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Definitely not for meReading Japanese Literature (TSS)
Dolce Bellezza is hosting a second Japanese literature challenge from July 30, 2008 through January 30, 2009. I enjoyed the first challenge immensely as all three of the books I read were excellent! Bellezza gives some great ideas for books to read at her site. Just click on the icon for more information.
I’m not sure what I’m reading yet, but I know I’ll be participating. The most likely authors will be Shusaku Endo, Haruki Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, or Nobel prize winners Kawabata or Oe. If you’re participating also, check out my reviews from the first challenge. I read some great books!
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Review: Unaccustomed Earth
Although I haven’t yet read Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize winning Interpreter of Maladies, after reading Unaccustomed Earth, I can understand why the committee was so impressed with her writing. Her stories of the Bengali immigrant experience were very well developed, and they had closure to them, something I’ve noticed is often times lacking in modern short stories. All the characters in the book have similar backgrounds — high intelligence and high potential — yet each story was unique. Each character was struggling with his or her own set of issues, most of them due to the individuals’ adjustment, or lack thereof, of living in a culture so different from their own or that of their parents.
Themes explored include family, loyalty, duty, and honor. Relationships encountered were father and daughter, husband and wife, brother and sister, roommate to roommate, and childhood friend to childhood friend. Birth, life, marriage, children, divorce, and death. These few stories covered a wide range of experiences of the Bengali immigrant living in America and illustrated well how being Bengali shaped the characters’ choices.
Highly recommended. I will definitely be reading Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake at a later date.
2008, 333 pp.
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BAFAB Week Winners!
Winners! Thanks to random.org, the winners of my 3 bookmooch/pbs credits are (comments #10, #11, and #13):
If you can give me your pbs/bookmooch id’s, I’ll get your credits to you. Congrats!
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Review: Daughters of the North
Daughters of the North, known as The Carhullan Army in the UK, is a dystopian novel set in an environmentally and economically ravaged Britain. Citizens are forced to be registered in cities where they are assigned work for the good of the state. Contraception is mandated and every female is fitted with a device for that purpose. Not only that, but they must also submit to periodic checks to insure the device is in place. Unable to remain where she is under such circumstances, “Sister” escapes to an all-female commune that she knew about as a child. Her reception there is at first strained, as the members of the group want to insure she is not a spy sent by the state. As “Sister” gains their trust and tells them of the conditions in the nearby city, it becomes uncertain whether the group will be able to remain in their isolated location for long. A decision must be made to stay or fight.
Author Sarah Hall was nominated for the Booker Prize for her book The Electric Michelangelo. I recommend this title to readers who enjoy dystopian fiction with a feminist slant. While not nearly as captivating as The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, it is worth a look if you enjoy reading the dystopian genre.
2008 in the U.S., 240 pp.
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Harry Potter Wrap-Up
About a month ago, I finished the Harry Potter series (for the first time!). I really liked the HP characters that Rowling created, almost too much, because when there were deaths, I was sorely disappointed. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to those characters, and some of the deaths seemed wholly unnecessary and excessive.
Overall, I enjoyed the first four books much more than the last three. Part of the reason is probably that the last three books were much darker than the first books of the series. Another reason, though, was that, at times, I felt conscious that I was reading a book, whereas with the first books I was too wrapped up in the story to notice. I wasn’t enamored with the last two books at all, probably due to the demise of too many characters. By that time, though, I was invested in the story and unable to resist finding out how the series ended.
I would love to know how others would rank the books in the series. I’ve heard some say that The Chamber of Secrets is the weakest book, but it happens to be my favorite (followed very closely by The Goblet of Fire). I guess I prefer the (relative) innocence of the first few books compared to the last in the series. If you’ve read the entire series, I’d love to know your ranking of the 7 books, even if it differs greatly with mine!
My ranking follows:
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Semi-Annual Report (Sunday Salon)
61 books read, all of which can be seen HERE
17170 pages read
Average number of pages per book: 281
21 female authors
30 male authors
46 new authors
11 books in translation
6 languages in translation: japanese (3), hungarian (3), french (2), icelandic (1), german (1), italian (1)
The best books of the first half of the year (not in any order except first two):
Maus I 
by Art Spiegelman (1986, 161 pp.)
Maus II by Art Spiegelman (1991, 127 pp.)
