Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

I'm about 60 pages into The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, abook I have been meaning to read for years.

I noticed that my library had Cataract by Mykhaylo Osadchy. With only 29 ratings and 5 reviews, I just had to get it. Totally coincidental that I'm reading this immediately after In the First Circle, but I am glad that I will have that background.

I started reading:


The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

and


The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Karen wrote: "Kimberly wrote: "I'd like to start reading Journey to the West so I can get the "X" for the A-Z Challenge. Any recommendations as to which translation to read?"

The best translation is the 4 volum..."

Thank you.

Also reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson

Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel.

The Journey to the West, Volume 2 translated by
Anthony Yu

The Tree of Man by Patrick White.

The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

The Shining by Stephen King.

Mia wrote: "The Shining by Stephen King."

Perfect time of year for that one.

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.

Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov which is surprisingly my third Bulgarian book. On a Kindle for about $3.50. All four of the books I'm reading now are in the 1001 List as I try to complete my Scavenger Hunt.

About to start The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

Whatever by Michel Houellebecq

No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez

The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

I started reading the dystopian classic


We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Just started Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

Just started the audiobook of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

Evelina by Frances Burney.

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, the first book in The Sea of Fertility tetrology.

Diane wrote: "Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, the first book in The Sea of Fertility tetrology."

I got through that tetralogy this year, and it was pure unfiltered Mishima, both the good and the bad, though mostly the good. I'm glad I read a few more works of his in between me acquiring it and tackling it, as it really equipped me to appreciate more than I would have otherwise, to the point that I can see myself making my way through a great deal more of his bibliography.

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

A couple months ago my local book club read the third installment of the You series. There's a part where Joe sees his new love interest recommending a book by Haruki Murakami. "Murakami" becomes a euphemism for something that I will let you discover for yourself.

This month somebody in the same club decided we now needed to read some Murkami. So we are starting The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

I am also starting At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Aubrey wrote: "Diane wrote: "Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, the first book in The Sea of Fertility tetrology."

I got through that tetralogy this year, and it was pure unf..."

I also started with a couple of his smaller works. I'm glad I did. I am really enjoying this one, so far.

Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima, book 2 of The Sea of Fertility.

I just started Les Miserables (Les Miserables). Since I just started this group late this year and you guys are great about not caring when I start an finish books, I thought it was a great time for me to start :-)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.

The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima, book three of The Sea of Fertility.

The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima, book 4 in The Sea of Fertility.

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

I started The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Diane wrote: "Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima, book 2 of The Sea of Fertility."

It's been almost five years since I read this one and I still haven't gone on to the third book. I decided I would read some other Japanese writers. I've read five others now and planning to read Arioshi's The Twilight Years next so perhaps I will get back to Mishima next year.

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjørg Wassmo (my 3rd Norwegian book this year) & Excellent Women by Barbara Pym.

The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
This audiobook contains both of Isherwood's books on the list -- The Last of Mr. Norris (aka Mr. Norris Changes Trains) and Goodbye to Berlin.

The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino. I've really liked what I've read from him so I'm exited.

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons and Under the Sun of Satan by Georges Bernanos

Harvesters by Cesare Pavese.

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second of her books for me- the other was Murder Must Advertise.

Les Choses by Georges Perec, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (planning a road trip and thought I'd listen to this one)

The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger