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

I finished I'm Not Scared by Nico Ammaniti.

The Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Unfortunately, I read this book before reading any of Rousseau's other writings. It should have been read last. He makes frequent references to things he had written in other books before this one and I believe that I lost much of the meaning in this collection of essays because I had not read those other books.

Mike wrote: "I finished I'm Not Scared by Nico Ammaniti."

That was a book I could not put down -- so powerful and riveting.

Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes

The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov.
Good fun, reminded me of Dead Souls in places.

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard. Not for me, I’m afraid.

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

Honeycomb by Dorothy M. Richardson. I'm enjoying this series more than I thought I would.

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Reader by Bernard Schlink. A free Library find.

L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

I managed to read this book without having seen the movie and without ever having heard spoilers. So that was lucky!

Edit: Apparently this book is not on the list and I don't know why I was so convinced it was!

All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani

I finished an addition to my All Time Favorites


Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Midaqq-kuja by Naguib Mahfouz.

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

As If I Am Not There bySlavenka Drakulić

The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald - 4* - My Review

The Man of Property (Book 1 of The Forsyte Saga) by John Galsworthy and Indian Summer of a Forsyte (Book 1.5)

The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

I finished The Recognitions by William Gaddis.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell - 3* - My Review
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 4* - My Review

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

A Ghost at Noon by Alberto Moravia

Finished this brilliant book:
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 5* - My Review

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway.

Marti wrote: "A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway"

My husband and I watched the movie at an Army base in El Paso in 1958 or 1959 and besides me, a lot of soldiers were crying. I have not been able to watch the movie again or read the book. It was a good movie.

Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima The second book in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy.

Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll

It took a long, long, long time- I think I've achieved enlightenment myself- but I have finished The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 5: The Dreamer Wakes, final instalment of The Story of the Stone, also known as Dream of the Red Chamber.

Nocturnalux wrote: "It took a long, long, long time- I think I've achieved enlightenment myself- but I have finished The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 5: The Dreamer Wakes, fi..."

Oh. Wow! How was it?

Rebecca (Adventurer) wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "It took a long, long, long time- I think I've achieved enlightenment myself- but I have finished [book:The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 5: The Dream..."

I liked it a lot. It is surprisingly readable, even if the many, many characters made it a challenge (fortunately, the edition I read comes with a list of characters and I referred to it very frequently) and it some ways, extremely subversive. Given it was written in the 18th century, the focus on women, their inner lives and their value as individuals, is surprising. More, the hero blurs gender lines and there is canon queerness, especially in the early volumes, as well as women bucking conventions.

The last two volumes are authored by an anonymous writer and you can tell, there's an obvious dip in terms of quality but the ending does fit and I glad I read it.

Nocturnalux wrote: "Rebecca (Adventurer) wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "It took a long, long, long time- I think I've achieved enlightenment myself- but I have finished [book:The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the R..."

Excellent! Thank you for sharing. It sounds it will be a worthwhile read.

Nana by Émile Zola

Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

Quicksand by Nella Larsen - 3* - My Review

Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis de Bernières

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

What a mind-blowingly good book.

JenniferAustin wrote: "All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

What a mind-blowingly good book."

Amen. A true must-read.

The Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández

Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien

The Human Stain by Philip Roth - 4* - My Review