Strangers by Taichi Yamada (1987 [2003 in U.S.], 203 pp.)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (2003, 226 pp.)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (1998, 341 pp.)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Silence by Shusaku Endo (1966, 201 pages)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (1968, 236 pp.)
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (1988, 462 pp.)
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (1908, 369 pp.)
The Sister by Poppy Adams (2008, 275 pp.)
Kaddish for a Child not Born by Imre Kertesz (1990, 95 pp.)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (2007, 533 pp.)
The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy (1966, 146 pp.)
Jacob Two-Two’s First Spy Case by Mordecai Richler (1995, 144 pp.)
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008, 333 pp.)
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (2005, 198 pp.)
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Buy/Give a Friend a Book Week BAFAB
I’d like to give a bookmooch or paperbackswap credit to three different people. If you belong to one of these sites, just add a comment to this post that you’d like to be considered. If you don’t belong, why not? It’s a great way to exchange your old books for new ones. I’ve been very happy with both sites.
I’ll draw the winners on Wednesday, July 9. Good luck!
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June ‘08 Monthly Report
50. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (2005, 652 pp.)
51. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (2007, 759 pp.)
52. Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall (2008, 207 pp.)
53. The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy (1966, 146 pp.)
54. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001, 319 pp.)
55. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006, 350 pp.)
56. Jacob Two-Two’s First Spy Case by Mordecai Richler (1995, 144 pp.)
57. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008, 333 pp.)
58. Bear 
by Marian Engel (1976, 141 pp.)
59. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (2005, 198 pp.)
60. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (1974, 263 pp.)
61. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955, 327 pp.)
Pages read: 3839 / Pages read in 2008: 17170
Average number of pages per book: 320 pp.
New authors: 9
Female authors: 7
Male authors: 4
Challenges completed: Orbis Terrarum, Banned Book, Canadian, Man Booker, Chunkster, Themed, Once Upon a Time II, Here Be Dragons, Young Adult, Initials
Have you reviewed any of the above books at your blog? If you’d like, enter your link in Mr. Linky below.
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1001 List: the subtractions
Once again, I saw this list at Pages Turned, who got it from Kiri at Book Crossing. I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read and italicized the ones I’m interested in reading. I’m really shocked at many of the subtractions — too many to list. I do want to point out, though, that Ficciones by Borges was removed, and that is one that dumbfounds me. The new list was supposed to be more international. What was wrong with Ficciones in that regard?
I’m going to stick with the original 1001 list, but I will use the new one as a tool for research into more international titles.
Titles already read: 7
Titles interested in reading: 42
The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan Pre-1700
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit John Lyly Pre-1700
Aithiopika Heliodorus Pre-1700
Chaireas and Kallirhoe Chariton Pre-1700
Metamorphoses Ovid Pre-1700
Aesop’s Fables Aesopus Pre-1700
Cecilia Fanny Burney 1700’s
Rameau’s Nephew Denis Diderot 1700’s
Amelia Henry Fielding 1700’s
Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1700’s
Roxana Daniel Defoe 1700’s
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1700’s
The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1800’s
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells 1800’s
The Real Charlotte Somerville/Ross 1800’s
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1800’s
Born in Exile George Gissing 1800’s
The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson 1800’s
Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Pérez Galdés 1800’s
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1800’s
She H. Rider Haggard 1800’s
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1800’s
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1800’s
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1800’s
Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 1800’s
Virgin Soil Ivan Turgenev 1800’s
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1800’s
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1800’s
The Temptation of Saint Anthony Gustave Flaubert 1800’s
He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope 1800’s
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1800’s
On the Eve Ivan Turgenev 1800’s
Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1800’s
The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne 1800’s
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1800’s
Hard Times Charles Dickens 1800’s
Villette Charlotte Brontë 1800’s
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1800’s
Shirley Charlotte Brontë 1800’s
Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell 1800’s
Agnes Grey Anne Brontë 1800’s
La Reine Margot Alexandre Dumas 1800’s
