Cooking

So my cooking skills are put under the test, and as much as I'd like to say I aced that test, I haven't yet. I am doing fairly well.
My main problem consists with patience and spices.
I'd be checking the cooking pot every 15 seconds to see if what's cooking is done, thinking that these few seconds are sufficient to get it done.
And the food is either too salty or needs more salt. Or sometimes it's plain tasteless.

Cooking is hard business. If you haven't tried it yourself then you can't judge. Just the thought of what to cook for the next day is enough to make you get stressed. OK I'm kind of exaggerating. You get the point though.

However, I'm not such a bad book actually, I can pull off some good meals. But it's every meal at a time, sometimes it's good sometimes it's not but I wish I could be less judgmental about my cooking!

So whoever is cooking for you, be grateful. It's hard work, and needs patience.

PS: I'm making soup right now, so let's hope it's good because I need it!

1001 Books To Read Before You Die

Here is a list of all the books published in the 3 editions of the book 1001 Books To Read Before You Die.
The titles in bold are the books I've read. I'll be updating it to keep track of the progress I make. I've read 55 so far.

1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2010)
2. The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt (2010)
3. Invisible by Paul Auster (2010)
4. American Rust by Philipp Meyer (2010)
5. Cost by Roxana Robinson (2010)
6. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2010)
7. Home by Marilynne Robinson (2010)
8. Kieron Smith, boy by James Kelman (2010)
9. The Gathering by Anne Enright (2010)
10. The Blind Side of the Heart by Julia Franck (2010)
11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2010)
12. Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (2008)
13. Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2008, 2010)
14. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2008)
15. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008, 2010)
16. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (2008)
17. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2008, 2010)
18. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (2008, 2010)
19. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland (2008, 2010)
20. Mother’s Milk by Edward St. Aubyn (2008, 2010)
21. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (2008, 2010)
22. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2008)
23. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)
24. Saturday – Ian McEwan (2006)
25. On Beauty – Zadie Smith (2006)
26. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee (2006)
27. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson (2006)
28. The Accidental by Ali Smith (2008, 2010)
29. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2008, 2010)
30. 2666 by Roberto Bolano (2008, 2010)
31. Small Island by Andrea Levy
32. The Sea – John Banville (2006, 2008, 2010)
33. The Book about Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist (2008, 2010)
34. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble (2006)
35. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
36. The Master – Colm Tóibín (2006, 2008, 2010)
37. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (2008, 2010)
38. The Swarm by Frank Schatzing (2008, 2010)
39. Vanishing Point – David Markson (2006)
40. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd (2006)
41. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair (2006)
42. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (2006, 2008, 2010)
43. Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias (2008, 2010)
44. A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz (2008, 2010)
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
46. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle (2006)
47. The Colour – Rose Tremain (2006)
48. Thursbitch – Alan Garner (2006)
49. The Light of Day – Graham Swift (2006)
50. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt (2006, 2008, 2010)
51. Lady Number Thirteen by Jose Carlos Somoza (2008, 2010)
52. The Successor by Ismail Kadare (2008, 2010)
53. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (2008, 2010)
54. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008, 2010)
55. Islands – Dan Sleigh
56. Unless – Carol Shields (2006)
57. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami (2006, 2008, 2010)
58. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee (2006)
59. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair (2006)
60. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry (2006)
61. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters (2006)
62. The Double – José Saramago (2006)
63. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer (2006, 2008, 2010)
64. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor (2006)
65. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern (2006)
66. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien (2006)
67. Shroud – John Banville (2006)
68. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (2006)
69. Youth – J.M. Coetzee (2006)
70. Dead Air – Iain Banks (2006)
71. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon (2006, 2008, 2010)
72. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2008, 2010)
73. Platform – Michael Houellebecq (2006, 2008, 2010)
74. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen (2006, 2008, 2010)
75. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini (2006)
76. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo (2006)
77. Fury – Salman Rushdie (2006)
78. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill (2006)
79. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk (2006)
80. Life of Pi – Yann Martel (2006, 2008, 2010)
81. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster (2006)
82. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi (2006)
83. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald (2006, 2008, 2010)
84. Schooling – Heather McGowan (2006)
85. Atonement – Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010)
86. Soldiers of Salamis by Javer Cercas (2008, 2010)
87. I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti (2008, 2010)
88. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa (2006, 2008, 2010)
89. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
90. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma (2006)
91. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho (2006, 2008, 2010)
92. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare (2006, 2008, 2010)
93. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
94. Under the Skin – Michel Faber (2006, 2008, 2010)
95. White Teeth – Zadie Smith (2006, 2008, 2010)
96. City of God – E.L. Doctorow (2006)
97. How the Dead Live – Will Self (2006)
98. The Human Stain – Philip Roth (2006, 2008, 2010)
99. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood (2006)
100. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami (2006)
101. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
102. Ignorance – Milan Kundera (2006)
103. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace (2006)
104. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy (2006, 2008, 2010)
105. Bartleby and Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas (2008, 2010)
106. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard (2006)
107. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski (2006)
108. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates (2006)
109. Pastoralia – George Saunder (2006)
110. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy (2006)
111. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb (2006, 2008, 2010)
112. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Urgresic (2008, 2010)
113. In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi (2008, 2010)
114. Pavel’s Letters by Monika Maron (2008, 2010)
115. Timbuktu – Paul Auster (2006)
116. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra (2006)
117. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson (2006)
118. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic (2006, 2008, 2010)
119. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie (2006)
120. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010)
121. Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (2008, 2010)
122. Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Guitierrez (2008, 2010)
123. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon (2006, 2008, 2010)
124. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami (2006)
125. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq (2006, 2008, 2010)
126. The Heretic by Miguel Deliber (2008, 2010)
127. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi (2006)
128. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan (2006)
129. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks (2006)
130. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom (2006, 2008, 2010)
131. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters (2006)
132. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis (2006)
133. Another World – Pat Barker (2006)
134. The Hours – Michael Cunningham (2006, 2008, 2010)
135. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho (2006, 2008, 2010)
136. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (2006, 2008, 2010)
137. Crossfire by Miyabe Miyuki (2008, 2010)
138. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (2006)
139. Great Apes – Will Self (2006)
140. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010)
141. Underworld – Don DeLillo (2006, 2008, 2010)
142. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey (2006, 2008, 2010)
143. Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia (2008, 2010)
144. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin (2006, 2008, 2010)
145. Margot and the Angels by Kristien Hemmerechts (2008, 2010)
146. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon (2006)
147. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (2006, 2008, 2010)
148. American Pastoral – Philip Roth (2006)
149. The Untouchable – John Banville (2006)
150. Silk – Alessandro Baricco (2006, 2008, 2010)
151. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (2008, 2010)
152. A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza (2008, 2010)
153. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard (2006)
154. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker (2006, 2008, 2010)
155. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels (2006, 2008, 2010)
156. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker (2006, 2008, 2010)
157. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse (2006, 2008, 2010)
158. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace (2006, 2008, 2010)
159. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin (2006, 2008, 2010)
160. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood (2006, 2008, 2010)
161. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010)
162. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner (2006, 2008, 2010)
163. Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez (2008, 2010)
164. The Information – Martin Amis (2006)
165. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie (2006)
166. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth (2006)
167. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald (2006)
168. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink (2006, 2008, 2010)
169. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (2006, 2008, 2010)
170. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose (2006, 2008, 2010)
171. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis (2006, 2008, 2010)
172. The Late-Night News by Petros Markaris (2008, 2010)
173. Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante (2008, 2010)
174. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster (2006)
175. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst (2006)
176. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq (2006, 2008, 2010)
177. Land – Park Kyong-ni (2006, 2008, 2010)
178. Our Lady of Assassins by Fernando Vallejo (2008, 2010)
179. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee (2006)
180. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (2006, 2008, 2010)
181. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi (2006, 2008, 2010)
182. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol (2006, 2008, 2010)
183. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman (2006, 2008, 2010)
184. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres (2006, 2008, 2010)
185. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor (2006, 2008, 2010)
186. Deep River by Shusaku Endo (2008, 2010)
187. Disappearance – David Dabydeen (2006, 2008, 2010)
188. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm (2006, 2008, 2010)
189. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klima (2008, 2010)
190. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx (2006, 2008, 2010)
191. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh (2006)
192. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (2006, 2008, 2010)
193. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy (2006, 2008, 2010)
194. The Twins by Tessa de Loo (2008, 2010)
195. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth (2006)
196. Complicity – Iain Banks (2006)
197. On Love – Alain de Botton (2006, 2008, 2010)
198. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe (2006, 2008, 2010)
199. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth (2006, 2008, 2010)
200. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields (2006, 2008, 2010)
201. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides (2006, 2008, 2010)
202. The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (2008, 2010)
203. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (2008, 2010)
204. The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis (2008, 2010)
205. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd (2006)
206. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood (2006)
207. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald (2006)
208. The Secret History – Donna Tartt (2006, 2008, 2010)
209. Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas (2008, 2010)
210. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar (2006, 2008, 2010)
211. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch (2006, 2008, 2010)
212. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis (2008, 2010)
213. The Triple Mirror of the Self by Zulfikar Ghose (2008, 2010)
214. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (2008, 2010)
215. A Heart So White – Javier Marias (2006)
216. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker (2006, 2008, 2010)
217. Jazz – Toni Morrison (2006)
218. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (2006, 2008, 2010)
219. Indigo – Marina Warner (2006, 2008, 2010)
220. The Crow Road – Iain Banks (2006, 2008, 2010)
221. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson (2006, 2008, 2010)
222. The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte (2008, 2010)
223. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg (2006, 2008, 2010)
224. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe (2006, 2008, 2010)
225. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates (2006)
226. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín (2006)
227. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (2006, 2008, 2010)
228. Memoirs of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (2008, 2010)
229. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan (2006)
230. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud (2006, 2008, 2010)
231. Arcadia – Jim Crace (2006, 2008, 2010)
232. Wild Swans – Jung Chang (2006, 2008, 2010)
233. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis (2006)
234. Mao II – Don DeLillo (2006, 2008, 2010)
235. Typical – Padgett Powell (2006, 2008, 2010)
236. Regeneration – Pat Barker (2006, 2008, 2010)
237. Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou (2008, 2010)
238. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (2008, 2010)
239. The Laws by Connie Palmen (2008, 2010)
240. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis (2006, 2008, 2010)
241. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon (2006)
242. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald (2006, 2008, 2010)
243. Downriver – Iain Sinclair (2006)
244. The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis (2008, 2010)
245. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres (2006)
246. Wise Children – Angela Carter (2006)
247. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard (2006, 2008, 2010)
248. Amongst Women – John McGahern (2006, 2008, 2010)
249. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge (2006, 2008, 2010)
250. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster (2006, 2008, 2010)
251. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)
252. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle (2006, 2008, 2010)
253. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (2008, 2010)
254. Possession – A.S. Byatt (2006)
255. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi (2006, 2008, 2010)
256. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham (2006)
257. Like Life – Lorrie Moore (2006, 2008, 2010)
258. A Disaffection – James Kelman (2006)
259. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson (2006, 2008, 2010)
260. Moon Palace – Paul Auster (2006, 2008, 2010)
261. London Fields – Martin Amis (2006, 2008, 2010)
262. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow (2006)
263. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010)
264. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai (2006, 2008, 2010)
265. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor (2008, 2010)
266. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker (2006)
267. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway (2006, 2008, 2010)
268. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago (2006, 2008, 2010)
269. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (2006, 2008, 2010)
270. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving (2006, 2008, 2010)
271. Inland by Gerald Murnane (2008, 2010)
272. Obabakoak by Bernando Atxaga (2008, 2010)
273. Gimmick! by Joost Zwagerman (2008, 2010)
274. The Book of Evidence – John Banville (2006)
275. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood (2006)
276. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco (2006, 2008, 2010)
277. Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (2008, 2010)
278. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White (2006)
279. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson (2006, 2008, 2010)
280. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie (2006, 2008, 2010)
281. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst (2006, 2008, 2010)
282. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey (2006, 2008, 2010)
283. The Last World by Christopher Ransmayr (2008, 2010)
284. The First Garden by Anne Herbert (2008, 2010)
285. Libra – Don DeLillo The First Garden by Anne Herbert (2006)
286. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks (2006)
287. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga (2006, 2008, 2010)
288. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan (2006)
289. Cigarettes by Harry Mathews (2006, 2008, 2010)
290. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams (2006)
291. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams (2006, 2008, 2010)
292. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (2008, 2010)
293. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble (2006, 2008, 2010)
294. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke (2006, 2008, 2010)
295. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson (2006)
296. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy (2006, 2008, 2010)
297. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe (2006, 2008, 2010)
298. Black Box by Amos Oz All Souls by Javier Marias (2008, 2010)
299. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster (2006, 2008, 2010)
300. All Souls by Javier Marias (2008, 2010)
301. Beloved – Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)
302. Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (2008, 2010)
303. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind (2006, 2008, 2010)
304. World’s End by T.C. Boyle (2006, 2008, 2010)
305. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul (2006, 2008, 2010)
306. The Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov (2008, 2010)
307. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
308. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt (2006, 2008, 2010)
309. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore (2006, 2008, 2010)
310. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (2006, 2008, 2010)
311. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis (2006, 2008, 2010)
312. Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano (2008, 2010)
313. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010)
314. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard (2006, 2008, 2010)
315. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates (2006)
316. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons (2006, 2008, 2010)
317. Foe – J.M. Coetzee (2006)
318. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010)
319. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Szczypiorski (2008, 2010)
320. Ancestral Voices by Etienne van Heerden (2008, 2010)
321. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez (2006, 2008, 2010)
322. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann (2006, 2008, 2010)
323. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (2008, 2010)
324. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson (2006)
325. The Cider House Rules – John Irving (2006, 2008, 2010)
326. Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson (2008, 2010)
327. A Maggot – John Fowles (2006)
328. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis (2006)
329. Contact – Carl Sagan (2006, 2008, 2010)
330. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (2008, 2010)
331. Perfume – Patrick Süskind (2006, 2008, 2010)
332. Queer – William Burroughs (2006)
333. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd (2006, 2008, 2010)
334. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (2006, 2008, 2010)
335. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel (2006, 2008, 2010)
336. Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang (2008, 2010)
337. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard (2006)
338. White Noise – Don DeLillo (2006, 2008, 2010)
339. Love Medicine by Louise Erdich (2008, 2010)
340. The Young Man by Botho Strauss (2008, 2010)
341. Legend – David Gemmell (2006, 2008, 2010)
342. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (2006, 2008, 2010)
343. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic (2006, 2008, 2010)
344. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman (2006, 2008, 2010)
345. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard (2006, 2008, 2010)
346. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago (2006, 2008, 2010)
347. The Lover – Marguerite Duras (2006, 2008, 2010)
348. Democracy by Joan Didion (2008, 2010)
349. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks (2006, 2008, 2010)
350. Neuromancer – William Gibson (2006, 2008, 2010)
351. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter (2006, 2008, 2010)
352. Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julian Rios (2008, 2010)
353. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker (2006, 2008, 2010)
354. Professor Martens’ Departure by Jaan Kross (2008, 2010)
355. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes (2006, 2008, 2010)
356. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis (2006, 2008, 2010)
357. Shame – Salman Rushdie (2006, 2008, 2010)
358. The Witness by Juan Jose Saer (2008, 2010)
359. Fado Alexandrino by Antonio Lobo Antunes (2008, 2010)
360. The Christmas Oratorio by Goran Tunstrom (2008, 2010)
361. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett (2006)
362. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor (2006)
363. La Brava – Elmore Leonard (2006, 2008, 2010)
364. Waterland – Graham Swift (2006, 2008, 2010)
365. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010)
366. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing (2006)
367. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek (2006, 2008, 2010)
368. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus (2006, 2008, 2010)
369. Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago (2008, 2010)
370. The Book of Diquiet by Fernando Pessoa (2008, 2010)
371. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010)
372. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White (2006, 2008, 2010)
373. The Color Purple – Alice Walker (2006, 2008, 2010)
374. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard (2006, 2008, 2010)
375. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010)
376. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally (2006, 2008, 2010)
377. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende (2006, 2008, 2010)
378. The Newton Letter – John Banville (2006)
379. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin (2006, 2008, 2010)
380. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan (2006)
381. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer (2006, 2008, 2010)
382. Couples, Passerby by Botho Strauss (2008, 2010)
383. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard (2006)
384. The Names – Don DeLillo (2006)
385. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike (2006, 2008, 2010)
386. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray (2006, 2008, 2010)
387. The War of the End of the World by Llosa (2008, 2010)
388. Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie (2008, 2010)
389. The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Wassmo (2008, 2010)
390. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin (2006, 2008, 2010)
391. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010)
392. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (2006, 2008, 2010)
393. Rites of Passage – William Golding (2006)
394. Broken April – Ismail Kadare (2006, 2008, 2010)
395. Smell of Sadness by Kossman (2008, 2010)
396. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom (2006, 2008, 2010)
397. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (2006, 2008, 2010)
398. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (2008, 2010)
399. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard (2006)
400. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco (2006, 2008, 2010)
401. Southern Seas by Montalban (2008, 2010)
402. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré(2006, 2008, 2010)
403. Fool’s Gold by Douka (2008, 2010)
404. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera (2006, 2008, 2010)
405. A Dry White Season by Andre Brink (2008, 2010)
406. Shikasta – Doris Lessing (2006)
407. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul (2006, 2008, 2010)
408. Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer (2006, 2008, 2010)
409. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (2008, 2010)
410. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll (2006)
411. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010)
412. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (2006, 2008, 2010)
413. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010)
414. Yes – Thomas Bernhard (2006)
415. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt (2006, 2008, 2010)
416. The Back Room by Gaite (2008, 2010)
417. The World According to Garp – John Irving (2006)
418. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010)
419. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010)
420. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell (2006, 2008, 2010)
421. Requiem for a Dream by Selby (2008, 2010)
422. The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (2008, 2010)
423. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter (2006)
424. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin (2006, 2008, 2010)
425. The Shining – Stephen King (2006, 2008, 2010)
426. Dispatches – Michael Herr (2006, 2008, 2010)
427. The Wars by Findley (2008, 2010)
428. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (2006)
429. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)
430. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector (2006, 2008, 2010)
431. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (2008, 2010)
432. The Engineer of Human Souls by Skvorecky (2008, 2010)
433. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010)
434. Almost Transparent Blue by Rhu Murakami (2008, 2010)
435. Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig (2008, 2010)
436. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke (2006, 2008, 2010)
437. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo (2006)
438. The Public Burning – Robert Coover (2006)
439. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice (2006, 2008, 2010)
440. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg (2006, 2008, 2010)
441. Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor (2008, 2010)
442. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme (2006)
443. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf (2006, 2008, 2010)
444. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez (2006, 2008, 2010)
445. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010)
446. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell (2006, 2008, 2010)
447. Dead Babies – Martin Amis (2006)
448. Correction – Thomas Bernhard (2006, 2008, 2010)
449. Grimus – Salman Rushdie (2006)
450. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme(2006, 2008, 2010)
451. Fateless – Imre Kertész (2006, 2008, 2010)
452. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan (2006, 2008, 2010)
453. Woman at Point Zero by El Saadawi (2008, 2010)
454. High Rise – J.G. Ballard (2006)
455. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow (2006, 2008, 2010)
456. The Year of the Hare by Paasilinna (2008, 2010)
457. The Commandant by Jessica Anderson (2008, 2010)
458. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow(2006, 2008, 2010)
459. The Port by Soljan (2008, 2010)
460. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle (2006, 2008, 2010)
461. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010)
462. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll (2006, 2008, 2010)
463. The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (2008, 2010)
464. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (2008, 2010)
465. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré (2006)
466. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2006)
467. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong (2006, 2008, 2010)
468. A Question of Power – Bessie Head (2006, 2008, 2010)
469. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell (2006, 2008, 2010)
470. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010)
471. Crash – J.G. Ballard (2006, 2008, 2010)
472. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010)
473. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon (2006, 2008, 2010)
474. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch (2006)
475. Sula – Toni Morrison (2006)
476. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010)
477. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (2008, 2010)
478. The Twilight Years by Ariyoshi (2008, 2010)
479. The Breast – Philip Roth (2006)
480. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson (2006, 2008, 2010)
481. G – John Berger (2006, 2008, 2010)
482. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood (2006, 2008, 2010)
483. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson (2006, 2008, 2010)
484. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul (2006, 2008, 2010)
485. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro (2008, 2010)
486. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow (2006, 2008, 2010)
487. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson (2006, 2008, 2010)
488. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll (2006, 2008, 2010)
489. Cataract by Osadchyi (2008, 2010)
490. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs (2006)
491. Rabbit Redux – John Updike (2006, 2008, 2010)
492. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima (2006, 2008, 2010)
493. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark (2006)
494. The Ogre – Michael Tournier (2006)
495. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)
496. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke (2006)
497. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou (2006, 2008, 2010)
498. A World for Julius by Echenique (2008, 2010)
499. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett (2006)
500. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
501. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson (2006, 2008, 2010)
502. Play It As it Lays by Joan Didion (2008, 2010)
503. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (2008, 2010)
504. Here’s to You, Jesusa by Poniatowska (2008, 2010)
505. Season of Migration to the North by Salih (2008, 2010)
506. Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig (2008, 2010)
507. Moscow Stations by Erofeyev (2008, 2010)
508. The Case Worker by Konrad (2008, 2010)
509. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard (2006)
510. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado (2006, 2008, 2010)
511. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover (2006, 2008, 2010)
512. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines (2006, 2008, 2010)
513. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2006, 2008, 2010)
514. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles (2006, 2008, 2010)
515. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis (2006)
516. Jacob the Liar by Becker (2008, 2010)
517. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth (2006, 2008, 2010)
518. The Godfather – Mario Puzo (2006, 2008, 2010)
519. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)
520. Them – Joyce Carol Oates (2006, 2008, 2010)
521. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010)
522. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010)
523. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal (2006, 2008, 2010)
524. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010)
525. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch (2006)
526. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen (2006, 2008, 2010)
527. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke (2006, 2008, 2010)
528. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick (2006, 2008, 2010)
529. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf (2006, 2008, 2010)
530. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry (2006)
531. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz (2006, 2008, 2010)
532. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan (2006, 2008, 2010)
533. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines (2006, 2008, 2010)
534. The Cathedral by Honchar (2008, 2010)
535. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen (2006, 2008, 2010)
536. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe (2006, 2008, 2010)
537. Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle (2008, 2010)
538. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson (2006, 2008, 2010)
539. Chocky – John Wyndham (2006)
540. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa (2006)
541. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez (2006, 2008, 2010)
542. The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008, 2010)
543. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson (2006, 2008, 2010)
544. The Joke – Milan Kundera (2006)
545. Z by Vassilikos (2008, 2010)
546. Miramar by Mahfouz (2008, 2010)
547. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)
548. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (2006, 2008, 2010)
549. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov (2006, 2008, 2010)
550. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec (2006)
551. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West (2006)
552. Trawl – B.S. Johnson (2006)
553. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (2006, 2008, 2010)
554. The Magus – John Fowles (2006, 2008, 2010)
555. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras (2006, 2008, 2010)
556. Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo (2008, 2010)
557. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth (2006, 2008, 2010)
558. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (2006, 2008, 2010)
559. To Each His Own by Sciascia (2008, 2010)
560. Silence by Shusaku Endo (2008, 2010)
561. Death and the Dervish by Selimovic (2008, 2010)
562. Things – Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010)
563. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien (2006)
564. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut (2006)
565. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor (2006, 2008, 2010)
566. Garden, Ashes by Kis (2008, 2010)
567. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o(2006, 2008, 2010)
568. Closely Watched Trains by Hrabal (2008, 2010)
569. Back to Oegstgeest by Wolkers (2008, 2010)
570. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector (2006, 2008, 2010)
571. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey (2006, 2008, 2010)
572. Three Trapped Tigers by Infante (2008, 2010)
573. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme (2006)
574. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson (2006)
575. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe (2006, 2008, 2010)
576. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras (2006, 2008, 2010)
577. Herzog – Saul Bellow (2006, 2008, 2010)
578. V. – Thomas Pynchon (2006, 2008, 2010)
579. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut (2006, 2008, 2010)
580. The Graduate – Charles Webb (2006, 2008, 2010)
581. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol (2006, 2008, 2010)
582. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré (2006, 2008, 2010)
583. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark (2006, 2008, 2010)
584. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess (2006, 2008, 2010)
585. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (2006, 2008, 2010)
586. Dog Years by Gunter Grass (2008, 2010)
587. The Third Wedding by Taktsis (2008, 2010)
588. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010)
589. The Time of the Hero by Llosa (2008, 2010)
590. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Fuentes (2008, 2010)
591. The Collector – John Fowles (2006)
592. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey (2006, 2008, 2010)
593. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (2006, 2008, 2010)
594. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)
595. Time of Silence by Luis Martin Santos (2008, 2010)
596. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard (2006)
597. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing (2006, 2008, 2010)
598. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges (2006, 2008, 2010)
599. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)
600. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani (2006, 2008, 2010)
601. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein (2006, 2008, 2010)
602. Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Vilos (2008, 2010)
603. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame (2006, 2008, 2010)
604. No One Writes to the Colonel by Marquez (2008, 2010)
605. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger (2006, 2008, 2010)
606. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010)
607. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark (2006, 2008, 2010)
608. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass (2006, 2008, 2010)
609. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (2006, 2008, 2010)
610. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (2006, 2008, 2010)
611. The Shipyard by Onetti (2008, 2010)
612. God’s Bits of Wood by Sembene (2008, 2010)
613. Bebo’s Girl by Cassola (2008, 2010)
614. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor (2006)
615. How It Is – Samuel Beckett (2006)
616. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino (2006)
617. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien(2006, 2008, 2010)
618. Halftime by Martin Walser (2008, 2010)
619. The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008, 2010)
620. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (2006, 2008, 2010)
621. Rabbit, Run – John Updike (2006, 2008, 2010)
622. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary (2006, 2008, 2010)
623. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes (2006, 2008, 2010)
624. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse (2006, 2008, 2010)
625. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs (2006, 2008, 2010)
626. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass (2006, 2008, 2010)
627. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee (2006, 2008, 2010)
628. Down Second Avenue by Mphahlele (2008, 2010)
629. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow (2006)
630. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark (2006)
631. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll (2006, 2008, 2010)
632. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe (2006, 2008, 2010)
633. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote (2006, 2008, 2010)
634. Deep Rivers by Arguedas (2008, 2010)
635. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (2006, 2008, 2010)
636. The Guide by Narayan (2008, 2010)
637. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon (2006, 2008, 2010)
638. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (2006, 2008, 2010)
639. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe (2006, 2008, 2010)
640. Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon by Jorge Amada (2008, 2010)
641. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico (2006)
642. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan (2006, 2008, 2010)
643. The Bell – Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010)
644. The End of the Road – John Barth (2006)
645. The Once and Future King – T.H. White (2006, 2008, 2010)
646. The Birds by Vesaas (2008, 2010)
647. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet (2006, 2008, 2010)
648. Voss – Patrick White (2006, 2008, 2010)
649. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham (2006, 2008, 2010)
650. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille (2006, 2008, 2010)
651. Homo Faber – Max Frisch (2006, 2008, 2010)
652. The Deadbeats by Ruyslinck (2008, 2010)
653. The Manila Rope by Meri (2008, 2010)
654. On the Road – Jack Kerouac (2006, 2008, 2010)
655. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)
656. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak (2006, 2008, 2010)
657. The Glass Bees by Junger (2008, 2010)
658. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber (2006)
659. Justine – Lawrence Durrell (2006, 2008, 2010)
660. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin (2006, 2008, 2010)
661. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow (2006)
662. The Floating Opera – John Barth(2006, 2008, 2010)
663. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary (2006, 2008, 2010)
664. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (2006, 2008, 2010)
665. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (2006, 2008, 2010)
666. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith (2006, 2008, 2010)
667. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)
668. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Rosa (2008, 2010)
669. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis (2006, 2008, 2010)
670. The Tree of Man by Patrick White (2008, 2010)
671. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen (2006)
672. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett (2006, 2008, 2010)
673. The Quiet American – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010)
674. The Burning Plain by Rulfo (2008, 2010)
675. The Recognitions – William Gaddis (2006, 2008, 2010)
676. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini (2006, 2008, 2010)
677. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch (2006, 2008, 2010)
678. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis (2006)
679. The Unknown Soldier by Linna (2008, 2010)
680. The Sound of Waves by Mishima (2008, 2010)
681. Death in Rome by Koeppen (2008, 2010)
682. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan (2006, 2008, 2010)
683. The Mandarins by de Beauvoir (2008, 2010)
684. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (2006, 2008, 2010)
685. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010)
686. The Story of O – Pauline Réage (2006, 2008, 2010)
687. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia (2006, 2008, 2010)
688. A Day in Spring by Kosmac (2008, 2010)
689. The Dark Child by Laye (2008, 2010)
690. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley (2006, 2008, 2010)
691. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler (2006, 2008, 2010)
692. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett (2006)
693. Watt – Samuel Beckett (2006)
694. The Hothouse by Koeppen (2008, 2010)
695. The Lost Steps by Carpentier (2008, 2010)
696. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis (2006, 2008, 2010)
697. Junkie – William Burroughs (2006, 2008, 2010)
698. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming (2006, 2008, 2010)
699. *The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow (2006)
700. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin (2006, 2008, 2010)
701. A Thousand Cranes by Kawabata (2008, 2010)
702. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (2008, 2010)
703. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt (2006, 2008, 2010)
704. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison (2006, 2008, 2010)
705. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)
706. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor (2006, 2008, 2010)
707. The Hive by Cela (2008, 2010)
708. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson (2006)
709. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar (2006, 2008, 2010)
710. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham (2006, 2008, 2010)
711. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett (2006, 2008, 2010)
712. Foundation – Isaac Asimov (2006, 2008, 2010)
713. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq (2006, 2008, 2010)
714. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (2006, 2008, 2010)
715. The Rebel – Albert Camus (2006, 2008, 2010)
716. Molloy – Samuel Beckett (2006, 2008, 2010)
717. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010)
718. Barabbas by Lagerkvist (2008, 2010)
719. The Guiltless by Broch (2008, 2010)
720. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille (2006, 2008, 2010)
721. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz (2006, 2008, 2010)
722. The Third Man – Graham Greene (2006)
723. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber (2006, 2008, 2010)
724. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake (2006, 2008, 2010)
725. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese (2006, 2008, 2010)
726. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute (2006, 2008, 2010)
727. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing (2006, 2008, 2010)
728. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (2006, 2008, 2010)
729. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk (2006, 2008, 2010)
730. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge (2006, 2008, 2010)
731. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford (2006, 2008, 2010)
732. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen (2006, 2008, 2010)
733. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier (2006, 2008, 2010)
734. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren (2006, 2008, 2010)
735. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010)
736. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot (2006, 2008, 2010)
737. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Borowski (2008, 2010)
738. In the Heart of the Seas by Agnon (2008, 2010)
739. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene (2006)
740. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton (2006, 2008, 2010)
741. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani (2006, 2008, 2010)
742. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia (2006, 2008, 2010)
743. Ashes and Diamonds by Andrzejewski (2008, 2010)
744. Journey to the Alcarria by Cela (2008, 2010)
745. Froth on the Daydream by Vian (2008, 2010)
746. Midaq Alley by Mahfouz (2008, 2010)
747. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010)
748. The Plague – Albert Camus (2006, 2008, 2010)
749. The Victim – Saul Bellow (2006)
750. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau (2006, 2008, 2010)
751. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010)
752. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry (2006, 2008, 2010)
753. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010)
754. House in the Uplands by Caldwell (2008, 2010)
755. Back – Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)
756. Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis (2008, 2010)
757. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake (2006, 2008, 2010)
758. The Death of Virgil by Broch (2008, 2010)
759. Andrea by Laforet (2008, 2010)
760. The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy (2008, 2010)
761. Bosnian Chronicle by Andric (2008, 2010)
762. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh (2006, 2008, 2010)
763. Arcanum 17 – André Breton (2006, 2008, 2010)
764. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010)
765. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri? (2006, 2008, 2010)
766. Animal Farm – George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010)
767. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck (2006)
768. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford (2006)
769. Loving – Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)
770. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (2008, 2010)
771. Transit – Anna Seghers (2006, 2008, 2010)
772. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham (2006, 2008, 2010)
773. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges (2006)
774. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow (2006, 2008, 2010)
775. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2006, 2008, 2010)
776. Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann (2008, 2010)
777. Caught – Henry Green (2006)
778. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010)
779. Chess Story by Zweig (2008, 2010)
780. Embers – Sandor Marai (2006, 2008, 2010)
781. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner (2006)
782. The Outsider – Albert Camus (2006, 2008, 2010)
783. Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini (2006, 2008, 2010)
784. The Harvesters by Parvese (2008, 2010)
785. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien (2006)
786. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White (2006, 2008, 2010)
787. Broad and Alien Is the World by Alegria (2008, 2010)
788. The Man Who Loved Children by Stead (2008, 2010)
789. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton (2006)
790. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf (2006)
791. The Hamlet – William Faulkner (2006)
792. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler (2006)
793. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)
794. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010)
795. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati (2006, 2008, 2010)
796. Native Son – Richard Wright (2006, 2008, 2010)
797. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce (2006, 2008, 2010)
798. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)
799. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller (2006)
800. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys (2006, 2008, 2010)
801. Party Going – Henry Green (2006)
802. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (2006, 2008, 2010)
803. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell (2006)
804. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood (2006, 2008, 2010)
805. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler (2006, 2008, 2010)
806. One the Edge of Reason by Krleza (2008, 2010)
807. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner (2006)
808. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson (2006, 2008, 2010)
809. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre (2006, 2008, 2010)
810. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (2006, 2008, 2010)
811. Alamut by Bartol (2008, 2010)
812. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler (2006, 2008, 2010)
813. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010)
814. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos (2006, 2008, 2010)
815. Murphy – Samuel Beckett (2006, 2008, 2010)
816. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (2006, 2008, 2010)
817. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (2006, 2008, 2010)
818. The Years – Virginia Woolf (2006)
819. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (2006, 2008, 2010)
820. The Blind Owl by Hedayat (2008, 2010)
821. Ferdydurke by Grombowicz (2008, 2010)
822. In Parenthesis – David Jones (2006, 2008, 2010)
823. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis (2006)
824. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) (2006, 2008, 2010)
825. Rickshaw Boy by Lao She (2008, 2010)
826. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway (2006)
827. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner (2006, 2008, 2010)
828. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)
829. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West (2006, 2008, 2010)
830. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell (2006, 2008, 2010)
831. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010)
832. War with the Newts by Capek (2008, 2010)
833. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson (2006)
834. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner (2006, 2008, 2010)
835. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft (2006, 2008, 2010)
836. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes (2006, 2008, 2010)
837. Independent People – Halldór Laxness (2006, 2008, 2010)
838. Untouchable by Anand (2008, 2010)
839. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood (2006, 2008, 2010)
840. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy (2006, 2008, 2010)
841. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti (2006, 2008, 2010)
842. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen (2006)
843. England Made Me – Graham Greene (2006)
844. Burmese Days – George Orwell (2006)
845. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers (2006, 2008, 2010)
846. The Bells of Basel by Aragon (2008, 2010)
847. On the Heights of Despair by Cioran (2008, 2010)
848. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht (2006)
849. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev (2006)
850. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain (2006, 2008, 2010)
851. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (2006, 2008, 2010)
852. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh (2006)
853. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006, 2008, 2010)
854. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse (2006, 2008, 2010)
855. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz (2008, 2010)
856. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth (2006, 2008, 2010)
857. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West (2006, 2008, 2010)
858. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers (2006, 2008, 2010)
859. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein (2006, 2008, 2010)
860. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain (2006, 2008, 2010)
861. A Day Off – Storm Jameson (2006, 2008, 2010)
862. Man’s Fate by Malraux (2008, 2010)
863. Cheese by Elsschot (2008, 2010)
864. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil (2006, 2008, 2010)
865. Vipers’ Tangle by Mauriac (2008, 2010)
866. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)
867. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons(2006, 2008, 2010)
868. The Forbidden Realm by Slauerhoff (2008, 2010)
869. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth (2006, 2008, 2010)
870. The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Krleza (2008, 2010)
871. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon (2006)
872. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2006, 2008, 2010)
873. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett (2006, 2008, 2010)
874. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen (2006, 2008, 2010)
875. The Waves – Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010)
876. Insatiability by Witkiwicz (2008, 2010)
877. Monica by Saunders Lewis (2008, 2010)
878. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett (2006)
879. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham (2006)
880. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)
881. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning (2006, 2008, 2010)
882. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh (2006)
883. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett (2006, 2008, 2010)
884. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe (2006, 2008, 2010)
885. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico (2006)
886. Passing – Nella Larsen (2006, 2008, 2010)
887. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)
888. I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson (2008, 2010)
889. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett (2006)
890. Living – Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)
891. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia (2006, 2008, 2010)
892. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
893. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin (2006, 2008, 2010)
894. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen (2006)
895. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West (2006)
896. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner (2006)
897. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau (2006, 2008, 2010)
898. Retreat without Song by Shahnour (2008, 2010)
899. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille (2006, 2008, 2010)
900. Orlando – Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010)
901. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010)
902. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall (2006, 2008, 2010)
903. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford (2006, 2008, 2010)
904. Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki (2008, 2010)
905. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis (2006)
906. Quartet – Jean Rhys (2006)
907. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh (2006, 2008, 2010)
908. Quicksand – Nella Larsen (2006, 2008, 2010)
909. Nadja – André Breton (2006, 2008, 2010)
910. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010)
911. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust(2006, 2008, 2010)
912. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010)
913. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson (2006, 2008, 2010)
914. The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig (2008, 2010)
915. Amerika – Franz Kafka (2006, 2008, 2010)
916. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)
917. Blindness – Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)
918. The Castle – Franz Kafka (2006, 2008, 2010)
919. Alberta and Jacob by Sandel (2008, 2010)
920. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek (2006, 2008, 2010)
921. Under Satan’s Sun by Bernanos (2008, 2010)
922. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence (2006)
923. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello (2006, 2008, 2010)
924. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie (2006, 2008, 2010)
925. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein (2006, 2008, 2010)
926. Chaka the Zulu by Mofolo (2008, 2010)
927. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos (2006)
928. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010)
929. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006, 2008, 2010)
930. The Counterfeiters – André Gide (2006, 2008, 2010)
931. The Trial – Franz Kafka (2006, 2008, 2010)
932. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky (2006, 2008, 2010)
933. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather (2006, 2008, 2010)
934. The New World by Welde Selasse (2008, 2010)
935. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville (2006)
936. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen (2006, 2008, 2010)
937. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010)
938. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin (2006, 2008, 2010)
939. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster (2006, 2008, 2010)
940. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet (2006, 2008, 2010)
941. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo (2006, 2008, 2010)
942. Cane – Jean Toomer (2006)
943. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley (2006)
944. Amok – Stefan Zweig (2006, 2008, 2010)
945. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (2008, 2010)
946. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield (2006)
947. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings (2006, 2008, 2010)
948. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf (2006)
949. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010)
950. The Forest of the Hanged by Rebreanu (2008, 2010)
951. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton (2006)
952. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair (2006, 2008, 2010)
953. Claudine’s House by Colette (2008, 2010)
954. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus (2006)
955. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence (2006)
956. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)
957. Ulysses – James Joyce (2006, 2008, 2010)
958. Life of Christ by Papini (2008, 2010)
959. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence (2006)
960. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)
961. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (2006, 2008, 2010)
962. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)
963. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010)
964. The Storm of Steel by Junger (2008, 2010)
965. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf (2006)
966. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)
967. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West (2006, 2008, 2010)
968. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad (2006)
969. Summer – Edith Wharton (2006)
970. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen (2006, 2008, 2010)
971. The Home and the World by Tagore (2008, 2010)
972. Pallieter by Timmermans (2008, 2010)
973. The Underdogs by Azuela (2008, 2010)
974. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton (2006)
975. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce (2006, 2008, 2010)
976. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse (2006, 2008, 2010)
977. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke (2006, 2008, 2010)
978. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford (2006, 2008, 2010)
979. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf (2006)
980. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham (2006, 2008, 2010)
981. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010)
982. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan (2006, 2008, 2010)
983. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki (2006, 2008, 2010)
984. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel (2006, 2008, 2010)
985. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse (2006)
986. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs (2006, 2008, 2010)
987. Platero and I by Jimenez (2008, 2010)
988. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell (2006, 2008, 2010)
989. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010)
990. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010)
991. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens (2006, 2008, 2010)
992. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton (2006, 2008, 2010)
993. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (2006, 2008, 2010)
994. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel (2006, 2008, 2010)
995. Howards End – E.M. Forster (2006, 2008, 2010)
996. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rilke (2008, 2010)
997. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein (2006)
998. Martin Eden – Jack London (2006)
999. Strait is the Gate – André Gide (2006, 2008, 2010)
1000. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster (2006, 2008, 2010)
1001. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells (2006)
1002. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse (2006, 2008, 2010)
1003. The Iron Heel – Jack London (2006)
1004. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett (2006, 2008, 2010)
1005. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson (2006, 2008, 2010)
1006. Mother – Maxim Gorky (2006, 2008, 2010)
1007. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)
1008. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair (2006, 2008, 2010)
1009. The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy (2006, 2008, 2010)
1010. Young Törless – Robert Musil (2006, 2008, 2010)
1011. Solitude by Catala (2008, 2010)
1012. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann (2006, 2008, 2010)
1013. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton (2006, 2008, 2010)
1014. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster (2006)
1015. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)
1016. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe (2006, 2008, 2010)
1017. The Way of All Flesh by Butler (2008, 2010)
1018. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Schreber (2008, 2010)
1019. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2008, 2010)
1020. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers (2006, 2008, 2010)
1021. The Golden Bowl – Henry James (2006)
1022. The Ambassadors – Henry James (2006, 2008, 2010)
1023. The Immoralist – André Gide (2006, 2008, 2010)
1024. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James (2006, 2008, 2010)
1025. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)
1026. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2006, 2008, 2010)
1027. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010)
1028. Kim – Rudyard Kipling (2006, 2008, 2010)
1029. None but the Brave by Schnitzler (2008, 2010)
1030. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad (2006)
1031. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser (2006, 2008, 2010)
1032. Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem by Salgari (2008, 2010)
1033. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross (2006, 2008, 2010)
1034. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Gardonyi (2008, 2010)
1035. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane (2006, 2008, 2010)
1036. The Awakening – Kate Chopin (2006, 2008, 2010)
1037. Dom Casmurro by de Assis (2008, 2010)
1038. As a Man Grows Older by Svevo (2008, 2010)
1039. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (2006)
1040. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells (2006, 2008, 2010)
1041. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide (2006, 2008, 2010)
1042. Pharoah by Prus (2008, 2010)
1043. Compassion by Perez Galdos (2008, 2010)
1044. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells (2006)
1045. What Maisie Knew – Henry James (2006, 2008, 2010)
1046. Dracula – Bram Stoker (2006, 2008, 2010)
1047. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz (2006, 2008, 2010)
1048. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells (2006, 2008, 2010)
1049. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells (2006, 2008, 2010)
1050. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane (2006, 2008, 2010)
1051. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy (2006, 2008, 2010)
1052. The Viceroys by De Roberto (2008, 2010)
1053. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross (2006)
1054. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006)
1055. Born in Exile – George Gissing (2006)
1056. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith (2006, 2008, 2010)
1057. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2006, 2008, 2010)
1058. News from Nowhere – William Morris (2006, 2008, 2010)
1059. New Grub Street – George Gissing(2006, 2008, 2010)
1060. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf (2006, 2008, 2010)
1061. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (2006, 2008, 2010)
1062. Down There by Huysmans (2008, 2010)
1063. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (2006, 2008, 2010)
1064. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy (2006, 2008, 2010)
1065. Thais by Anatole France (2008, 2010)
1066. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola (2006, 2008, 2010)
1067. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg (2006, 2008, 2010)
1068. Hunger – Knut Hamsun (2006, 2008, 2010)
1069. Eline Vere by Couperus (2008, 2010)
1070. The Child of Pleasure by D’Annunzio (2008, 2010)
1071. Under the Yoke by Vazov (2008, 2010)
1072. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson (2006)
1073. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant (2006, 2008, 2010)
1074. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés (2006)
1075. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg (2006, 2008, 2010)
1076. The Manors of Ulloa by Bazan (2008, 2010)
1077. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy (2006)
1078. She – H. Rider Haggard (2006)
1079. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson (2006, 2008, 2010)
1080. The Quest by van Eeden (2008, 2010)
1081. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy (2006)
1082. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson (2006)
1083. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard (2006, 2008, 2010)
1084. Germinal – Émile Zola (2006, 2008, 2010)
1085. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
