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lupe
07-01-2010, 04:40 AM
A World Cup month, so not so much....:ciappa:

Michel Houellebecq - The possibility of an island
Dave Pelzer - A child called "it"
Ryű Murakami - Almost Transparent Blue
Jean-Pierre Ruffin - Asmara et les causes perdues (Lost Causes)

victorianfan
07-01-2010, 11:43 AM
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

The House of the Dead by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Ministarstvo boli (The Ministry of Pain) by Dubravka Ugrešić

Pop Ćira i pop Spira (Priest Ćira and Priest Spira) by Stevan Sremac

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Silence by Shusaku Endo

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

Le Pčre Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Prokleta avlija (The Damned Yard) by Ivo Andrić

The Broken Commandment by Tōson Shimazaki

The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi

The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian

manolia
07-02-2010, 05:19 AM
"What a carve-up" by J Coe
“The Road” by Cormac Mc Carthy
“North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell

windup_bird
07-02-2010, 07:24 AM
Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow

L.M. The Third
07-02-2010, 02:15 PM
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Abridged Audio version)
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell

I also read various works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including all the Sonnets from the Portuguese; and the first 'book' in a large four volume history series, begun at an earlier date.

Tallon
07-02-2010, 10:46 PM
Pushkin - The Queen Of Spades and other stories
Started Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
Started Dead Souls by Gogol

Ahkilleus
07-03-2010, 01:21 AM
The Iliad - Homer

Barbarous
07-03-2010, 11:33 AM
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Madame Bovary by Flaubert (reread)
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

WildWildEast
07-03-2010, 11:45 AM
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by Scot Fitzerald

antiprefix
07-03-2010, 12:37 PM
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Elements of Style by Strunk and E.B. White
Book of the American Short Story edited by Richard Ford
22 Jamaican Short Stories

IceM
07-03-2010, 01:46 PM
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
Cosmocomics by Italo Calvino
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (re-read)
Master and Man/The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoy

_Shannon_
07-03-2010, 01:52 PM
Count of Monte Cristo
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A Farewell To Arms
most of Mountains Beyond Mountains

Jess66
07-06-2010, 12:50 PM
I just finished Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. :)