The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe 1800’s
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1800’s
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1800’s
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1800’s
The Albigenses Charles Robert Maturin 1800’s
The Monastery Sir Walter Scott 1800’s
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1800’s
Persuasion Jane Austen 1800’s
Ormond Maria Edgeworth 1800’s
The Absentee Maria Edgeworth 1800’s
Timbuktu Paul Auster 1900’s
The Romantics Pankaj Mishra 1900’s
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1900’s
Everything You Need A.L. Kennedy 1900’s
The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 1900’s
Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami 1900’s
Intimacy Hanif Kureishi 1900’s
Amsterdam Ian McEwan 1900’s
Cloudsplitter Russell Banks 1900’s
Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters 1900’s
Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis 1900’s
Another World Pat Barker 1900’s
Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon 1900’s
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 1900’s
Great Apes Will Self 1900’s
American Pastoral Philip Roth 1900’s
The Untouchable John Banville 1900’s
Cocaine Nights J.G. Ballard 1900’s
The Information Martin Amis 1900’s
The Moor’s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie 1900’s
Sabbath’s Theater Philip Roth 1900’s
The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald 1900’s
Mr. Vertigo Paul Auster 1900’s
The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst 1900’s
The Master of Petersburg J.M. Coetzee 1900’s
Trainspotting Irvine Welsh 1900’s
Operation Shylock Philip Roth 1900’s
Complicity Iain Banks 1900’s
The House of Doctor Dee Peter Ackroyd 1900’s
The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood 1900’s
The Emigrants W.G. Sebald 1900’s
A Heart So White Javier Marias 1900’s
Jazz Toni Morrison 1900’s
Black Water Joyce Carol Oates 1900’s
The Heather Blazing Colm Tóibín 1900’s
Black Dogs Ian McEwan 1900’s
Time’s Arrow Martin Amis 1900’s
Downriver Iain Sinclair 1900’s
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord Louis de Bernieres 1900’s
Wise Children Angela Carter 1900’s
Vineland Thomas Pynchon 1900’s
A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham 1900’s
Possession A.S. Byatt 1900’s
A Disaffection James Kelman 1900’s
Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow 1900’s
The Temple of My Familiar Alice Walker 1900’s
The Book of Evidence John Banville 1900’s
Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood 1900’s
The Beautiful Room is Empty Edmund White 1900’s
Libra Don DeLillo 1900’s
The Player of Games Iain M. Banks 1900’s
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Douglas Adams 1900’s
The Passion Jeanette Winterson 1900’s
The Child in Time Ian McEwan 1900’s
Marya Joyce Carol Oates 1900’s
Foe J.M. Coetzee 1900’s
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson 1900’s
A Maggot John Fowles 1900’s
Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis 1900’s
Old Masters Thomas Bernhard 1900’s
Queer William Burroughs 1900’s
Worstward Ho Samuel Beckett 1900’s
Fools of Fortune William Trevor 1900’s
The Diary of Jane Somers Doris Lessing 1900’s
The Newton Letter John Banville 1900’s
Concrete Thomas Bernhard 1900’s
The Names Don DeLillo 1900’s
The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan 1900’s
Rites of Passage William Golding 1900’s
City Primeval Elmore Leonard 1900’s
Shikasta Doris Lessing 1900’s
The Safety Net Heinrich Böll 1900’s
The World According to Garp John Irving 1900’s
Yes Thomas Bernhard 1900’s
The Passion of New Eve Angela Carter 1900’s
Petals of Blood Ngugi wa Thiong’o 1900’s
Ratner’s Star Don DeLillo 1900’s
The Public Burning Robert Coover 1900’s
Amateurs Donald Barthelme 1900’s
Grimus Salman Rushdie 1900’s
High Rise J.G. Ballard 1900’s
Dead Babies Martin Amis 1900’s
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré 1900’s
Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut 1900’s
The Black Prince Iris Murdoch 1900’s
Sula Toni Morrison 1900’s
The Breast Philip Roth 1900’s
The Wild Boys William Burroughs 1900’s
The Driver’s Seat Muriel Spark 1900’s
The Ogre Michael Tournier 1900’s
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Peter Handke 1900’s
Mercier et Camier Samuel Beckett 1900’s
Troubles J.G. Farrell 1900’s
The Atrocity Exhibition J.G. Ballard 1900’s
The Green Man Kingsley Amis 1900’s
The Nice and the Good Iris Murdoch 1900’s
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid Malcolm Lowry 1900’s
Chocky John Wyndham 1900’s
The Cubs and Other Stories Mario Vargas Llosa 1900’s
The Joke Milan Kundera 1900’s
A Man Asleep Georges Perec 1900’s
The Birds Fall Down Rebecca West 1900’s
Trawl B.S. Johnson 1900’s
August is a Wicked Month Edna O’Brien 1900’s
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1900’s
Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey 1900’s
Come Back, Dr. Caligari Donald Bartholme 1900’s
Albert Angelo B.S. Johnson 1900’s
The Collector John Fowles 1900’s
The Drowned World J.G. Ballard 1900’s
The Violent Bear it Away Flannery O’Connor 1900’s
How It Is Samuel Beckett 1900’s
Our Ancestors Italo Calvino 1900’s
Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow 1900’s
Memento Mori Muriel Spark 1900’s
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris Paul Gallico 1900’s
The End of the Road John Barth 1900’s
The Wonderful “O” James Thurber 1900’s
Seize the Day Saul Bellow 1900’s
