tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80029080769206073912024-02-19T04:50:52.844-08:00BooksMedicine for SoulAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535786960194115808noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002908076920607391.post-6179982276285463892014-09-24T01:33:00.002-07:002014-09-24T01:33:57.882-07:00The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After Reading Gone with Wind , I wanted to read some Classic and came across The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The Book is about Meggie Cleary and Ralph di Brisscart. Meggie Cleary is the only girl in a Cleary family dominated by men. When Meggie is 10 the Cleary's move to Austrailia from New Zealand for a great job opportunity. At this time Meggie meets Ralph di Brisscart - a priest. Their love for one another at first seems quiet harmless as she is 10 and he is 28 but as she turns into a women and doesn't understand why she can't have Ralph to herself as her husband their love for one another is tested by distance, time apart, and decisions that they each make in their lives.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Set in the back drop of the Austrailian outback, TTB covers a 25 year time span and 3 generations of Cleary's. The book touches on important world events such as, WWI and WWII in the back drop at points. And also delves into two important issues: religion (and it's roles in society)and philosophy, beliefs, morals (and their role combined with religion in society.)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once I started to read it I couldn't do anything in my life but to keep reading untill I finish it</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">you laugh, you cry, you feel bad and you feel happy you feel like you became a part of the story living every single details.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">what a book !!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> I would say it was a MUST read.</span><a class="actionLinkLite showMoreReviewText" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3412.The_Thorn_Birds#" style="background-color: white; color: #215625; text-decoration: none;">(less)</a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535786960194115808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002908076920607391.post-48708845227470919512014-06-17T06:58:00.000-07:002014-06-17T06:58:53.249-07:00Open by Andre Agassi, J.R. Moehringer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535786960194115808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002908076920607391.post-45192406079168762892013-06-15T03:30:00.002-07:002013-06-15T03:30:27.659-07:00A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The book helps you realize so much about life. Jamie Sullivan the daughter of the pastor Herbert.<br />No one really likes Jamie at school they think she is not "normal" she is very quite a sweet to everyone no matter how or what they say to her.She is very religious. She helps everyone in need. <br />Landon young man who attends the same school as Jamie he never talks to her. But the day comes when he has class with her and even asked her to the dance. After all the laughs he got from his friends for asking her he was ashamed he didn't even want to talk to her anymore. <br />A play Jamie was doing was coming up she asked Landon if he would play the main part of the play, Landon didn't want to but he owed her an apologie from the other night when she was very sweet. <br />He did the play and during spending time with Jamie he fell in love with her. He told her how he felt but Jamie told them that he could like her.He was confused. later on he found out she has Lukima. He was scared of losing Jamie. This was a test for him. He saw how she went through so much pain but he was always beside her. Landon and Jamie got married, but after a few moths she passed away it was hurtful to Landon.He learned to love her even though she wasn't there by his side.It is a quick read that will have you smiling and in tears all at the same time. </div>
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<i><b>Title</b>:Namesake</i><br />
<i><b>Author</b>: Jhumpa Lahiri</i><br />
<i><b>Paperback</b>: 291 pages </i><br />
<i><b>Publisher</b>: Mariner Books; First edition (September 1, 2004) </i><br />
<i><b>Language</b>: English </i><br />
<i><b>ISBN-10</b>: 0618485228 </i><br />
<i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 978-0618485222</i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ashoke
and Ashima natives of Calcutta move to United States after their arranged
marriage in India.Ashoke is a PhD student at MIT , soon after Ashima gives
birth to a son .They are undecided about theirs child’s name , ultimately
relying on a postal letter from Ashima’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>grandmother but letter is lost somewhere in transition, and they are
forced to choose<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a name for their son
before his release from Hospital. Ashoke decides to name his son “Gogol” after
Russian Author <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span class="readable">Nikolai Gogol</span> <b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and in memory of a tragic
train accident of his past.</span></b></i><br />
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revolves around the life of Ashoke , Ashima and their son Gogol .The cultural differences
and the generation gap between parents and kids. Gogol’s struggle in search of
his own identity and his embarrassment that surrounds his name. Ashima's
loneliness in a new country and how she adjusts and make it home.</span></b></i><br />
<i><b>About the Author:</b> Born in London to Bengali parents, Jhumpa
Lahiri currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. Her
debut work of fiction, a collection of short stories entitled <i>Interpreter
of Maladies</i>, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She is currently a
member of the U.S. President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Her novel <i>The
Namesake </i>was also made into a 2007 film</i><br />
<i><b>My Thoughts on the Book: </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I picked up this on the thought that I would
like reading it and was not least bit disappointed. Lahiri’s writing is poetic
and descriptive she is able to very well describe the lives of Ashoke , Ashima
and their family as Immigrants in USA although a
bit slow at times.The book is also made into a movie which I had seen many years ago before reading it.I liked the movie as much I had liked the book. All in all the book is expectedly excellent and a must read. </span></b></i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535786960194115808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002908076920607391.post-69466045544055454892012-07-16T02:35:00.000-07:002012-08-19T07:36:45.344-07:00Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><b>Author : </b>Arthur Golden<b> </b></i></div>
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<i><b>Paperback</b>: 434 pages </i></div>
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<i><b>Page Numbers Source ISBN:</b> B002LAYWEC<b> </b></i></div>
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<i><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage; Vintage contemporaries ed edition (November 9, 1999)<b> </b></i></div>
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<i><b>Synopsis </b>: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden is a book about Geisha ( Japanese women entertainer ) who sing, dance , talk and keep men company in order to entertain them.Chiyo (Who is known as Sayuri when she becomes Geisha ) is sold to a Geisha house in Gion after her mother's death , she does odd jobs there like cleaning and house chores .Later on she is enrolled in geisha school where she learns singing , dancing and more .An elder Geisha Hatsumomo is jealous of Sayuri and so her hope of becoming a Geisha comes to a stop until she meets a elder Geisha Mameha who eventually trains her to become Geisha and a successful one at that . Sayuri's life changes after second world war when the man she has always loved becomes her Danna ( A wealthy man, sometimes married, who had the means to support
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<i><b>About The Author </b>:<span class="readable" id="reviewTextContainer35881471"><span id="freeText10349661456564464184"> </span></span><b>Arthur Golden</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is an American
writer born on December 6, 1956) .Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
grew up on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, He spent his
middle and high school years at the Baylor School <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Chattanooga, graduating in 1974. He
attended Harvard University and received a degree in art history, specializing
in Japanese art. In 1980, he earned an M.A. in Japanese history at Columbia
University, and also learned Mandarin Chinese. He currently lives in Brookline,
Massachusetts.</i><br />
<i>The novel </i><i>Memoirs of a Geisha was written over a 6-year period during
which Golden rewrote the entire novel three times, changing the point of view
before finally settling on the first person viewpoint of Sayuri. Interviews
with a number of geisha, including <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mineko Iwaski <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>provided background information about the
world of the geisha. It has sold more than four million copies in English and
has been translated into thirty-two languages around the world.</i><br />
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novel is an amazing read that brings to life, vivid and colorful
characters. Being narrated in the first person, the reader feels a sense
of reality to the story. Golden’s ability to create clear imagery makes
the novel all the more spectacular. The novel uses many different jokes
and situations that will make the reader laugh and cry. It also
broadens the view of society on geisha and ancient tradition. Being
informative, hilarious, and inspirational, Memoirs of a Geisha is </span></span>a well written book and It's one of my favorite.</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535786960194115808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002908076920607391.post-77707369667511656602012-07-14T23:23:00.000-07:002012-07-14T23:29:07.782-07:00Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" by Laila Lalami provides a view on a different world. This book narrates the struggles of four Moroccans who attempt the 14-kilometer journey across the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain, to find better employment and better conditions for themselves and their families. I like the way Lalami structured her book, providing glimpses of each person's story both before and after the crossing.<br />
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The book opens with the treacherous journey and focuses on Faten, Noura, Halima and Aziz, then moves backwards to the events that brought them there The story follows their lives as they struggle to make their way in a strange land.<br />
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A very short, easy read--definitely recommended!<br />
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<span class="readable" id="reviewTextContainer50598380"><span id="freeText14304068885175347596">The book is about Olive Martin, a huge obese woman who was found with the dead bodies of her mother and younger
sister, she pleaded guilty to murder at her trial. Journalist Rosalind Leigh accepts a commission to write a book about
Olive, she finds herself wondering what lies behind all these facts that
everyone knows. When Roz first visits her in prison, she finds that
Olive is not quite what she expected. Roz is repeatedly
warned - Olive lies about almost everything, then why did she confess so
readily to two hideous murders? Roz may well wonder. The deeper she is
drawn into the shadowy, disturbing world of the Sculptress, the more
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<i>Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan is simple to read book set in pre Independence days of India in a fictional town Malgudi.The author's style of writing is simple , humorous and subtle still so real.</i></div>
