In approximate order of reading:
February 2006: Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
June 2006: The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque by Jeffery Ford
July/August 2006: Abhorsen by Garth Nix
August 2006: Lucky by Alice Sebold
October 2006: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
November 2006: Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
November 2006: Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote
February 2007: The Don't Judge a Book-Box
February 2007: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
March 2007: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
June/July 2007: Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
July 2007: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
July 2007: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
August 2007: The Art of Arrow Cutting by Stephen Dedman
November 2007: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
December 2007: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
December 2007: The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
January 2008: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
January 2008: Surprise Fiction Bookbag
March 2008: Adrian Mole Bookbag
April 2008: Urn Burial, Kerry Greenwood
April 2008: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
August 2008Until I Find You by John Irving
September 2008: Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
January 2009: In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
February 2009: The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
April 2009: Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
May 2009: My Israel Question by Antony Lowenstein
June 2009: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
August 2009: Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Still awaiting:
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Passing by Nella Larson
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Women, T.C. Boyle
Saturday, 7 July 2007
Bookrings I Have Started
These are the book rings, rays and spirals that I am running through Bookcrossing. Please contact me (KLL) through the Bookcrossing PM system if you would like to join.
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
International spiral. Started February 7th 2007.
The Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld: Uglies, Pretties, Specials.
International spiral. Started June 6th 2007.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
International ring. Started February 13th 2007.
1001 Books to Read Before You Die Australian Book Bag
Started January 10th 2007.
The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan: The Magician's Guild, The Novice, The High Lord.
Australian Bookring. Starting May 2009.
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
International spiral. Started February 7th 2007.
The Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld: Uglies, Pretties, Specials.
International spiral. Started June 6th 2007.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
International ring. Started February 13th 2007.
1001 Books to Read Before You Die Australian Book Bag
Started January 10th 2007.
The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan: The Magician's Guild, The Novice, The High Lord.
Australian Bookring. Starting May 2009.
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Wednesday, 4 July 2007
2007 Booklist
Wot I read in 2007. I was aiming to read an average of one book a week - 52 for the year, which I totally passed :-)
- The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood (*excellent*)
- The Princess Bride, abridged by William Goldman (lovely!)
- What Maisie Knew, Henry James (sharp, clever)
- Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (charismatic!)
- the five people you meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom (meh)
- Love and Freindship and Other Early Works, Jane Austen (jane!)
- The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter (wow. *crazy*)
- The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, Eva Rice (pleasant)
- The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke (tedious *and* pretentious!)
- The Unadulterated Cat, Pratchett & Jolliffe (amusing fluff)
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (pretty good, ok)
- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (not bad)
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (also *excellent*)
- My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin (not at all what I was expecting, but glad to have read it)
- Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Elizabeth von Arnim (unexpectedly charming)
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (a good solid read)
- The Man in the Ice, Konrad Spindler (fascinating stuff!!)
- The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield (the best short story collection I have read)
- Enchanted Places, Christopher Milne (charming nostalgia fix)
- The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe (gothic stodge)
- The Enormous Room, e. e. cummings (I wish I knew French!)
- Illywhacker, Peter Carey (really good!)
- Ghost World, Daniel Clowes (graphic novel. does it count??)
- Frost in May, Antonia White (excellent, but the Catholics scared me!)
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (war is bad, but sparse)
- The Tin Drum, Günter Grass (highly original, but insane)
- Wilderness Tips, Margaret Atwood (more excellent shorts)
- c0ck (Adventures in Masculnity, Andrew Macrae and Keith Stevenson, eds.(reread for review)
- Put on by Cunning, Ruth Rendell (sub-par murder mystery)
- The Etched City, K.J. Bishop (regretably almost bored out of my mind!)
- Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk (i can not talk about Fight Club)
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt (compelling)
- The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall (the bible of lesbianism!)
