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Writing Readers 747 books / 3969 members / 5698 posts If you're an aspiring or successful writer, this is the group for you. Suggest your favorite books on the craft, discuss past and present challenges, and share some nurture with a growing community of other online-savvy, "writing readers". Welcome!

Note: If you want to promote a book or writing website on which you publish, please use the "Shameless Self-Promotion" discussion thread. In order to keep this from becoming a chaotic open bazaar of single-shot marketing, we are deleting book notices, reviews, etc. from other threads and directing all authors to the "Shameless Self-Promotion" thread. Thank you for understanding.

Naperville Central 122 books / 76 members / 12 posts Bringing the book back to NCHS

Join this group if you go to Naperville Central, if you teach at Naperville Central, or if you just envy Naperville Central!

AND... I think we can make this the biggest group on Shelfari. 68? Thats nothing!

WE ARE TIED FOR 5th LARGEST GROUP!!!

*BoOk WoRmS* 48 books / 114 members / 23 posts This is the original "BoOk WoRmS"! The first ever on Shelfari!

Well if you just joined our group, then.......................

Welcome to the "BoOk WoRmS"!,
Our group is all about FUN!! We read the books that YOU want to read. We read each book for 2 weeks (plus or minus, if the book is shorter or longer). After we finish the book, we choose a new book by YOU voting!! You can choose any book you want, it doesn't need to be on our shelf(LEAVE THE VOTES ON THE DISCUSSION PAGE)! Whichever book gets the most votes, that's what we read!
Hope you join the group!!
From,
"BoOk WoRmS" admin(books4fun)!!

P.S. ANYONE CAN JOIN!!

What are you reading? 3456 books / 8759 members / 26579 posts This group is for anyone, of any background or age group, who is interested in talking about...Books. Books you want to read, have read, are reading; books you have heard of and not yet read; books of any genre. You are welcome to ask for recommendations or opinions.

If you are plugging your new book, blog, group, etc., please only do this in the Shameless Self Promotion thread. If these are posted anywhere else, they will be deleted.

Banned Books 107 books / 1215 members / 696 posts Discussion about the most challenged books for those who want to read them.

YA Books that Adults Should Read 943 books / 2712 members / 5782 posts Some of the best literature is written for young adults and children. This group is for sharing titles that are often overlooked because they are marketed to younger people.

FrugalReader.com Members 480 books / 42 members / 229 posts A group for Shelfari.com members who are also FrugalReader.com members!

The Rory Gilmore Book Club 118 books / 429 members / 732 posts "Behold, the thing that reads a lot!"
~Lorelai Gilmore

This group contains books read by all the characters of the show, mainly Rory, Lorelai, Richard, Paris, and Jess. As soon as Shelfari lets me tag group books, I'll have them all sorted out.

The group is for the Gilmore Girls enthusiast, those of us who not only watch the show for the crazy Gilmore Gossip, but who also watch and wonder just what the heck Rory is reading next.

~How we work~
We'll be reading a book a season:
Winter: December, January, February, March
Spring: April, May
Summer: June, July, August, September
Fall: October November

Winter & Summer will be reserved for reading the larger novels Rory has on her shelf, so that reading is not overwhelming and remains fun!

Please feel free to revive old discussions. Just because the season's over, doesn't mean we still can't read and discuss!

*Special Thanks to lifer_refil - whose maniacal obsession with Gilmore Girls helped to bulk up this shelf! =)

Book Chat 1083 books / 1436 members / 8072 posts Welcome to Book Chat!

Instead of being about a particular book, author or genre this group is about books and reading in general. Discussions have covered a wide variety of topics, from bookmarks, to book type preference (paperback, hardcover or trade paperback) to book-to-movie tie-ins, to where and when you read and even what started you reading.

We also have some fun new projects starting and we hope you will join us.

Tenia has started a Secret Reader (aka Secret Santa) where we will exchange gently used books.

Tenia has also started a monthly book read. Our first group read will start in January and we are currently taking votes on several books that were nominated for the fiction genre.

We are also currently taking nominations for books for February and March. Our February read will be horror and our March read will be chick lit.

A discussion book raffle of sorts will be starting very soon so be sure to check back for details.

Feel free to pop-in and have a look around. We would love to have you join us for some discussion and fun.

Your admins...Kelly and Tenia

Brilliant Babes (And Dudes) Who Read Selectively 668 books / 174 members / 10377 posts October Spooky Duel Book Group Read: Dracula...Bram Stoker and Interview With the Vampire...Anne Rice

There are people who will read any book that comes out, and there are people who won't read anything that is less than 200 years old. The Brilliant Babes (and Dudes) are in-between--we often turn up our noses at certain writers, but we have a keen appreciation for high-quality brain candy as well! We are a friendly group mixed with a bit of sharp sarcasm, a sprinkling of green Enabler Dust and a TBR pile a mile high.

If you are slightly toward the snobbish side of the book-lover's spectrum--if you love your Dickens but also love your Nora--then you've come to the right place! Our group is invite-only to preserve the correct mix of people, but if you want to join, drop Suze, Rob or Dragonfly a note and we will review your shelf. If you get a friend invite, accept it and we will invite you to join us! (Please note that none of the admins spends all day, every day online. It may be a few days before we can get back to you. Suze and Dragonfly especially go MIA for various reasons, so please be patient and it will be rewarded!) Also, please do NOT ask for an invitation if you don't plan on regularly posting. It does take us time to review new members, and we love new members who participate, but the posts are visible to all Shelfari members who just want to lurk. :)

BBD Blog: http://brilliantbabes.blogspot.com -- chock full of BBD goodness!

Note for all members: In the past, we have had people confuse "slightly snobby" with "raging literary a-holes." Although we do appreciate a good crack on a bad author, please refrain from knowingly insulting your fellow BBDs. We love Shakespeare, but we hate drama!

10th Grade English 12 books / 3 members / 0 posts A book group for students who have Ms. Douglas for English! Our home base for book shelves, discussion, comments on what we're reading.

Book Club 55 books / 2 members / 0 posts A group of lovely divas who love to socialize as much as they love to read...

TA Chat 59 books / 5 members / 0 posts For members of TA Chat to share their love of books, and as part of shell's 2007 Book Challenge

Searching for Thomas Pynchon....... 9 books / 24 members / 3 posts This group is dedicated to reading the works of reclusive authors......Please share books, authors, opinions, and why you think the authors qualify as reclusive/why they are reclusive......

The Modern Library 100 Best Novels 3 books / 2 members / 1 posts I am starting a project to read all of the books on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list. Join me!