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<i>It took me back to my childhood memories of school where in little things used to look like huge problems.</i></div>
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<i>The story narrates events in life of Swami and his friends Rajam and Mani as how they became friends their mischief at school , strolling in hot afternoon sun , playing games, forming a cricket team and so on.</i></div>
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The Help is an amazing first book by Kathryn Stockett , it was quite engrossing , I loved reading it till the end as the story developed.<br />
<span class="readable" id="reviewTextContainer43484255">The book is about <span id="freeText17830310736393975327">black maids in Jackson, MS in the early 1960s where the Civil Rights movement was getting heated.Skeeter Phelan, is a young white woman</span></span><span class="readable" id="reviewTextContainer144990068"><span id="freeText15220986273137056054"> just graduated from college and wishes to write. She wants to
create a novel based on interviews with the black maids .No one wants to cooperate because it's an extremely dangerous
task. Soon, Aibileen and Minny, maids of Jackson,
come together to help Skeeter with her project. It turns into something
so much bigger than any of them expected. </span></span><span class="readable" id="reviewTextContainer43484255"><span id="freeText17830310736393975327"> </span></span><br />
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and I recommend everyone read it as its </span></span><span class="readable" id="reviewTextContainer144990068"><span id="freeText15220986273137056054"> It's complex, deep, entertaining, funny, depressing, inspirational and well written.</span></span>Kathryn Stockett manages to make characters come to life with her descriptions.<br />
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First of all I would like to thank the author for hosting a Giveaway on Goodreads and for sending me the advanced e reader copy.<br />
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The Fall by Ryan Quinn is story of three friends at University in Florence.<br />
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wants to break free of her controlling mother and find out what she
really wants from life and ability to
make her own decisions. </span></span><br />
<span class="readable" id="reviewTextContainer319764629"><span id="freeText3336637840602632173">Ian is a film buff who is struggling with being
comfortable with who he is and who he thinks others expect him to be, his father </span></span> is a leading football
coach. Ian not only has
dropped football, and moved away but has also taken up tennis. <br />
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I would have liked for the characters to have had more of a connection. I
didn't feel they interacted in a close enough way to justify their
friendship and eventual relationship(Casey and Haile) .<br />
Overall it's and easy read and probably you can give it a shot if you like the description.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535786960194115808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002908076920607391.post-33434428192302405822012-04-14T07:32:00.001-07:002012-04-14T07:34:22.596-07:00Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman's Guide to Unblocking Creativity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsxyRZ6_wMvJAdPDGQKtNywE4i5kbgsd0kFIHSfyJ716yISJmN12XeT84BAoJ2py72C8x837P7ncEbVtTCSgBw3L2m7u1dbzZBbmQu9FQnfeXcaQUCsiBpzsiCLXtOmaIW4TcWMkxqVgz/s1600/A+Woman%27s+Guide+to+Unblocking+Creativity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsxyRZ6_wMvJAdPDGQKtNywE4i5kbgsd0kFIHSfyJ716yISJmN12XeT84BAoJ2py72C8x837P7ncEbVtTCSgBw3L2m7u1dbzZBbmQu9FQnfeXcaQUCsiBpzsiCLXtOmaIW4TcWMkxqVgz/s320/A+Woman%27s+Guide+to+Unblocking+Creativity.jpg" width="212" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A Woman's Guide to Unblocking Creativity by Susan O'Doherty</i> is a self help book especially for women who are experiencing barriers to their creativity.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In This book Susan takes you through stories of 5 women and herself and tells you how to liberate yourself and find creative side of your personality.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The book starts with the positive and negative comments we get from our family from early years and impact it has on our creativity.In order to unblock your creativity she says you should analyze your life and embrace your shadow self.She conveys the importance of having a role model in life so as to guide you in your creative pursuits.Art is not always something which can adhere to norms of the society it needs to be original and with alignment of ones self belief then only it is a true expression of art.She takes you through the journey in a women's life where in she has to manage her creativity and motherhood and how her new role makes her more strong and at the same time so vulnerable.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I found the content of this book both inspiring and helpful and it can certainly motivate a person to find their creative side and pursue it no matter where and what age they are in.<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is one of the popular self help books which is based on law of attraction it.It's motivational and an inspiring read and gives HOPE to its reader<br />
.It focuses on positive attitude in life, in our thoughts and actions.Being Positive is the only way to go in life and I recommend this book to all.</span></i></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535786960194115808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002908076920607391.post-63774564204543786232012-02-16T17:50:00.000-08:002012-02-18T10:58:28.535-08:00And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCXvbw87hJ3aZVjZCo41gZT1qjxJDk3YQ4QToyTOKRQc7bG4FVJhrVM4ewOQk8u3uM1DPpSz9H0xhhKh81XuMMfVn9dGulXY5OJcI6Rzsbmcd3vLsa2FAYx6XbJZ5G6MzHOTOOSAhq2wpn/s1600/and+then+there+were+none+agatha+christie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCXvbw87hJ3aZVjZCo41gZT1qjxJDk3YQ4QToyTOKRQc7bG4FVJhrVM4ewOQk8u3uM1DPpSz9H0xhhKh81XuMMfVn9dGulXY5OJcI6Rzsbmcd3vLsa2FAYx6XbJZ5G6MzHOTOOSAhq2wpn/s400/and+then+there+were+none+agatha+christie.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" Is a suspensful murder mystery.The host U.N Owen invites 10 strangers to an isolated island who have committed murders in their lives but they can never be caught by the law as there is no proof of their crimes.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Eventually one person after other dies in the story and you don't know who is doing it. All people start suspecting each other and there is hate , suspicion confusion in each of their minds.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The story starts with introduction of these 10 people which doesn't catch much attention but as the story unfolds you are bound to be at the edge of your seat till the very end.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">If you are looking for a suspenseful murder mystery this is surely the book for you.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=tot087-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0062073486&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">This is a truly magnificent book.One of the very best stories I have ever read,it is so beautifully written.It takes place during the last thirty years of history in Afghanistan, and deals with a family and their love for each other and for their country. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">The book centers on two children: Amir, son of a prosperous Kabul businessman and Hassan son of his longtime servant. The two boys grow up together , constant companions despite their differences and become very close friends. because of some ugly event their friendships breaks off.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">Winds of change blew over Afghanistan because of which Amir and his father had to leave their homeland and settle in America in an Afghan community.Memories of their homeland keeps on haunting them one day after many years Amir gets a call from his homeland and a truth about his family is revealed.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">A few statements from the book which got etched in my mind. </span></i></div>
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<li><i><span style="font-size: small;"> “Sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...” </span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: small;"> “Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.” </span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: small;"> "Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is </span></i></li>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"> pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.” -- I am truly moved by this statement.</span></i></div>
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<li><i><span style="font-size: small;"> “It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.” </span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: small;"> "There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood."</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: small;"> "For you, a thousand times over."</span></i></li>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">This a well written novel about error , courage , loyalty and forgiveness , a mix of all human emotions.I would definitely recommend this book.</span></i><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>I had picked up the Da Vinci Code few years back but left it in between,last week I decided to reread it again and I completed it this time.</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>The book is based on Christianity and its belief , it talks about a Holy Grail an alternative reality of Jesus Christ .The books starts with a murder of Louvre museum curator "Jacques Saunière" in Paris, Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist, along with granddaughter of Jacques Saunière, Sophie Neveu gets caught up in his murder investigation.Jacques Saunière leaves clues for his granddaughter to know reality about her family which she considered to be dead long back in an accident.</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Eventually in this search she gets to know about lot of things like Secret societies, Templar kings and much more.</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>The day I started the book I couldn't wait to see the movie, hence I saw it midst of reading the book.I found the book to be better as its very informative at many instances and the ending of book and movie are quite different .I just don't want to break its suspense here :)</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Undoubtedly Dan Brown has done amazing jobs to his book "The Da Vinci Code". The story is powerful and magnificent. Mixing with a lot of traceable truth and facts, he made his novel sound extremely convincing and entertaining. </i></div><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> The Book is about a girl Maria who was born in an ordinary family in a Brazilian village, dreamt of ‘prince charming’ since her childhood, fallen in love few times but always left broken hearted. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that ‘men brought only pain, frustration and suffering .<br />
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She accepts an offer to go to Switzerland, for she had dreams of finding fame and fortune. But she ends up in a night club and she chooses prostitution as her profession.<br />
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Maria finds the amount of time spent actually having sex is about eleven minutes.<br />
Eleven minutes. Her world revolved around something that took eleven minutes.<br />
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The story gets its twist when she meets a renowned young painter, Ralf Hart, at an expensive coffee shop. She breaks the basic rule of her profession, “never fall in love”.<br />