- Where Angels Fear to Tread, E. M. Forster (impressive)
- Black Sheep, Ben Peek (dystopian)
- The Art of Arrow Cutting, Stephen Dedman (fun but slight)
- Seven Ancient Wonders, Matthew Reilly (zOMG! AWFUL!!)
- The Wife of Martin Guerre, Janet Lewis (morally interesting)
- In My Father's Den, Maurice Gee (literary new zealand)
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells (mixed bag)
- Death of a Perfect Wife, M. C. Beaton (disappointing pretty much covers it...)
- The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides (pointless? fascinating)
- North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (politics *and* sex!! ok, not *sex* sex...)
- The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy (wessex tragedy)
- The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Justine Larbalestier (read for review)
- Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawks (good mostly clean fun)
- Death of a Glutton, M. C. Beaton (wet)
- Death of a Cad, M. C. Beaton (wet)
- Death of a Snob, M. C. Beaton (wet)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon (KAPOWIE!!!)
- THEM, Jon Ronson (far out!)
- Kesrith, Book 1 of the Faded Sun Trilogy, C. J. Cherryh (eh)
- The Fat Man in History, Peter Carey (good flash fiction actually exists!!)
- A Keeper of Sheep, William Carpeneter (mebbe a bit... self important. and no quotation marks!!)
- Chicks 'n Chained Males, Esther Friesner, ed. (fluff of variable quality)
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (fun romp)
- Death of a Hussy, M. C. Beaton (fee)
- Death of a Prankster, M. C. Beaton (fie)
- Death of a Gossip, M. C. Beaton (foe)
- Death of an Outsider, M. C. Beaton (fum)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (*real* - and uplifting)
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, Sue Townsend (trip back in time)
- The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend (more nostalgia)
- Postcards from the Edge, Carrie fisher (sweet without schmaltz)
- Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood (v. good, accomplished)
- True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Sue Townsend (non-plussed, again)
- White Tiger, Kylie Chan (sub-standard)
- The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper (good!)
- The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books, ed. J. Peder Zane (mmm... listy!)
Labels:
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1001 List of Books: What I've Read
I've decided to keep better track of which of the 1001 Books To Read Before You Die that I've read, plus colour code them for easy reference :-)
Colour coding:
Gold: OMFG! I think this book is brilliant!
Green: A good or very good book, but not making my OMFG list.
Blue: OK. Meh. Whatever. I have nothing against this book.
Brown: I did not like this book.
I've also put in links to my BC entries, where they exist. Some comments are more informative than others :-) Some books will have comments from others too and I'm not necessarily the first.
Colour coding:
Gold: OMFG! I think this book is brilliant!
Green: A good or very good book, but not making my OMFG list.
Blue: OK. Meh. Whatever. I have nothing against this book.
Brown: I did not like this book.
I've also put in links to my BC entries, where they exist. Some comments are more informative than others :-) Some books will have comments from others too and I'm not necessarily the first.
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro http://what-k-read.blogspot.com/2008/02/review-never-let-me-go-by-kazuo.html
- Saturday – Ian McEwan http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4350332
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
The Sea – John Banville
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Master – Colm Tóibín
Vanishing Point – David Markson
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour – Rose Tremain
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3058001 (i feel it is slightly tragic that this floating round in a lift in Hampshire :-/)
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
The Double – José Saramago
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer - Unless – Carol Shields http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6744669/
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5016427/
Shroud – John Banville - Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4770291/
Youth – J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
Schooling – Heather McGowan - Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Fury – Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk - Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
How the Dead Live – Will Self
The Human Stain – Philip Roth - The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4771358
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb - The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi - Amsterdam – Ian McEwan http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4298445
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters - The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4868938
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon - The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (I liked this one so much, I bought it twice!) http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2310183
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4469842
Great Apes – Will Self - Enduring Love – Ian McEwan http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4298460
Underworld – Don DeLillo - Jack Maggs – Peter Carey (so very nearly gold)
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Untouchable – John Banville
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin - Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3427622/
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner - The Information – Martin Amis http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4067998
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink - A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (fucking depressing at the end though)
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Land – Park Kyong-ni
The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres (average book, but end was stoopid)
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm - The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
- Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh (although not *actually* my favorite of Welsh's)
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth - Complicity – Iain Banks
On Love – Alain de Botton
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe - A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth (long!)
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields - The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5425595/
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald - The Secret History – Donna Tartt http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5109209
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Indigo – Marina Warner - The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Jazz – Toni Morrison
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje - Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg (got a bit weird in the end)
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Arcadia – Jim Crace - Wild Swans – Jung Chang
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis (*nasty*) http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4458638
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Typical – Padgett Powell
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Downriver – Iain Sinclair
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge - The Music of Chance – Paul Auster http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3517005/
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
Like Life – Lorrie Moore - Possession – A.S. Byatt
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
A Disaffection – James Kelman
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson - Moon Palace – Paul Auster http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5680220
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai - The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2310170
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago - Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (I liked the movie better :-O)
- A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2310135
London Fields – Martin Amis
The Book of Evidence – John Banville
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson - The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst - Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Libra – Don DeLillo - The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3021764
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams - The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabblehttp://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1800630/
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews - The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe (bit of a non-event for me)
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae - Beloved – Toni Morrison
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Foe – J.M. Coetzee
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson - The Cider House Rules – John Irving (book is way better than the movie)
A Maggot – John Fowles
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
Contact – Carl Sagan - The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3482427/
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Queer – William Burroughs
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Legend – David Gemmell
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic - The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6912787/
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
The Lover – Marguerite Duras - Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5891605/
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter - The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6567298/
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis - Shame – Salman Rushdie
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
Waterland – Graham Swift
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White - The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally Not going to read - The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Newton Letter – John Banville
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
The Names – Don DeLillo
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee - Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard - The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan - The World According to Garp – John Irving (probably only gold cos of sentimental value)
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
Yes – Thomas Bernhard - The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee - The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter (a really interesting read. the story is very original. I've never read anything quite like it before...)
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin - The Shining – Stephen King
Dispatches – Michael Herr
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o - Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison (not sure I really 'got' this one :-O)
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
The Public Burning – Robert Coover - Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice (it'd probably go up to green, if you consider books 2 and 3 as well) http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3167492
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
W, or the Memory of childhood – Georges Perec
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
Fateless – Imre Kertész
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Correction – Thomas Bernhard
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
A Question of Power – Bessie Head
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino - Crash – J.G. Ballard http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6912782/
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
Sula – Toni Morrison
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
The Breast – Philip Roth
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
G – John Berger - Surfacing – Margaret Atwood (really good, but it went *weird* at the end!)
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson (they're not *sensible* people, but it's good fun ;-)
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
The Ogre – Michael Tournier
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3676586/
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth - The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
Them – Joyce Carol Oates
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5552015/
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
Chocky – John Wyndham
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
The Joke – Milan Kundera
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Magus – John Fowles
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Things – Georges Perec
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
Herzog – Saul Bellow
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess - The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (this *could* probably be green, but i didn't really connect with it)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn - The Collector – John Fowles (the fact I did it in school probably made me appreciate it more than I would otherwise have)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark - Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien - To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs - The Tin Drum – Günter Grass http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5176753/
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll - Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2381834
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
The End of the Road – John Barth
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss – Patrick White - The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Homo Faber – Max Frisch - On the Road – Jack Kerouac (interesting that the book was written cts-ly on a typewriter, but I could only disapprove of the main character's actions)
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
The Floating Opera – John Barth - The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis - The Story of O – Pauline Réage (i didin't hate it, but I was a bit wtf...)
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia - Lord of the Flies – William Golding (brutal stuff!)