A World of Love Elizabeth Bowen 1900’s
Self Condemned Wyndham Lewis 1900’s
The Unnamable Samuel Beckett 1900’s
Watt Samuel Beckett 1900’s
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1900’s
The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson 1900’s
The Third Man Graham Greene 1900’s
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene 1900’s
The Victim Saul Bellow 1900’s
Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1900’s
The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford 1900’s
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges 1900’s
Caught Henry Green 1900’s
Go Down, Moses William Faulkner 1900’s
The Poor Mouth Flann O’Brien 1900’s
Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton 1900’s
Between the Acts Virginia Woolf 1900’s
The Hamlet William Faulkner 1900’s
Farewell My Lovely Raymond Chandler 1900’s
Party Going Henry Green 1900’s
Coming Up for Air George Orwell 1900’s
Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller 1900’s
After the Death of Don Juan Sylvie Townsend Warner 1900’s
The Years Virginia Woolf 1900’s
The Revenge for Love Wyndham Lewis 1900’s
To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway 1900’s
Wild Harbour Ian MacPherson 1900’s
The House in Paris Elizabeth Bowen 1900’s
England Made Me Graham Greene 1900’s
Burmese Days George Orwell 1900’s
Threepenny Novel Bertolt Brecht 1900’s
Novel With Cocaine M. Ageyev 1900’s
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 1900’s
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) Lewis Grassic Gibbon 1900’s
The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett 1900’s
Cakes and Ale W. Somerset Maugham 1900’s
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh 1900’s
Hebdomeros Giorgio de Chirico 1900’s
Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett 1900’s
The Last September Elizabeth Bowen 1900’s
Harriet Hume Rebecca West 1900’s
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1900’s
The Childermass Wyndham Lewis 1900’s
Quartet Jean Rhys 1900’s
The Plumed Serpent D.H. Lawrence 1900’s
Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos 1900’s
Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman Melville 1900’s
Cane Jean Toomer 1900’s
Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 1900’s
The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield 1900’s
Jacob’s Room Virginia Woolf 1900’s
The Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton 1900’s
The Last Days of Humanity Karl Kraus 1900’s
Aaron’s Rod D.H. Lawrence 1900’s
The Fox D.H. Lawrence 1900’s
Night and Day Virginia Woolf 1900’s
The Shadow Line Joseph Conrad 1900’s
Summer Edith Wharton 1900’s
Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton 1900’s
The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1900’s
Rosshalde Herman Hesse 1900’s
Three Lives Gertrude Stein 1900’s
Martin Eden Jack London 1900’s
Tono-Bungay H.G. Wells 1900’s
The Iron Heel Jack London 1900’s
Where Angels Fear to Tread E.M. Forster 1900’s
The Golden Bowl Henry James 1900’s
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900’s
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2000’s
Saturday Ian McEwan 2000’s
On Beauty Zadie Smith 2000’s
Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 2000’s
Adjunct: An Undigest Peter Manson 2000’s
The Red Queen Margaret Drabble 2000’s
Vanishing Point David Markson 2000’s
The Lambs of London Peter Ackroyd 2000’s
Dining on Stones Iain Sinclair 2000’s
Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle 2000’s
The Colour Rose Tremain 2000’s
Thursbitch Alan Garner 2000’s
The Light of Day Graham Swift 2000’s
Elizabeth Costello J.M. Coetzee 2000’s
London Orbital Iain Sinclair 2000’s
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 2000’s
Fingersmith Sarah Waters 2000’s
The Double José Saramago 2000’s
Unless Carol Shields 2000’s
The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor 2000’s
That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern 2000’s
In the Forest Edna O’Brien 2000’s
Shroud John Banville 2000’s
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2000’s
Youth J.M. Coetzee 2000’s
Dead Air Iain Banks 2000’s
The Book of Illusions Paul Auster 2000’s
Gabriel’s Gift Hanif Kureishi 2000’s
Schooling Heather McGowan 2000’s
Don’t Move Margaret Mazzantini 2000’s
The Body Artist Don DeLillo 2000’s
Fury Salman Rushdie 2000’s
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2000’s
Choke Chuck Palahniuk 2000’s
An Obedient Father Akhil Sharma 2000’s
Ignorance Milan Kundera 2000’s
Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace 2000’s
City of God E.L. Doctorow 2000’s
How the Dead Live Will Self 2000’s
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 2000’s
After the Quake Haruki Murakami 2000’s
Super-Cannes J.G. Ballard 2000’s
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000’s
Blonde Joyce Carol Oates 2000’s
Pastoralia George Saunders 2000’s
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1001 List: additions to the list
The 1001 List has been updated to include more international writers. Pages Turned posted the new additions, which I’ve listed below. I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read and italicized the ones I’m interested in reading. I’m trying to decide which list I’ll use for the 1% challenge, and I think it’s going to be the original list. I’ll probably base my decision on the number of books I want to read in the additions versus the subtractions. I’ll post a list of the subtractions shortly.
