All About Books discussion

1. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes.
2. Ancient Light by John Banville.
3. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata.
4. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata.
5. Patriotism by Yukio Mishima.
6. After Dark by Haruki Murakami.
7. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
8. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
9. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
10. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.
11. I, Alex Cross by James Patterson.
12. Playing with Fire by Peter Robertson.
13. St. Kateri: Lily of the Mohawks by Matthew Bunson.
14. The Mass and its Folklore by John Hobson Matthews.
15. Towards a Theology of the Environment by Paul Haffner.
16. Edith Stein and her Companions on the way to Auschwitz by Paul Hamans.
17. Chance or Purpose by Christoph Cardinal Schonborn.
18. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes.
19. Common Prayer by Fiona Sampson.
20. Papa Francesco: La Vita e Le Sfide by Saverio Gaeta.
21. On Death by John Donne.
22. The Shadow of his Wings by Gereon Karl Goldmann.
23. Anna Schaffer: An Example for the Sick, the Suffering and the Poor.
24. Thoughts and Memories of My life of Illness and My Longing for the Eternal Home Land by Anna Schaffer.
25. Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi.
26. Saint Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton.
27. Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
28. Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi.
29. Silk by Alessandro Baricco.
30. Indian Nocturne by Antonio Tabucchi.
31. Mythologies by Roland Barthes.
32. Test Everything by Hans Urs von Balthasar.
33. Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi.
34. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson.
35. The Soul of a Lion by Alice von Hildebrand.
36. Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino.
37. My Sisters: The Saints by Colleen Carroll Campbell.
38. Razing the Bastions by Hans Urs von Balthasar.
39. Il Ballo by Irene Nemirovsky.
40. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
41. Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino.
42. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.
43. The King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
44. Sparrow, Temptation and Cavalleria Rusticana (Sicilian Novelle) by Giovanni Verga.
45. Gray Areas by Carmen Burcea-Haber.
46. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
47. The Wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky.
48. As it is in Heaven by Niall Williams.

49. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

50. The Lady in the Looking Glass by Virginia Woolf.

A lot of books I don't know at all. Very interesting list but have read and loved

If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvini

Italo Calvino is one of my favourite authors. I love him a lot. Try his OUR ANCESTORS Trilogy.
P. S. I am on an undeclared mission to finish all of his writings.

Italo Calvino is one of my favourite authors. I love him a lot. Try his OUR ANCESTORS Trilogy.
P. S. I am on an undeclared mission to finish all of his writings.

I have Adam one afternoon but haven't started it yet.

I have not read it. But surely I will read it. Calvino has not disappointed me till today. And so, I assure you that you will have a good time.

Thank you. :)

Nice list. I notice you've read a couple of Virginia Woolf, I've been working my way through some of hers this year, have you read any others?

@ Pink, Sadly I had read just only those two books. I loved A ROOM oF ONE'S OWN. The other short story collection had some interesting stories. But I can not say that I loved the entire collection. I have however decided to read two of her novels - To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dallowey. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN is an interesting collection of lectures. If you love Jane Austen or George Eliot then you would love it all the more.

I've read Mrs Dalloway and A Room of One's Own, which I both liked. I have Orlando and The Waves on my bookshelf to try next :)

Wow! Nice to hear that. Have a great time with Woolf.

51. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.

52. Poesie di Dio by Enzo Bianchi (Ed.)

53. Jesus: An Historical Approximation by Jose A. Pagola.

Dhanaraj - I want to recommend you read Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. I am almost done with it now, and I think you would really like it. It is set in New Mexico USA at the end of WW2, and the narrator is a young boy struggling with ideas about religion and God such as: If all sinners get forgiveness, then how can there be justice? If God is all-powerful, then why do devout Catholics still suffer from terrible misfortunes? Plus, since he is Chicano (Mexican-American) there are still some "old" beliefs about witches etc to contend with.

Thanks Leslie. That was an interesting book and I love themes like the ones you mentioned. I have added it to my 'To Read List'.

Dhanaraj wrote: "Thanks Leslie. That was an interesting book and I love themes like the ones you mentioned. I have added it to my 'To Read List'."

Hopefully it won't be too difficult to find.

I found that it costs 10 Euros according to the online bookstore that I usually frequent for the books that I do not get in the regular bookshops. The book is available. Only I have to find time for it little later.

54. Father & I: A Memoir by Carlo Gebler.

55. Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien.

56. The Clown by Heinrich Böll.

57. Youth Without God by Ödön von Horváth.
58. The Queen's Necklace by Italo Calvino.

59. The Magic Paint by Primo Levi.

60. Waiting for God by Simone Weil.

61. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott.

62. Água Viva by Clarice Lispector.

63. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig.

64. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

65. A Model Childhood by Christa Wolf.

66. Mimosa: A True Story by Amy Carmichael.

67. We have Found Mercy: The Mystery of God's Merciful Love by Christoph Schönborn.

68. Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint by Cecilia Ferrazzi.

I really don't know how you read so much, Dhanaraj!

I really want to read If On A Winters Night A Traveller, but it just seems so daunting!

Holly, Start If on a Winter's Night and compel yourself to read just twenty pages and then I say that you will stop only at the end of the book.
By the way, have you read Calvino's Invisible Cities?
Anything by Calvino is masterclass. With Calvino I am prejudiced and happily so.....

69. If by Amy Carmichael.

Wow, that was fast!

That was a small book. So it went very fast.

70. A Sorrow beyond Dreams by Peter Handke.

71. Parables of the Cross by I. Lilias Trotter.
72. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

73. Abducting Diana by Dario Fo.

74. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek.

75. Novecento: Un Monologo by Alessandro Baricco.

76. Job: The Story of a Simple Man by Joseph Roth.

77. The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf.