All About Books discussion

I've decided to keep on playing with numbers - since I really can't understand them!!!
The title is "Geometric Progression", so I'll read one book of one sort, two of another, 4 of a different kind and so forth till 128 ebooks.
As Leslie I count of using the same book for different types of "requests".
Soon the list  

1 Very Very Long Book - over 700 pages
1 Gregory David Roberts Shantaram 1177 Pag ***

And this is done!!!!

2 Plays
1 Richard Congreve, The Way of the World ***
2 Oscar Wilde,  Lady Windermeres Fan: A Play about a Good Woman ****

4 Books written in a different Continent - respect of Europe, of Course!!!
1 Gregory David Roberts Shantaram Asia - India ***
2 Jo Nesbo,  Il pipistrello Australia ****
3 Louise Penny The Cruelest Month Canada - America ****
4 Taiye  Sebasi La bellezza delle cose fragili Africa ***
Actually I've read two more books set outside Europe, But wanted to put Africa in here, so to have the world around

8 Books of authors we've never read before
1 Seth Grahame-Smith La bugia di Natale ***
2 Gregory David Roberts Shantaram ***
3 Stanislaw Lem Solaris ***
4 Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown ***
5 Richard Powers Il tempo di una canzone ***
6 Joseph O'Connor, Il gruppo ***
7 Philip Dick,  The Man in the High Castle ***
8 Taiye  Sebasi La bellezza delle cose fragili ***

16 Books published between 1800 and 1940
1 Anthony Trollope Nina Balatka 1866/67 ***
2 Emile Zola La bestia umana 1890 *****
3 Anne Brontee Agnes Grey 1847 ***
4 Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown 1911 ***
5 Richard Congreve, The Way of the World 1700 ***
6 Anthony Trollope Marion Fay 1882 ****
7 Oscar Wilde,  Lady Windermeres Fan: A Play about a Good Woman 1892 ****
8 Kate Chopin, The Awakening 1899 ****
9 George Bernhard Shaw, Arms and the Man 1894 ***
10 Honorè de Balzac,  Le illusioni perdute 1844 ***
11 Willa Carther, My Ántonia 1918 ***
12 Elisabeth von Arnim, Colpa d'amore 1929 ****
13 Willa Carther, O Pioneers! 1913 ***
14 Emile Zola, Il denaro 1891 ****
15 Willa Carther, The Song of the Lark 1915 ****
16 Antony Trollope, Sir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaite 1871 ***

32 Books in Italian
1 Seth Grahame-Smith La bugia di Natale ***
2 Gregory David Roberts Shantaram ***
3 Stanislaw Lem Solaris ***
4 Emile Zola La bestia umana *****
5 Jo Nesbo,  Il pipistrello ****
6 Jo Nesbo,  Scarafaggi ****
7 Maria Vittoria Molinari La filologia germanica ****
8 Richard Powers Il tempo di una canzone ***
9 Lucia Cesarini Martinelli La filologia ****
10 Nick Hornby Alta fedeltà ***
11 Mary Higgins Clark,  Le piace la musica le piace ballare ****
12 Joseph O'Connor, Il gruppo ***
13 Honorè de Balzac,  Le illusioni perdute ***
14 Taiye  Sebasi La bellezza delle cose fragili ***
15 Elisabeth von Arnim, Colpa d'amore ****
16 Olafsdottir Audur Ava,  L'eccezione ***
17 Philip Roth Inganno **
18 Magda Szabò,  Ditelo a Sofia ***
19 Emile Zola Il denaro ****
20 Sarah Waters, Carezze di velluto ***
21 Magda Szabò La ballata di Iza  ****
22 Philip Dick,  Ma gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche? ****
24 Francesca Borrione Il cinema specchio della realtà. Modelli culturali a confronto ****
25 Antoine Laurain, La donna dal taccuino rosso ***
26 Simon Goodman L'orologio di Orfeo ****
27 Javier Marias Selvaggi e sentimentali. Parole di calcio ****
28 Anthony Doerr, Tutta la luce che non vediamo ****
29 Emile Zola La disfatta ****
30 Pascal Mercier,  Treno di notte per Lisbona ****
31 Abraham Yehoshua  Il Signor Mani  ****
32 Jo Backer, Longbourn House ***

64 Books in English
1 Anthony Trollope Nina Balatka ***
2 Anne Brontee Agnes Grey ***
3 Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown ***
4 Louise Penny The Cruelest Month ****
5 Richard Congreve, The Way of the World ***
6 Richard Powers Orfeo ***
7 James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories ****
8 Jeannette Walls,   The Glass Castle  ****
9 Anthony Trollope Marion Fay ****
10 Oscar Wilde,  Lady Windermeres Fan: A Play about a Good Woman ****
11 Kate Chopin, The Awakening ****
12 Philip Dick,  The Man in the High Castle ****
13 George Bernhard Shaw, Arms and the Man ***
14 Oscar Wilde,  A Woman of No Importance ***
15 Willa Carther, My Ántonia ***
16 Willa Carther, O Pioneers! ***
17 Janet Evanovich  Three to Get Deadly ****
18 Louise Penny  A Rule Against Murder ****
19 Tobias Wolfe, Old School ****
20 Louise Penny The Brutal Telling *****
21 Willa Carther, The Song of the Lark ****
22 Zadie Smith White Teeth ***
23 Antony Trollope, Sir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaite ***
24 Bill Bryson In a Sunburned Country ****
25 Anthony Trollope Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories ****
26 Monica Ali Brick Lane ****
27 Louise Penny Bury Your Dead *****
28 Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna ***
29 Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ***
30 Charlotte Brontee Jane Eyre *****
31 Vera Brittain Testament of Youth ****
32 Lisa Gardner   Alone ***
33 Leonie Swann Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story ***
34 Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin ***
35 Harriet Martineau Deerbrook ****
36 Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose ****
37 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables ****
38 Louise Penny A Trick of the Light ****
39 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea ****
40 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island ****
41 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars ***
42 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams ****
43 Louise Penny The Beautiful Mystery *****
44 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside ****
45 Bulaway Noviolet  We Need New Names ***
46 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley *****
47 Booth TARKINGTON  The Turmoil ****
48 Francis Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age ***
49 Joan Didion  The Year of Magical Thinking ***
50 Booth Tarkington  The Magnificent Ambersons ***
51 Katharine Moore Donwell Abbey ***
52 James Matthew Barrie The Admirable Crichton ***
53 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little **
54 Jane Austen, Lady Susan ****
55 Michael Cunningham The Hours ****
56 Frances Hodgson Burnett,  In the Closed Room ***
57 Jean Smiley A Thousand Acres ****
58 Anthony Trollope An Old Man's Love ***
59 Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II ****
60 Louise Penny How the Light Gets In ****
61 Wilkie Collins The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice ****
62 Louise Penny The Long Way Home ****
63 Lucy Maud Montgomery The Blythes Are Quoted ****
64 Horson Wells The Invisible Man ***

128 EBooks
1 Seth Grahame-Smith La bugia di Natale ebook ***
2 Anthony Trollope Nina Balatka abook ***
3 Gregory David Roberts Shantaram ebook ***
4 Stanislaw Lem Solaris ebook ***
5 Anne Brontee Agnes Grey abook ***
6 Jo Nesbo,  Il pipistrello ebook ****
7 Jo Nesbo,  Scarafaggi ebook ***
8 Louise Penny The Cruelest Month ebook ****
9 Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown abook ***
10 Richard Congreve, The Way of the World abook ***
11 Jamie  Ford   Come un fiore ribelle ebook ***
12 Richard Powers Il tempo di una canzone ebook ***
13 Nick Hornby Alta fedeltà ebook ***
14 Mary Higgins Clark,  Le piace la musica le piace ballare ebook ****
15 Joseph O'Connor, Il gruppo ebook ***
16 Richard Powers Orfeo ebook ***
17 James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories ebook ****
18 Jeannette Walls,  The Glass Castle  ebook ****
19 Anthony Trollope Marion Fay abook ****
20 Oscar Wilde,  Lady Windermeres Fan: A Play about a Good Woman abook ****
21 Philip Dick,  The Man in the High Castle ebook ****
22 Kate Chopin, The Awakening abook ****
23 Oscar Wilde,  A Woman of No Importance abook ***
24 Honorè de Balzac,  Le illusioni perdute ebook ***
25 Willa Carther, My Ántonia abook ***
26 Taiye  Sebasi La bellezza delle cose fragili ebook ***
27 Elisabeth von Arnim, Colpa d'amore ebook ****
28 Willa Carther, O Pioneers! abook ***
29 Olafsdottir Audur Ava,  L'eccezione ebook ***
30 Philip Roth Inganno ebook **
31 Janet Evanovich  Three to Get Deadly ebook ****
32 Magda Szabò,  Ditelo a Sofia ebook ***
33 Louise Penny A Rule Against Murder ebook ****
34 Tobias Wolfe, Old School ebook ****
35 Louise Penny The Brutal Telling ebook *****
36 Willa Carther, The Song of the Lark abook ****
37 Zadie Smith White Teeth ebook ***
38 Sarah Waters, Carezze di velluto ebook ***
39 Antony Trollope, Sir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaite abook ***
40 Bill Bryson In a Sunburned Country ebook ****
41 Anthony Trollope Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories ebook ****
42 Philip Dick,  Ma gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche? ebook ****
43 Luigi Mazzone Un autistico in famiglia: Le risposte ai problemi quotidiani dei genitori di ragazzi autistici ebook ****
44 Monica Ali Brick Lane ebook ****
45 Louise Penny Bury Your Dead ebook *****
46 Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna ebook ***
47 Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ebook ***
48 Antoine Laurain, La donna dal taccuino rosso ebook ***
49 Charlotte Brontee Jane Eyre abook *****
50 Vera Brittain Testament of Youth ebook ****
51 Lisa Gardner   Alone ebook ****
52 Leonie Swann Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story ebook ***
53 Angela Thirkell High Rising ebook ****
54 Louise Penny The Hangman ebook ***
55 Tasha Alexander And Only to Deceive ebook ***
56 Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin ebook ***
57 Anthony Doerr, Tutta la luce che non vediamo ebook ****
58 Harriet Martineau Deerbrook abook ****
59 Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose ebook ****
60 Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables abook ****
61 Louise Penny A Trick of the Light ebook ****
62 Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Avonlea abook ****
63 Jo Backer, Longbourn House ebook ***
64 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island abook ****
65 Haley Tanner Cose da salvare in caso di incendio ebook ****
66 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars ebook ***
67 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams abook ****
68 Louise Penny The Beautiful Mystery ebook ****
69 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside ebook ****
70 Bulaway Noviolet  We Need New Names ebook ***
71 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley abook *****
72 Qiu Xiaolong Quando il rosso è nero ebook ***
73 Colleen McCullough, Le signore di Missolungi ebook ***
74 Hannah Richell Le bambine che cercavano conchiglie ebook ***
75 Booth TARKINGTON  The Turmoil abook ****
76 Esther Kreitman Singer L'uomo che vendeva diamanti ebook ****
77 Silvana De Mari  Io mi chiamo Yorsh ebook ***
78 Francis Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age ebook ****
79 Joan Didion  The Year of Magical Thinking ebook ****
80 Booth Tarkington  The Magnificent Ambersons abook ***
81 Katharine Moore Donwell Abbey ebook ***
82 Emile Zola Doctor Pascal ebook ***
83 James Matthew Barrie The Admirable Crichton abook ***
84 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little ebook **
85 Jane Austen, Lady Susan abook ****
86 Michael Cunningham The Hours ebook ****
87 Frances Hodgson Burnett,  In the Closed Room abook ***
88 Jean Smiley A Thousand Acres ebook ****
89 Anthony Trollope An Old Man's Love abook ***
90 Giorgio Bassani Cinque storie ferraresi ebook ****
91 Andrea Molesini Non tutti i bastardi sono di Vienna ebook ***
92 Agnes Martin-Lugand  La gente felice legge e beve caffè ebook **
93 Robert Seethaler Il tabaccaio di Vienna ebook ***
94 Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II abook ****
95 Eugen Ruge In tempi di luce declinante ebook ***
96 Louise Penny How the Light Gets In ebook ****
97 Wilkie Collins The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice abook ****
98 Louise Penny The Long Way Home ebook ****
99 Lucy Maud Montgomery The Blythes Are Quoted ebook ****
100 Horson Wells The Invisible Man abook ***
101 Elisabeth Howard,  Confusion ebook ****
102 Frances Hodgson Burnett,  A Fair Barbarian abook ****
103 Elisabeth Howard,  Confusion ebook ****
104 J. K. Rowling,  The Silkworm ebook ****
105 Jo Nesbo Nemesi ebook ****
107 Anthony Trollope Ralph the Heir abook ****
108 Paolo Malaguti La reliquia di Costantinopoli ebook **
109 Elena Ferrante Storia del nuovo cognome ebook ****
110 Elena Ferrante Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta ebook ****
111 Elena Ferrante Storia della bambina perduta ebook ****
112 Fiona Barton La vedova ebook ****
113 Amy Bloom Beate noi ebook ****
114 Tracy Cevalier Strane creature ebook ****
115 Caroline Blackwood La duchessa ebook ***
116 Lucy Maud Montgomery, A Tangled Web ebook ****
117 Elisabeth Strout,  My Name Is Lucy Barton ebook ****
118 Lagercrantz - David  Quello che non uccide ebook ****
119 Ruta Sepetys Between Shades of Gray ebook ****
120 Michael Cunningham Un cigno selvatico ebook ***
121 Micheal Dibdin Ratking ebook ***
122 Ellen Wood  The Channings abook ****
123 Stephen King  Different Seasons ebook ****
124 Carlo Levi Cristo si è fermato a Eboli abook ****
125 Antonio Manzini Pista nera ebook ***
126 Susan Ee World After ebook ***
127 Alexander McCall Smith  The Full Cupboard of Life ebook ***
128 Marylinne Robinson Housekeeping ebook ***

Good luck! I'm sure you will manage to read all those books.
Did you already think about which book with more than 700 pages to read?

I like your geometric progression Laura! I too am curious which big fat book you will choose...

I still have to consider. Pity I have already started A Suitable Boy

Wow, those numbers get big fast don't they? Good luck!

Evelyn wrote: "Wow, those numbers get big fast don't they? Good luck!"

I'm already getting confused!!!!

Let's go BINGO!
I've decided to list Lucy Maud Montgomery The Blythes Are Quoted as my poetry book. It is not only poems - actually they are mainly short stories, but there a re a lot of poems by the author between chapters. That's the most I can do tith poetry!!!!
And in this way I've finished it! I'll see to start a new square now ...

A 1 a book in translation Emile Zola La bestia umana *****
A 2 that reminds you of your childhood Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables *****
A 3 about an unfamiliar topic Willa Carther, My Ántonia  the frontier*** 
A 4 about a learning disability Luigi Mazzone Un autistico in famiglia: Le risposte ai problemi quotidiani dei genitori di ragazzi autistici
 A 5 by an AAB seasonal author Sarah Waters Carezze di velluto *** 
 B 1 a book with scientists Stanislaw Lem Solaris ***
B 2 about a natural disaster Philip Dick,  Ma gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche? ****
B 3 written in epistolar style Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin ***
B 4 that includes a major historical event Seth Grahame-Smith La bugia di Natale The birth of Jesus Christ ***
B 5 you have owned for a year or more Taiye  Sebasi La bellezza delle cose fragili *** 
C 1 a book with more than 250 pages Anthony Trollope Nina Balatka - pag. 454 ***
C 2 of poetry Lucy Maud Montgomery The Blythes Are Quoted ****
C 3 AAB group read Kate Chopin, The Awakening ****
C 4 of Fary Tales, Mytology, Mythic Fiction Silvana De Mari  Io mi chiamo Yorsh ***
C 5 with the protagonist of the opposit gender Jo Nesbo, Il pipistrello **** 
 D 1 a book first published between 1910-1920 Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown *** 
D 2 with magic Haley Tanner Cose da salvare in caso di incendio ****
D 3 set in a Country not your own Gregory David Roberts Shantaram ***
D 4 with a colour in the title Zadie Smith White Teeth *** 
 D 5 based on a play Richard Congreve The Way of the World *** 
 E 1 a book that features an animal James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories ****
E 2 by an author with the same name of an ancester of yours Anne Brontee Agnes Grey Anna was my great grand mother ***
E 3 with a LGBT as protagonist Olafsdottir Audur Ava,  L'eccezione *** 
E 4 by a local author Francesca Borrione Il cinema specchio della realtà. Modelli culturali a confronto ****
 E 5 chosen by someone elese (Terri for the SWAPP) Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle ****


A XXXXX 
B XXXXX
C XXXXX 
D XXXXX 
E XXXXX

LauraT wrote: "2 Plays
1 Richard Congreve, The Way of the World ***
2 Oscar Wilde,  Lady Windermeres Fan: A Play about a Good Woman ****"

William Congreve? I think that this play is in my Four great comedies of the restoration and 18th century...

Not bad Leslie

And here's the second bingo square; I'll see if I can finish it. No rush ...

A 1 a book in translation Jo Nesbo Nemesi ****
A 2 that reminds you of your childhood
A 3 about an unfamiliar topic
A 4 about a learning disability
A 5 by an AAB seasonal author
B 1 a book with scientists
B 2 about a natural disaster
B 3 written in epistolar style
B 4 that includes a major historical event Geraldine Brook,  Year of Wonders the plague of 1666 ****
B 5 you have owned for a year or more Lagercrantz - David  Quello che non uccide
C 1 a book with more than 250 pages Paolo Malaguti La reliquia di Costantinopoli (pag 590) Reading now
C 2 of poetry
C 3 AAB group read Horson Wells The Invisible Man ****
C 4 of Fary Tales, Mytology, Mythic Fiction
C 5 with the protagonist of the opposit gender Anthony Trollope Ralph the Heir Reading now
D 1 a book first published between 1910-1920
D 2 with magic J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
D 3 set in a Country not your own Elisabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
D 4 with a colour in the title Ruta Sepetys Between Shades of Gray
D 5 based on a play Jean Smiley A Thousand Acres ****
E 1 a book that features an animal
E 2 by an author with the same name of an ancester of yours
E 3 with a LGBT as protagonist
E 4 by a local author
E 5 chosen by someone elese Elisabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton



A XOOOO
B OOOXO
C OOXOO
D OOOOX 
E OOOOO

How do you manage this?! You work, you have a house, you have a family, you go to the swimming-pool....

Phew! These are impressive lists!

dely wrote: "How do you manage this?! You work, you have a house, you have a family, you go to the swimming-pool...."

I'm reading quite a lot less than before! But now I have a really interesting job and a lot to do at my office!