Titles already read: 5
Titles interested in reading: 24
: Pre 1800 :
0002 : The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter . Anonymous *
0003 : The Tale of Genji . Murasaki Shikibu *
0004 : Romance of the Three Kingdoms . Luó Guànzhong *
0005 : The Water Margin . Shi Nai’an & Luó Guànzhong *
0007 : Tirant lo Blanc . Joanot Martorell *
0008 : La Celestina . Fernando de Rojas *
0009 : Amadis of Gaul . Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo *
0010 : The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes . Anonymous *
0012 : The Lusiad . Luís Vaz de Camões *
0013 : Monkey: A Journey to the West . Wú Chéng’en *
0015 : Thomas of Reading . Thomas Deloney *
0017 : The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda . Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra *
0018 : The Conquest of New Spain . Bernal Díaz del Castillo *
0019 : The Adventurous Simplicissimus . Hans von Grimmelshausen *
0051 : Anton Reiser . Karl Philipp Moritz *
0054 : A Dream of Red Mansions . Cao Xueqin *
0061 : Jacques the Fatalist . Denis Diderot *
: 1800s :
0065 : Henry of Ofterdingen . Novalis *
0066 : Rameau’s Nephew . Denis Diderot *
0068 : Michael Kohlhaas . Heinrich von Kleist *
0077 : The Life and the Opinions of the Tombcat Murr . E.T.A. Hoffmann *
0084 : Eugene Onegin . Alexander Pushkin *
0089 : The Lion of Flanders . Hendrick Conscience *
0092 : Camera Obscura . Hildebrand *
0093 : A Hero of Our Times . Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov *
0098 : Facundo . Domingo Faustino Sarmiento *
0099 : The Devil’s Pool . George Sand *
0113 : Green Henry . Gottfried Keller *
0116 : Indian Summer . Adalbert Stifter *
0132 : Last Chronicle of Barset . Anthony Trollope *
0149 : The Enchanted Wanderer . Nicolai Leskov *
0151 : Pepita Jimenéz . Juan Valera *
0152 : The Crime of Father Amado . José Maria Eça de Queirós *
0155 : Martín Fierro . José Hernández *
0167 : The Regent’s Wife . Clarín Leopoldo Alas *
0173 : The Quest . Frederik van Eeden *
0175 : The Manors of Ulloa . Emilia Pardo Bazán *
0178 : Under the Yoke . Ivan Vazov *
0179 : The Child of Pleasure . Gabriele D’Annunzio *
0180 : Eline Vere . Louis Couperus *
0184 : Thaïs . Anatole France *
0187 : Down There . Joris-Karl Huysmans *
0194 : The Viceroys . Federico De Roberto *
0202 : Compassion . Benito Pérez Galdós *
0203 : Pharaoh . Boleslaw Prus *
0206 : As a Man Grows Older . Italo Svevo *
0207 : Dom Casmurro . Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis *
0210 : Eclipse of the Crescent Moon . Géza Gárdonyi *
: 1900s :
0212 : Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem . Emilio Salgari *
0214 : None but the Brave . Arthur Schnitzler *
0223 : The Call of the Wild . Jack London *
0224 : Memoirs of my Nervous Illness . Daniel P. Schreber *
0225 : The Way of All Flesh . Samuel Butler *
0230 : Solitude . Víctor Català *
0241 : The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . Rainer Maria Rilke *
0250 : Platero and I . Juan Ramón Jiménez *
0258 : Rashomon . Akutagawa Ryunosuke *
0261 : The Underdogs . Mariano Azuela *
0262 : Pallieter . Felix Timmermans *
0263 : Home and the World . Rabindranath Tagore *
0267 : The Storm of Steel . Ernst Jünger *
0272 : Life of Christ . Giovanni Papini *
0275 : Claudine’s House . Colette *
0277 : The Forest of the Hanged . Liviu Rebreanu *