1086. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
1087. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
1088. The Regent’s Wife by Alas (2008, 2010)
1089. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
1090. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
1091. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
1092. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
1093. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
1094. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by de Assis (2008, 2010)
1095. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
1096. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
1097. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
1098. Nana – Émile Zola
1099. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006)
1100. The Red Room – August Strindberg
1101. Martin Fierro by Hernandez (2008, 2010)
1102. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy (2006)
1103. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
1104. Drunkard – Émile Zola
1105. The Crime of Father Amaro by de Queiros (2008, 2010)
1106. Pepita Jimenez by Valera (2008, 2010)
1107. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev (2006)
1108. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot (2006)
1109. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy (2006)
1110. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert (2006)
1111. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
1112. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
1113. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
1114. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
1115. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
1116. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
1117. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
1118. Middlemarch – George Eliot
1119. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
1120. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
1121. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope (2006)
1122. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
1123. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
1124. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
1125. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
1126. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
1127. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
1128. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
1129. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
1130. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
1131. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
1132. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
1133. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
1134. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens (2006)
1135. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
1136. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
1137. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
1138. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
1139. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
1140. Silas Marner – George Eliot
1141. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
1142. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006)
1143. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
1144. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev (2006)
1145. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope (2006)
1146. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
1147. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
1148. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (2006)
1149. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
1150. Adam Bede – George Eliot
1151. Indian Summer by Stifter (2008, 2010)
1152. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
1153. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
1154. Green Henry by Keller (2008, 2010)
1155. Hard Times – Charles Dickens (2006)
1156. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
1157. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
1158. Villette – Charlotte Brontë (2006)
1159. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
1160. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
1161. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006)
1162. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
1163. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
1164. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
1165. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
1166. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë (2006)
1167. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell (2006)
1168. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
1169. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
1170. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë (2006)
1171. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
1172. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
1173. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
1174. The Devil’s Fool by George Sand (2008, 2010)
1175. Facundo by Sarmiento (2008, 2010)
1176. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas (2006)
1177. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
1178. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe (2006)
1179. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens (2006)
1180. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
1181. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
1182. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (2006)
1183. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
1184. A Hero for our Times by Lermontov (2008, 2010)
1185. Camera Obscura by Hildebrand (2008, 2010)
1186. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
1187. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
1188. The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience (2008, 2010)
1189. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens (2006)
1190. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
1191. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
1192. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
1193. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
1194. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin (2008, 2010)
1195. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
1196. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
1197. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
1198. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
1199. The L ife of a Good-for-Nothing by von Eichendorff (2008, 2010)
1200. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
1201. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by Hoffman (2008, 2010)
1202. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin (2006)
1203. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
1204. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott (2006)
1205. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
1206. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1207. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (2006)
1208. Persuasion – Jane Austen (2006)
1209. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth (2006)
1210. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
1211. Emma – Jane Austen
1212. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
1213. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
1214. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
1215. Michael Kohlhaas by von Kleist (2008, 2010)
1216. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth (2006)
1217. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1218. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
1219. Henry of Ofterdingen by Novalis (2008, 2010)
1220. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
1221. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
1222. The Nun – Denis Diderot
1223. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
1224. Camilla – Fanny Burney
1225. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
1226. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1227. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
1228. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
1229. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
1230. A Dream of Red Mansions by Xueqin (2008, 2010)
1231. Justine – Marquis de Sade
1232. Vathek – William Beckford
1233. Anton Reiser by Moritz (2008, 2010)
1234. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
1235. Cecilia – Fanny Burney (2006)
1236. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1237. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
1238. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1239. Evelina – Fanny Burney
1240. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1241. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
1242. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
1243. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
1244. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
1245. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
1246. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
1247. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1248. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1249. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
1250. Candide – Voltaire
1251. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
1252. Amelia – Henry Fielding (2006)
1253. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
1254. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
1255. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
1256. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett (2006)
1257. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
1258. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
1259. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
1260. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
1261. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
1262. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
1263. Roxana – Daniel Defoe (2006)
1264. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
1265. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
1266. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
1267. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift (2006)
1268. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
1269. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
1270. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan (2006)
1271. The Adventurous Simplicissimus by von Grimmelshausen (2008, 2010)
1272. The Conquest of New Spain by Diaz del Castillo (2008, 2010)
1273. The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2008, 2010)
1274. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1275. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
1276. Thomas of Reading by Deloney (2008, 2010)
1277. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
1278. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly (2006)
1279. Monkey: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en (2008, 2010)
1280. The Lusiad by Vaz de Camoes (2008, 2010)
1281. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
1282. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (2008, 2010)
1283. Amadis of Gaul by de Montalvo (2008, 2010)
1284. La Celestina by de Rojas (2008, 2010)
1285. Tirant lo Blanc by Martorell (2008, 2010)
1286. The Water Margin by Nai’an (2008, 2010)
1287. Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong (2008, 2010)
1288. The Tale of Gengi (2008, 2010)
1289. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (2008, 2010)
1290. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
1291. Aithiopika – Heliodorus (2006)
1292. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton (2006)
1293. Metamorphoses – Ovid (2006)
1294. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus (2006)

