LOVING BOOKS

Culoarul mortii de Stephen King

2011-09-17T19:04:00.000+03:00

Am inceput aceasta carte.Este despre unul din subiectele mele preferate:inchisorile.Culoarul mortii e zona in care sunt inchisi condamnatii spre a fi executati pe scaunul electric.Pacat nu exista si la noi aceasta pedeapsa.Am avea asa multi ''candidati''.

Povestitorul e gardian in aceasta zona a inchisorii.Stilul povestirii e unul antrenant,interesant,cu suspans de asemenea.

Titlul original The Green Mile.

O carte pe care o recomand.

Pe tocuri de Mihaela Nicola si fara tocuri dar cu tupeu

2011-09-15T21:31:00.005+03:00

Ieri am vrut sa fac un comment despre aceasta carte dar am constatat cu stupoare ca nu pot face comment pe propriul blog,asa ca fac ...o postare.Am cumparat cartea,nu e la biblioteca,evident,de la una din cele doua librarii din Sebes.Deci multumesc dar mesajul de ajutor nu mai e valabil.
Apropo de asta vreau sa fac o reclama la magazinul RELAY din incinta garii Alba-Iulia,avand in vedere ca circul cu trenul regulat la Sighisoara,care este un loc unde gasesti intotdeauna o carte buna,si nu ma refer la cele de la ziare!

Ultima mea achizitie e Viziunea Elenei Silves de Nicholas Shakespeare.Nu am citit-o inca pt ca acum sunt pe sistem King si imprumut de la biblioteca.
Vreau sa fac o contrareclama,daca tot am inceput,tot la gara Alba-Iulia.Imi amintesc cu nostalgie cum mergeam la baruletul din gara pt o cafea.Era altul pt ''boschetari'',astfel asta mic era mai select.Acum l-au desfiintat pe cel mare iar celui mic i-au pus in''dotare'' aparate de jocuri,astfel ca gasesti acolo ''toata floarea cea vestita'' de culoare dispusa sa-ti vanda orice.Nu mai calc acolo.
Sorry pt divagatie dar nu m-am putut abtine.Apropo,nu mai circul cu CFR ci cu REGIO TRANS Brasov,fac reclama dar asta vreau,acelasi pret dar fara mizerie si fara colorati.Nu sunt rasista deloc dar ma enervez usor in cazuri de-astea.
Mor daca nu scriu si ora la care se pleaca spre Sighisora,respectiv Brasov,e ora 16 zilnic,pleaca de pe linia 5.Sunt si alte rute dar numai pe asta o stiu punctual.
Cred ca n-am editat o postare de atatea ori,completand-o si rascompletand-o.Sper ca a meritat.

Lucruri pretioase de Stephen King

2011-09-15T21:15:00.000+03:00

Mai am 100 de pagini din aceasta carte.Recunosc ca puteam sa o citesc intr-un ritm mai alert dar asta e...Titlul cartii e denumirea unui nou magazin dintr-un orasel,magazin in care,se pare,proprietarul are exact lucrurile cele mai dorite de fiecare locuitor.Clientii platesc o suma modica in schimbul obiectelor visate,dar li se cere fiecaruia sa faca o farsa unui alt locuitor al orasului.Lucrurile degenereaza in final intr-un haos complet.
E o carte buna,consider eu,deoarece concluzia mea e:ai grija ce-ti doresti,ca ti s-ar putea intampla!

STEPHEN KING

2011-09-11T22:28:00.000+03:00

Iubesc poza asta a scriitorului,apare pe toate cartile si e de ajuns de ''expresiva'' pt toate romanele sale.Recent am dezvoltat un ''virus'' privind romanele lui King.Citisem mai demult Christine si apoi am incercat cu Mobilul dar m-a plictisit inceputul.Sunt vreo 100 pagini cam aiurea.Mi-a cazut in mana iar Mobilul,am citit-o de data asta.Apoi au venit la rand Jocul lui Gerald,o carte care trebuie citita,e mai tare ca Shining dar din punctul de vedere al temei.Am mai citit Cimitirul Animalelor.Acum citesc Lucruri pretioase si mai am in plan Culoarul mortii.
Doar citindu-l pe Stephen King poti sa-ti descoperi teama si intensitatea ei.

FELICITARI MIE!

2011-09-11T22:19:00.000+03:00

Am observat ca am deja 100 de postari pe blogul asta si m-am gandit ca merit sa ma felicit singura daca nu este altcineva sa o faca.Ma bucur ca am ajuns la un nr relativ mare de postari,avand in vedere ca am facut si pauze destule.Puteam sa scriu si despre alte carti dar..comoditatea,bat-o vina sau imprejurarile,cum ar fi lipsa netului in Austria unde am citit destule carti.Oricum,acum am net acolo si laptop si promit sa scriu ceva despre fiecare carte.

AJUTOR!

2011-09-09T22:11:00.000+03:00

Fac un apel la cei care detin cartile Mihaelei Nicola,Pe tocuri si Cu manusi,poate vrea cineva sa mi le trimita sa le citesc.Suna un pic absurd dar nu am de unde sa le procur,nu sunt in biblioteci,doar in librarii si nu imi pot permite sa le cumpar.Ma simt aiurea dar chiar vreau sa le citesc.

I AM BACK! MY LIST OF READ BOOKS!

2011-09-04T22:05:00.003+03:00

Dupa aproape un an de zile de cand nu am mai publicat nimic,acum m-am gandit sa enumar recentele mele lecturi,respectiv de la ultima publicata.Nu vreau sa fac recenzii acum dar poate scurte comentarii...eventual.

Poate e importanta si frecventa cu care am citit,si intrucat am un caiet de biblioteca cu date si tot,o sa scriu ca atare.

30.09 Edagar Wallace-Misterul narcisei galbene

14.10 Danny Wallce- Yes Man (amuzanta)

15.10 Michel Brice-Vaduvele negre

16.10 Pierre Lucas-Cele trei orfeline

17.10 Robert J.Waller-Vals lent la Cedar Bridge

21.10 Gerard de Villiers-SAS.Pantera de la Hollywood

24.10 Henriette Ivonne Stadl- Voica

19.10 Henriette Ivonne Stadl-Pontiful

5.11 Don Pandleton-Mercenarii Diavolului

13.11 Gerard de Villiers-Sas.Blonda din Pretoria

23.11 John Braine-Drumul spre inalta societate

1.12 Erino Dapozzo-Hamburg 44

24.02 Erskine Caldwell-Jenny

25.02 Francois Maurias-Therese Desqueyroux

27.02 Chiril Tricolici-Placerile riscului

1.03 Campbell Black-Indiana Jones si Taina Tainelor

2.03 Eugen Zehan-Pasul de cadril

4.03 Jack London-Patrula de pescuit

5.03 Mario puzo-Norocosul pelerin

6.03 Jack Higgins-Ingerul mortii

7.03 -Nicolae Rotaru -Moarte de proba

8.03 Robert James Waller-Podurile din Madison County

9.03-Ion Baiesu-Tristetea vanzatorului de sticle goale

9.03 Edgar Wallace-Camera 13

10.03 Ion Baiesu -Balanta

13.03 Sven Hassel-Legiunea blestematilor

17.03 Dominick Dunne-Un anotimp in purgatoriu

21.03 Sabina Wurmband-Nobletea suferintei(impresionanta)

30.03 Wieslaw Kielar-5 ani la Auschwitz(de citit)

1.04 Lowell Cauffiel- Mascarada

9.04 C-tin Chitrita -Ciresarii,vol.I(pt orice varst 12.04 Anita Loos -Barbatii prefera blondele(superficiala)

13.04 K.J.Benes-Viata furata(f.interesanta)

17.04 Sade-Justine

18.04 C-tin Chiritsa-Ciresarii,vol.II

24.04 C-tin Chirita-Ciresarii,vol III

30.04 C-tin Chiritsa -Ciresarii,vol.IV

8.04 C-tin Chirita-Ciresarii-vol V

9.05 Mirea Cartarescu-De ce iubim femeile 12.05 Mircea Crtarescu-Baroane!

13.05 Ysunari Kawabat-Frumusete si intristare

16.05 Per Petterson-La furat de cai

17.05 MirceaCartarescu-Gemenii

19.05 Amos Oz-Cutia neara(f.Tare)

21.05Anne TYler-Lectii de respiratie

28.05Thomas Mann-Dr.Faustus

29.05ThomasMann-Cu am scis Dr.Faustus

4.06 Thomas ManMarturisirile escrocului F.K.

7.06 Henry Miller-Tropicul Cancerului(carti interzise)

10.06Haruki Murakami-In cautarea oii fantastice

17.06 Stendhal-Rosu si negru

18.06 John Braine-Viata in inalta societae

20.06Juan Carlos Onetti-Santierul fantoma

23.06 Julian Barnes-Iubire etc.

24.06 Julian Barnes-Porcul spinos

29.06Brigada Mindena.Ochi de ceata

1.07 Sever Noran-Formula magica

9.07 Brigada Mondena-Tragatoarea de elita

11.07Mircea Cartarescu-Rem

28.07 IvMartinovici-Am lasat graurii sa zboare(de citit!)

8.08 George Mhail Zamfirescu-Maidanul cu dragoste

18.08 Stehen King-Shining(pt cei cu inima tare!)

22.08 Anne Rice-Interviu cu un vampir

24.08 Stephen King-Mobilul

25.08Paul Everac-Funigei peste Alpi

26.08 Stephen King-Jocul lui Gerald(Cea mai TARE carte!)

29.08Stephen King-Cimitirul animalelor

3.09Stephen King-O mana de oase

3.09 Stefan Zweig-24 de ore din viata unei femei

4.09 Betty Miles-Cartea interzisa

-- Ruth PrawerJhabvala-Arsita si colb - o citesc acum

Scuz pt redactarea ultimei parti,am avut ceva probleme.

Astept commmenturi daca ati citit cartite enumerate.Acum vreau sa devorez tot de Stephen King.Vreau si recomandari,sunt deschisa la propuneri de carti sau autori pe care nu i-am descoperit inca.Multumesc.Accept si critici,chiar neconstructive.

Singur sub dus de Dan Chisu

2010-10-01T13:17:00.000+03:00

Am auzit de mult timp de cartea asta dar nu am gasit-o in biblioteca si nici chiar pe net sa o pot cumpara.In schimb pe blogul meu MY BUTTERFLY BLOG am postat-o in format electronic,gasind-o pe net.Am citit-o in alt mod pt ca exemplarul electronic nu avea nici o - ,asa ca a trebuit sa o corectez.Are 78 pagini.M-ar interesa sa o cumpar totusi dar nu am de unde.
Chisu recurge la un limbaj ''special'',pornografic.Nu se autocenzureaza,spune totul ''pe bune'',lucru care nu stiu daca e acceptat in societatea noastra inca usor ''puritana''.Si eu consider ca putea sa mai inlocuiasca verbul respectiv dar...asta e.
E cartea unui om singur care rememoreaza fostele iubiri,de obicei cam pasagere,simtind sa o faca pt a se simti mai putin singur,pt a se justifica,desi initial pare ca si-a autoimpus aceasta singuratate ?!
Interesanta carte.

Misterul celor sapte cadrane de Agatha Christie

2010-10-01T13:04:00.000+03:00

Un grup de tineri isi petrec timpul pe o proprietate pe care au inchiriat-o.Se hotarasc sa ii faca o farsa unuia dintre ei care dormea pana tarziu.Cumpara opt ceasornice pe care,dupa ce le introduc in camera''amicului'' se considera satisfacuti si asteapta rezultatul,rezultat care e tragic.Tanarul care doarme mult este gasit mort.Alta chestie ciudata e ca ceasurile care erau sub pat apar pe dulap dar sunt doar 7,unul fiind aruncat pe fereastra.
Se hotarasc sa dezlege misterul dar in scurt timp moare un alt barbat din grup.Ulterior se afla ca "Cele sapte cadrane" reprezinta ceva,initial un cartier marginas al Londrei,apoi un stabiliment unde se joaca si jocuri de noroc.Se fac mult investigatii pana la aflarea criminalului.
''Cele sapte cadrane'' e de fapt o organizatie de 7 membri care se intrunesc in stabiliment in taina iar fiecare are pe chip o masca cu un ceasornic care arata orele de la 1 la 7.Se pare ca 7 era seful organizatiei.
In final se demonstreaza ca organizatia nu are nimic ilegal,ci dimpotriva scopul ei e e a urmarii infractorii fara a se atrage atentia aupra lor.
Un roman plin de mister.

M sau N de Agatha Christie

2010-10-01T12:46:00.001+03:00

Un roman politist,evident!Un roman bun.Este nevoie de descoperirea ''coloanei a cincea'',asta insemnand persoane din Anglia care il sustin pe Hitler.Se apeleaza la doi soti care cu 20 ani in urma au facut pe detectivii si care au calitatile aferente.Initial,e cooptat doar domnul Tommy pt ca apoi sa i se alature si d-na lui care se saturase de inactivitate si de tricotat.Merg la o pensiune cu veterani de razboi si fete batrane pt a descoperi cine este M sau N.Se descurca admirabil pt niste ''amatori'' si evident ca descopera in final pe M/N in persoana unei femei atat de''inofensive''si al unui barbat ''impecabil''.

Apel catre lichele de Gabriel Liiceanu

2010-10-01T12:33:00.000+03:00

Gabriel Liiceanu e un mare filosof roman dar si un mare luptator anticomunist.Cartea lui este plina de curaj,ea demasca persoanele politice actuale care au fost comuniste si acum sunt in conducerea tarii ...democratice.
El face o analiza pertinenta a lichelelor care sunt niste oportunisti corupti pana in maduva oaselor.
In timpul comunismului nu a fost activist deoarece nu vroia sa adere la ceva care era manjit de sange.O carte pt noi toti in care totul e simplu deoarece lichelele sunt peste tot iar autorul nu se formalizeaza si ii si nominalizeaza.