And I Quote... 78 books / 517 members / 530 posts I'm constantly dog-ear-ing pages of books because of a line that has the potential to be a wonderful quote. We need a place to share the quotes. Feel free to contribute a great line (or couple of sentences). Any genre, any age, anything G-rated. C'mon there are plenty with that restriction.

New York State of Mind 179 books / 87 members / 145 posts A group for books set in New York (city or state), written by New Yorkers, or books that capture the essence of this geographic and cultural area. Fiction, Non-fiction or short stories. The possibilities are endless...

English Majors/Minors 218 books / 313 members / 514 posts This group is for English majors or minors, but anyone is welcome. What I hope to attract with the group title are literature analysts, people who thoroughly enjoy studying novels, short stories, essays, whatever. Maybe I can even lure in some who actually like to peruse a bit of criticism now and then, though I must admit only the most intriguing topics can take me this far.

High school literature teachers 148 books / 335 members / 557 posts Don't you want to talk about books with people who teach them? I am just finishing a busy first year of teaching high school English and journalism...I'd love to see what English teachers are reading this summer and share ideas on how to bring books to life for high school students.

50 Book Challenge! 4683 books / 4691 members / 31106 posts Welcome to the 50-Book Challenge! We are not listless. In fact, we love lists ...

A list of the books we've been looking forward to, for example, can be found by following this link:

http://astore.amazon.com/allencotrip-20

Our challenge is to read 50 books in one year. OR ... establish a goal for yourself more or less, it's up to you, just because we say 50 books doesn't mean that has to be your goal too.

To join, all you need to do is start a thread, WITH YOUR NAME IN THE SUBJECT OF YOUR ORIGINAL POST, and log your books (with title and author, please.) Reviews are always welcome as well. It is a very good idea to bookmark your post (when in your post, add it to your internet browser's favorites)for quick access for future updates. Things move quickly around here.

If you haven't been keeping track of the books you've read, start when you join.

I enjoy reading your lists, and my TBR pile has grown as a result and I've read books I wouldn't have otherwise (The Hunger Games, I'm talking to you ...)

It doesn't have to be all lists all the time, though ... People enjoy it when you comment on their lists as well, so when you update your list ... take a minute and browse around. You never know what you might find. (Water For Elephants, I'm talking to you.)

The books we loved in 2008 can be found by following the Amazon link below

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Frichpub%2Fsyltguides%2Ffullview%2FRWDHY4E2EDKG2%3Fie%3DUTF8%26%252AVersion%252A%3D1%26%252Aentries%252A%3D0&tag=allencotrip-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

The books we loved in 2007 can be found by following the link below

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Frichpub%2Flistmania%2Ffullview%2FR2ULK83M81K03T%3Fie%3DUTF8%26redirect%3Dtrue%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Flm%255Fpthnk%255Fview%26lm%255Fbb%3D&tag=allencotrip-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

I survey the group each year starting in mid-December, until about mid-January then compile the lists and post the results. I look forward to this year's lists, now that the Twilight fervor has died down.

Thanks for being here and have fun. If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to contact me.

American Classics 22 books / 27 members / 5 posts All those great books you read in high school and college, and the ones you didn't but should have...

Classics and Historical Fiction 32 books / 41 members / 15 posts For those enthralled by the classics and historical fiction.

Books and More... 31 books / 20 members / 5 posts if you like good lit or suspicion, mysteris or if u have book sugestions tell us im sure we'd like to know! it doesn't really matter what u read we'd like to know! tell us what u like to read or are currently reading! thanx 4 joining!

Wildcat AP 51 books / 76 members / 133 posts This site is dedicated to the brave souls who are taking or who have taken Ms. Waters' AP English Lit and Comp class at Meridian High School.

A few instructions and reminders:

1) Good English reigns here, too. Write in complete sentences and DO NOT use "internet shorthand". What you do on your own pages is your business, of course, but any discussion thread on this site needs to be standard English.

2) I will add books we are reading together as a class to the Group Shelf. Any book you'd like to add to the shelf (or are adding as a part of an assignment) needs to be of AP quality. If you're not sure whether or not it is, ask me. Remember, on your Shelfari page, you can put whatever you like.

3) Remember that there is a Shelfari widget in Facebook. Also remember that our school computers are currently set to block Facebook.

4) Politeness is mandatory. Show respect for all the opinions posted here even if they differ greatly from your own. No profanity or vulgarity is allowed. Posters violating this policy will find their grade suffers as a result.

5) Posts need to be meaningful. "Me, too", "I hated it", "I loved it", and so forth as the sole body of a post do not a meaningful post make.....

Gateway members only! 24 books / 12 members / 31 posts If you go/went to Gateway Academy then you are in this group!

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 1089 books / 7926 members / 3367 posts THESE ARE BOOKS FROM THE BOOK "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" BY Peter Boxall, Peter Ackroyd

This group is for the other people trying to read all of the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm?content_id=22845

"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

1. 2000s
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6. The Sea – John Banville
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point – David Markson
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
20. Islands – Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
25. The Double – José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless – Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud – John Banville
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air – Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling – Heather McGowan
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
46. Fury – Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia – George Saunders
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71. 1900s
70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
88. Another World – Pat Barker
89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
94. Great Apes – Will Self
95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
96. Underworld – Don DeLillo
97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
100. The Untouchable – John Banville
101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
112. The Information – Martin Amis
113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
123. Land – Park Kyong-ni
124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
138. Complicity – Iain Banks
139. On Love – Alain de Botton
140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
152. Indigo – Marina Warner
153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
155. Jazz – Toni Morrison
156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
164. Arcadia – Jim Crace
165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
168. Mao II – Don DeLillo
169. Typical – Padgett Powell
170. Regeneration – Pat Barker
171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
173. Wise Children – Angela Carter
174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
175. Amongst Women – John McGahern
176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
183. Possession – A.S. Byatt
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
186. A Disaffection – James Kelman
187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
197. London Fields – Martin Amis
198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
206. Libra – Don DeLillo
207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
222. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
223. Beloved – Toni Morrison
224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
239. A Maggot – John Fowles
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
241. Contact – Carl Sagan
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
245. White Noise – Don DeLillo
246. Queer – William Burroughs
247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
248. Legend – David Gemmell
249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
258. Neuromancer – William Gibson
259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
261. Shame – Salman Rushdie
262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
265. Waterland – Graham Swift
266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
277. The Newton Letter – John Banville
278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
280. The Names – Don DeLillo
281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
303. The World According to Garp – John Irving
304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
312. The Shining – Stephen King
313. Dispatches – Michael Herr
314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
325. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
329. Fateless – Imre Kertész
330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
349. Sula – Toni Morrison
350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
351. The Breast – Philip Roth
352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
353. G – John Berger
354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
396. Chocky – John Wyndham
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
402. The Joke – Milan Kundera
403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
409. The Magus – John Fowles
410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
414. Things – Georges Perec
415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
425. Herzog – Saul Bellow
426. V. – Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate – Charles Webb
429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435. The Collector – John Fowles
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
476. The End of the Road – John Barth
477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
480. Voss – Patrick White
481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
493. The Floating Opera – John Barth
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
513. Watt – Samuel Beckett
514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
515. Junkie – William Burroughs
516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
530. The Rebel – Albert Camus
531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
535. The Third Man – Graham Greene
536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
554. The Victim – Saul Bellow
555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
559. The Plague – Albert Camus
560. Back – Henry Green
561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
567. Loving – Henry Green
568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
571. Transit – Anna Seghers
572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
575. Caught – Henry Green
576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
577. Embers – Sandor Marai
578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
579. The Outsider – Albert Camus
580. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
588. Native Son – Richard Wright
589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
591. Party Going – Henry Green
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
611. The Years – Virginia Woolf
612. In Parenthesis – David Jones
613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
630. England Made Me – Graham Greene
631. Burmese Days – George Orwell
632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
662. Passing – Nella Larsen
663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
665. Living – Henry Green
666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
679. Quartet – Jean Rhys
680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
683. Nadja – André Breton
684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
688. Amerika – Franz Kafka
689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
690. Blindness – Henry Green
691. The Castle – Franz Kafka
692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
711. Cane – Jean Toomer
712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
713. Amok – Stefan Zweig
714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
723. Ulysses – James Joyce
724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
733. Summer – Edith Wharton
734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
754. Howards End – E.M. Forster
755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
757. Martin Eden – Jack London
758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
762. The Iron Heel – Jack London
763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
765. Mother – Maxim Gorky
766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
768. Young Törless – Robert Musil
769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
776. The Ambassadors – Henry James
777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
778. The Immoralist – André Gide
779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
.
. 1800s
786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
802. Born in Exile – George Gissing
803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805. News from Nowhere – William Morris
806. New Grub Street – George Gissing
807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
819. She – H. Rider Haggard
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
824. Germinal – Émile Zola
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
828. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
830. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
832. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
833. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
836. Nana – Émile Zola
837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
838. The Red Room – August Strindberg
839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
841. Drunkard – Émile Zola
842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
853. Middlemarch – George Eliot
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
875. Silas Marner – George Eliot
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
885. Adam Bede – George Eliot
886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
933. Persuasion – Jane Austen
934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
936. Emma – Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
.
. 1700s
943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
944. The Nun – Denis Diderot
945. Camilla – Fanny Burney
946. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
948. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
949. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
951. Justine – Marquis de Sade
952. Vathek – William Beckford
953. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
954. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
955. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
956. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
958. Evelina – Fanny Burney
959. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
960. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
961. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
962. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
963. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
964. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
965. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
966. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
967. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
968. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
969. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
970. Candide – Voltaire
971. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
972. Amelia – Henry Fielding
973. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
974. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
975. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
976. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
977. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
978. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
979. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
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Pre-1700
989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid
1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

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Books That Have Changed Your Life 21 books / 42 members / 18 posts Have you ever read a book that made you laugh or cry? A book that not only affected you but changed your entire outlook on life? A book so beautiful, so poignantly melancholy, so heavily emotional, that you just couldn’t remain neutral? A book that when remembered evokes cherished memories? If so, please tell us about it! This thread is for you to talk about your most cherished book moments and share those books that changed your life with other dedicated bibliophiles. Thanks for joining and remember, have fun!

- Countess_Eva

Book lovers in Bangalore 85 books / 316 members / 132 posts A place for interaction between book lovers residing in Bangalore,India

oPen miNd fOr a DiffErenT vIew 12 books / 9 members / 1 posts this is a group for people who want to expand their horizons.. people who read "anything"... i believe that a good read is one which either give a new perspective, a new retrospective or a new introspective... something to expand your vision of the world something to expand your identity and history or something to expand your image of yourself...

Hyderabad Book lovers 41 books / 138 members / 89 posts A group for book lovers of Hyderabad to interact.
I am starting this group hoping to have a platform for Hyderabad based book lovers to exchange reviews and discuss. Where comfortable they can also swap or exchange books.
Happy Reading.
- raghav

The Catcher in the Rye 1 books / 3 members / 1 posts The Catcher in the Rye

The "Big Read" (Big Read 2003) 47 books / 29 members / 13 posts 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Classic Reads 35 books / 65 members / 12 posts All those books that you wish you had actually read in high school (you know, the ones you just got the cliff notes for) So here's you're chance! Come join!!

Nasim Andishe Association 21 books / 21 members / 2 posts This group belongs to all the members of Nasim Andishe Association. Nasim is a NGO (None Govermental Organization) .This is An Educational Association of Iranian Students in Qom. available at : http://www.nasimeandisheh.com/

we have already established a symposium in which we gather to gether every week to read and to take a deep look into the most famous novels ,short stories,and dramas in the infinite world of literature.
Find more about our latest activities in this symposium at : http://novel.blogfa.com/

We welcome your presence as a new member of our gathering with an open arms. Please join us today. We kindly appreciate all your comments.
I leave you with this statement that reveals the true nature of this lovely mysterious issue called literature:

"Although the infinite world of literature is magical,glamorous,and fancy , it is as dangerous as well. Do not be emotionally involved in this faked reality of life, all these heros in all these great masterpieces are always bigger than life. "

DCAreaBookClub 24 books / 47 members / 13 posts Washington DC Area Book Club.

books and movies 95 books / 235 members / 138 posts talk about books that are made into movies

Books tranformed into Movies 23 books / 16 members / 3 posts So many books, which we have read and enjoyed, were tranformed into movies.And though some weren't succesful, we watched them and gave our opinions.I created this group, so everyone can give his/her opinion about his/her favourite book's movie. Let me know what you think!!!

holden caulfield 8 books / 34 members / 16 posts (Ida_Ming_Tao)
It began falling at precisely three o'clock. The young man had a silver fountain pen dangling from his thumb, dipping like a sea saw. He watched a single window, striped and gridded with the stained glass, and noticed when others didn't that the girl had fallen, and the boys were still picking on her.

She stood up and they shoved her. She fell again. It was easy not to notice when the clock had passed the half hour. She still didn't move.

The boy stood up, fingering the frayed hole in his dirty sweatshirt, which he didn't wash because he didn't have the money, and his mother wouldn't send him anymore. He told Frank he bought expensive things, but he'd had it beat out of him one night when he went down town, just to walk and be outside. Frank laughed and rolled his cigarette and leaned out their window to have a smoke. Frank was the size of a zamboni ice making machine. Not much bothered him.

The ice was packed hard with little fissures spidering out around where the girl fell. They were like moth eaten batwings, not an angel's, and there was no snow. She looked up at him. Her eyes were wide. Blue-silver, and the veins were little blue jagged slivers sneaking out of the dark circles under her eyes, secretly striving for more statehood than the dark mascara and kiss-me pink glosses the other girls were wearing, sitting quietly in the library.

He blinked.

She didn't.

(cyd)
And finally, he picked her up off the ground and asked her to come inside. She looked at him with a bewildered expression, and politely said "no, I better get home".

So he walked back into his apartment feeling insecure as usual. "Why didn't she want to come in?" he thought as he stood in the mirror looking at his tattered, dirty clothes he was wearing. He hadn't bathed in 2 days.

(mona17)
His apartment felt empty.

Nothing much changed ever since he moved there three years ago. He prided himself with the only furniture he owned - his bare bed - and his wall, with post-its marked with his everyday thoughts. He still owed the landowner seven months' worth of rent. If not for his part-time job, he would be living a life spent waiting for the money his mom promised to send. His job as a bartender is still not enough though. A part of him continues to wait for the money that almost, always never arrives.

As he sauntered towards the bathroom, he let the water flow down the rusty tub.

His mind, then, started to wander back to the girl's blue-silver eyes.

( Elaheh )
And it weren't just the blue eyes,it was something else.maybe the look inside those eyes which ended him finding himself in the stairs to the door and obviously heading to the street.

"God!" she was still there,but this time standing on her feet gracefully and not looking sick,but clearly alright!
"Look,i'm not gonna hurt you.i need to make sure youre alright!" he said with the intonation which more looked like a request,not an statement.
"really?"
"well,i think so.why don't you come up to my place?we make sure youre alright and you can go.i swear." he said,knowing that she will come this time.

(wittywee)
She gazed suspiciously at him with those open blue eyes, "is she mad at me?" he thought", "have I made a mistake again?" he was trying not to show the stress inside out, suddenly drops of tears started to trundling on her cheek, turned her face away from him and said "it's kind of you, but I gotta go" she wiped away the tears with her delicate hands and tried to leave as fast as possible.

"What was her problem?" he woke up three next mornings with the pain of that question bothering the mind, his pillow was almost wet, "why didn't she came up", he was sure she'd come, but everything's different from what is your want or will, he hugged himself and felt more lonely than ever and promised himself not to think about her anymore... closed his brown wet eyes without knowing how life will play his next turn!

(Alex)
It had been along time since he felt a connection to anyone. He had purposefully become a recluse. Isolated much like the single Blue Beta fish that hovered patiently in the glass jar on his coffee table.

When he was out in the world, at the store, in the neighborhood, or at work. He was more of a spectator than a player. No one would notice him although he made it a point to notice everyone and everything around him. No detail was lost from his memory.

He thought about his self imposed exile and how now because of one interaction with a girl in peril. He wished that he was more approachable.

All of these thoughts passed through him while he slept half way between his coffee and tequila concoction and the slow rotation of his turn table playing a vinyl portion of Miles Davis. This was soothing to his anxious mind.

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درباره‌ی ِ ریشه‌ی ِ واژه‌ی ِ عشق
محمد حیدری ملایری
نپاهشگاه پاریس، فرانسه

