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Reading Round my Bookshelves
1. Winds of Evil by Arthur W. Upfield
2. Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi
3. Le Piéton de Paris, suivi de, D'après Paris by Léon-Paul Fargue
4. The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
5. Wild Wales by George Borrow
6. The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Life and Voyages of Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) by Jean Delanglez French version
8. The Clocks by Agatha Christie
9. Le vent Paraclet by Michel Tournier
10. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
11. A Short History of Modern Ireland by Richard Killeen
12. Bony and the Kelly Gang by Arthur W. Upfield
13. Les Voyageurs de l'impériale by Louis Aragon
14. Astérix le Gaulois by René Goscinny
15. Das Schicksal des Freiherrn von Leisenbohg by Arthur Schnitzler
16. Astérix et Cléopâtre by René Goscinny
17. Favorite Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
18. The Epic of Gilgamesh
19. The Upanishads
20. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
21. Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
22. Zwölf Novellen. 1924 Leather Bound by Wilhelm Schäfer
23. Providence and the Guitar, The Enchantress by Robert Louis Stevenson
24. The pilgrim's regress: An allegorical apology for Christianity, reason, and romanticism by C.S. Lewis
25. The Dark Tower and Other Stories by C.S. Lewis
26. The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens
27. Plays and Fragments by Menander
28. Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
29. Die Sonne von Arles by Walter Bauer
30. A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
31. Nemesis by Agatha Christie
32. The Hidden Fairing by Nancy Brysson Morrison
33. The Civil War by Lucan
34. From The Land Of Silent People by Robert St. John
35. Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
36. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
1. Winds of Evil by Arthur W. Upfield
2. Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi
3. Le Piéton de Paris, suivi de, D'après Paris by Léon-Paul Fargue
4. The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
5. Wild Wales by George Borrow
6. The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Life and Voyages of Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) by Jean Delanglez French version
8. The Clocks by Agatha Christie
9. Le vent Paraclet by Michel Tournier
10. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
11. A Short History of Modern Ireland by Richard Killeen
12. Bony and the Kelly Gang by Arthur W. Upfield
13. Les Voyageurs de l'impériale by Louis Aragon
14. Astérix le Gaulois by René Goscinny
15. Das Schicksal des Freiherrn von Leisenbohg by Arthur Schnitzler
16. Astérix et Cléopâtre by René Goscinny
17. Favorite Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
18. The Epic of Gilgamesh
19. The Upanishads
20. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
21. Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
22. Zwölf Novellen. 1924 Leather Bound by Wilhelm Schäfer
23. Providence and the Guitar, The Enchantress by Robert Louis Stevenson
24. The pilgrim's regress: An allegorical apology for Christianity, reason, and romanticism by C.S. Lewis
25. The Dark Tower and Other Stories by C.S. Lewis
26. The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens
27. Plays and Fragments by Menander
28. Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
29. Die Sonne von Arles by Walter Bauer
30. A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
31. Nemesis by Agatha Christie
32. The Hidden Fairing by Nancy Brysson Morrison
33. The Civil War by Lucan
34. From The Land Of Silent People by Robert St. John
35. Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
36. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
The Big Ones - Chunksters and Doorstops
1. Wild Wales by George Borrow
2. Der Untergang des Abendlandes: Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte by Oswald Spengler
3. The Wide, Wide World by Susan Bogert Warner
4. Les Voyageurs de l'impériale by Louis Aragon
5. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
6. L'Éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert
7. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
8. The Civil War by Lucan
1. Wild Wales by George Borrow
2. Der Untergang des Abendlandes: Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte by Oswald Spengler
3. The Wide, Wide World by Susan Bogert Warner
4. Les Voyageurs de l'impériale by Louis Aragon
5. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
6. L'Éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert
7. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
8. The Civil War by Lucan
Books in French
1. Un hivernage dans les glaces by Jules Verne
2. Le Piéton de Paris, suivi de, D'après Paris by Léon-Paul Fargue
3. Life and Voyages of Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) by Jean Delanglez French version
4. Les inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
5. Un billet de loterie: Le numéro 9672 by Jules Verne
6. Gil Braltar by Jules Verne
7. Le vent Paraclet by Michel Tournier
8. Les Voyageurs de l'impériale by Louis Aragon
9. Astérix le Gaulois by René Goscinny
10. Astérix et Cléopâtre by René Goscinny
11. L'Éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert
12. Une vie by Guy de Maupassant
1. Un hivernage dans les glaces by Jules Verne
2. Le Piéton de Paris, suivi de, D'après Paris by Léon-Paul Fargue
3. Life and Voyages of Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) by Jean Delanglez French version
4. Les inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
5. Un billet de loterie: Le numéro 9672 by Jules Verne
6. Gil Braltar by Jules Verne
7. Le vent Paraclet by Michel Tournier
8. Les Voyageurs de l'impériale by Louis Aragon
9. Astérix le Gaulois by René Goscinny
10. Astérix et Cléopâtre by René Goscinny
11. L'Éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert
12. Une vie by Guy de Maupassant
Books in German
1. Die Lehrlinge zu Sais by Novalis
2. Hymnen an die Nacht, Die Christenheit Oder Europa, Aphorismen by Novalis
3. Gedichte by Novalis
4. Der Untergang des Abendlandes: Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte by Oswald Spengler
5. Das Schicksal des Freiherrn von Leisenbohg by Arthur Schnitzler
6. Zwölf Novellen. 1924 Leather Bound by Wilhelm Schäfer
7. Die Sonne von Arles by Walter Bauer
1. Die Lehrlinge zu Sais by Novalis
2. Hymnen an die Nacht, Die Christenheit Oder Europa, Aphorismen by Novalis
3. Gedichte by Novalis
4. Der Untergang des Abendlandes: Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte by Oswald Spengler
5. Das Schicksal des Freiherrn von Leisenbohg by Arthur Schnitzler
6. Zwölf Novellen. 1924 Leather Bound by Wilhelm Schäfer
7. Die Sonne von Arles by Walter Bauer
Books in other languages
Italian:
1.Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi
2. La tregua by Primo Levi
Spanish:
1. Una antología poética by Federico García Lorca
2. Bodas de sangre by Federico García Lorca
Italian:
1.Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi
2. La tregua by Primo Levi
Spanish:
1. Una antología poética by Federico García Lorca
2. Bodas de sangre by Federico García Lorca
Not My Cup of Tea - DNF's for various reasons
1. Cahiers de la guerre et autres textes by Marguerite Duras -too long
2. Journal de Guerre, Septembre, 1939-Janvier 1941 by Simone de Beauvoir -too long
3. The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom-unlikeable characters
4. Heaven Lies About Us by Eugene McCabe -just no
5. Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen- no time
6. An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters by David W. McFadden -trying too hard to be funny and not succeeding
7. The Birthday Murders by Lange Lewis-set in Hollywood!
1. Cahiers de la guerre et autres textes by Marguerite Duras -too long
2. Journal de Guerre, Septembre, 1939-Janvier 1941 by Simone de Beauvoir -too long
3. The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom-unlikeable characters
4. Heaven Lies About Us by Eugene McCabe -just no
5. Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen- no time
6. An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters by David W. McFadden -trying too hard to be funny and not succeeding
7. The Birthday Murders by Lange Lewis-set in Hollywood!
Ebook Author Collections
Jules Verne:
1. Un hivernage dans les glaces
2. Un billet de loterie: Le numéro 9672
3. Gil Braltar
Ambrose Bierce:
1. Kings of Beasts
2. Miscellaneous
3. Two Administrations
4. Write it Right
5. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Fantastic Fables. Fables From "Fun." Aesopus Emendatus. Old Saws With New Teeth. Fables in Rhyme
6. The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce: Black Beetles In Amber. The Mummery. On Stone
7. Bits of Autobiography
8. The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce ...: Shapes Of Clay. Some Ante-mortem Epitaphs. The Scrap Heap
Novalis
1 . Die Lehrlinge zu Sais
2. Die Christenheit Oder Europa
3. Aphorismen
4. Hymnen an die Nacht
5. Gedichte
A.E.W. Mason
1. They Wouldn't Be Chessmen
Algernon Blackwood
1. The Promise of Air
John Fox Jr.
1. Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories
Jules Verne:
1. Un hivernage dans les glaces
2. Un billet de loterie: Le numéro 9672
3. Gil Braltar
Ambrose Bierce:
1. Kings of Beasts
2. Miscellaneous
3. Two Administrations
4. Write it Right
5. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Fantastic Fables. Fables From "Fun." Aesopus Emendatus. Old Saws With New Teeth. Fables in Rhyme
6. The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce: Black Beetles In Amber. The Mummery. On Stone
7. Bits of Autobiography
8. The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce ...: Shapes Of Clay. Some Ante-mortem Epitaphs. The Scrap Heap
Novalis
1 . Die Lehrlinge zu Sais
2. Die Christenheit Oder Europa
3. Aphorismen
4. Hymnen an die Nacht
5. Gedichte
A.E.W. Mason
1. They Wouldn't Be Chessmen
Algernon Blackwood
1. The Promise of Air
John Fox Jr.
1. Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories
Group and Buddy Reads -January
Miss Silver Deals With Death by Patricia Wentworth
La tregua by Primo Levi
Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
The Dance of Death by August Strindberg
Rocketship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein
The Fate of Fenella by Helen Mathers
The Iron Heel by Jack London
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Miss Silver Deals With Death by Patricia Wentworth
La tregua by Primo Levi
Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
The Dance of Death by August Strindberg
Rocketship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein
The Fate of Fenella by Helen Mathers
The Iron Heel by Jack London
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Short Stories
1. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
2. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
3. Marooned Off Vesta by Isaac Asimov
4. The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
5. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
6. The Voices of Time by J. G. Ballard
7. Exiles by Ray Bradbury
1. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
2. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
3. Marooned Off Vesta by Isaac Asimov
4. The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
5. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
6. The Voices of Time by J. G. Ballard
7. Exiles by Ray Bradbury
Group and Buddy Reads- February
How the West Was Won by Louis L'Amour
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg
The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
How the West Was Won by Louis L'Amour
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg
The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Group and Buddy Reads- March
Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
The Wide, Wide World by Susan Bogert Warner
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G.K. Chesterton
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Voices of Time by J. G. Ballard
Narrative Of Sojourner Truth
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Les inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
The Wide, Wide World by Susan Bogert Warner
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G.K. Chesterton
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Voices of Time by J. G. Ballard
Narrative Of Sojourner Truth
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Les inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
Group and Buddy Reads - April
The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe: A Perry Mason Mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner
The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe: A Perry Mason Mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner
The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
Group and Buddy Reads - May
The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Group and Buddy Reads- June
Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter
The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman
The Case of the Rolling Bones: A Perry Mason Mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Wall by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter
The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman
The Case of the Rolling Bones: A Perry Mason Mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Wall by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Group and Buddy Reads - July
The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein
Starman Jones by Robert A. Heinlein
L'Éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert
Una antología poética by Federico García Lorca
War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda
The Man from Time by Frank Belknap Long
The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1802 by William Wordsworth
Bodas de sangre by Federico García Lorca
Garden by the Sea by Mercè Rodoreda
The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein
Starman Jones by Robert A. Heinlein
L'Éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert
Una antología poética by Federico García Lorca
War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda
The Man from Time by Frank Belknap Long
The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1802 by William Wordsworth
Bodas de sangre by Federico García Lorca
Garden by the Sea by Mercè Rodoreda
Group and Buddy Reads- August
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
The Great Mistake by Mary Roberts Rinehart
This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
The Great Mistake by Mary Roberts Rinehart
This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Group and Buddy Reads - September
The Odor of Violets by Baynard H. Kendrick
The Case of the Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
The Odor of Violets by Baynard H. Kendrick
The Case of the Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
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1. Un hivernage dans les glaces by Jules Verne
2. Kings of Beasts by Ambrose Bierce
3. Miss Silver Deals With Death by Patricia Wentworth
4. Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
5. The Fate of Fenella by Helen Mathers
6. The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
7. How the West Was Won by Louis L'Amour
8. There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg
9. Die Lehrlinge zu Sais by Novalis
10.Hymnen an die Nacht,Aphorismen, Die Christenheit Oder Europa by Novalis
11. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
12. Gedichte. Die Lehrlinge zu Sais. by Novalis
13. Der Untergang des Abendlandes: Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte by Oswald Spengler
14. The Wide, Wide World by Susan Bogert Warner
15. The Man Who Knew Too Much by G.K. Chesterton
16. Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope
17. Miscellaneous, Two Administrations, Write it Right by Ambrose Bierce
18. They Wouldn't Be Chessmen by A.E.W. Mason
19. Un billet de loterie: Le numéro 9672 by Jules Verne
20. The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
21. Gil Braltar by Jules Verne
22. The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
23. The Promise of Air by Algernon Blackwood
24. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Fantastic Fables. Fables From "Fun." Aesopus Emendatus. Old Saws With New Teeth. Fables in Rhyme
25. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
26. Just David by Eleanor H. Porter
27. The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman
28. The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce: Black Beetles In Amber. The Mummery. On Stone
29. L'Éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert
30. The Art School Murders by Moray Dalton
31. Une vie by Guy de Maupassant
32. Bits of Autobiography by Ambrose Bierce
33. Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories by John Fox Jr.
34. The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce ...: Shapes Of Clay. Some Ante-mortem Epitaphs. The Scrap Heap
35. This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster