Book Club Reading List

[Scheherazade]

I thought it would be a good idea to list all the books which have been read so far for the new members.

Trends of 2014:

Bestselling airport/beach pop fiction

Gothic Literature

Postcolonialism

Naturalism

Realism

Romanticism

Existentialism

Dark Romanticism



2013 Books:

May '13 (Changing Places by David Lodge (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?74929-May-13-David-Lodge-Reading-Changing-Places) *


2009 Books:

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Poe (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46027) * As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44642) * Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45772) * The Maltese Falcon by Hammet (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43932) * Catch-22 by Heller (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42325) * The Awakening by Kate Chopin (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43144) * Persuasion by Austen (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41776) * Kim by Rudyard Kipling (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41475) / The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40824)

2008 Books

The Map of Love by Soueif (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40038) / The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39278) /
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31438) / The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32319) / Dubliners by James Joyce (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33023) / Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories by Gao Xingjian (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33882) / The Sea by John Banville (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35962) / Odyssey by Homer (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35543) / The Road by Cormac McCarthy (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36194) / Norwegian Wood by Murakami (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36919)

2007 Books

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30901) / Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30652) / Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29712) / The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories by Lovecraft (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28798) / Run, Rabbit! by Updike (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27955) / Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27053) / One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25954) / Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26162) / To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26024) / Women in Love by DH Lawrence (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25347) / A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24399) / Slaughterhouse-Five (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23816) / Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23534) / [B]Major Barbara by GB Shaw (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23110) / The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22881) / Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22405) / The Grass Harp by Truman Capote (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22163) / Pygmalion by GB Shaw (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21318) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21977)

2006 Books

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20829) / Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20561)/The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19941)/Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19731)/David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19306) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19747)/One Hundreds Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18943) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19129)/Shirley by Charlotte Bronte (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18591)/The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18201) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18533) /East of Eden by Steinbeck (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17965&highlight=east+eden)Mort by Terry Pratchett (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17700)/Waiting for Godot (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17412)/A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17101) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17538)/The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16592) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16940)/The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16280)/The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16095) /Possession by A.S. Byatt (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15715)/The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15661) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=158191#post158191) /A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15203) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15393)

2005 Books:

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14938) /Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14723) / Remembering John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14474) / Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32387&highlight=love) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14579) / The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13612) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13951) / Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13212) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13448) / Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12936) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13134) / The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12662) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12826) / Summer Reading: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12755) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13203) / Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12370) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12602) / Hyperion by Dan Simmons (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4456) The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4532) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12336) / Remembering Saul Bellow: Seize the Day (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4403) / Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4275) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4420) / Remembering Arthur Miller: The Crucible (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4178) Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4298) / Orlando by Virginia Woolf (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4090) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4217) / Lord of the Flies by William Golding (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3853) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4002)

2004 Books:

A Christmas Carol by Dickens (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3645) / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3408) / 1984 by George Orwell (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3151) / The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2891) / Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2702) / The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2430) / Heart of Darkness by Conrad (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2159) / Frankenstein by Shelly (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2167) / Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2086) / Dracula by Bram Stoker (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1913)


I will update the list as we read more books.

[Jay]

Hey, I had no idea there was Heart of Darkness reading. Geez, could have used an idea to get my essay started, lol. Maybe it's a good idea to ... ahem, pay attention ;)

I like the idea, Scher. :nod:
Want a KitKat? :brow:

[subterranean]

You should have posted the links as well, so people would find the related book discussions easier. That of course if you want to be very helpful.

[Scheherazade]

Thanks for the suggestion, Sub. The aim of this thread is not to help people to find the links for the discussions on these books (as they are clearly labelled)but simply to keep a track of what has been read so that the same books do not get re-nominated.

[Stanislaw]

good idea, that way we will have more variety! :thumbs_up

[Koa]

Oh a list...this is what i was looking for! I'm reading Dorian Gray at the moment cos I never did before... can I go back to your old thread and put my opinions there when I finish it? (after all I'm only 14 months late! :D)

[Scheherazade]

Koa,
The threads are open for an unlimited time. It would be great to revive the old ones as I wasn't a member of the Forum at the time either and compare notes with you on 'Dorian'! :D

[Koa]

Cool! I'm really enjoying the book but I'm not going to revive the thread before I finish it, cos I don't want to be influenced reading the posts there... I think in a few days I'll have a look...