واژه‌ی «عشق»، که در فارسی «اِشق» تلفظ می‌شود، در ادبیات فارسی و عرفان ایرانی جایگاهی برجسته دارد. شاید بتوان گفت که شاعران گوناگون فارسی‌زبان کمتر واژه‌ای را به اندازه‌ی عشق به کار برده باشند. با این حال چنین می‌نماید که تا کنون چندان پژوهشی که بر پایه‌ی دستاوردهای نوین زبانشناسی تاریخی استوار باشد درباره‌ی آن نشده است. در این نوشته‌ی کوتاه داتار (= مؤلف = author) این اندیشه را پیش می‌نهد که واژه‌ی عشق ریشه‌ای هند-و-اروپایی دارد. این پیشنهاد بر پایه‌ی پژوهش‌های ریشه‌شناختی استوار است. داتار امیدوار است که این نوشته انگیزه‌ای باشد برای جستجوهای بیشتر درباره‌ی این واژه و دیگر واژه‌های کم شناخته‌ی زبان فارسی، تا ایرانیان زبان فارسی را بهتر بشناسند و به ارزش‌ها و توانمندی‌های والای آن پی ببرند. این نوشته بر‌آیند ِ فرعی ِ پژوهشی است که نویسنده در پدید آوردن «فرهنگ ریشه‌شناختی اخترشناسی و اخترفیزیک (انگلیسی-فرانسه-فارسی)» دنبال می‌کند.
ریشه‌شناسی
نویسنده بر این باور است که «عشق» می‌تواند با واژه‌ی اوستایی -iš به معنای ِ «خواستن، میل داشتن، آرزو کردن، جستجو کردن» پیوند داشته باشد، که دارای جدا شده‌های زیر است: -aēša «آرزو، خواست، جستجو»؛ išaiti «می‌خواهد، آرزو می‌کند»؛ -išta «خواسته، محبوب»؛ -išti «آرزو، مقصود». همچنین پیشنهاد می‌کند که واژه‌ی عشق از اوستایی -iška* یا چیزی همانند آن ریشه می‌گیرد. پسوند ka- در پایین باز‌نموده خواهد شد.
واژه‌ی اوستایی -iš همریشه است با سنسکریت -eṣ «آرزو کردن، خواستن، جُستن»؛ -icchā «آرزو، خواست، خواهش»؛ icchati «می‌خواهد، آرزو می‌کند»؛ -iṣta «خواسته، محبوب»؛ -iṣti «خواست، جستجو»؛ واژه‌ی ِ زبان ِ پالی -icchaka «خواهان، آرزومند». همچنین، به گواهی شادروان فره‌وشی، این واژه در فارسی ِ میانه به دیسه‌ی ِ (= صورت ِ) išt «خواهش، میل، ثروت، خواسته، مال» باز مانده است. -- برای ِ آگاهی ِ بیشتر از واژه‌ی ِ «دیسه» = form به «فرهنگ ریشه‌شناختی اخترشناسی و اخترفیزیک» رجوع کنید.
واژه‌های اوستایی و سنسکریت از ریشه‌ی پوروا-هند-و-اروپایی -ais* «خواستن، آرزو کردن، جُستن» می‌آیند که دیسه‌ی اسمی آن -aisskā* است به معنای «خواست، میل، جستجو». بیرون از اوستایی و سنسکریت، چند زبان دیگر شاخه‌هایی از آن واژه‌ی پوروا-هند-و-اروپایی را حفظ کرده‌اند: اسلاوی کهن کلیسایی isko, išto «جستجو کردن، خواستن»؛ iska «آرزو»؛ روسی 'iskat «جستجو کردن، جُستن»؛ لیتوانیایی ieškau «جستجو کردن»؛ لتونیایی iēskât «جستن شپش»؛ ارمنی 'aic «بازرسی، آزمون»؛ لاتین aeruscare «خواهش کردن، گدایی کردن»؛ آلمانی بالای کهن eiscon «خواستن، آرزو داشتن»؛ انگلیسی کهن ascian «پرسیدن»؛ انگلیسی ask.
اما درباره‌ی ریشه‌ی سنتی ِ عشق. لغت‌نامه نویسان واژه‌ی عشق را به عَشَق (ašaq') عربی به معنای «چسبیدن» (منتهی‌الا‌رب)، «التصاق به چیزی» (اقرب‌الموارد) پیوند داده‌اند. نویسنده‌ی غیاث‌اللغات می‌کوشد میان «چسبیدن، التصاق» و عشق رابطه بر قرار کند: «مرضی است از قسم جنون که از دیدن صورت حسن پیدا می‌شود و گویند که آن مأخوذ از عَشَقَه است و آن نباتی است که آن را لبلاب گویند چون بر درختی بپیچد آن را خشک کند همین حالت عشق است بر هر دلی که طاری شود صاحبش را خشک و زرد کند.»
از آنجا که عربی و عبری جزو ِ خانواده‌ی زبانهای سامی‌اند، واژه‌های اصیل سامی معمولا در هر دو زبان عربی و عبری با معناهای همانند اشتقاق می‌یابند. و جالب است که «عشق» همتای عبری ندارد. واژه‌ای که در عبری برای عشق به کار می‌رود احو (ahav) است که با عربی حَبَّ (habba) خویشاوندی دارد. واژه‌ی دیگر عبری برای عشق «خَشَق» (xašaq) است به معنای «خواستن، آرزو کردن، وصل کردن، چسباندن؛ لذت»، که در تورات عهد عتیق بارها به کار رفته است (برای نمونه: سِفر تثنیه ۱۰:۱۵، ۲۱:۱۱؛ اول پادشاهان ۹:۱۹؛ خروج ۲۷:۱۷، ۳۸:۱۷؛ پیدایش ۳۴:۸).
بنا بر ا ُستاد سکات نوگل، واژه‌ی عبری xašaq و عربی ašaq' همریشه نیستند. واک ِ «خ» عبری برابر «ح» یا «خ» عربی است و «ع» عبری برابر «ع» یا «غ» عربی، ولی آنها با هم در نمی‌آمیزند. همچنین، معمولا «ش» عبری به «س» عربی می‌ترادیسد و بر‌عکس. از سوی دیگر، همانندی معنایی این دو واژه در عربی و عبری تصادفی است، چون معنای ریشه‌ی آغازین آنها یکی نبوده است. خشق عبری به احتمال در آغاز به معنای «بستن» یا «فشردن» بوده است، چنانکه برابر آرامی آن نشان می‌دهد. همچنین، ا ُستاد ورنر آرنولد تأکید می‌کند که «خ» عبری در آغاز واژه همیشه در عربی به «ح» می‌ترادیسد و هرگز «ع» نمی‌شود.
نکته‌ی جالب دیگر اینکه «عشق» در قر‌آن نیامده است. واژه‌ی به‌کار‌رفته همان مصدر حَبَّ (habba) است که یاد شد با جداشده‌هایش، برای نمونه دیسه‌ی اسمی حُبّ (hubb). همچنین دانستنی است که در عربی نوین واژه‌ی عشق کاربرد بسیاری ندارد و بیشتر حَبَّ (habba) و دیسه‌های جداشده‌ی آن به کار می‌روند: حب، حبیب، حبیبه، محبوب، و دیگرها.
نگاهی به فردوسی
چنانکه می‌دانیم، فردوسی برای پاسداری و پدافند از زبان فارسی از به کار بردن واژه‌های عربی کوشمندانه خودداری می‌کند. با این حال واژه‌ی عشق را به آسانی به کار می‌برد با اینکه آزادی شاعرانه به او امکان می‌دهد واژه‌ی دیگری را جایگزین عشق کند. می‌توان پرسید، چرا فردوسی واژه‌ی حُب را که واژه‌ی اصلی و رایج عشق است در عربی و مانند عشق یک هجایی است، و بنابر‌این وزن شعر را به هم نمی‌‌زند، به کار نمی‌برد؟ نویسنده به این باور می‌گراید که خداوندگار شاهنامه با اینکه شناخت امروزین ما را از زبان و ریشه‌شناسی واژه‌های هند-و-اروپایی نداشته به احتمال می‌دانسته که عشق واژه‌ای فارسی است.