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She finds hopelessly fallen in love. She believes freedom only exists when love is present. The person, who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly. And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.<br />
</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">I wish to quote what he quoted as the preface of the book.<br />
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For I am the first and the last<br />
I am the venerated and the despised<br />
I am the prostitute and the saint<br />
I am the wife and the virgin I am the mother and the daughter<br />
I am the arms of my mother<br />
I am barren and my children are many<br />
I am the married woman and the spinster<br />
I am the woman who gives birth and she<br />
who never procreated I am the consolation for the pain of birth<br />
I am the wife and the husband<br />
And it was my man who created me<br />
I am the mother of my father<br />
I am the sister of my husband<br />
And he is my rejected son<br />
Always respect me For I am the shameful and the magnificent one<br />
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Hymn to Isis, third or fourth century BC, discovered in Nag Hammadi </span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">I had this book on my Kindle, so while browsing through books for my next read I came upon this and thought of reading its reviews which I found interesting and all the more its based out in Lawrence,MA which is kind of close to the place where I'm residing these days.Hence I decide to read it.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The book is about Kenny Tingle and his family which comprises to of his two elder brothers Gary , Tommy and his mom.He is raised by single mother in Lawrence , MA .Their mother finds it difficult to cater to all their needs because of financial difficulties and with no support from their father.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The book talks about their life , their struggles in growing up years and how Kenny's family totally fells apart and the author goes in and out of foster homes and gets into bad habits like stealing and so on, he overcomes all this and finally lands up in a career with Marine Crops which is remarkable for a person who has been through so much struggle.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">It's a good one time read, where in the author conveys the message that Life is what you make it and one can always come over the difficulties and trials of life if he/she is determined enough to do it.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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There are now three editions of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789320398/ref=nosim/3msrev-20" target="_blank"><b>the 1001 list</b></a>, with 1294 titles on all three lists.<br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><li> The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt (2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Invisible by Paul Auster (2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> American Rust by Philipp Meyer (2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Cost: A Novel by Roxana Robinson (2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2010) [India/Australia, English, Booker]</li>
<li> Home by Marilynne Robinson (2010) [USA, English, Orange]</li>
<li> Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman (2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Gathering by Anne Enright (2010) [Ireland, English, Booker]</li>
<li> The Blind Side Of The Heart by Julia Franck (2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2010) [USA/Dominican, English, Pulitzer]</li>
<li> Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (2008) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2008) [Pakistan, English]</li>
<li> Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008, 2010) [Nigeria, English, Orange]</li>
<li> The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (2008) [USA/France, French]</li>
<li> The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2008, 2010) [India, English, Booker]</li>
<li> Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland (2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Mother’s Milk by Edward St. Aubyn (2008, 2010) [UK/South Africa, English]</li>
<li> Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2008) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006) [Japan/UK, English]</li>
<li> Saturday – Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> On Beauty – Zadie Smith (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]</li>
<li> Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Accidental by Ali Smith (2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2008, 2010) [UK, English, Booker]</li>
<li> 2666 by Roberto Bolano (2008, 2010) [Chile, Spanish]</li>
<li> Small Island by Andrea Levy [UK, English, Orange]</li>
<li> The Sea – John Banville (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English, Booker]</li>
<li> The Book about Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]</li>
<li> The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Plot Against America – Philip Roth [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Master – Colm Tóibín (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English]</li>
<li> Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (2008, 2010) [Russia/France, French]</li>
<li> The Swarm by Frank Schatzing (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Vanishing Point – David Markson (2006)</li>
<li> The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd (2006)</li>
<li> Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair (2006)</li>
<li> Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/English]</li>
<li> Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz (2008, 2010) [Israel, Hebrew]</li>
<li> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon [UK/English]</li>
<li> Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle (2006)</li>
<li> The Colour – Rose Tremain (2006)</li>
<li> Thursbitch – Alan Garner (2006)</li>
<li> The Light of Day – Graham Swift (2006)</li>
<li> What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA/English]</li>
<li> Lady Number Thirteen by Jose Carlos Somoza (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Successor by Ismail Kadare (2008, 2010) [Albania, Albanian]</li>
<li> Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (2008, 2010) [Booker]</li>
<li> The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008, 2010) [India/USA, English]</li>
<li> Islands – Dan Sleigh [South Africa, English]</li>
<li> Unless – Carol Shields (2006) [US/Canada, English]</li>
<li> Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]</li>
<li> London Orbital – Iain Sinclair (2006)</li>
<li> Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry (2006)</li>
<li> Fingersmith – Sarah Waters (2006)</li>
<li> The Double – José Saramago (2006) [Portugal, Portuguese]</li>
<li> Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor (2006)</li>
<li> That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern (2006)</li>
<li> In the Forest – Edna O’Brien (2006)</li>
<li> Shroud – John Banville (2006) [Ireland, English]</li>
<li> Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (2006) [USA, English Pulitzer]</li>
<li> Youth – J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]</li>
<li> Dead Air – Iain Banks (2006)</li>
<li> Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon (2006, 2008, 2010) [Yugoslavia, English]</li>
<li> Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2008, 2010) [Turkey, Turkish, Nobel]</li>
<li> Platform – Michael Houellebecq (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini (2006)</li>
<li> The Body Artist – Don DeLillo (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Fury – Salman Rushdie (2006) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill (2006)</li>
<li> Choke – Chuck Palahniuk (2006)</li>
<li> Life of Pi – Yann Martel (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English, Booker]</li>
<li> The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Schooling – Heather McGowan (2006)</li>
<li> Atonement – Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Soldiers of Salamis by Javer Cercas (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti (2008, 2010) [Italian]</li>
<li> The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa (2006, 2008, 2010) [ Peru, Spanish, Nobel]</li>
<li> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon [US, English, Pulitzer]</li>
<li> An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma (2006)</li>
<li> The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho (2006, 2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]</li>
<li> Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare (2006, 2008, 2010) [Albania, Albanian]</li>
<li> The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda [South Africa]</li>
<li> Under the Skin – Michel Faber (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia/Netherlands, English]</li>
<li> White Teeth – Zadie Smith (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> City of God – E.L. Doctorow (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> How the Dead Live – Will Self (2006)</li>
<li> The Human Stain – Philip Roth (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood (2006) [Canada, English, Booker]</li>
<li> After the Quake – Haruki Murakami (2006) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande [India, English]</li>
<li> Ignorance – Milan Kundera (2006) [Czech/France, Czech]</li>
<li> Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace (2006)</li>
<li> Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy (2006, 2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]</li>
<li> Bartleby and Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard (2006)</li>
<li> House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Pastoralia – George Saunders (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy (2006)</li>
<li> Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb (2006, 2008, 2010) [Belgium/Japan, French]</li>
<li> The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Urgresic (2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]</li>
<li> In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi (2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]</li>
<li> Pavel’s Letters by Monika Maron (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Timbuktu – Paul Auster (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra (2006) [India]</li>
<li> Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic (2006, 2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]</li>
<li> The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie (2006) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English, Booker]</li>
<li> Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (2008, 2010) [Chile, Spanish]</li>
<li> Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Guitierrez (2008, 2010) [Cuba, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami (2006) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Heretic by Miguel Delibes (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Amsterdam – Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English, Booker]</li>
<li> Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom (2006, 2008, 2010) [Netherlands, Dutch]</li>
<li> Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters (2006)</li>
<li> Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Another World – Pat Barker (2006)</li>
<li> The Hours – Michael Cunningham (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English, Pulitzer]</li>
<li> Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho (2006, 2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]</li>
<li> The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Crossfire by Miyabe Miyuki (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Great Apes – Will Self (2006)</li>
<li> Enduring Love – Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Underworld – Don DeLillo (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Jack Maggs – Peter Carey (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English]</li>
<li> Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Margot and the Angels by Kristien Hemmerechts (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Flemish]</li>
<li> Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (2006, 2008, 2010) [India, English, Booker]</li>
<li> American Pastoral – Philip Roth (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Untouchable – John Banville (2006) [Ireland, English]</li>
<li> Silk – Alessandro Baricco (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard (2006)</li>
<li> Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English, Orange]</li>
<li> The Ghost Road – Pat Barker (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan/UK, English]</li>
<li> Morvern Callar – Alan Warner (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Information – Martin Amis (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie (2006) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald (2006) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Reader – Bernhard Schlink (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (2006, 2008, 2010) [India/Canada, English]</li>
<li> Love’s Work – Gillian Rose (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The End of the Story – Lydia Davis (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Late-Night News by Petros Markaris (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]</li>
<li> Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst (2006)</li>
<li> Whatever – Michel Houellebecq (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Land – Park Kyong-ni (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Our Lady of Assassins by Fernando Vallejo (2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]</li>
<li> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Deep River by Shusaku Endo (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Disappearance – David Dabydeen (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klima (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh (2006)</li>
<li> Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Twins by Tessa de Loo (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Operation Shylock – Philip Roth (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Complicity – Iain Banks (2006)</li>
<li> On Love – Alain de Botton (2006, 2008, 2010) [Switzerland, French]</li>
<li> What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth (2006, 2008, 2010) [India, English]</li>
<li> The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields (2006, 2008, 2010) [US/Canada, English, Pulitzer]</li>
<li> The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (2008, 2010) [USA/India, English]</li>
<li> Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]</li>
<li> The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis (2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]</li>
<li> The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd (2006)</li>
<li> The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood (2006) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald (2006) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Secret History – Donna Tartt (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas (2008, 2010) [Cuba, Spanish]</li>
<li> Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar (2006, 2008, 2010) [Turkey, Turkish]</li>
<li> The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]</li>
<li> The Triple Mirror of the Self by Zulfikar Ghose (2008, 2010) [USA/India, English]</li>
<li> All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> A Heart So White – Javier Marias (2006) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Jazz – Toni Morrison (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English, Booker]</li>
<li> Indigo – Marina Warner (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Crow Road – Iain Banks (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín (2006)</li>
<li> Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Memoirs of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> Black Dogs – Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Arcadia – Jim Crace (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Wild Swans – Jung Chang (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Mao II – Don DeLillo (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Typical – Padgett Powell (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Regeneration – Pat Barker (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]</li>
<li> Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]</li>
<li> The Laws by Connie Palmen (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Vineland – Thomas Pynchon (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Vertigo – W.G. Sebald (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Downriver – Iain Sinclair (2006)</li>
<li> The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]</li>
<li> Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres (2006)</li>
<li> Wise Children – Angela Carter (2006)</li>
<li> Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Amongst Women – John McGahern (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Stone Junction – Jim Dodge (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Music of Chance – Paul Auster (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (2008, 2010) [India, English]</li>
<li> Possession – A.S. Byatt (2006)</li>
<li> The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham (2006)</li>
<li> Like Life – Lorrie Moore (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> A Disaffection – James Kelman (2006)</li>
<li> Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Moon Palace – Paul Auster (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> London Fields – Martin Amis (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan/UK, English]</li>
<li> The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai (2006, 2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]</li>
<li> The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor (2008, 2010) [India, English]</li>
<li> The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK-Scotland, English]</li>
<li> The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago (2006, 2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]</li>
<li> Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (2006, 2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]</li>
<li> A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Inland by Gerald Murnane (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]</li>
<li> Obabakoak by Bernando Atxaga (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Gimmick! by Joost Zwagerman (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Book of Evidence – John Banville (2006) [Ireland, English]</li>
<li> Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood (2006) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White (2006)</li>
<li> Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English, Booker]</li>
<li> The Last World by Christopher Ransmayr (2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> The First Garden by Anne Herbert (2008, 2010) [Canada, French]</li>
<li> Libra – Don DeLillo (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks (2006)</li>
<li> Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Child in Time by Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Cigarettes by Harry Mathews (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams (2006)</li>
<li> Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> The Passion – Jeanette Winterson (2006)</li>
<li> The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Black Box by Amos Oz [Israel, Hebrew]</li>
<li> The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> All Souls by Javier Marias (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Beloved – Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (2008, 2010) [Chile, Spanish</li>
<li> The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> World’s End by T.C. Boyle (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul (2006, 2008, 2010) [Trinidad, English]</li>
<li> The Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov (2008, 2010) [Bulgaria, Bulgarian]</li>
<li> The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae [South Korea, Korean]</li>
<li> Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Anagrams – Lorrie Moore (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (2006, 2008, 2010) [Kenya, Kikuyu]</li>
<li> The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano (2008, 2010) [Uruguay, Spanish]</li>
<li> An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan/UK, English]</li>
<li> Extinction – Thomas Bernhard (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> Marya – Joyce Carol Oates (2006)</li>
<li> Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Foe – J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]</li>
<li> The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Szczypiorski (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]</li>
<li> Ancestral Voices by Etienne van Heerden (2008, 2010) [South Africa, Afrikaans]</li>
<li> Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez (2006, 2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson (2006)</li>
<li> The Cider House Rules – John Irving (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]</li>
<li> A Maggot – John Fowles (2006)</li>
<li> Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis (2006)</li>
<li> Contact – Carl Sagan (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Perfume – Patrick Süskind (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Queer – William Burroughs (2006)</li>
<li> Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang (2008, 2010) [China]</li>
<li> Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard (2006) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> White Noise – Don DeLillo (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Young Man by Botho Strauss (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Legend – David Gemmell (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech/France, Czech]</li>
<li> Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago (2006, 2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]</li>
<li> The Lover – Marguerite Duras (2006, 2008, 2010) [Vietnam/France, French]</li>
<li> Democracy by Joan Didion (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Neuromancer – William Gibson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julian Rios (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Professor Martens’ Departure by Jaan Kross (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Shame – Salman Rushdie (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> The Witness by Juan Jose Saer (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Fado Alexandrino by Antonio Lobo Antunes (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]</li>
<li> The Christmas Oratorio by Goran Tunstrom (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]</li>
<li> Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett (2006)</li>
<li> Fools of Fortune – William Trevor (2006)</li>
<li> La Brava – Elmore Leonard (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Waterland – Graham Swift (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English, Booker]</li>
<li> The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing (2006) [UK, English, Nobel]</li>
<li> The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus (2006, 2008, 2010) [Belgium, Flemish]</li>
<li> Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]</li>
<li> The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]</li>
<li> If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Color Purple – Alice Walker (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan/UK, English]</li>
<li> Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende (2006, 2008, 2010) [Chile, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Newton Letter – John Banville (2006) [Ireland, English]</li>
<li> On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> July’s People – Nadine Gordimer (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]</li>
<li> Couples, Passerby by Botho Strauss (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Concrete – Thomas Bernhard (2006) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> The Names – Don DeLillo (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Rabbit is Rich – John Updike (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The War of the End of the World by Llosa (2008, 2010) [Peru, Spanish]</li>