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

I picked it up thinking I wouldn't understand anything, but I simply felt it was now or never.
I read in the introduction somewhere it had over 500 characters, and that scared me more, for I was already scared of how huge the book was, and how heavy!
At first, I didn't get much and I was mixing up characters and I wasn't constant with my reading. When I got a little less than 200 pages, I decided that I had to give it its due, and if it didn't work out then at least I could say I tried. Suddenly, it got more interesting. I was interacting with the book and it felt good.
Bit by bit as I got more into the book I started loving it, truly loving it. The characters held me captive, though I disliked them at times. I had to read more. At night I wouldn't want to sleep because there was more to be read, and more yet to unfold.
A novel, though Tolstoy doesn't consider it as a novel, as big as War and Peace everything is relevant yet when you look back at certain events that took place a few pages back they look so insignificant compared to how everything worked out and how things were being shaped at that certain moment. Tolstoy keeps you hoping for a certain thing to happen, so you wait and you wait some more. He’s so good at his writing that just before that certain event happens, you no longer care if will take place or not, you’re only left wanting to know what happens next. Most of the time I felt I was being told a story of people that actually happened. They truly feel so real, that you’re simply left observing the course of their lives without judgment over how it turns out, you’re only studying these characters and you’re thinking them over.
Tolstoy was very concerned with history, and if you look at the title; War and Peace, it’ll tell you everything you should be expecting. It’s Tolstoy’s attempt at making us see things that actually happened in his reasoning. He wants us to know what actually happened, who was to blame and how people lived at that time. He truly wants you to understand history, and would take the trouble to dedicate chapters to relate this history and what historians said about the events he’s describing. I actually thought that was the fun part for him, while for me to be honest it was tedious work. I have never read history, and I don’t want to. I didn’t understand much of the ‘pure’ history parts, and I didn’t bother most of the time to concentrate on it. I simply read it to get to the good parts with the actual characters of the novel.
Coming to the characters, they were superb. Each one of them has something special and Tolstoy took the time to give each character life. All of the lead characters left an impression on me, though I have to speak of one certain character and that is Pierre. He is absolutely one of my favourite characters if not my all time favourite. He is amazing. His soul has such depth, that it’s impossible not to relate to him in everything he does or thinks of. I simply love him, and although he isn’t as charming as other characters in the novel, he has something that made me dwell much on him and on everything he did and thought. I can’t explain it by words but this character became very close to my heart after the time I spend with it, which was quite lengthy.
I will conclude by saying, it is a great novel and you must have the patience to understand what the author is trying to tell you to get the full enjoyment of it. I am grateful for having picked up the book at that certain moment defying my fears of it. Now I can proudly say I’ve read War and Peace, and I’ve enjoyed it.

Here are a few quotes I liked:

"Ha! ha! ha!" roared Pierre, and he went on talking aloud to himself. "The soldier would not let me pass. I was caught, I was shut up. They hold me captive. What, me? Me? My immortal soul! Ha! ha! ha!" and he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks.

Page 802

And by old habit he asked himself the question: "Well, and what then? What am I going to do?" And he immediately gave himself the answer: "Well, I shall live. Ah, how splendid!"
The very question that had formerly tormented him, the thing he had continually sought to find- the aim of life- no longer existed for him now. That search for the aim of life had not merely disappeared temporarily- he felt that it no longer existed for him and could not present itself again. And this very absence of an aim gave him the complete, joyous sense of freedom which constituted his happiness at this time.
He could not see an aim, for he now had faith- not faith in any kind of rule, or words, or ideas, but faith in an ever-living, ever-manifest God. Formerly he had sought Him in aims he set himself. That search for an aim had been simply a search for God, and suddenly in his captivity he had learned not by words or reasoning but by direct feeling what his nurse had told him long ago: that God is here and everywhere.

Page 870

If I examine an act I performed a moment ago in approximately the same circumstances as those I am in now, my action appears to me undoubtedly free. But if I examine an act performed a month ago, then being in different circumstances, I cannot help recognizing that if that act had not been committed much that resulted from it- good, agreeable, and even essential- would not have taken place. If I reflect on an action still more remote, ten years ago or more, then the consequences of my action are still plainer to me and I find it hard to imagine what would have happened had that action not been performed. The farther I go back in memory, or what is the same thing the farther I go forward in my judgment, the more doubtful becomes my belief in the freedom of my action.

Page 950-951

Colliding

It was late in the morning, perhaps noon and during one of the last lessons of the day. I cut my finger somehow, and my obsession with band-aids helped the matter for I always had ready band-aids.
The small cut burnt, and so I covered it with a band-aid hoping I'd stop paying attention to it. It kept on burning.
We had maths. The teacher was teaching something and I was with her, only I was blowing air at my finger so that it wouldn't get sweatty and hurt even more.
The teacher noticed what I was doing. She asked, 'Did you burn your finger?'
I was hoping she wouldn't notice, but seeing that she did I absent-mindedly said 'Yes' hoping she'd carry on with the lesson.
She said something about how I burned it at school, and then wished it'd get better. I thanked her in a whisper trying to make the whole thing blow over because I was embarressed that I made a fuss of my small cut and how it got a one-minute conversation in class.
Perhaps there was sarcasm in her voice, but I didn't detect it. I always fail to detect sarcasm or irony. I wouldn't know it if it was staring me in the face. I even didn't understand at first that she thought I actually burnt my finger, then I started thinking how could she think that, getting a burn at school! Such an odd idea. I began to think it might have been because I was blowing air at my finger. All of these thoughts crossed my mind, but I didn't think of correcting her because the whole matter was so silly I didn't want to make it more than it already was. I knew she must want to get on with the lesson.

I was in my own thoughts during that certain moment, trying to get unnoticed and hoping the teacher wouldn't think I wasn't paying attention while God only knows what she was thinking. She could have been really concerned.
Yet living in our own different worlds, we collide. And we only realize that, sometime after it happens.

(Don't know if this will make sense to you, or to me after sometime, but this incident has been on my mind for quite sometime and I had to share it to get some sense of it)

My Mind

I want to write about my world, so why don't I? Why is it that now, trying to overcome being down, I simply avoid thinking about serious things? Is the state of uneasiness normal for someone in my shoes? Perhaps, but I hate to be excused for being in this state of un-showing-stress.
I'm afraid I'll get more and more accustomed to it every day like the character in this book I'm reading, who always thought of making something of his life, but he pushed back these thoughts and indulged himself into day-to-day things and never got around to making himself the man he always wanted, instead he became the man he always wished he'd never be and at the end (well I'm in the middle of the novel so that's the end for me right now) he even began to like the kind of men he didn't want to be earlier. The character is very noble, honest and very good at heart. Yet where is the courage needed to take that first step towards becoming what you always wanted to be?

I'm not in a state of utter depression really, actually I'm really fine and have been feeling more cheerful lately but I can't decide whether that's because I've become really hopeful or because I've got used to it. It's rather unsettling.
I want to do something with my life.
What I really want is to finish a book, and I am reading the perfect book for that, only it won't end easily, and that's even better. Finishing it will feel like an accomplishment I'm sure, but having actually enjoyed it is awesome. I am reading a lot these days, and that gives me peace somehow.
War and Peace is what I'm reading at the moment. I will dedicate a post to it soon inshallah.

Till next time, have a blessed Eid everyone.
:)

PS: The character I mentioned is Pierre for those who have read War and Peace, I love him and he is such a wonderful character because he's a good soul and what more could one ask for in life? Than to be good. Simply good at heart. He is my favourite because I can relate to all that he feels so easily! I didn't condemn his act, I was merely contemplating it for it was astounding to me.