بخندد بگوید که ای شوخ چشم ------------ ز عشق تو گویم نه از درد و خشم
نباید که بر خیره از عشق زال ------------- نهال سر‌افکنده گردد همال
پدید آید آنگاه باریک و زرد ------------- چو پشت کسی کو غم عشق خورد
دل زال یکباره دیوانه گشت ------------- خرد دور شد عشق فرزانه گشت
جالب است بدانیم که فردوسی خود واژه‌ی عشق را چگونه می‌نوشته است. به احتمال بی «ع»، به دیسه‌ی «اِشق» یا حتا «اِشک»! اما پی بردن به این نکته آسان نمی‌نماید، زیرا کهن‌ترین دستنوشت بازمانده‌ی شاهنامه به درحدود دو سده پس از فردوسی بر‌می‌گردد. دقیقتر گفته باشیم، نسخه‌ای است که در تاریخ ۳۰ محرم ۶۱۴ قمری رونویسی آن به پایان رسیده (برابر با دوشنبه ۲۵ اردیبهشت ۵۹۶ گاهشماری خورشیدی ایرانی و ۱۵ ماه مه ۱۲۱۷ میلادی).
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کوتاهانه، ما روال زیر را برای هست شدن واژه‌ی عشق پیش‌نهاد می‌کنیم: پوروا-هند-و-اروپایی -ais* «خواستن، میل داشتن، جُستن»، -aisska* «خواست، خواهش، جستجو ] اوستایی -iš «خواستن، آرزو کردن، جُستن» و ] -iška* «خواست، خواهش، میل».
پسوند ka- در اوستایی کاربرد بسیار دارد و برای نمونه در واژه‌های زیر دیده می‌شود: -mahrka «مرگ»؛ -araska «رشک، حسد»؛ -aδka «جامه، ردا، روپوش»؛ -huška «خشک»، -pasuka «چهارپا، ستور» ( در پهلوی pasu و pah «چهارپا، گله، رمه»؛ در گویش تاتی کرینگانی «پس» = «گوسفند»؛ در فارسی رسمی «شبان» و «چوپان» از pasu.p n*)؛ -drafška «درفش»؛ -dahaka «گزنده(؟)، ضحاک (با -aži)؛ و دیگرها.
واژه‌ی اوستایی به احتمال واژه‌ی išk* را در فارسی میانه پدید آورده است که به عربی راه یافته است. در‌باره‌ی چگونگی گذر این واژه به عربی می‌توان دو امکان به تصور آورد. نخستین آن است که išk* در دوران ساسانیان، که ایرانیان بر جهان عرب تسلط داشتند (به‌ویژه بر حیره، بحرین، عمان، یمن، و حتا حجاز) به عربی وارد شده است. برای آگاهی بیشتر از چگونگی تأثیر فارسی بر عربی در دوران پیش از اسلام رجوع کنید به کتاب خواندنی آذرتاش آذرنوش «راه‌های نفوذ فارسی در فرهنگ و زبان تازی»، چاپ دانشگاه تهران، ۱۳۵۴. ترادیسی ِ واک ِ فارسی ِ «ک» به عربی ِ «ق» کمیاب نیست، چند نمونه: کندک ] خندق، زندیک ] زندیق، کفیز ] قفیز، کوشک ] جوسق، کاسه ] قصعَه (به نوشته‌ی ِ المعرب جوالیقی، منتهی‌الا‌رب، اقرب‌الموارد).
جالب است که در این واپسین واژه (قصعَه) نه تنها «ک» به «ق» ترادیسیده شده، دو واک ِ «ص» و «ع» هم، که ویژه‌ی ِ زبانهای ِ سامی‌اند، پدید آمده‌اند. نمونه‌ی دیگری از ترادیسی به «ع» را در نام ِ جزیره و شهر ِ آبادان می‌بینیم، که در عربی عبّادان خوانده می‌شود. باید گفت که دیسه‌ی ِ کهن ِ آبادان، بنا بر بطلمیوس (Ptolemaeus)، اخترشناس و جغرافیدان نامور سده‌ی دوم میلادی Apphana یا، به نوشته‌ی مرسیان (Marcian)، جغرافیدان سده‌ی چهارم میلادی، Apphadana است. در اینجا نیز مصوت ِ نخستین به «ع» ِ عربی دگرگون شده است. بنا بر پژوهش زنده‌یاد فره‌وشی، دیسه‌ی اصلی نام این جزیره از فارسی ِ باستان ِ -āppā گرفته شده است، از āp به معنای «آب» و -pā «پاییدن، نگهبانی کردن»؛ روی‌هم‌رفته به معنای «پاسگاه ِ (کرانه‌ی ِ) آب» (پاسگاه ِ ساحلی ِ خلیج ِ فارس). و آخرین نمونه از این دست «قرقومعما» یا «قرقومعنا« است «دُرد ِ (کنجاره‌ی ِ) روغن ِ زعفران»، که دیسه‌ی ِ عربیده‌ی ِ واژه‌ی ِ یونانی ِ krokomagma است، از krokos «زعفران» و magma «دُرد، کنجاره، روغن». این دارو در پزشکی ِ یونانی (جالینوس) به کار می‌رفته است.
به کوتاهی، چند نمونه هم از جایگزینی ِ واک‌های ِ «غ» و «ط» در واژه‌ها‌یی که عربی از زبانهای بیگانه به وام گرفته، حال آنکه این آواها در زبان ِ اصلی وجود ندارند. از یونانی: فیثاغورث (Pythagoras)؛ قاطیغوریا (kategoria)؛ ارغنون (organon)؛ مغناطیس (magnesia-lithos)؛ اسطرلاب (astrolabos)؛ طالس (Thales)؛ ارسطو، ارسطاطالیس (Aristoteles). از فارسی: طاس (tašt)؛ طسّوج (tas y)؛ طسق (tašk)؛ طَبَق (tab k). از فرانسه در عربی ِ کنونی: غاز (gaz)، که در فارسی گاز است، حالتی از ماده (جامد، مایع، گاز).
باز‌گردیم به موضوع راهیابی واژه‌ی ِ išk* به عربی. همچنین ممکن است که این واژه در آغاز‌های دوران اسلامی به عربی وارد شده باشد. از آنجا که لغت‌نویسان و کاتبان از خاستگاه ایرانی این واژه آگاهی نداشته‌اند، که مفهوم «خواستن، جستجو کردن» را در بر دارد، آن را با عربی عَشَق، که «چسبیدن» است، در‌آمیخته‌اند. روی‌هم‌رفته، لغت‌نویسان سنتی بارها ریشه‌های عربی برای واژه‌های فارسی تراشیده‌اند، بیشتر به سبب نا‌آگاهیشان، و شاید برخی در کوشش‌هایشان برای عربیدن. امید است که این یادداشت کوتاه دوستداران زبان فارسی را سودمند افتد، و آغازی باشد برای پژوهش‌های بیشتر در این زمینه. یکی از موضوع‌های جالب در این رابطه کند-و-کاو در مفهوم عشق در عرفان ایرانی است، که عشق را با «جستجو» و «گشتن» پیوند می‌دهد. به یاد آورید منطق‌الطیر عطار و جستجوی مرغان را در طلب سیمرغ، یا بیت معروف مولوی را: هفت شهر عشق را عطار گشت ٭٭٭ ما هنوز اندر خم یک کوچه‌ایم. آیا این مفهوم عشق هیچ پیوندی با ریشه‌ی ایرانی عشق، که «خواستن» و «جُستن» است، ندارد؟ بررسی و جستجو در این زمینه بیرون از میدان پژوهشی نویسنده است.
سپاسگزاری:
Acknowledgements: The author is grateful to Dr. Scott B. Noegel, Professor of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, for replying to his questions about the etymology of xašaq. The author is also indebted to Dr. Werner Arnold, Professor of Semitic studies, Department for Languages and Cultures of the Near East, University of Heidelberg, for helpful discussions and comments. The author also would like to thank Dr. Jalil Doostkhah (استاد دکتر جلیل دوستخواه), Professor of Avestan studies, for his remarks on a preliminary version of this note.