<li> Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie (2008, 2010) [China]</li>
<li> The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Wassmo (2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]</li>
<li> Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English]</li>
<li> Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> Rites of Passage – William Golding (2006)</li>
<li> Broken April – Ismail Kadare (2006, 2008, 2010) [Albania, Albanian]</li>
<li> Smell of Sadness by Kossman (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Rituals – Cees Nooteboom (2006, 2008, 2010) [Netherlands, Dutch]</li>
<li> Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (2008, 2010) [India, English]</li>
<li> City Primeval – Elmore Leonard (2006)</li>
<li> The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Southern Seas by Montalban (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Smiley’s People – John Le Carré(2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Fool’s Gold by Douka (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]</li>
<li> The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech/France, Czech]</li>
<li> A Dry White Season by Andre Brink (2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]</li>
<li> Shikasta – Doris Lessing (2006) [UK, English, Nobel]</li>
<li> A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul (2006, 2008, 2010) [Trinidad, English]</li>
<li> Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]</li>
<li> So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (2008, 2010) [Senegal, French]</li>
<li> The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll (2006) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Yes – Thomas Bernhard (2006) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Back Room by Gaite (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The World According to Garp – John Irving (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English, Booker]</li>
<li> The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Requiem for a Dream by Selby (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter (2006)</li>
<li> Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Shining – Stephen King (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Dispatches – Michael Herr (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Wars by Findley (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (2006)</li>
<li> Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector (2006, 2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]</li>
<li> Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Engineer of Human Souls by Skvorecky (2008, 2010) [Czech/Canada, Czech]</li>
<li> In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English]</li>
<li> Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Public Burning – Robert Coover (2006)</li>
<li> Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Amateurs – Donald Barthelme (2006)</li>
<li> Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez (2006, 2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]</li>
<li> W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Dead Babies – Martin Amis (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Correction – Thomas Bernhard (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> Grimus – Salman Rushdie (2006) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Fateless – Imre Kertész (2006, 2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian, Nobel]</li>
<li> Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Woman at Point Zero by El Saadawi (2008, 2010) [Egypt, Arabic]</li>
<li> High Rise – J.G. Ballard (2006)</li>
<li> Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada/USA, English]</li>
<li> The Year of the Hare by Paasilinna (2008, 2010) [Finland, Finnish]</li>
<li> The Commandant by Jessica Anderson (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]</li>
<li> Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Port by Soljan (2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]</li>
<li> The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English]</li>
<li> The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré (2006)</li>
<li> Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Fear of Flying – Erica Jong (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> A Question of Power – Bessie Head (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Botswana, English]</li>
<li> The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Crash – J.G. Ballard (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Sula – Toni Morrison (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Twilight Years by Ariyoshi (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Breast – Philip Roth (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Summer Book – Tove Jansson (2006, 2008, 2010) [Finland, Finnish]</li>
<li> G – John Berger (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Surfacing – Margaret Atwood (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul (2006, 2008, 2010) [Trinidad, English]</li>
<li> Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Cataract by Osadchyi (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Wild Boys – William Burroughs (2006)</li>
<li> Rabbit Redux – John Updike (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark (2006)</li>
<li> The Ogre – Michael Tournier (2006)</li>
<li> The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke (2006) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> A World for Julius by Echenique (2008, 2010) [Peru, Spanish]</li>
<li> Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett (2006)</li>
<li> Troubles – J.G. Farrell</li>
<li> Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Play It As it Lays by Joan Didion (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> Here’s to You, Jesusa by Poniatowska (2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]</li>
<li> Season of Migration to the North by Salih (2008, 2010) [Sudan, Arabic]</li>
<li> Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]</li>
<li> Moscow Stations by Erofeyev (2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Case Worker by Konrad (2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]</li>
<li> The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard (2006)</li>
<li> Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado (2006, 2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]</li>
<li> Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Green Man – Kingsley Amis (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Jacob the Liar by Becker (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Godfather – Mario Puzo (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Ada – Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Them – Joyce Carol Oates (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen (2006, 2008, 2010) [Greece/Switzerland, French]</li>
<li> 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry (2006)</li>
<li> The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Cathedral by Honchar (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle (2008, 2010) [Algeria/France, French]</li>
<li> No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Chocky – John Wyndham (2006)</li>
<li> The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa (2006) [Peru, Spanish]</li>
<li> One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez (2006, 2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008, 2010) [Poland, Yiddish]</li>
<li> Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Joke – Milan Kundera (2006)</li>
<li> Z by Vassilikos (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]</li>
<li> Miramar by Mahfouz (2008, 2010) [Egypt, Arabic]</li>
<li> The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> A Man Asleep – Georges Perec (2006) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West (2006)</li>
<li> Trawl – B.S. Johnson (2006)</li>
<li> In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Magus – John Fowles (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras (2006, 2008, 2010) [Vietnam/France, French]</li>
<li> Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> To Each His Own by Sciascia (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Silence by Shusaku Endo (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Death and the Dervish by Selimovic (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Things – Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien (2006)</li>
<li> God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Garden, Ashes by Kis (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o (2006, 2008, 2010) [Kenya, English]</li>
<li> Closely Watched Trains by Hrabal (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Back to Oegstgeest by Wolkers (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Three Trapped Tigers by Infante (2008, 2010) [Cuba, Spanish]</li>
<li> Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme (2006)</li>
<li> Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson (2006)</li>
<li> Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe (2006, 2008, 2010) [Nigeria, English]</li>
<li> The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras (2006, 2008, 2010) [Vietnam/France, French]</li>
<li> Herzog – Saul Bellow (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada/USA, English]</li>
<li> V. – Thomas Pynchon (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Graduate – Charles Webb (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Dog Years by Gunter Grass (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Third Wedding by Taktsis (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]</li>
<li> One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Time of the Hero by Llosa (2008, 2010) [Peru, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Death of Artemio Cruz by Fuentes (2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Collector – John Fowles (2006)</li>
<li> One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Time of Silence by Luis Martin Santos (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard (2006)</li>
<li> The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English, Nobel]</li>
<li> Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges (2006, 2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]</li>
<li> Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Vilos (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Faces in the Water – Janet Frame (2006, 2008, 2010) [New Zealand, English]</li>
<li> No One Writes to the Colonel by Marquez (2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]</li>
<li> Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (2006, 2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]</li>
<li> Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Shipyard by Onetti (2008, 2010) [Uruguay, Spanish]</li>
<li> God’s Bits of Wood by Sembene (2008, 2010) [Senegal, French]</li>
<li> Bebo’s Girl by Cassola (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> How It Is – Samuel Beckett (2006)</li>
<li> Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino (2006) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien(2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Halftime by Martin Walser (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008, 2010) [Poland, Yiddish]</li>
<li> To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Rabbit, Run – John Updike (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary (2006, 2008, 2010) [Lithuania/France, French]</li>
<li> Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Naked Lunch – William Burroughs (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Tin Drum – Günter Grass (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Down Second Avenue by Mphahlele (2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]</li>
<li> Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow (2006) [Canada/USA, English]</li>
<li> Memento Mori – Muriel Spark (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Deep Rivers by Arguedas (2008, 2010) [Peru, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Guide by Narayan (2008, 2010) [India, English]</li>
<li> The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon by Jorge Amada (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico (2006)</li>
<li> Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Bell – Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The End of the Road – John Barth (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Once and Future King – T.H. White (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> The Birds by Vesaas (2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]</li>
<li> Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Voss – Patrick White (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English]</li>
<li> The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Blue Noon – Georges Bataille (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Homo Faber – Max Frisch (2006, 2008, 2010) [Swiss, German]</li>
<li> The Deadbeats by Ruyslinck (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Dutch]</li>
<li> The Manila Rope by Meri (2008, 2010) [Finland, Finnish]</li>
<li> On the Road – Jack Kerouac (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Glass Bees by Junger (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber (2006)</li>
<li> Justine – Lawrence Durrell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Seize the Day – Saul Bellow (2006) [Canada/USA, English]</li>
<li> The Floating Opera – John Barth (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary (2006, 2008, 2010) [Lithuania/France, French]</li>
<li> The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Rosa (2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]</li>
<li> The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis (2006, 2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]</li>
<li> The Tree of Man by Patrick White (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]</li>
<li> A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen (2006)</li>
<li> The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Quiet American – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Burning Plain by Rulfo (2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Recognitions – William Gaddis (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch (2006, 2008, 2010) [Swiss, German]</li>
<li> Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis (2006)</li>
<li> The Unknown Soldier by Linna (2008, 2010) [Finland, Finnish]</li>
<li> The Sound of Waves by Mishima (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> Death in Rome by Koeppen (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Mandarins by de Beauvoir (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Lord of the Flies – William Golding (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Under the Net – Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Story of O – Pauline Réage (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> A Day in Spring by Kosmac (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Dark Child by Laye (2008, 2010) [Guinea, French]</li>
<li> The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett (2006)</li>
<li> Watt – Samuel Beckett (2006)</li>
<li> The Hothouse by Koeppen (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Lost Steps by Carpentier (2008, 2010) [Cuba/Switzerland, Spanish]</li>
<li> Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Junkie – William Burroughs (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Casino Royale – Ian Fleming (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> *The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow (2006) [Canada/USA, English]</li>
<li> Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> A Thousand Cranes by Kawabata (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt (2006, 2008, 2010) [Swiss, German]</li>
<li> Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Hive by Cela (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson (2006)</li>
<li> Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar (2006, 2008, 2010) [Belgium, French]</li>
<li> Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Foundation – Isaac Asimov (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Rebel – Albert Camus (2006, 2008, 2010) [Algeria/France, French]</li>
<li> Molloy – Samuel Beckett (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The End of the Affair – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Barabbas by Lagerkvist (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]</li>
<li> The Guiltless by Broch (2008, 2010) [Austria/US, German]</li>
<li> The Abbot C – Georges Bataille (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz (2006, 2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Third Man – Graham Greene (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The 13 Clocks – James Thurber (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/Australia, English]</li>
<li> The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English, Nobel]</li>
<li> I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Borowski (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]</li>
<li> In the Heart of the Seas by Agnon (2008, 2010) [Israel, Hebrew]</li>
<li> The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]</li>
<li> All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani (2006, 2008, 2010) [India/Kenya, English]</li>
<li> Disobedience – Alberto Moravia (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Ashes and Diamonds by Andrzejewski (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]</li>
<li> Journey to the Alcarria by Cela (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Froth on the Daydream by Vian (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Midaq Alley by Mahfouz (2008, 2010) [Egypt, Arabic]</li>
<li> Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Plague – Albert Camus (2006, 2008, 2010) [Algeria/France, French]</li>
<li> The Victim – Saul Bellow (2006) [Canada/USA, English]</li>
<li> Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> If This Is a Man – Primo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> House in the Uplands by Caldwell (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Back – Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Death of Virgil by Broch (2008, 2010) [Austria/US, German]</li>
<li> Andrea by Laforet (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]</li>
<li> Bosnian Chronicle by Andric (2008, 2010) [Serbo-Croatia, Bosnian]</li>
<li> Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Arcanum 17 – André Breton (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri? (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Animal Farm – George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> Cannery Row – John Steinbeck (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford (2006)</li>
<li> Loving – Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Transit – Anna Seghers (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges (2006) [Argentina, Spanish]</li>
<li> Dangling Man – Saul Bellow (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada/USA, English]</li>
<li> The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Caught – Henry Green (2006)</li>
<li> The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Chess Story by Zweig (2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> Embers – Sandor Marai (2006, 2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]</li>
<li> Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Outsider – Albert Camus (2006, 2008, 2010) [Algeria/France, French]</li>
<li> Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Harvesters by Pavese (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien (2006)</li>
<li> The Living and the Dead – Patrick White (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English]</li>
<li> Broad and Alien Is the World by Alegria (2008, 2010) [Spain/Peru, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Man Who Loved Children by Stead (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]</li>
<li> Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton (2006)</li>
<li> Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Hamlet – William Faulkner (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler (2006)</li>
<li> For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Native Son – Richard Wright (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Finnegans Wake – James Joyce (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English]</li>
<li> At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller (2006)</li>
<li> Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Party Going – Henry Green (2006)</li>
<li> The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Coming Up for Air – George Orwell (2006) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> On the Edge of Reason by Krleza (2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]</li>
<li> After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner (2006)</li>
<li> Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Alamut by Bartol (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Brighton Rock – Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> U.S.A. – John Dos Passos (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Murphy – Samuel Beckett (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Years – Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Blind Owl by Hedayat (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Ferdydurke by Grombowicz (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> In Parenthesis – David Jones (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis (2006)</li>
<li> Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Rickshaw Boy by Lao She (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> War with the Newts by Capek (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson (2006)</li>
<li> Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Nightwood – Djuna Barnes (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Independent People – Halldór Laxness (2006, 2008, 2010) [Iceland, Icelandic]</li>
<li> Untouchable by Anand (2008, 2010) [India, English]</li>
<li> The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/Austria, German]</li>
<li> The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen (2006)</li>
<li> England Made Me – Graham Greene (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Burmese Days – George Orwell (2006) [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Bells of Basel by Aragon (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> On the Heights of Despair by Cioran (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht (2006)</li>
<li> Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev (2006)</li>
<li> The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh (2006)</li>
<li> Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]</li>
<li> Call it Sleep – Henry Roth (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> A Day Off – Storm Jameson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Man’s Fate by Malraux (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Cheese by Elsschot (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Flemish]</li>
<li> The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria/Germany, German]</li>
<li> Vipers’ Tangle by Mauriac (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Forbidden Realm by Slauerhoff (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Krleza (2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]</li>
<li> A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon (2006)</li>
<li> Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> To the North – Elizabeth Bowen (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Waves – Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Insatiability by Witkiwicz (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]</li>
<li> Monica by Saunders Lewis (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham (2006)</li>
<li> The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Her Privates We – Frederic Manning (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English]</li>
<li> Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh (2006)</li>
<li> The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico (2006)</li>
<li> Passing – Nella Larsen (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Living – Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany/France, German]</li>
<li> The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen (2006)</li>
<li> Harriet Hume – Rebecca West (2006)</li>
<li> The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Retreat without Song by Shahnour (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Orlando – Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese}</li>
<li> The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis (2006)</li>
<li> Quartet – Jean Rhys (2006)</li>
<li> Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Quicksand – Nella Larsen (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Nadja – André Breton (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust(2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Amerika – Franz Kafka (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech, German]</li>
<li> The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Blindness – Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Castle – Franz Kafka (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech, German]</li>
<li> Alberta and Jacob by Sandel (2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]</li>
<li> The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Under Satan’s Sun by Bernanos (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Chaka the Zulu by Mofolo (2008, 2010) [South Africa, Sesotho]</li>
<li> Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos (2006)</li>
<li> Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Counterfeiters – André Gide (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Trial – Franz Kafka (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech, German]</li>
<li> The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Professor’s House – Willa Cather (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English}</li>
<li> The New World by Welde Selasse (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Green Hat – Michael Arlen (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> We – Yevgeny Zamyatin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> A Passage to India – E.M. Forster (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Cane – Jean Toomer (2006)</li>
<li> Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley (2006)</li>
<li> Amok – Stefan Zweig (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]</li>
<li> The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield (2006)</li>
<li> The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Siddhartha – Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Forest of the Hanged by Rebreanu (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Claudine’s House by Colette (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus (2006)</li>
<li> Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Ulysses – James Joyce (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English]</li>
<li> Life of Christ by Papini (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Fox – D.H. Lawrence (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English, Pulitzer]</li>
<li> Main Street – Sinclair Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Night and Day – Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Tarr – Wyndham Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad (2006) [Poland/UK, English]</li>
<li> Summer – Edith Wharton (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen (2006, 2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]</li>
<li> The Home and the World by Tagore (2008, 2010) [India, Bengali]</li>
<li> Pallieter by Timmermans (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Dutch]</li>
<li> The Underdogs by Azuela (2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]</li>
<li> Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English]</li>
<li> Under Fire – Henri Barbusse (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Kokoro – Natsume Soseki (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Rosshalde – Herman Hesse (2006) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Platero and I by Jimenez (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Death in Venice – Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Howards End – E.M. Forster (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rilke (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Three Lives – Gertrude Stein (2006)</li>
<li> Martin Eden – Jack London (2006)</li>
<li> Strait is the Gate – André Gide (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> A Room With a View – E.M. Forster (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells (2006)</li>
<li> The Inferno – Henri Barbusse (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Iron Heel – Jack London (2006)</li>
<li> The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Mother – Maxim Gorky (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Jungle – Upton Sinclair (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Young Törless – Robert Musil (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria/Germany, German]</li>
<li> Solitude by Catala (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster (2006)</li>
<li> Nostromo – Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe (2006, 2008, 2010) [Belgium, French]</li>
<li> The Way of All Flesh by Butler (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Schreber (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Golden Bowl – Henry James (2006) [USA/UK, English]</li>
<li> The Ambassadors – Henry James (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA/UK, English]</li>
<li> The Immoralist – André Gide (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Wings of the Dove – Henry James (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA/UK, English]</li>
<li> Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Kim – Rudyard Kipling (2006, 2008, 2010) [India, English]</li>
<li> None but the Brave by Schnitzler (2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad (2006)</li>
<li> Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem by Salgari (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Gardonyi (2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]</li>
<li> The Stechlin – Theodor Fontane (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Awakening – Kate Chopin (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Dom Casmurro by de Assis (2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]</li>
<li> As a Man Grows Older by Svevo (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (2006) [USA/UK, English]</li>
<li> The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Fruits of the Earth – André Gide (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Pharoah by Prus (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]</li>
<li> Compassion by Perez Galdos (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells (2006)</li>
<li> What Maisie Knew – Henry James (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA/UK, English]</li>
<li> Dracula – Bram Stoker (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz (2006, 2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]</li>
<li> The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Time Machine – H.G. Wells (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Effi Briest – Theodor Fontane (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Viceroys by De Roberto (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross (2006)</li>
<li> The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006)</li>
<li> Born in Exile – George Gissing (2006)</li>
<li> Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK-Scotland, English]</li>
<li> News from Nowhere – William Morris (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> New Grub Street – George Gissing (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf (2006, 2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]</li>
<li> Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Down There by Huysmans (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Thais by Anatole France (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> By the Open Sea – st (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Hunger – Knut Hamsun (2006, 2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]</li>
<li> Eline Vere by Couperus (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Child of Pleasure by D’Annunzio (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Under the Yoke by Vazov (2008, 2010) [Bulgaria, Bulgarian]</li>
<li> The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson (2006)</li>
<li> Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés (2006) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg (2006, 2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]</li>
<li> The Manors of Ulloa by Bazan (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> She – H. Rider Haggard (2006)</li>
<li> The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Quest by van Eeden (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson (2006)</li>
<li> King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard (2006, 2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Germinal – Émile Zola (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain</li>
<li> Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater</li>
<li> Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant [France, French]</li>
<li> The Regent’s Wife by Leopoldo Alas (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans [France, French]</li>
<li> The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant [France, French]</li>
<li> Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson</li>
<li> Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert [France, French]</li>
<li> The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by de Assis (2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]</li>
<li> The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James [USA/UK, English]</li>
<li> Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace</li>
<li> Nana – Émile Zola [France, French]</li>
<li> The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Red Room – August Strindberg [Sweden, Swedish]</li>
<li> Martin Fierro by Hernandez (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]</li>
<li> Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Drunkard – Émile Zola [France, French]</li>
<li> The Crime of Father Amaro by de Queiros (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]</li>
<li> Pepita Jimenez by Valera (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev (2006) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Daniel Deronda – George Eliot (2006)</li>
<li> The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert (2006) [France, French]</li>
<li> Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne [France, French]</li>
<li> In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu</li>
<li> The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Erewhon – Samuel Butler</li>
<li> Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Middlemarch – George Eliot</li>
<li> Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll</li>
<li> King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope (2006)</li>
<li> War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert [France, French]</li>
<li> Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope</li>
<li> Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont [France/Uruguay, French]</li>
<li> The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins</li>
<li> Little Women – Louisa May Alcott</li>
<li> Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola [France, French]</li>
<li> The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope</li>
<li> Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne [France, French]</li>
<li> Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll</li>
<li> Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu</li>
<li> Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley</li>
<li> Les Misérables – Victor Hugo</li>
<li> Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Silas Marner – George Eliot</li>
<li> Great Expectations – Charles Dickens [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006)</li>
<li> Max Havelaar – Multatuli</li>
<li> On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev (2006) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope (2006)</li>
<li> The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot</li>
<li> The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins</li>
<li> A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Adam Bede – George Eliot</li>
<li> Indian Summer by Stifter (2008, 2010) [Austria, German]</li>
<li> Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert [France, French]</li>
<li> North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell [UK, English]</li>
<li> Green Henry by Keller (2008, 2010) [Swiss, German]</li>
<li> Hard Times – Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Walden – Henry David Thoreau [USA, English]</li>
<li> Bleak House – Charles Dickens [UK, English]</li>
<li> Villette – Charlotte Brontë (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell [UK, English]</li>
<li> Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe</li>
<li> The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne [USA, English]</li>
<li> Moby-Dick – Herman Melville [USA, English]</li>
<li> The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne [USA, English]dick</li>
<li> David Copperfield – Charles Dickens [UK, English]</li>
<li> Shirley – Charlotte Brontë (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë [UK, English]</li>
<li> Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë [UK, English]</li>
<li> Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë [UK, English]</li>
<li> Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray [UK/India, English]</li>
<li> The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas [France, French]</li>
<li> The Devil’s Fool by George Sand (2008, 2010) [France, French]</li>
<li> Facundo by Sarmiento (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]</li>
<li> La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas (2006) [France, French]</li>
<li> The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas [France, French]</li>
<li> The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe (2006) [USA, English]</li>
<li> Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe [USA, English]</li>
<li> Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac [France, French]</li>
<li> A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol [Ukraine, Russian]</li>
<li> A Hero for our Times by Lermontov (2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> Camera Obscura by Hildebrand (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal [France, French]</li>
<li> The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe</li>
<li> The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Flemish]</li>
<li> The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]</li>
<li> Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens [UK, English]</li>
<li> The Nose – Nikolay Gogol [Ukraine, Russian]</li>
<li> Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac [France, French]</li>
<li> Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac [France, French]</li>
<li> Eugene Onegin by Pushkin (2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]</li>
<li> The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo [France, French]</li>
<li> The Red and the Black – Stendhal [France, French]</li>
<li> The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni [Italy, Italian]</li>
<li> Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper</li>
<li> The L ife of a Good-for-Nothing by von Eichendorff (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg</li>
<li> The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by Hoffman (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin (2006)</li>
<li> Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin</li>
<li> The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott (2006)</li>
<li> Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott</li>
<li> Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley</li>
<li> Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (2006)</li>
<li> Persuasion – Jane Austen (2006)</li>
<li> Ormond – Maria Edgeworth (2006)</li>
<li> Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott</li>
<li> Emma – Jane Austen</li>
<li> Mansfield Park – Jane Austen</li>
<li> Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen</li>
<li> Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen</li>
<li> Michael Kohlhaas by von Kleist (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth (2006)</li>
<li> Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot [France, French]</li>
<li> Henry of Ofterdingen by Novalis (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth</li>
<li> Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Nun – Denis Diderot [France, French]</li>
<li> Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot [France, French]</li>
<li> Camilla – Fanny Burney</li>
<li> The Monk – M.G. Lewis</li>
<li> Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe</li>
<li> The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano</li>
<li> The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin</li>
<li> A Dream of Red Mansions by Xueqin (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Justine – Marquis de Sade [France, French]</li>
<li> Vathek – William Beckford [UK, French]</li>
<li> Anton Reiser by Moritz (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade [France, French]</li>
<li> Cecilia – Fanny Burney (2006)</li>
<li> Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Switzerland/France, French]</li>
<li> Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos [France, French]</li>
<li> Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Switzerland/France, French]</li>
<li> Evelina – Fanny Burney</li>
<li> The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Germany, German]</li>
<li> Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett</li>
<li> The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie</li>
<li> A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne</li>
<li> Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne</li>
<li> The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith</li>
<li> The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole</li>
<li> Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Switzerland/France, French]</li>
<li> Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Switzerland/France, French]</li>
<li> Rasselas – Samuel Johnson</li>
<li> Candide – Voltaire [France, French]</li>
<li> The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox</li>
<li> Amelia – Henry Fielding (2006)</li>
<li> Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett</li>
<li> Fanny Hill – John Cleland</li>
<li> Tom Jones – Henry Fielding</li>
<li> Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett (2006)</li>
<li> Clarissa – Samuel Richardson</li>
<li> Pamela – Samuel Richardson</li>
<li> Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift</li>
<li> Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding</li>
<li> A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift</li>
<li> Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift</li>
<li> Roxana – Daniel Defoe (2006)</li>
<li> Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe</li>
<li> Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood</li>
<li> Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe</li>
<li> A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift (2006)</li>
<li> Oroonoko – Aphra Behn</li>
<li> The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette [France, French]</li>
<li> The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan (2006)</li>
<li> The Adventurous Simplicissimus by von Grimmelshausen (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]</li>
<li> The Conquest of New Spain by Diaz del Castillo (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius</li>
<li> Thomas of Reading by Deloney (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe</li>
<li> Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly (2006)</li>
<li> Monkey: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en (2008, 2010) [China]</li>
<li> The Lusiad by Vaz de Camoes (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]</li>
<li> Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais [France, French]</li>
<li> The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Amadis of Gaul by de Montalvo (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> La Celestina by de Rojas (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]</li>
<li> Tirant lo Blanc by Martorell (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Water Margin by Nai’an (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Tale of Gengi (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]</li>
<li> The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (2008, 2010)</li>
<li> The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous [Arabic]</li>
<li> Aithiopika – Heliodorus (2006)</li>
<li> Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton (2006)</li>
<li> Metamorphoses – Ovid (2006)</li>
<li> Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus (2006)</li>
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</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Heidi by Johanna Spyri is a children classics , I was so enamored by the Heidi as a kid and used to love watching it on television and used to hum the title song the Heidi series.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Recently I ran across this book and thought it would be fun to read it after so many years and yes it was :) .The book is a bout a little girl Heidi is a orphan who is left to stay with her grandfather by her aunt , she had started to enjoy her life in Alps but soon her aunt came and took her to Frankfurt to accompany little girl Clara who is unable to walk and is confined to her wheel chair. She belongs to a very well to do family but Heidi always used to remember Alps her grandfather , the fir trees and longed to go back home.She was sent home and soon Clara came to meet Heidi , Clara became strong with good mountain air , frsh food and all the care taken by Heidi's grandfather .In coming day she started walking.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">I really enjoyed reading this book, it's like a breath of fresh air :)</span></i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7E-pX6BWoQLcdV6cIJpKdGBeRwnbgtPrzh0ULOo00w3nE7Y-bnyBjDDU-XPlOHmi295gTMyRudImL_y7xJRYo9KSc-rieGkrmMEujaJmptPeR_sCjwqmEBDNRRV6bEHQl6LPePqqntk/s1600/slumdog-millionaire.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7E-pX6BWoQLcdV6cIJpKdGBeRwnbgtPrzh0ULOo00w3nE7Y-bnyBjDDU-XPlOHmi295gTMyRudImL_y7xJRYo9KSc-rieGkrmMEujaJmptPeR_sCjwqmEBDNRRV6bEHQl6LPePqqntk/s320/slumdog-millionaire.jpg" width="205" /></span></a></span></i></div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was a hot summer day of April in Hyderabad and I was in this used book store searching for a book to read, I was unable to make up my mind as what I should read next , I saw "Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup" and recollected that it was the movie which won Oscars unfortunately I haven't seen the movie so decided to read this.I'm happy I read it.</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The book has an unusual plot it's about a poor, uneducated, orphan teen who somehow answers all 12 questions on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". Immediately after winning he is thrown in jail, accused of cheating. The book follows chapter by chapter how he acquired the knowledge of answering each question correctly. it is a fast and entertaining read.</span></span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I read this book recently and like many other Sidney Sheldon books this one has a great plot too, its very captivating and keeps a reader hooked till the very end.Sidney Sheldon <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">truly is a master story teller!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This book is about three women that arrive as first-year residents in the Embarcadero County Hospital and become roommates:Dr. Paige is arrested for murder, but she swore it was euthanasia.She inherits a million </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking."</span><br />
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