All About Books discussion

I've finished!!!!

One book over the 800pages
1 Eleanor Catton, The luminaries pag. 848 ***
Two books suggested by others
1 Harry Bernstein, The Invisible Wall CriCri ****
2 Matthew Dicks Memoirs of an Imaginary friend Gemma ***
Three books of Hunger Games
1 Susan Collins, The Hunger Games ***
2 Susan Collins, Catching Fire ***
3 Susan Collins, Mockingjay ***
Four books of non fiction
1 Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy ****
2 Platone, The Republic ****
3 Ian Mortimer The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England ****
4 Susan Elderkin, Curarsi con i libri *****
Five books of Humor - Satire
1 Kevin Wilson, La famiglia Fang ***
2 Kerstin Gier, In verità è meglio mentire ****
3 Michele Serra Gli sdraiati ****
4 Max Beerbohm,  Zuleika Dobson  ***
5 M. C. Beaton, "Agathan Raisin and the Love from Hell
Six theatre plays
1 William Shakespeare, Richard III ****
2 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ****
3 Robert Anderson Tea and Sympathy ****
4 Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman ***
5 Tennessee Williams, The Cat on hot tin roof ***
6 Moliere Il malato immaginario ****
Seven books of "translated literature"
1 Emile Zola, Abbe Mouret's Transgression ****
2 Albert Camus La Peste ****
3 Johannes Hosle, Prima di tutti i secoli ***
4 Jean-Patrick Manchette Pazza da uccidere ***
5 Guy de Maupassant, L'eredità ****
6 Margherite Duras, Moderato Cantabile ***
7 Marie Aude Murail Oh Boy! ****
Eight books of by italian authors
1 Rosa Ventrella, Il giardino degli oleandri ***
2 Ugo Riccarelli L'amore graffia il mondo ****
3 Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate ***
4 Marcello Fois, In Sardegna non c'è il mare ****
5 Anna Maria Ortese,  Silenzio a MIlano ****
6 Andrea Vitali Un amore di zitella ***
7 Nicoletta Nuzzo,  Cronache di un gatto perfezionista ****
8 Francesco Piccolo, Il desiderio di essere come tutti ****
Nine books of Fantasy or Sci Fi
1 Stephen King, 22/11/1963 ****
2 Lauren Beukes The Shining Gilrs ***
3 Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes ***
4 Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer ****
5 Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarlbeast ***
6 Ernest Cline, Ready Player One ****
7 Jennifer Ee, Angelfall ****
8 Jonathan Lethem, Concerto per archi e canguro ***
9 Helene Wecker,  The Golem and the Jinni ****
Ten books of authors I've never read
1 Dorothy Dunnell, Game of Kings ****
2 Weatherly Anna, La rivincita delle mogli *
3 Julie Anne Peters, Tra mamma e Jo ***
4 Elisabeth Inchbald Lover's Vows **
5 Mary Ann Shaffer,  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ****
6 Halldor Laxness, Independent People ****
7 John Fante Aspetta primavera ***
8 Meg Donohue, Un soffio di vaniglia fra le dita ***
9 Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall ****
10 V.V. Ganeshananthan Amori e foglie di tè ***
Eleven books which I wanted to read for so long
1 Albert Camus, La peste ****
2 Daphne Du Maurier, My cousin Rachel ****
3 Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook ***
4 Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing ****
5 Arundhati Roy, Il dio delle piccole cose ****
6 Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex ****
7 Albert Camus, Lo straniero ****
8 Karen Blixen. Il giovanotto col garofano e altri racconti ***
9 Lisa Lee Fiore di neve e il ventaglio segreto ****
10 Catherine Dunne, La metà di niente ****
11 Jojo Moyes,  Me before You
Twelve audiobooks
1 Thomas Love Peacock Nightmare Abbey ***
2 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of seven Gables 1851 ****
3 Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844) ****
4 Wilkie Collins, The Evil Genius ****
5 Natalia Ginzburg, Caro Michele ***
6 Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage ***
7 Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier ***
8 Jane Austen, Mansfield Park ****
9 Frances Hodgson Burnett,  Emily Fox Seton ****
10 Ford Maddox Ford,  The Fifth Queen ***
11 George Gissing, New Grub Street ****
12 Margaret Oliphant The Open Door ***
Thirteen mystery novels
1 Dorothy Cannell, The Thin Woman ****
2 Agatha Cristie, Murder at the Vicarage ***
3 Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie ***
4 Graham Green, The third man ***
5 Anne  Holt Il ricatto ****
6 Camilla Lackberg, Lo scalpellino ****
7 Daphne Du Marier, A Venezia ...un dicembre rosso shocking ***
8 Sarah Jio, Neve a primavera ****
9 Carrrie Bebries, The Matters at Mansfield ***
10 Louise Endrich, The Round House  ****
11 Georges Simenon, Maigret e il corpo senza testa ****
12 AA VV Vacanze in giallo ***
13 Agatha Chrstie, Endless Night ****
Fourteen books written between 1800 and 1899
1 Frances Hodgson Burnett,  Emily Fox Seton
2 Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841) ***
3 Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy? (1877) ****
4 Emile Zola, His Eccellency (1876) ****
5 Charles Dickens, Short Stories (18...) ***
6 Emile Zola, L'assommoir (1876) ****
7 Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) ***
8 Emile Zola, A Love Episode (1878) ****
9 Emile Zola, Nanà(1880) ****
10 George Eliot,  The Lifted Veil (1859) ****
11 George Eliot,  Felix Holt ****
12 Anthony Trollope The Two Heroines of Plumplington ***
13 Wilkie Collins, The two Desinis ****
14 Anthony Trollope,  Kept in the Dark ***

Good luck.

I am very curious about the books that will become part of the following groups: the 'eight books by the Italian authors' and 'seven translated works'.

Judy wrote: "Nice framework for your reading next year, Laura! Happy reading."
Thanks!

Alannah wrote: "Good luck."
I need all the luck I can get;)!

Dhanaraj wrote: "I am very curious about the books that will become part of the following groups: the 'eight books by the Italian authors' and 'seven translated works'."
When I was writing this cathegory I was thinking of what you would have said to me!!!!!

Love that you and Leslie are doing something similar. Look forward to seeing your choices for each category

Still have to work on them!!! ;)

Good luck laurat! :-)

Dhanaraj wrote: "I am very curious about the books that will become part of the following groups: the 'eight books by the Italian authors' and 'seven translated works'."

That'll be the categories I'll be watching closely as well, plus the 'authors I've never read'! Looks great Laura!

For the "translated work" I was thinking of picking up some german writer again. We'll talk about it at lenth later on!

Nice categories! :) You can always leave spots open for titles to be filled in as you go, but if you want recommendations I am betting you will get a lot!!

I will definitly keep some lines open to fill up during the year, but all suggestios are welcome: right now I'm browsing in AAB for ideas - see? I've added some titles/authors...

Some more titles ...

I really like the idea of a section for authors you have never read, Laura. I might look at that as an idea as well!

Laura, have you read Leonardo Sciascia's books? They look interesting. I have not tried them. But I will have to try them may be next year (January). And Grazia Deledda and Elsa Morante also seem interesting. They are some of the authors that I have chosen for the next year........Some others include Sigrid Undset, Doris Lessing and Herta Müller. I am planning for more of the women writers for 2014.

Sciascia I know but little, while I've read several things of both by Grazia Deledda - she is from Sardinia, my homeland - and Elsa Morante - her History is a real masterpiece!

I never thought that you were from Sardegna. I was in La Maddalene for last Christmas. A lovely place it was.....Elsa Morante's HISTORY will be one of my To Reads for the year 2014.

Do read it Dhanaraj!
I've been actually born and living in Perugia, but my mother was from Cagliari, and ?ve spent there all summers since I was 2 months old. I still have a house there, in the countryside of Cagliari, that I love with all my heart.

LauraT wrote: "Sciascia I know but little, while I've read several things of both by Grazia Deledda - she is from Sardinia, my homeland - and Elsa Morante - her History is a real masterpiece!"

Agreed! Though for some reason it took me forever to read it! The up-side of that: I was busy reading it for so long, I still remember it really well which isn't something I can say about books too often.

Same for me, and I've read it when I was 18!

LOL for the edited title :D

:D

Can I please please join in with
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Luminaries and
The Namesake? :)

Seems like Jhumpa Lahiri is a popular author with our members this year! Maybe we should have her as one of the Group Fiction reads...

And I'd like to join in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society as I have had that sitting on my shelf for several months now.

Leslie wrote: "Seems like Jhumpa Lahiri is a popular author with our members this year! Maybe we should have her as one of the Group Fiction reads...

And I'd like to join in [book:The Guernsey Lit..."

Jenny wrote: "Can I please please join in with
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Luminaries and
The Namesake? :)"

We only have to organize!!!
Give mi time to move and then we start. Which shal we begine first?

Maybe the Namesake? But there's no rush. First you move, then we plan ;)

I'd really like to join you with The Sword in the Stone when you read that. Or maybe even the whole thing The Once and Future King if we have time...

I've got The Luminaries to read also.

Glad to have all these people reading with me!!!
Yes Jenny, you're right, noe I really have no time to read, let alone to plann!!!
We'll think about it in february

Edited my list above with the few books I've been able to read lately ...

I have a couple of these to read - The Luminaries and A Vindication of the rights of Woman, very different in size!

Glad to see that you're getting on with your reading again, after your epic move :)

Hope I can keep on!

Some changes and some books I've read ...

Some other updates ...

Other updates

Going on, bit by bit ...

Have you thought what you'll read for your "satire" category yet Laura?

Lynne wrote: "OMG! That's a lot of reading and an eclectic list. I hope you get some time to sleep.

BTW - Are you going to try any of the Game of Thrones series for your fantasy list? I have the first one but I..."

I've read all the is published last year! Waiting for the new ones to come out!!!

Jean wrote: "Have you thought what you'll read for your "satire" category yet Laura?"

Not yet; Any suggestions?

There are so many classic satires aren't there. But I'm not sure if you meant contemporarary. How about something by Jonathan Swift or Thackeray, William Makepeace? (I can see you've read the obvious ones by those two though LOL)

You missed out George Orwell.

Great idea! Much more recent though. And I'm not very knowledgeable about contemporary satirists, so someone else should have suggestions there.

Mmm good ideas...

Slowly making progresses

LauraT wrote: "Slowly making progresses"

Are you really reading Martin Chuzzlewit right now? I'll be interested in hearing how you like it...

Not one of his best; a bit too confused. I liked the firsdt part where all those people came around the death bed of old Martin. It reminded me of a song by an incredible italian singer, Fabrizio de Andrè, describing something like that.
I know it's in italian, but someone may understand it ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wOSHp...

It is supposed to be one of his "humorous" novels - I have found that I don't care for those as much as his social commentary.

Hmmm. I don't find Jonas Chuzzlewit particularly humorous. He's more akin to Fagin.

Quite, yes ...

LauraT wrote: "Quite, yes ..."

Laura, I am staggered by the scope of this challenge. I take my reading hat off to you!

Thanks! We'll see if I manage to finish it by the end of the year!!!