[mister_noel_y2k]

what happened to august '04? no book for the month?


:banana:

[Scheherazade]

I wasn't a member of the Forum at the time but I think there was a delay in nomination/voting process so they decided to skip August.

[Stanislaw]

ai, those were dark days lass, the open seas were dominated by dark sinister ninjas, blood thirsty pirates, an a 'ole lotta confusion and chaos set about during the modorator-piratical war...

Any who... with the coming of the new tide a savior arose, out of the ashes and turmoil, mustering her strength she set about rebuilding and conquering the waring factions, rising to the top, from the people, leading the people to gloriouse victory over the chaotic forumscape...

...her name shall never be forgotten, for next to the dainty whimsical characature of her one self, her name blazes, like a beacon to ward of the chaotic posting, and to bring in those seeking shelter from the raging torments of the open net... Scheherazade


Well that was a bit dramatic, but 'tis about 00:30 here, and I should be asleep

:D

[Jay]

Stan you're crazy :D... but big fun nevertheless... or is it the reason? :p

[Stanislaw]

lol, just dramatizing for fun and humour :D

but Seriously, Shehera is doing a swell job!

[Jay]

Not gonna need to braib me with lots of choc to make me agree on that one ;)

Though Shehera? Sounds weird, lol.

[Stanislaw]

yeah, sherhera does sound a lit odd. :D

[Scheherazade]

Oh, carry on as if I am not here, please! :p

[Jay]

Whyyyy? You're fun... when you're not issueing essays ;) (which, thank god, is not THAT often :lol: )

[Scheherazade]

Talking of which... you still haven't handed in that essay on Mrs. D and imagery...

[Jay]

You didn't give any details! How long should it be? Until when I've got to hand it in?
If you make it possible for me to manage, you shall have your Mrs Dalloway & imaginery essay.
What I've gotten myself into this time... :goof:

[Stanislaw]

LOL, good thing I skip, lol :D

[Scheherazade]

Don't you be laughing, young Stanislaw! You might be writing two essays next time to make up for it! :brow:

[Stanislaw]

eep! :eek:

now now, lets not be hasty. :D

[Jesus`Sunbeam]

So when do we start talking about BNW?

[subterranean]

Go here (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4275) .....

[Bianca Fransen]

Wow, these are really great books. Reminds me that I definitely want to reread Dorian Gray, because it moved me. And, oops, there are some books on this list I have not read yet. I will make it up.

[beyondtomorrow]

hi everyone! i'm a new member. your book list is a very good idea. um i just want to suggest that there is a series called 'Stravaganza' _ a trilogy: city of flower, city of stars and city of masks. they're good books.
hope you read them. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pea]

can't believe i'm 19 books behind :(
thanks for the list anyway,i'd begin with three men in a boat.

[Ich bin]

Greetings, I'm a new member.

List is good, I've read some things included, but there are many of them I haven't.
Going to try to catch up.

[hastalavictoria]

definatly DEFINATLY MUST read Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy

[Azaril]

I really have no interest in reading Gabriel García Márquez, after the overwhelming fiasco of "Cien annos de soledad" I prefer to spend the rest of my life teaching zouk to the alligators in the Amazonas than reading another book from him.

[Scheherazade]

Azaril,

Then maybe you can skip the Marquez month and join us for the other reads. Welcome to the Forum! :)

[genoveva]

I really have no interest in reading Gabriel García Márquez, after the overwhelming fiasco of "Cien annos de soledad"

Gasp! That is one of my favorite books ever! Sorry to hear you did not enjoy it. :eek2:

[Azaril]

Aha Scherehezade yes, I'll do my best if I have the time.

Genoveva, perhaps the english version is better (you are American, right?), but the spanish one pffffff I didn't find anything interesting in that book, I have read also "Relato de un náufrago" and "El amor en los tiempos del cólera", didn't like any of them.

I guess we are very different so it will never work between us darling ;)

[Nightshade]

when are we reading bronte then scher ?

[Scheherazade]

when are we reading bronte then scher ?Some time this year... Yep, definitely before the end of 2006! :D

(Probably in autumn.)

[Nightshade]

Some time year... Yep, definitely before the end of 2006! :D

(Probably in autumn.)
http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/aetsch/cheeky-smiley-022.gif its just that I want to reread all the brontes so Ill guess Ill leave C. till last then.... :D

[Pensive]

Yuppers, Reading Bronte's is a good idea!

[WaxDoll]

Any chance we'll be reading October Sky, Night, The Odyssey, Of Mice and Men, Great Expectations, and Romeo and Juliet in that order during... I dunno... the 2006-2007 school year time-frame :angel:

You can't blame a girl for trying ;)

[WaxDoll]

Is the order we will being reading the authors already predetermined? If so, do you know who we will be reading in June? Also, when will the next holiday-themed read be? Thank you bunches :D

[Scheherazade]

There is no order really; I am just tyring to choose so that we read different styles and periods each month.

I think we will have the summer read in mid June or so but meanwhile we will be reading books by other others as well to celebrate various things.

I am not sure what we will be reading in June yet! Will have to wait and see! :D

[WaxDoll]

Okey-Dok :D Can't wait! Thanks so much for the reply!

[superunknown]

Ooooh, I've only just noticed this, it sounds really interesting. I think I might skip out on the Terry Pratchett though (is it really, really that worth it?) and join in July. Would love to have gone over Portrait of the Artist as I've yet to read any Joyce (but Dubliners should arrive in the mail tomorrow), but I suppose I'll have to catch up on my own.

[Inkling]

Just found this forum - at last, a reading group whose titles are interesting, challenging, broad and my sort of literature! Looking forward to joining you for the Dickens read in October!

[Pensive]

Hi Inkling! Welcome to the forum! :)

[sunsetsweetie12]

Of the whole list I've only read Rebecca, 1984, and A Christmas Carol. I really need to get to the library!

[Scheherazade]

In 2007, we will be reading the works of:

Oscar Wilde*

George Bernard Shaw*

Truman Capote

D.H. Lawrence*

Salman Rushdie

Kurt Vonnegut

John Irving

H.P Lovecraft

John Updike

Mihail Bulgakov

Edith Wharton*

Milan Kundera

[brainstrain]

Ok, don't get me wrong, the Classics are amazing, and I haven't read nearly enough, but you have few if any modern writers on here...

A German (i think) favorite of mine is Cornelia Funke. She is the author of many good and widely popular fantasy books. My personal favorite of her books is Inkheart, about a man with the ability to read characters from books. For me, at least, it is a must for anyone who can appreciate an afternoon with a thick book.

It is, in a word, enchanting. You might want to consider her in your future readings.

I'll admit my tastes in book are rather narrow, but I always remain open minded, and will do some research on a few of the authors above...

[Nightshade]

I thought it would be a good idea to list all the books which have been read so far for the new members:

The authors to be read during 2007:

Oscar Wilde*

Truman Capote

D.H. Lawrence*

Salman Rushdie

Kurt Vonnegut

John Irving

H.P Lovecraft

John Updike

Mihail Bulgakov

Edith Wharton*

Milan Kundera


2007 Books

January '07__________George Bernard Shaw


2006 Books

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20829) / Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20561)/The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19941)/Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19731)/David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19306) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19747)/One Hundreds Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18943) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19129)/Shirley by Charlotte Bronte (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18591)/The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18201) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18533) /Mort by Terry Pratchett (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17700)/Waiting for Godot (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17412)/A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17101) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17538)/The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16592) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16940)/The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16280)/The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16095) /Possession by A.S. Byatt (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15715)/The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15661) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=158191#post158191) /A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15203) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15393)

2005 Books:

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14938) /Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14723) / Remembering John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14474) / Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14207) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14579) / The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13612) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13951) / Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13212) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13448) / Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12936) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13134) / The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12662) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12826) / Summer Reading: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12755) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13203) / Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12370) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12602) / Hyperion by Dan Simmons (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4456) The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4532) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12336) / Remembering Saul Bellow: Seize the Day (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4403) / Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4275) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4420) / Remembering Arthur Miller: The Crucible (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4178) Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4298) / Orlando by Virginia Woolf (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4090) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4217) / Lord of the Flies by William Golding (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3853) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4002)

2004 Books:

A Christmas Carol by Dickens (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3645) / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3408) / 1984 by George Orwell (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3151) / The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2891) / Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2702) / The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2430) / Heart of Darkness by Conrad (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2159) / Frankenstein by Shelly (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2167) / Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2086) / Dracula by Bram Stoker (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1913)


I will update the list as we read more books.

scher what do the * mean??

[Scheherazade]

scher what do the * mean??In this case, it means that I couldn't find any other symbol to signify different entries!

:p

[Lote-Tree]

In 2007, we will be reading the works of:

Oscar Wilde*

George Bernard Shaw*

Truman Capote

D.H. Lawrence*

Salman Rushdie

Kurt Vonnegut

John Irving

H.P Lovecraft

John Updike

Mihail Bulgakov

Edith Wharton*

Milan Kundera

Read'em all (excluding Edith Warton and Trueman Capote).

Salman Rushdies "Midnights Children" beats them all :-)

Now what we do :-)

[Brigitte]

I absolutely love this list, but I find it's a bit incomplete. For example there's the summer Woolf read, and the 4th of July read... but I don't see them on the list. Of course if you haven't yet updated then I apologize. ^^; Or.... maybe only the "monthly book" is added to the list?

[Scheherazade]

I absolutely love this list, but I find it's a bit incomplete. For example there's the summer Woolf read, and the 4th of July read... but I don't see them on the list. Of course if you haven't yet updated then I apologize. ^^; Or.... maybe only the "monthly book" is added to the list?I had not had a chance to update the list; now it is complete. :)

[geansecret]

Wow, this is inspiring. I just joined the community to see what others are reading and it's incredible. Do you have a time frame to read each book? 1 per week? 1 a month? I've gotta get me some speed reading skills.

Also, how balanced is it between Fiction vs. Non-Fiction? Do you do any Personal-Development type of books?
[B]
[COLOR="Red"]I'm really excited for the book that I just got: Having it All: Achieving Your Life's Goals and Dreams. It was written by John Assaraf, who is featured in the hit movie The Secret...

Hmm, I'm gonna have to look around these forums a little more! I'd like to create a thread to share it with people. Any suggestions on an appropriate place for that?

[Beverly S]

How do I join this reading club and what's being read for December '07?

[Dori]

How do I join this reading club and what's being read for December '07?

Welcome :) .

Once you get 50 posts, you can nominate and vote for books to read for the club. I think anyone can participate in the discussions.

[SleepyWitch]

:bawling: all the good German authors (cf. next year) I can remember off the top of my head are not available on amazon or borders in English translation (and not on Gutenberg either). no Lion Feuchtwanger, Theodor Fontane (except his 2 most famous book, including Effi Briest :sick: ), no Heinar Kipphardt :bawling:
.. they do have Georg Büchner, though. so we won't have to read Goethe and Schiller :thumbs_up

[Scheherazade]

How do I join this reading club and what's being read for December '07?The December thread: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29731

If you visit our General Chat section, you will acquire 50 posts in no time! :D

General Chat (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=10)
:bawling: all the good German authors (cf. next year) I can remember off the top of my head are not available on amazon or borders in English translation (and not on Gutenberg either). no Lion Feuchtwanger, Theodor Fontane (except his 2 most famous book, including Effi Briest :sick: ), no Heinar Kipphardt :bawling:
.. they do have Georg Büchner, though. so we won't have to read Goethe and Schiller :thumbs_upInteresting. After reading your post, Sleepy, I have tried to think of a "modern" German writer and could not think of one (only 20th Century author I can think of is Remarque). I am looking forward to finding out more! :)

[SleepyWitch]

General Chat (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=10)Interesting. After reading your post, Sleepy, I have tried to think of a "modern" German writer and could not think of one (only 20th Century author I can think of is Remarque). I am looking forward to finding out more! :)
yep... there's Günter Grass of course. he's quite good. but I tried to think of some less well-known authors and I couldn't find any of those in English translations :( well, there's lots of time to do research :)

[egale]

Hello, I'm Egale. I joined the literature network long ago, but so far I have not participated in the forums, just read some of the e-books available. I would like to know a little about the montlhly forums. I read the list of books and found it most interesting. Do you read the whole book and then give your opinion about it? Or do you read chapters and discuss them? I would appreciate it if any of the members of the club can explain the procedure to me. By the way, which is the book for march 2008?

Thank you to all of you. I will be awaiting your reply.

[Scheherazade]

Welcome to the Forum, Egale. :)

We tend to discuss the books as we read along. Anyone who would has a question or would like to comment on something simply posts in the relevant section.

We are still voting for the March book: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31439

And the nomination thread for April: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32321

[lugdunum]

Just a quick message to say thanks for this thread... Not only is it interesting to get reading ideas, but then to find the thread and read other people's comments on 'em.

Thanks for taking the time ;)

[wilbur lim]

Significant and stimulating list of all books.It is laudable.This would be likewise a stimulus to read instead of searching for all the post of books.

[Nightshade]

hey scher, can we find out now what month we will be reading what so can plan year accordingly ?:D

[Ronak]

how bout a thriller!!!!!!!!!

[huck]

has everyone read something by Paul Auster?

[skasian]

Hi huck,
Yes I read a couple of books by Paul Auster just a few weeks ago, The Brooklyn Follies, New York Trilogy and Mr Vertigo..which seems to be the more acclaimed titles. It was interesting to note that these three books had very different colours, it seemed as if they were not written by the same author.

[Saladin]

Is it to late to nominate a country for this year?

[JBI]

Hi huck,
Yes I read a couple of books by Paul Auster just a few weeks ago, The Brooklyn Follies, New York Trilogy and Mr Vertigo..which seems to be the more acclaimed titles. It was interesting to note that these three books had very different colours, it seemed as if they were not written by the same author.

Strangely enough, that is actually possible, given the trends in contemporary popular fiction.

[NickAdams]

has everyone read something by Paul Auster?

I haven't.

[Alexei]

has everyone read something by Paul Auster?

I've read some of his works, unfortunately I am far from reading everything he has published (I wish I had though), but still he is one of my favourite authors. Skasian is right that most of them are very different from each other and that's one of their benefits. I find his books refreshing and inspiring because although they look rather ordinary, they always give some strangely different point of view toward the whole world. It's mainly in the details, but you can see these books are written by a person who thinks inside the box. Well, at least this is how I see the things.
If you decide to give his books a try keep in mind that Auster also has been directing movies. You will see that some of his books are rather similar to a film - especially when it comes to the rhythm of the narration, the plot and its sometimes really unpredictable twist and even to the characters.

[Virgil]

I thought it would be a good idea to list all the books which have been read so far for the new members:

The genres to be read in 2009:

Crime fiction

Historical fiction

Gothic

Counter-culture Literature

Detective fiction

Philosophical Novel

War novel

Young adult

Thriller

Horror

Comic novel

Novel of Manners

The countries to be read in 2008:


Egypt



India



Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31438) / The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32319) / Dubliners by James Joyce (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33023) / Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories by Gao Xingjian (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33882) / The Sea by John Banville (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35962) / Odyssey by Homer (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35543) / The Road by Cormac McCarthy (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36194) / Norwegian Wood by Murakami (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36919)

2007 Books

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30901) / Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30652) / Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29712) / The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories by Lovecraft (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28798) / Run, Rabbit! by Updike (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27955) / Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27053) / One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25954) / Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26162) / To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26024) / Women in Love by DH Lawrence (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25347) / A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24399) / Slaughterhouse-Five (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23816) / Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23534) / [B]Major Barbara by GB Shaw (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23110) / The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22881) / Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22405) / The Grass Harp by Truman Capote (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22163) / Pygmalion by GB Shaw (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21318) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21977)

2006 Books

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20829) / Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20561)/The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19941)/Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19731)/David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19306) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19747)/One Hundreds Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18943) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19129)/Shirley by Charlotte Bronte (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18591)/The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18201) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18533) /East of Eden by Steinbeck (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17965&highlight=east+eden)Mort by Terry Pratchett (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17700)/Waiting for Godot (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17412)/A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17101) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17538)/The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16592) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16940)/The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16280)/The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16095) /Possession by A.S. Byatt (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15715)/The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15661) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=158191#post158191) /A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15203) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15393)

2005 Books:

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14938) /Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14723) / Remembering John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14474) / Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14207) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14579) / The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13612) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13951) / Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13212) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13448) / Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12936) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13134) / The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12662) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12826) / Summer Reading: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12755) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13203) / Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12370) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12602) / Hyperion by Dan Simmons (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4456) The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4532) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12336) / Remembering Saul Bellow: Seize the Day (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4403) / Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4275) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4420) / Remembering Arthur Miller: The Crucible (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4178) Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4298) / Orlando by Virginia Woolf (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4090) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4217) / Lord of the Flies by William Golding (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3853) * Favorites (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4002)

2004 Books:

A Christmas Carol by Dickens (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3645) / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3408) / 1984 by George Orwell (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3151) / The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2891) / Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2702) / The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2430) / Heart of Darkness by Conrad (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2159) / Frankenstein by Shelly (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2167) / Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2086) / Dracula by Bram Stoker (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1913)


I will update the list as we read more books.

Oh this is great Scher. I had no idea this existed. I'm forever searching for a past discussion of a book club read. Did you just tack this onto an earlier post because the date of your post says 1/2/05?

[papayahed]

Oh this is great Scher. I had no idea this existed. I'm forever searching for a past discussion of a book club read. Did you just tack this onto an earlier post because the date of your post says 1/2/05?

I don't know the exact date but it's been here for quite awhile, I think since Scher took over the book club.

[Scheherazade]

I am glad you find the thread useful, Virgil.

Like Papaya mentioned, it has been here since I started moderating the Book Club (more or less the date of the original post). I update the information as often as possible.

Which reminds me, an update is due! :p

[Saman]

I've read a book by oriana fallaci named "a letter to a chid never born "
it eas published about 40 years a go...
but it was full of realities and sometimes harsh ones

Do you think i Can find an english version on internet?

[ksotikoula]

I would really like "Villette" by Charlotte Bronte to be read and discussed. It is such a great, but not greatly known book ;).

[sofia82]

I try to read all these books you once read before and of course this time I promise myself not to disappear and read these lovely books by you, thank you.

[nievesalvarez]

Hi,
That is so nice collection.Well after finding your this comment there is no need for any book reading search of last few years.I like your idea for distributing the books by years.Thats so nice attempts with links.Please continue this type of activity.Thank you for sharing such a nice comment. ans sources..

[balehead]

Sorry if my insistent questions are annoying, but i was wondering what is being read currently/next?
Also, I thought that The Ill-Made mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton would be a good book to read some time for this club?

[Scheherazade]

Thanks for your suggestion, Balehead.

In November, we will be nominating random book selections so maybe then you can nominate your book.

Welcome to the Forum :)

For October reading, please visit here: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46028

[ilknur]

I am a newcomer . This site is very nice...:)

Thesedays, I am reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. a nice book

[MartyJones]

Serious Creativity by Edward De Bono is a lovely book, which changed my views on creative thinking quite a bit.

[Insane4Twain]

I am a newcomer . This site is very nice...
Same here. Relatively. Been poking around to find where all the action is. Apparently, the Forum Book Club gets most of the attention. Two years ago, anyhow. I'll be around.

[rainfall]

I was looking "The Awakening ". thanks for sharing

[louisgeorge]

very nice idea..well done :iagree:

[xtianfriborg13]

Will take note about these suggestions! I really hope I'd be able to read them all. :)

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I am new to this wonderful site and would like to get involved in a group reading or book club read here. Could someone please tell me how to be notified of which books have been chosen for a given month, say January 2014, and whether I have any input as to book selection? Thanks.

[papayahed]

Hi Tyrion,

The rules are here:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?4104-Book-Club-Procedures-(updated)

The polls and nominations are posted in this forum, the current polls should be at the top of the page.