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

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

Ellinor wrote: "Karen wrote: "A Day Off by Storm Jameson
I'm having trouble finding this one. It seems to be unavailable everywhere."

I found it at the Internet Archive (archive.org). It is one of three novellas in her book Women Against Men.

Now working on Notre-Dame de Paris / aka The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and If This Is a Man by Primo Levi.

Rose wrote: "The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch"

I liked that one but thought it overly long.

Karen wrote: "Ellinor wrote: "Karen wrote: "A Day Off by Storm Jameson
I'm having trouble finding this one. It seems to be unavailable everywhere."

I found it at the Internet Archi..."

Perfect, I'll check that out. Thanks!

Alice wrote: "The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain"

One of my favorites!

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "Alice wrote: "The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain"

One of my favorites!"

RJ, my copy also included Double Indemnity (not a list book). Both are very good, and quick reads. I'm now watching the movie TPARW with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. May watch DI with weekend.

Alice wrote: "RJ, my copy also included Double Indemnity (not a list book). Both are very good, and quick reads. I'm now watching the movie TPARW with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. May watch DI with weekend."

I also really enjoyed DI but Postman is truly a step above. Check out the 1946 film with Lana Turner and James Garfield, who had a brief affair during filming. Cain enjoyed Turner's performance so much he inscribed a leather-bound copy of the novel and gave it to her. Seeing old time Laguna Beach circa 1946 is interesting too, at least for me since I live about 25 miles away from there.

Notre-Dame de Paris The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (started a few days ago) and

The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima (the third book in The Sea of Fertility)

The Green Man by Kingsley Amis.

News from Nowhere by William Morris and A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Home by Marilynne Robinson and Burmese Days by George Orwell

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson.

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima (#4 of The Sea of Fertility)

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

Fools of Fortune by William Trevor of Ireland and Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion, American. Both fairly short.

Aesop's Fables by Aesop

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. My edition has over 1300 pages so I'll take my time with this one.

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

I also started Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson.

I started Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges couple of days ago.

Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin and Compassion (more commonly known as Misericordia by Benito Pérez Galdós

Karina wrote: "I started Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges couple of days ago."

I love Borges! Have you read Ficciones?

Nocturnalux wrote: "Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert"

Me too, yesterday. Last book in the scavenger hunt for me. Didn't love it but it's historically influential.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

I recently started The Heather Blazing. Enjoying it so far! :)

anna karenina

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

House Mother Normal by B.S. Johnson.

Rose wrote: "The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing"

I read it this year. I'm interested to know what you think about it.

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

The Professor's House by Willa Cather.

I started reading perhaps the most revered war novel ever


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope and The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat.

Forest of the Hanged by Liviu Rebreanu and The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections by V.S. Naipaul

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

Moby Dick

I just finished Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton. Thumbs up!

Solaris by Stanisław Lem. I'm already liking this.

Mia wrote: "Solaris by Stanisław Lem. I'm already liking this."

It's good and weird.

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

Karen wrote: "Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin and Compassion (more commonly known as Misericordia by Benito Pérez Galdós"

I have not, but I will! I know some of it overlaps!

The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín

Fools of Fortune by William Trevor