Misterul narcisei galbene de Edgar Wallace.

2010-10-01T12:10:00.000+03:00

O carte pe care imi amintesc vag ca am mai citit-o,desi poate cunosc doar titlul.O carte politista plina de suspans,care te tine cu sufletul la gura pe tot parcursul ei.
Recent citesc romane politiste si imi dau seama ce am pierdut in perioada in care nu ma deslipeam de clasici,considerand orice alt tip de carti fiind...maculatura.Dar,niciodata nu e pea tarziu!
Se petrece o crima cu multe semne de intrebare,multi suspecti,multe lucruri care nu se leaga.Nu spun mai mult.
Va recomand romanele lui Wallce dar si cele ale Agathei Christie,precum si ale scriitoarei noastre Rodica-Ojog Brasoveanu pt a intra in lumea atat de palpitanta a romanelor politiste.
Lectura placuta!

Dosarele X - Ruinele de Kevin J.Anderson

2010-10-01T11:59:00.000+03:00

Primul meu contact cu Dosarele X.Fimele au aparut mai intai,apoi cartile semnate de Kevin J.Anderson.Ruinele e una din cartile primite de la prietenul care dorea ''spatiu'' in casa.Acest roman vorbeste despre cultura maya din Mexicul care e identificat cu revolutii populare,politica instabila,droguri,coruptie si munca la negru.
In Mexic exista ruinele mayase care se considera a fi vegheate de spiritullui lui Quetzalcoatl intruchipat in sarpele mitic cu pene a carui prezenta facineaza dar si inspaimanta.
O echipa de arheologi in frunte cu Cassandra Rubicon,ispitita de descoperiri marete se angajeaza intr-o expeditie sinucigasa in inima junglei.Insa ceea ce exista acolo se dovedeste a nu fi menit muritorilor de rand.Membrii expeditiei dispar fara urma,astfel ca autoritatile americane pleaca in cautarea lor.
O carte buna care merita citita.

UN BLOG BUN DESPRE CARTI.

2010-09-29T12:56:00.002+03:00

Intrati pe http://www.lumedeumbre.ro/ pt a citi recenzii pertinente ale multor carti.Inainte de blogway era pe blospot,deci si acolo sunt multe referinte la numeroase carti.Veti gasi sursa de inspiratie pt lectura,un impuls binevenit intr-o lume a netului,vitezei si prea rar a cartilor.

Prins in capcana de Eugen Zehan.

2010-09-29T11:59:00.001+03:00

O carte exceptionala!Un scriitor remarcabil.Pur si simplu n-am putut sa las cartea din mana,lucru care nu mi s-a mai intamplat de mult timp.Cartea e primita de la un prieten impreuna cu altele la intamplare.Lucrurile la intamplare duc la descoperri de exceptie,se pare.
Cartea e povestea autorului care a plecat din Romania spre Taramul Libertatii mult visat.Ajunge intr-un lagar din care nu poate iesi,in care erau toate scursorile omenesti.Traieste in conditii inumame,apoi e transferat in alt lagar unde are ''libertatea'' sa iasa.Refuza sa declare ca e acolo din motive politice deoarece nu suporta sa minta intr-o lume bazata pe minciuna.Drepturile Omului nu exista nicaieri,este tratat ca un animal.Are experiente foarte neplacute,trebuie sa locuiasca cu betivi,drogati dar nu are de ales.In fine vrea sa se intoarca in tara pt ca s-a saturat de ''libertate'' si de lumea ''libera'' care s-au dovedit mai rau decat o fata morgana.
O carte cutremuratoare care prezinta realitatea dura a strainatatii.Inutil sa spun ca vreau sa citesc si celelalte carti ale lui:Cerul de dincolo,Mlastina,O partida de remi,Studentii,Tacutele nelinisti,Pasul de cadril.

Cartea dragostei AVON de Alice Nastase.

2010-09-29T11:34:00.001+03:00

Am dorit aceasta carte cu ardoare cand am vazut-o in catalog si am comandat-o.Am citit-o cu o mare placere.E vorba de zeci de povesti de succes ale oamenilor din Avon,de la simpli reprezentanti pana la manageri.Merita citita.Sunt curioasa acum sa citesc celelalte carti ale autoarei.
Despre Avon gasitti tot aici,in cartea Dragostei,carte care va va da aripi la propriu!!!Apropo,cartea e disponibila si pe net sau in librarii la 29 lei.

Dulce ca mierea e glontul patriei de Petru Popescu.

2010-09-29T11:27:00.000+03:00

Petru Popescu e un scriitor descoperit recent.Am savurat romanul Supleantul.Cartea aceasta e,evident,despre experienta militara a eroului.Am simtit ca nu mi se adreseaza personal,se adreseaza mai mult barbatilor.O carte plina de emotii,sentimente care rememoreaza cu curaj experienta din serviciul militar.
Scriitorul a fugit in SUA in perioada comunista.Acolo avut mult succes cu romanrele sale iar acum publica liber si la noi.
Repet,Supleantul merita citita deoarece se refera la regimul comunist,la Zoe Ceausescu,la situatia de care a ales sa fuga.

Corigent la limba romana de Ion Minulescu.

2010-09-29T11:19:00.000+03:00

O carte din categoria celor care vorbesc despre anii de scoala.Sunt la a doua lectura,acum mi s-a fixat mai bine.Elevul ramane corigent la romana,nu pt ignoranta,ci din cauza unor motive ''obiective'' sau nu.Aceasta corigenta il va urmari tot restul vietii,personajul fiind vesnic judecat prin prisma acestei ''pedepse''.O carte care merita citita mai ales de elenvii care considera cartea un mod de pierdere a timpului.Sunt optimista ca isi vor ''corija'' aceasta ''atitudine''.

Sexting de Loredana Groza

2010-09-29T11:11:00.000+03:00

O carte care m-a atras iremediabil la chioscul de ziare si e evident de ce.Coperta!Stiam ca a fost scrisa cu ceva timp si eram curioasa sa o citesc.Face parte din categoria comerciala a cartilor care nu prea are substanta,de genul primei carti a Mihaelei Radulescu .Merita citita totusi,din curiozitate,dar cam atat.Nu ramai cu nimic...dupa.

Cismigiu & Co. si Buna dimineata,baieti!

2010-09-29T11:04:00.000+03:00

Acest scriitor era un mister pt mine pana acum ceva timp.Nu figura in ''lecturi obligatorii'' sau in programa de literatura romana.Am aflat de el dintr-un blog,desi aveam cartea de la Jurnalul National.
Cartea mi-a placut mult pt ca m-a facut sa simt iarasi nostalgia anilor de liceu,care par atat de indepartati dar atat de frumosi.
Vreau sa scriu si despre Buna dimineata,baieti ! E considerata mai slaba si am inteles de ce.Cartea vorbeste despre experienta de profesor.Mie mi-a placut poate mai mult deoarece sunt profesoara,astfel am inteles perfect sentimentele care il incercau pe debutantul profesor.

1001 CARTI DE CITIT INTR-O VIATA.

2010-08-05T19:42:00.005+03:00

O listă care a devenit punct de referinţă pentru mulţi cititori, ca de altfel şi pentru mine...

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

2. Saturday – Ian McEwan

3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith

4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee

5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson

6. The Sea – John Banville

7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble

8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth

9. The Master – Colm Tóibín

10. Vanishing Point – David Markson

11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd

12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair

13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle

15. The Colour – Rose Tremain

16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner

17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift

18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt

19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

20. Islands – Dan Sleigh

21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee

22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair

23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry

24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

25. The Double – José Saramago

26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer

27. Unless – Carol Shields

28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami

29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor

30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern

31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien

32. Shroud – John Banville

33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee

35. Dead Air – Iain Banks

36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon

37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster

38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi

39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald

40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq

41. Schooling – Heather McGowan

42. Atonement – Ian McEwan

43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini

45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo

46. Fury – Salman Rushdie

47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill

48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk

49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa

51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma

52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho

53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare

54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith

55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda

56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber

57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera

58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace

59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy

60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow

61. How the Dead Live – Will Self

62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth

63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood

64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami

65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande

66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard

67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

68.Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates

69.Pastoralia – George Saunders

70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster

71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra

72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson

73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?

74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy

75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb

76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie

77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee

78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami

79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq

80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi

81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan

82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks

83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom

84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon

85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters

86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis

88. Another World – Pat Barker

89.The Hours – Michael Cunningham

90.Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho

91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon

92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

94. Great Apes – Will Self

95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan

96. Underworld – Don DeLillo

97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey

98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin

99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth

100. The Untouchable – John Banville

101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco

102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard

103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker

104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels

105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker

106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse

107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace

108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin

109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood

110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro

111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner

112. The Information – Martin Amis

113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie

114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth

115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald

116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink

117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose

119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis

120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster

121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst

122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq

123. Land – Park Kyong-ni

124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee

125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi

127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol

128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman

129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres

130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor

131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen

132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm

133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx

134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy

137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth

138. Complicity – Iain Banks

139. On Love – Alain de Botton

140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe

141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields

143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd

145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood

146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald

147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt

148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar

149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch

150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias

151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker

152. Indigo – Marina Warner

153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks

154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson

155. Jazz – Toni Morrison

156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg

158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe

159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates

160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín

161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan

163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud

164. Arcadia – Jim Crace

165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang

166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis

168. Mao II – Don DeLillo

169. Typical – Padgett Powell

170. Regeneration – Pat Barker

171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair

172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres

173. Wise Children – Angela Carter

174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard

175. Amongst Women – John McGahern

176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon

177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald

178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge

179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster

180.The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham

182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore

183. Possession – A.S. Byatt

184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi

185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle

186. A Disaffection – James Kelman

187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson

188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster

189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow

190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai

192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker

193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway

194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago

195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel

196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

197. London Fields – Martin Amis

198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville

199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood

200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White

202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson

203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie

204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst

205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey

206. Libra – Don DeLillo

207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks

208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga

209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams

210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams

211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble

212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke

213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy

214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind

216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan

217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews

218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe

219.The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster

220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle

221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul

222. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae

223. Beloved – Toni Morrison

224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore

225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates

227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons

228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis

229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt

230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro

231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard

232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee

233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi

234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel

235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann

236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez

237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson

238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving

239. A Maggot – John Fowles

240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis

241. Contact – Carl Sagan

242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind

244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard

245. White Noise – Don DeLillo

246. Queer – William Burroughs

247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd

248. Legend – David Gemmell

249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi

250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman

251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago

252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras

253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard

254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter

256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker

258. Neuromancer – William Gibson

259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes

260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis

261. Shame – Salman Rushdie

262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett

263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor

264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard

265. Waterland – Graham Swift

266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee

267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing

268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek

269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus

270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi

271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White

272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker

273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard

274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally

276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

277. The Newton Letter – John Banville

278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin

279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard

280. The Names – Don DeLillo

281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike

282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray

283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan

284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer

285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin

286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare

287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee

288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

289. Rites of Passage – William Golding

290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom

291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard

293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera

295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré

296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing

297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul

298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer

299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll

300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino

301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan

303. The World According to Garp – John Irving

304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec

305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch

306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell

307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard

308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt

309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee

310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter

311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin

312. The Shining – Stephen King

313. Dispatches – Michael Herr

314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison

316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector

317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke

318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo

319.The Public Burning – Robert Coover

320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice

321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg

322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme

323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf

324.Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez

325. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec

326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell

327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie

328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme

329. Fateless – Imre Kertész

330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan

331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard

332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow

333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis

334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard

335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow

336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle

337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee

338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll

339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré

340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong

342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head

343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell

344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino

345. Crash – J.G. Ballard

346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene

347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon

348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch

349. Sula – Toni Morrison

350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

351. The Breast – Philip Roth

352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

353. G – John Berger

354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood

355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson

356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul

357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow

358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll

360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs

361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike

362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima

363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark

364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier

365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke

367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett

369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell

370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson

371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard

372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado

373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover

374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines

375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles

377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis

378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth

379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo

380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov

381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates

382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec

383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen

384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal

385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch

386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen

387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke

390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry

392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz

393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan

394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines

395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf

396. Chocky – John Wyndham

397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe

398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa

399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson

402. The Joke – Milan Kundera

403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson

404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec

406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West

407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson

408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

409.The Magus – John Fowles

410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras

411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth

413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon

414. Things – Georges Perec

415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o

416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien

417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut

418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor

419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector

420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey

421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme

422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson

423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe

424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras

425. Herzog – Saul Bellow

426. V. – Thomas Pynchon

427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

428. The Graduate – Charles Webb

429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol

430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré

431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark

432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess

433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

435. The Collector – John Fowles

436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov

439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard

440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing

441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges

442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien

443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani

444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein

445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger

446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch

447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame

448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem

449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass

450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark

451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor

453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett

454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino

455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien

456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike

458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary

459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee

460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse

461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs

462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass

463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes

464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow

465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark

466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll

467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

468.The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe

470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon

472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe

474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico

475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan

476. The End of the Road – John Barth

477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White

478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch

479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet

480. Voss – Patrick White

481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham

482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille

483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch

484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov

486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber

488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell

489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon

491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary

492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow

493. The Floating Opera – John Barth

494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith

496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen

498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett

499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene

500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis

501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis

502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini

503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan

504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch

505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis

506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage

507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia

508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch

510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley

511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett

513. Watt – Samuel Beckett

514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis

515. Junkie – William Burroughs

516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow

517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin

518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming

519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt

520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

521.The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

522.Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor

523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson

524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar

525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett

526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov

528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq

529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

530. The Rebel – Albert Camus

531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett

532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille

534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz

535. The Third Man – Graham Greene

536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber

537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake

538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing

539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese

541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk

542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford

543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge

544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen

545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier

546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren

547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani

549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia

550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot

551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene

552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton

553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann

554. The Victim – Saul Bellow

555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau

556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi

557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry

558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino

559. The Plague – Albert Camus

560. Back – Henry Green

561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake

562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?

563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

564. Animal Farm – George Orwell

565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford

567. Loving – Henry Green

568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton

569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi

570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham

571. Transit – Anna Seghers

572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges

573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow

574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

575. Caught – Henry Green

576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse

577. Embers – Sandor Marai

578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner

579. The Outsider – Albert Camus

580. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini

581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien

582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White

583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton

584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf

585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner

586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler

587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

588. Native Son – Richard Wright

589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene

590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati

591. Party Going – Henry Green

592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce

594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien

595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell

596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood

597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller

598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys

599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner

601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson

602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler

605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene

606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos

607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett

608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

611. The Years – Virginia Woolf

612. In Parenthesis – David Jones

613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis

614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)

615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway

616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner

617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley

618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West

619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell

621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson

622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner

623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft

624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes

625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness

626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti

627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood

628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy

629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen

630. England Made Me – Graham Greene

631. Burmese Days – George Orwell

632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers

633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht

634.Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev

635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain

636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller

637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh

638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse

640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth

641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West

642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers

643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein

644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain

645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson

646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil

647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon

648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen

652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett

653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth

654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf

655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett

656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham

657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis

658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning

659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh

660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico

662. Passing – Nella Larsen

663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett

665. Living – Henry Green

666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia

667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin

669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen

670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West

671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau

673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe

674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille

675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf

676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall

678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis

679. Quartet – Jean Rhys

680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh

681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen

682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford

683. Nadja – André Breton

684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse

685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust

686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson

688. Amerika – Franz Kafka

689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

690. Blindness – Henry Green

691. The Castle – Franz Kafka

692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek

693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence

694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello

695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie

696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein

697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos

698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide

701. The Trial – Franz Kafka

702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky

703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather

704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville

705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen

706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann

707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin

708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster

709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet

710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo

711. Cane – Jean Toomer

712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley

713. Amok – Stefan Zweig

714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield

715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings

716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf

717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton

719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair

720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus

721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence

722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis

723. Ulysses – James Joyce

724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence

725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley

726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis

728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence

729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf

730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis

731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West

732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad

733. Summer – Edith Wharton

734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen

735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton

736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse

738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke

739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford

740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf

741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham

742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence

743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan

744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki

745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel

746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse

747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs

748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell

749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence

750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann

751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens

752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre

754. Howards End – E.M. Forster

755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel

756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein

757. Martin Eden – Jack London

758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide

759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells

760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse

761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster

762. The Iron Heel – Jack London

763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett

764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson

765. Mother – Maxim Gorky

766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

768. Young Törless – Robert Musil

769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy

770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann

772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster

773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad

774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe

775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James

776. The Ambassadors – Henry James

777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers

778. The Immoralist – André Gide

779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James

780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann

783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling

784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser

785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad

786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross

787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane

788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin

789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells

792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James

793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide

794. Dracula – Bram Stoker

795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz

796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells

797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane

799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross

801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

802. Born in Exile – George Gissing

803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith

804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

805. News from Nowhere – William Morris

806. New Grub Street – George Gissing

807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf

808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy

811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola

812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg

813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun

814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson

815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant

816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés

817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg

818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy

819. She – H. Rider Haggard

820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy

822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson

823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard

824. Germinal – Émile Zola

825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant

827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater

828. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans

829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy

830. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant

831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

832. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga

833. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James

834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert

835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace

836. Nana – Émile Zola

837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

838. The Red Room – August Strindberg

839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy

840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

841. Drunkard – Émile Zola

842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev

843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot

844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy

845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert

846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov

848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu

850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky

851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler

852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev

853. Middlemarch – George Eliot

854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll

855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev

856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope

857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert

859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope

860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont

861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky

862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola

865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope

866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne

867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu

871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley

873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev

875. Silas Marner – George Eliot

876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev

878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope

879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot

880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne

882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli

883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov

885. Adam Bede – George Eliot

886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens

889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau

890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens

891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë

892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe

894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne

895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne

896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë

900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell

901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë

902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë

904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas

908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe

910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens

911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe

912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac

913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol

915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal

916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe

917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens

918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol

920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac

921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac

922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal

924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni

925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg

927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin

928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin

929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott

930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

933. Persuasion – Jane Austen

934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth

935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott

936. Emma – Jane Austen

937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth

940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth

943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin

944. The Nun – Denis Diderot

945. Camilla – Fanny Burney

946. The Monk – M.G. Lewis

947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

948. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe

949. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano

950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin

951. Justine – Marquis de Sade

952. Vathek – William Beckford

953. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade

954. Cecilia – Fanny Burney

955. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

956. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

958. Evelina – Fanny Burney

959. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

960. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett

961. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie

962. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne

963. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne

964. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith

965. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole

966. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

967. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot

968. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

969. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson

970. Candide – Voltaire

971. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox

972. Amelia – Henry Fielding

973. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett

974. Fanny Hill – John Cleland

975. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding

976. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett

977. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson

978. Pamela – Samuel Richardson

979. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot

980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift

981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding

982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift

983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe

985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe

986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood

987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift

989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn

990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette

991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan

992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe

994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly

995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais

996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous

997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius

998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus

999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton

1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid

1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

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2010-08-01T13:20:00.000+03:00

1.De veghe in lanul de secara - J.D.Salinger
2.Cianura pt un suras - Rodica Ojog- Brasoveanu
3.Amurg - Stephenie Meyer
4.ControlAltDelete - Vera Ion
5.Schimb de dame - David Lodge
6.Cosmar de inchiriat -Serge Brussollo
7.A cincea fiola - Michael Palmer
8.Bel-Ami - Maupaussant
9.Calomnii mitologice - Octavian Paler
10.Invitatie la vals - Mihail Drumes

Buna seara,Melania de Rodia Ojog- Brasoveanu.

2010-08-01T13:04:00.000+03:00

Acest roman e continuarea lui Cianura pt un suras.Melania Lupu pune la cale un furt al panzei ''Femeia cu evantai''Racoleaza fosti infractori opt asta.Se descurca de minune dar in final politistul Cristescu descopera ca Melania afost cu ''initiativa''.Acest roman se deosebeste categoric de anteriorul deoarece pare usor ''fortat''.Nu m-a mai fascinat asa ca primul dar e ok.Mai multe cuvinte despre cartea aceasta si nu numai aici.

Cianura pt un suras de Rodica Ojog-Brasoveanu.

2010-08-01T12:49:00.000+03:00

Un roman exemplar.Aici pare pt prima data personajul Melania Lupu,o batranica simpatica care locuieste la comun cu alte personae.Din intamplare descopera intr-un scrin vechi doua panze de valoare.Se aliaza toti pt a valorifica panzele.Incetul cu incetul moare cate unul din casa.Initial,nimeni nu stie cauza mortii.Apare,politia care nu crede ca primul personaj s-a sinucis,apoi dispare altcineva care e ingropat cu primul mort.Al treilea mort este turnat in ghips de catre sculptorul tanar.Melania Lupu e aceea care vine cu ideile salvatoare,care incearca cu maiestrie sa ascunda de politie mortii.Se pare ca cel care i-a ucis cu cianura e un tanar care nici macar nu a fost acolo la descoperirea panzelor dar care stia de existenta lor.Cum i-a otravit?Fost dentist el le-a aplicat cianura pe plombele dentare.In final panzele sunt recuperate.

Disparitia statuii din parc de Rodica Ojog - Brasoveanu.

2010-08-01T12:26:00.000+03:00

A doua lectura din autoarea romanca.Se intampla un lucru straniu:dispare o statuie dintr- un parc,lucru care schimba destinele celor care locuiesc in zona si nu numai.Aceasta disparitiae e un mister care se elucideaza in final.Cititorul se intreaba cu obstinatie:ce legatura poate avea o statuie cu vietile unor oameni care se distorsioneaza.Un element inedit e ca apare un personaj pitoresc aici,Melania Lupu,o batrana care intra in intriga romanului.Din roman se deduce ca acest personaj a mai aparut in alte scrieri ale autoarei.Am descoperit ca in Cianura pt un suras apare Melania Lupu pt prima data,un roman despre care scriu in alta ''recenzie''.