0288 : The New World . Heruy Wäldä-Sellassé *
0295 : Chaka the Zulu . Thomas Mofolo *
0299 : Under Satan’s Sun . Geroges Bernanos *
0301 : Alberta and Jacob . Cora Sandel *
0306 : The Case of Sergeant Grischa . Arnold Zweig *
0326 : I Thought of Daisy . Edmund Wilson *
0329 : Look Homeward, Angel . Thomas Wolfe *
0333 : Monica . Saunders Lewis *
0334 : Insatiability . Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz *
0339 : The Return of Philip Latinowicz . Miroslav Krleza *
0341 : The Forbidden Realm . J.J. Slauerhoff *
0344 : Vipers’ Tangle . François Mauriac *
0346 : Cheese . Willem Elsschot *
0347 : Man’s Fate . André Malraux *
0359 : On the Heights of Despair . Emil Cioran *
0360 : The Bells of Basel . Louis Aragon *
0370 : War with the Newts . Karel Capek *
0376 : Rickshaw Boy . Lao She *
0379 : Ferdydurke . Witold Gombrowicz *
0380 : The Blind Owl . Sadegh Hedayat *
0388 : Alamut . Vladimir Bartol *
0392 : On the Edge of Reason . Miroslav Krleza *
0403 : The Man Who Loved Children . Christina Stead *
0404 : Broad and Alien is the World . Ciro Alegría *
0406 : The Harvesters . Cesare Pavese *
0410 : Chess Story . Stefan Zweig *
0412 : Joseph and His Brothers . Thomas Mann *
0417 : Pippi Longstocking . Astrid Lindgren *
0424 : Bosnian Chronicle . Ivo Andric *
0425 : The Tin Flute . Gabrielle Roy *
0426 : Andrea . Carmen Laforet *
0427 : The Death of Virgil . Hermann Broch *
0429 : Zorba the Greek . Nikos Kazantzakis *
0431 : House in the Uplands . Erskine Caldwell *
0438 : Midaq Alley . Naguib Mahfouz *
0439 : Froth on the Daydream . Boris Vian *
0440 : Journey to the Alcarria . Camilo José Cela *
0441 : Ashes and Diamonds . Jerzy Andrzejewski *
0445 : In the Heart of the Seas . Shmuel Yosef Agnon *
0446 : This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman . Tadeusz Borowski *
0457 : A Town Like Alice . Nevil Shute *
0463 : The Guiltless . Hermann Broch *
0464 : Barabbas . Pär Lagerkvist *
0474 : The Hive . Camilo José Cela *
0479 : Excellent Women . Barbara Pym *
0480 : A Thousand Cranes . Yasunari Kawabata *
0485 : The Lost Steps . Alejo Carpentier *
0486 : The Hothouse . Wolfgang Koeppen *
0489 : The Dark Child . Camara Laye *
0490 : A Day in Spring . Ciril Kosmac *
0495 : The Mandarins . Simone de Beauvoir *
0497 : Death in Rome . Wolfgang Koeppen *
0498 : The Sound of Waves . Yukio Mishima *
0499 : The Unknown Soldier . Väinö Linna *
0503 : The Burning Plain . Juan Rulfo *
0506 : The Tree of Man . Patrick White *
0508 : The Devil to Pay in the Backlands . João Guimarães Rosa *
0517 : The Glass Bees . Ernst Jünger *
0521 : The Manila Rope . Veijo Meri *
0522 : The Deadbeats . Ward Ruyslinck *
0528 : The Birds . Tarjei Vesaas *
0532 : Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon . Jorge Amado *
0536 : The Guide . R.K. Narayan *
0538 : Deep Rivers . José María Arguedas *
0542 : Down Second Avenue . Ezekiel Mphahlele *
0551 : The Magician of Lublin . Isaac Bashevis Singer *
0552 : Halftime . Martin Walser *
0554 : Bebo’s Girl . Carlo Cassola *
0555 : God’s Bit of Wood . Ousmane Sembène *
0556 : The Shipyard . Juan Carlos Onetti *
0563 : No One Writes to the Colonel . Gabriel García Márquez *
0565 : Memoirs of a Peasant Boy . Xosé Neira Vilas *
0569 : Time of Silence . Luis Martín-Santos *
0574 : The Death of Artemio Cruz . Carlos Fuentes *
0575 : The Time of the Hero . Mario Vargas Llosa *
0576 : The Garden of the Finzi-Continis . Giorgio Bassani *
0578 : The Third Wedding . Costas Taktsis *
0579 : Dog Years . Günter Grass *
0591 : Three Trapped Tigers . Guillermo Cabrera Infante *
0594 : Back to Oegstgeest . Jan Wolkers *
0595 : Closely Watched Trains . Bohumil Hrabal *
0597 : Garden, Ashes . Danilo Kis *
0601 : Death and the Dervish . Mesa Selimovic *
0602 : Silence . Shusaku Endo *
0603 : To Each His Own . Leonardo Sciascia *
0606 : Marks of Identity . Juan Goytisolo *
0612 : Miramar . Naguib Mahfouz *
0613 : Z . Vassilis Vassilikos *
0615 : The Manor . Isaac Bashevis Singer *
0618 : Day of the Dolphin . Robert Merle *
0621 : The Cathedral . Oles Honchar *
0637 : Jacob the Liar . Jurek Becker *
0643 : The Case Worker . György Konrád *
0644 : Moscow Stations . Venedikt Yerofeev *
0645 : Heartbreak Tango . Manuel Puig *
0646 : Seasons of Migrations to the North . Tayeb Salih *
0647 : Here’s to You, Jesusa! . Elena Poniatowska *
0648 : Fifth Business . Robertson Davies *
0649 : Play It As It Lays . Joan Didion *
0651 : A World for Julius . Alfredo Bryce Echenique *
0656 : Cataract . Mykhaylo Osadchyl *
0660 : Lives of Girls & Women . Alice Munro *
0666 : The Twilight Years . Sawako Ariyoshi *
0667 : The Optimist’s Daughter . Eudora Welty *
0676 : The Dispossessed . Ursula K. Le Guin *
0677 : The Diviners . Margaret Laurence *
0681 : The Port . Antun Soljan *
0683 : The Commandant . Jessica Anderson *
0684 : The Year of the Hare . Arto Paasilinna *
0686 : Woman at Point Zero . Nawal El Saadawi *
0695 : Blaming . Elizabeth Taylor *
0699 : Kiss of the Spider Woman . Manuel Puig *
0700 : Almost Transparent Blue . Ryu Murakami *
0702 : The Engineer of the Human Soul . Josef Skvorecky *
0703 : Quartet in Autumn . Barbara Pym *
0706 : The Wars . Timothy Findley *
0710 : The Beggar Maid . Alice Munro *
0711 : Requiem for a Dream . Hubert Selby Jr. *
0715 : The Back Room . Carmen Martín Gaite *
0720 : So Long a Letter . Mariama Bâ *
0723 : A Dry White Season . André Brink *
0725 : Fool’s Gold . Maro Douka *
0727 : Southern Seas . Manuel Vásquez Montalbán *
0729 : Clear Light of Day . Anita Desai *
0732 : Smell of Sadness . Alfred Kossmann *
0733 : Broken April . Ismail Kadare *
0737 : The House with the Blind Glass Windows . Herbjørg Wassmo *
0738 : Leaden Wings . Zhang Jie *
0739 : The War at the End of the World . Mario Vargas Llosa *
0742 : Couples, Passerby . Botho Strauss *
0752 : The Book of Disquiet . Fernando Pessoa *
0753 : Baltasar and Blimunda . José Saramago *
0759 : The Christmas Oratorio . Göran Tunström *
0760 : Fado Alexandrino . António Lobo Antunes *
0761 : The Witness . Juan José Saer *
0765 : Professor Martens’ Departure . Jaan Kross *
0767 : Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel . Julián Ríos *
0771 : Democracy . Joan Didion *
0779 : The Young Man . Botho Strauss *
0780 : Love Medicine . Louise Erdrich *
0782 : Half of Man is Woman . Zhang Xianliang *
0787 : Blood Meridian . Cormac McCarthy *
0789 : Simon and the Oaks . Marianne Fredriksson *
0791 : Annie John . Jamaica Kincaid *
0794 : Ancestral Voices . Etienne van Heerden *
0795 : The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman . Andrzej Szczypiorski *
0800 : Memory of Fire . Eduardo Galeano *
0806 : Ballad for Georg Henig . Viktor Pasokov *
0810 : Of Love and Shadows . Isabel Allende *
0812 : All Souls . Javier Marías *
0814 : Black Box . Amos Oz *
0819 : Kitchen . Banana Yoshimoto *
0823 : The First Garden . Anne Hébert *
0824 : The Last World . Christoph Ransmayr *
0829 : Paradise of the Blind . Duong Thu Huong *
0831 : Gimmick! . Joost Zwagerman *
0832 : Obabakoak . Bernardo Atzaga *
0833 : Inland . Gerald Murnane *
0838 : The Great Indian Novel . Shashi Tharoor *
0846 : The Shadow Lines . Amitav Ghosh *
0853 : The Daughter . Pavlos Matesis *
0856 : The Laws . Connie Palman *
0857 : Faceless Killers . Henning Mankell *
0858 : Astradeni . Eugenia Fakinou *
0865 : Memoirs of Rain . Sunetra Gupta *
0869 : The Dumas Club . Arturo Pérez-Reverte *
0875 : All the Pretty Horses . Cormac McCarthy *
0876 : The Triple Mirror of the Self . Zulfikar Ghose *
0877 : Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture . Apostolos Doxiadis *
0880 : Before Night Falls . Reinaldo Arenas *
0882 : The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll . Álvaro Mutis *
0883 : Remembering Babylon . David Malouf *
0884 : The Holder of the World . Bharati Mukherjee *
0890 : The Twins . Tessa de Loo *
0894 : Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light . Ivan Klima *
0897 : Deep River . Shusaku Endo *
0904 : Our Lady of the Assassins . Fernando Vallejo *
0907 : Troubling Love . Elena Ferrante *
0908 : The Late-Night News . Petros Markaris *
0913 : Santa Evita . Tomás Martínez *
0923 : A Light Comedy . Eduardo Mendoza *
0924 : Fall on Your Knees . Ann-Marie MacDonald *
0927 : Margot and the Angels . Kristien Hemmerechts *
0929 : Money to Burn . Ricardo Piglia *
0938 : The Heretic . Miguel Deliber *
0941 : Dirty Havana Trilogy . Pedro Juan Gutiérrez *
0942 : Savage Detectives . Roberto Bolaño *
0945 : Pavel’s Letters . Monika Moron *
0946 : In Search of Klingsor . Jorge Volpi *
0947 : The Museum of Unconditional Surrender . Dubravka Ugresic *
0948 : Fear and Trembling . Amélie Nothomb
: 2000s :
0949 : Bartleby and Co. . Enrique Vila-Matas *
0958 : The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay . Michael Chabon *
0960 : I’m Not Scared . Niccolò Ammaniti *
0961 : Soldiers of Salamis . Javier Cercas *
0967 : Snow . Orhan Pamuk *
0972 : The Namesake . Jhumpa Lahiri *
0973 : Vernon God Little . DBC Pierre *
0974 : The Successor . Ismail Kadare *
0975 : Lady Number Thirteen . José Carlos Somoza *
0978 : A Tale of Love and Darkness . Amos Oz *
0979 : Your Face Tomorrow . Javier Marías *
0981 : The Swarm . Frank Schätzing *
0982 : Suite Française . Irène Némirovsky *
0985 : The Book about Blanche and Marie . Per Olov Enquist *
0986 : Small Island . Andrea Levy *
0987 : 2666 . Roberto Bolaño *
0988 : The Line of Beauty . Alan Hollinghurst *
0989 : The Accidental . Ali Smith *
0991 : A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian . Marina Lewycka *
0992 : Measuring the World . Daniel Kehlmann *
0993 : Mother’s Milk . Edward S. Aubyn *
0994 : Carry Me Down . M.J. Hyland *
0995 : Against the Day . Thomas Pynchon *
0996 : The Inheritance of Loss . Kiran Desai *
0997 : The Kindly Ones . Jonathan Littell *
0998 : Half of a Yellow Sun . Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *
0999 : The Reluctant Fundamentalist . Mohsin Hamid *
1000 : Falling Man . Don DeLillo *
1001 : Animal’s People . Indra Sinha *
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