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The Modern Library 100 Best Novels 27 books / 169 members / 45 posts --The Modern Library 100 Best Novels--
The 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, as drawn up by the editorial board of the Modern Library (and reported by the Associated Press).
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1. Ulysses, James Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler

9. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence

10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry

12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler

13. 1984, George Orwell

14. I, Claudius, Robert Graves

15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser

17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

18. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

20. Native Son, Richard Wright

21. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow

22. Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara

23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos

24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson

25. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster

26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James

27. The Ambassadors, Henry James

28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell

30. The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford

31. Animal Farm, George Orwell

32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James

33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser

34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh

35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder

38. Howards End, E.M. Forster

39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin

40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene

41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding

42. Deliverance, James Dickey

43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell

44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley

45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad

47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad

48. The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence

49. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence

50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

51. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer

52. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth

53. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

54. Light in August, William Faulkner

55. On the Road, Jack Kerouac

56. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

57. Parade's End, Ford Maddox Ford

58. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

59. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm

60. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

61. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

62. From Here to Eternity, James Jones

63. The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever

64. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

65. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

66. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham

67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

68. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

69. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

70. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell

71. A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes

72. A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul

73. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West

74. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

75. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh

76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark

77. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce

78. Kim, Rudyard Kipling

79. A Room With a View, E.M. Forster

80. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

81. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow

82. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

83. A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul

84. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen

85. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad

86. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow

87. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett

88. The Call of the Wild, Jack London

89. Loving, Henry Green

90. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

91. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell

92. Ironweed, William Kennedy

93. The Magus, John Fowles

94. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

95. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch

96. Sophie's Choice, William Styron

97. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles

98. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain

99. The Ginger Man, J.P. Donleavy

100. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington

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Teen Fiction for Intellectual Youth 14 books / 65 members / 34 posts Being an author, it is hard for me to write such short descriptions but I will try to make this short, sweet, simple, and to the point. This group is primarily for teenagers (18+under) If you are an adult though and would like to join, no one is stopping you. Secondly, I created this group because I am a teenager that enjoys reading. Reading is like Candy. You can't get enough of it. I finish about 2 novels a week. If it's the summer i finish about one a day. Anyway, I believe reading and writing are very important. I hate that society believes that Teens should just read those happy, go-lucky type of novels. So this group is going to have all types of novels. Some adult ones, some children's ones. This group is for intellectuals that want to become even brighter. The shelf will consist of all genres and age leveled books. Sylvia Plath, J.D Salinger, Judy Blume, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ray Bradbury will become a common site for these members. I am encouraging all teens & young adults to join. This should be a very delightful experience. Always challenge yourself. You can't be dissapointed! Have a great day reading :]

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We are a group of anti-corporate, poor and struggling petti-intellectuals from our beloved third-world planet, the Philippines,who love to rummage the dark corners of Recto and the dusty shelves of Booksale and Books And Mags (Though,occasionally there are books stolen from The Japan Foundation,Goethe Institute and National Bookstore), for Knowledge,Wisdom and Literary Treasures (and some occasional Porn)....We are selective readers and We sell books deemed unworthy of our Divine Personal Libraries (though, most of the time we sell even the most precious of our possessions,due to lack of money.) We are also known to sell books at very affordable,negotiable prices at the UP Sunken Garden( during the Lantern Parade or the UP Fair,most of us are Filipinos from PNU ( The founders, dunno about the rest)), But, we are a growing family and Everyone from any school, creed, country or belief is welcome to join the merry mob. Not just Filipino we are global...So, Pinoy, Pinoys or not, everyone can riot with us...

We also love to debate and do intellectual talks while eating Free Food at Film Festivals, Art Exhibits and Art and Cultural Festivals (Instituto Cervantes serves the BEST FREE FOOD as well as CCP)..At times we also cook,thanks to the inspiration of Haruki Murakami,Esquivel and Hare Krishna...

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Shakespeare, Dickens, Twain, Marquez, Morrison, Joyce, Faulkner, Cather, Kingsolver and a few hundred other really delicious writers, not to impress strangers, but because they love a good read, then please join us.

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To steal a phrase: we want to have serious intellectual discussions, but at the same time we want the heat to generate light, not fire....

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The JLM Memorial Book Discussion Group 107 books / 5 members / 29 posts Book history for a small Des Moines based book discussion group.

Ijits Book Club 41 books / 2 members / 2 posts Men's book club in Dumas Texas. Started in 1998.

Friendz 4 Ever 17 books / 261 members / 99 posts THIS IS ALL ABOUT FRIENDSHIP. THIS GROUP DESCRIBES HOW A FRIEND IS OR AFRIENDSHIP IS. COME ON & MAKE FRIENDS. FRIENDZ 4 EVER!!!

The 100 Books Project: Inspiration Through Literary Exchange 38 books / 3 members / 0 posts The 100 Books Project's goal is to make the highest-quality English-language cultural production available to Arab children and adults in the Middle East. Beginning in Egypt, the project will stock donated books from a curated list in a series of Knowledge Cafes, which will lend their books on a free or low cost basis. The collections will be designed to inspire and inform readers even as they help build local English language literacy. The lists will be generated by donors who wish to share their favorite books and Arab readers who request specific books. Shipping to Egypt will be handled by the project. Please participate and let us know what books you would like to donate, what books you would like to read, and what books you would like to see included on this list of 100 books! A list of 50 additional childrens' books will be included for youth center collections. The first shipment to Egypt leaves May 14, 2008--so hurry in with your suggestions and donations! The first cafes will be in Cairo and Siwa, an Egyptian oasis. For more information as to where to send book donations or otherwise contribute, please check out www.100booksproject.org.

Springfield High School Book Club 24 books / 8 members / 77 posts Welcome Springfield High School Book Club members! This is a private group meant only for students and staff who belong to this book club. With this online extension of our book club, we hope to inspire members to read a variety of books and engage in exciting, in-depth discussions! All are encouraged to participate!

Bagel Runners 18 books / 11 members / 1 posts Guys this is for our book club...

SH reads 36 books / 19 members / 1258 posts Hello, As promised, here is the South Hadley reads group. All SH students and staff are welcome, but you need to be invited. Leave me a note on my shelf w/ email address if you are interested.

This is also the new book club website.

English 9 Honors 5 books / 14 members / 102 posts This is a discussion group for English 9 Honors students at the American International School of Guangzhou, 2008-2009. Here, students in the class will celebrate their fREADom by sharing their ideas about the books they have read for fun and for school.

Broads Book Club 59 books / 10 members / 226 posts Private group for the Broads who love to read, eat, drink and discuss books.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with.
In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.”
~bell hooks~

(pic taken WI Interstate Pk. 10/08)

Books You Must Read In Your Lifetime 82 books / 19 members / 29 posts When I was in middle school, my English teacher gave me a list of books and gave me a challenge to read them all. They are not all young adult books, some are adult. I'm working through the list, and maybe other readers out there want to do the same.

Barrel of Monkeys 179 books / 66 members / 152 posts Mr. Werner's Grade 10 English classes. We love to read for fun! This is where we get to talk about ALL the great books we've read this school year.

Alliant International University book lovers 284 books / 8 members / 0 posts This group is for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of Alliant International University to share their book/reading list in any genre.

Random House - Top 100 Books of the 20th Century (Board's List) 51 books / 1 members / 0 posts 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century, as determined by the board. From Random House:

"The goal of the "100 Best" project was to get people talking about great books. We succeeded beyond our wildest imaginings -- more than 400,000 avid readers rushed online to cast votes for their favorite books and the students of the Radcliffe Publishing Course quickly responded with rival list of 100 Best Novels.

The reader's poll for the best nonfiction published in the English language since 1900 opened on April 29, 1999 and closed on September 30, 1999 with a total of 194,829 votes cast.

The readers' poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast."

Victoria's Book Club - St. Louis 25 books / 10 members / 19 posts

THE BLAH BLAH BLAH GROUP FOR TEENS WHO LOVE GOOD BOOKS :P 5 books / 4 members / 0 posts ANYTHING YOU LOVE TO READ AND THINK OTHERS WOULD TOO

JC Literature Society 21 books / 14 members / 30 posts

Sampson's CP English Crew 2 books / 32 members / 189 posts

Cross Country Freaks!!! 1 books / 9 members / 42 posts Where a bunch of crazy runners can get together and talk about books or life in general!

Engineers Learning to Read 9 books / 4 members / 38 posts Based in St. Joe MI -- Engineering dorks trying to become more literary. We read a mixture of fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and classics.

Book Challenge 2009 297 books / 44 members / 547 posts How many books do you want to read for the year 2009? List your challenge here and be sure to update everyone on how you are doing? :)

YORK ENGLISH 11 2 books / 4 members / 0 posts I, Adam grujic, have created this group in respect towards Yorks excellent english 11 program

Thanksgiving Year Challenge 26 books / 1 members / 8 posts This group is just for fun. I decided to start this group on Thanksgiving because it is coming up soon and the begining of the year is so hectic that I forget what I have read so why not start now and read until next Thanksgiving. There is no quota for this group but I try to read 50 pages a day which amounts to 50-75 books depending on their size. The winner of this challenge will receive a gift card to either Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $50 dollars. Please be honest and keep track of your books. Have fun reading.

Wilmington, NC reading fanatics 48 books / 2 members / 0 posts Any age, any sex, any genre. We love reading all types of books and we even enjoy the art of hand making books...

shady oak book club 53 books / 2 members / 0 posts We are a small group of women that became friends through our childrens's preschool several years ago. We have been meeting monthly for the past 6 years, and enjoy many different genres--mysteries, memoirs, current fiction as well as the classics.

Rory's Book List 121 books / 76 members / 44 posts Want to be more like Rory? Read a book! -The WB As featured on the (now extinct) The WB/Gilmore Girls website. Every other week, they picked two books: one for what they called "Hot New Reads: books smart people everywhere have been talking about" and another they called the "Old School Faves: classics no self-respecting bookworm can survive without." Use this group to discuss these and similar books and your progress through the lists! [b]Hot New Reads:[/b] • A Month of Sundays by Julie Mars • Small Island by Andrea Levy • A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall • My Life in Orange by Tim Guest • Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett • My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon • The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby • How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer • The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson • Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen • The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini • How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland • Oracle Night by Paul Auster • Quattrocento by James McKean • The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan • Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris • Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach • The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom • The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem • Old School by Tobias Wolff • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon • The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff • Brick Lane by Monica Ali • Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi • The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood • The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht • Property by Valerie Martin • Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman • The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie • The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander • Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito • Bee Season by Myla Goldberg • Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire • Unless by Carol Shields • Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy • When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka • Songbook by Nick Hornby • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides • Extravagance by Gary Krist • Empire Falls by Richard Russo • The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon • Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris • Life of Pi by Yann Martel • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold • Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn • Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand • The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus [b]Old School Favs:[/b] • The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham • A Passage to India by E.M. Forster • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse • Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens • The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey • Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury • The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde • Night by Elie Wiesel • The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse • Hamlet by William Shakespeare • Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe • Beloved by Toni Morrison • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith • A Separate Peace by John Knowles • Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes • The Story of My Life by Helen Keller • The Awakening by Kate Chopin • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank • Time and Again by Jack Finney • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas • Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe • Sybil by Flora Schreiber • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson • Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad • Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo • 1984 by George Orwell • The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway • An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky • Lord of the Flies by William Golding • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath • The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy • Emma by Jane Austen • On The Road by Jack Kerouac • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Just be you 13 books / 18 members / 101 posts just be you say what you want (be nice) be who you want tell a joke, a story, or a problem. start a game, its up to you, do what you want have fun!!!!!!

Book Conversations 69 books / 6 members / 2 posts

Gummy Bears and the People That Love Them 9 books / 7 members / 2 posts this group is for anyone who enjoys reading and likes to snack on delicious gummy treats...

The Wisdom 1 books / 1 members / 0 posts we are believers on wisdom. No wisdom no piece. this group finds the only way to have piece at home, in the community and in the world is by brining up healthy children, healthy school kids who are the future builders. Can we manage to have such kids in such a wild world? Yes we believe with wisdom we can do alot. However, first step to achive our goal is to define the Word Of Wisdom

The Bibliophile Club 1156 books / 213 members / 573 posts For anyone who likes to read Literature, History, Biographies,Classics, Politics, Mysteries, thrillers, spirituality and religion. Books that are interesting,popular and bring pleasure to one's life. No pornographic novels please.

Entertainment 19 books / 100 members / 450 posts We are getting closer to 100 members!! Lets keep inviting our friends, and posting!! Thanks to all of the members who joined for making this such an awesome group!! I'm bored, your bored, JOIN ME!! This is an awesome entertainment group, feel free to say anything, or start discussions, this is open to anyone!!

Invite all your friends, the bigger we get, the more awesome it will be!

Crush Group 8 books / 19 members / 47 posts Celebrities? Twilight stars? Harry potter cast? Jonas Brothers? David Archuleta???? American Idol stars?? Chris Brown?? Favorite singers? Cute guy at your school?? Hot guy? JUST say so!!

This is a group for all you girls who are just a little bit obsessive over your fave star, or your bf (or even if you want one!)!!

with luv,

si

So everyone ask your friends to join, and lets see how many members we can add! If we get to 50 members, good. If we get to 100, AWESOME!!! Lets see how many we can get in two weeks......

1001 63 books / 1 members / 0 posts "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6. The Sea – John Banville
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point – David Markson
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
20. Islands – Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
25. The Double – José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless – Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud – John Banville
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air – Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling – Heather McGowan
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
46. Fury – Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia – George Saunders
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71. 1900s
70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
88. Another World – Pat Barker
89. The Hours �

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