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Re: 100 Books to Read before the End
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Posted by Jackie
on April 7, 2023, 2:03 pm, in reply to "
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Thanks for this. Lists like this are fun and interesting. So far I've read only four or five and partially read two. Looking forward to the end of the list to see if any of my other favourites appear on it.
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Off topic - Recs for Novels pls: gripping ones, perhaps crime, perhaps that expose sthg of the
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marknadim
April 6, 2023, 7:41 pm
Anything by James Ellroy.
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Morrissey
April 6, 2023, 8:15 pm
Re: Anything by James Ellroy.
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Raskolnikov
April 7, 2023, 6:55 am
Re: Anything by James Ellroy.
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marknadim
April 9, 2023, 9:22 pm
Re: Graham Greene. Monsignor Quixote or anything else. nm
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Jackie
April 6, 2023, 9:25 pm
Re: Graham Greene. Monsignor Quixote or anything else. nm
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marknadim
April 7, 2023, 12:25 pm
Re: Graham Greene. Monsignor Quixote or anything else. nm
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Jackie
April 8, 2023, 1:41 am
Germinal by Emil Zola. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. The Dispossed by Ursula K leGuin.
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Der
April 6, 2023, 10:00 pm
That French husband n Russian wife team of Russian translators were Pevear and Volokhonsky.
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Der
April 6, 2023, 10:08 pm
Walter Mosley. Dashiel Hammett.
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Der
April 6, 2023, 10:17 pm
"If Not Now, When" by Primo Levi. Awesome book.
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Der
April 6, 2023, 10:27 pm
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith. All the Arkady Renko novels. Set in Russia usually.nm
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Der
April 7, 2023, 5:10 am
On crime novels: Karin Slaughter & Lisa Gardner...
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Ken Waldron
April 6, 2023, 10:40 pm
Apart from Sibylle Berg, the only women mentioned. So, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
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Der
April 7, 2023, 2:45 pm
le Guin. nm
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Der
April 7, 2023, 4:12 pm
Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald
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SueC
April 6, 2023, 11:42 pm
Thanks. A tasty selection! The kind of backdrop that's taken for granted in most posts and articles
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marknadim
April 7, 2023, 5:30 am
In terms of conspiracy theory, try Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (nm)
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sashimi
April 7, 2023, 5:42 am
100 Books to Read before the End
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Fionn
April 7, 2023, 8:08 am
Re: 100 Books to Read before the End
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Jackie
April 7, 2023, 2:03 pm
Fascinating list and explanations, thanks for sharing! nm
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marknadim
April 9, 2023, 3:32 pm
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. nm
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Jackie
April 7, 2023, 9:41 am
Recently published -- "Grime" by Swiss-German author Sibylle Berg
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scrabb
April 7, 2023, 10:04 am
Gotta give a shout for Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby"
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scrabb
April 7, 2023, 7:53 pm
The brief is long dead n gone. So, a shoutout for Walden by Thoreau.
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Der
April 7, 2023, 10:02 pm
Re: Gotta give a shout for Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby"
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Jackie
April 9, 2023, 3:23 pm
Re: Gotta give a shout for Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby"
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Keith-264
April 10, 2023, 9:50 pm
Re: Off topic - Recs for Novels pls: gripping ones, perhaps crime, perhaps that expose sthg of the
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Jackie
April 7, 2023, 9:49 pm
"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson and pretty much anything by Hardy (nm)
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Ed
April 8, 2023, 12:11 am
Did Laurel not write anything?
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scrabb
April 8, 2023, 2:29 pm
Re: Did Laurel not write anything?...I'm laughing like Gravy at that! (nm)
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Ed
April 8, 2023, 3:26 pm
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