Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

Use this Topic to discuss books you’re reading or that fit the 4th Scavenger Hunt task.

Anybody planning to join us for the March group read can put Midaq Alley here.

I didn't want to wait, so I used Naguib Mahfouz's Miramar for this one.

ميرامار

Fun stuff to copy and paste Arabic. Everything around it gets reversed!

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Debbie McGreevy wrote: "War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy"

War and Peace is on the list. Great choice!

Kafka on the Shore for me!

Karen wrote: "Debbie McGreevy wrote: "War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy"

War and Peace is on the list. Great choice!"

Doi...I'm currently half way through the War and Peace audio and didn't think to put this one lol. I have rickshaw boy (chinese) on there right now, but I also used it for transport so I'm going to see how much I can do without double dipping.

I'm reading Η μητέρα του σκύλου [The Daughter] by Matesis, Pavlos (1990, Greece). I'm almost halfway, a fun read.

Amanda wrote: "Karen wrote: "Debbie McGreevy wrote: "War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy"

War and Peace is on the list. Great choice!"

Doi...I'm currently half way through the War and Peace audio and didn't think to p..."

I listened to the audiobook of War and Peace on Cds last year- I think it was 51 discs!

I've finished Η μητέρα του σκύλου [The Daughter] by Pavlos Matesis of Greece (1990). Somewhat of an obscure list book, with only about 1000 ratings by readers.
The main character is a woman in her sixties who tells about her life when she was young in WW2 and shortly after, and also some about her later life. She seems to be an unreliable narrator, for example sometimes claiming to have become successful actress (mostly on tours to small cities) and other times admitting she never had a big part. It becomes more postmodern at the end so that the reader is wondering how much of this really happened. I'd rate it at about 3.7 on the 5 star scale.

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

woman at Point Zero: Arabic

I've currently got The Tale of a Thousand Nights and One Night in progress, but I also might read 1Q84 later in the year.

I've almost finished reading Aesops Fables.

Kafka on the Shore

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy which was originally published in Russian.

I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - originally published in Russian.

Just finished Convenience Store Woman for my virtual book club. After this and 1Q84, I’m thinking Japanese fiction might not be for me.

Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, which was originally in Arabic, as already mentioned in this thread. I liked this one a lot! 5 stars. Will want to read Miramar soon.

I’ll confess, I have a bit of a thing for Japanese & Russian literature so would have completed this scavenger hunt several years ago. I’ve also read a few book originally in Greek, but if anyone can recommend anything that was originally Hebrew I’m all ears cause I’m really interested to see what there is on offer, hadn’t even considered there might be successful books written in Hebrew (Bible & Torah aside obviously haha)

Just finished Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. It was lovely.

Jo wrote: " if anyone can recommend anything that was originally Hebrew I’m all ears cause I’m really interested to see what there is on offer, hadn’t even considered there might be successful books written in Hebrew (Bible & Torah aside obviously haha)..."

I'm still in the middle of it, but even still, I'd recommend A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz.

Originally published as סיפור על אהבה וחושך

A few works that I read this year that would work for this are 'The Sea of Fertility' by Yukio Mishima, 'Metamorphoses' by Ovid, and 'Dead Souls' by Nikolai Gogol.