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
Watt – Samuel Beckett
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Junkie – William Burroughs
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin - Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett - Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
- Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq - The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Rebel – Albert Camus
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren - Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
The Victim – Saul Bellow
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino - The Plague – Albert Camus (bleak!)
Back – Henry Green
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri? - Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- Cannery Row – John Steinbeck http://what-k-read.blogspot.com/2008/05/review-cannery-row-by-john-steinbeck.html
- The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford (luvverly)
Loving – Henry Green
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Transit – Anna Seghers
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow - The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (I have friends who *love* this book. I've never been fussed...)
Caught – Henry Green
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
Embers – Sandor Marai
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
The Outsider – Albert Camus
In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
The Hamlet – William Faulkner
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Native Son – Richard Wright
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
Party Going – Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston - The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Years – Virginia Woolf
In Parenthesis – David Jones
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West - Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell (many many pages!! but pretty readable :-)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
England Made Me – Graham Greene
Burmese Days – George Orwell
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald - Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse (beautifully absurd)
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
A Day Off – Storm Jameson
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
The Waves – Virginia Woolf
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning - Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
Passing – Nella Larsen - A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5176738
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Living – Henry Green
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia - All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5715448/
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille - Orlando – Virginia Woolf (i probably didn't get it all...)
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence (not as scandalous as I was hoping for)
- The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5350125/
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
Quartet – Jean Rhys
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Nadja – André Breton
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Amerika – Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Blindness – Henry Green
The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie (not my favorite, but I understand why this is here)
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf - The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (not fussed really)
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin - A Passage to India – E.M. Forster (a bit depressing)
The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
Cane – Jean Toomer
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
Amok – Stefan Zweig - The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5109885
- The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings (almost gold!) http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5123931/
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf - Siddhartha – Herman Hesse http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5829079/
The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley - The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (read it cos I'd seen the movie)
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
Summer – Edith Wharton
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence - The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan (Buchan does good adventure)
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence - Death in Venice – Thomas Mann (how can such a short book be made into such a mindlessly boring movie??)
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre - Howards End – E.M. Forster
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
Martin Eden – Jack London
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse - A Room With a View – E.M. Forster http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1326651
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
Mother – Maxim Gorky
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Young Törless – Robert Musil
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4481405
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann - Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5357326/
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
The Immoralist – André Gide
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James - Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6912783/
- The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5776744
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James - The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5776747/
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells - What Maisie Knew – Henry James http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4509831
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide - Dracula – Bram Stoker (a bit, you know, gothic :-)
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross - The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4515785
Born in Exile – George Gissing - Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6323300/
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
News from Nowhere – William Morris
New Grub Street – George Gissing
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson - The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5473232
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
Germinal – Émile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Nana – Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev - Middlemarch – George Eliot
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (it was fine when I was younger, but since I grew up, 'Little Women" has only pissed me off)
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope - Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3884606
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens (my favorite Dickens)
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Silas Marner – George Eliot - Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot - The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar – Multatuli - A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert - North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5441163
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne - Moby-Dick – Herman Melville http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3947370
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1014571
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë (Brontës aren't normally my thing but I didn't mind thisactually)
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (thought was very fucking stupid first time I read it, not so bad the second time) http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5223317
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë - Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (Brown on principle! Jane Eyre is a moron!)
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott< - Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (not really for me...)
- Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (love Jane, but feel this is her 'slightest' book. yes, I know it's poking fun at the gothic romance novels)
- Persuasion – Jane Austen http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3241981
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott - Emma – Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth - Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun – Denis Diderot
Camilla – Fanny Burney
The Monk – M.G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe (need to read 'Northanger Abbey' again now I've read this) http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5070364
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Vathek – William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
Cecilia – Fanny Burney
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evelina – Fanny Burney
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Candide – Voltaire
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
Amelia – Henry Fielding
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill – John Cleland - Tom Jones – Henry Fielding (good fun)
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Roxana – Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
Aithiopika – Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
Metamorphoses – Ovid
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
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