
Iza's Ballad - by, Magda Szabó
La Bastarda: A Novel - by, Trifonia Melibea Obono
Moravagine - by, Blaise Cendrars

Barnes & Noble Classics:
Agnes Grey - by, Anne Brontë
Babbitt - by, Sinclair Lewis
Frankenstein - by, Mary Shelley
Grimm's Fairy Tales - by, Jacob Grimm
Howards End - by, E.M. Forster
Kim - by, Rudyard Kipling
Madame Bovary - by, Gustave Flaubert
My Ántonia - by, Willa Cather
O Pioneers! - by, Willa Cather
Of Human Bondage - by, W. Somerset Maugham
The Prince and Other Writings - by, Niccolò Machiavelli
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man - by, H.G. Wells
The Way We Live Now - by, Anthony Trollope
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Selected Short Fiction - by, Sarah Orne Jewett
The Call of the Wild and White Fang - by, Jack London
The Inferno (La Divina Commedia, #1) - by, Dante Alighieri
The Moonstone - by, Wilkie Collins
The War of the Worlds - by, H.G. Wells
The Jungle Books - by, Rudyard Kipling
The Brothers Karamazov - by, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Scarlet Letter - by, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories - by, Anton Chekhov

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Wow, that is a boatload of books.

[Wreade1872]

My potential Achievement "BEAT-THE-TIDE: Complete all Owned unread books", has failed as i expected it would. A new haul of gifts, not too many but not going to get though them before years end :) .
The White People and Other Weird Stories, An Orc on the Wild Side, Lovecraft Classic Horror Stories, The Black Hawks, War of the Realms .

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I will never read all of my owned unread books. I feel like that way I can never die.