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MIAGRAFALS

MIAGRAFALS

I'm a native of New York and have been living in Miami since 1990. I love Reading,

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  • member since April 18 2007

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  • mossflower

    mossflower says

    yes, it is quite a challenge and a fun group with good posts. The list comes from a book of that name composed by Peter Boxall and Peter Ackroyd. http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm?content_id=22845
    "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

    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

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • mossflower

    mossflower says

    Are you joining the 50 book challenge this year?
    do you know about the group 1001 books to read before you die?
    hope you are well and safe

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • mossflower

    mossflower says

    Just browsing in the 50 book challenge and saw your unusual picture and thought I would say Hi.
    Merry Xmas.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Diana

    Diana says

    Thanks for the note . . . sorry about your beloved pet . . . it is amazing how we can love them so much. I used to have a rottweiler, he was so gentle and loving, he died of bone cancer, and it was so hard. We bought this little guy for my son, who begged and begged for a friend, then of course he tired of him, and now he is mine :)! Take care Diana

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • sharifullah A

    sharifullah A says

    Hi Thanks for adding for friendship

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • PaigeTurner

    PaigeTurner says

    You think so??? I've got another Shelfari friend who thinks we were separated at birth! LOL! What are some of your interests/likes/pursuits, etc. (you don't have a profile, so I thought I'd just ask!) : )
    I'm also sending you an invite to a discussion group that I started. It's totally a no-pressure deal if you want to join. We read and discuss, but mostly just chat! So if you just want a cool place to hang out and connect with some really great gals, give us a try!
    Thanks for the friend invite!!
    Hope you're having a great day! ~Claire

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • PaigeTurner

    PaigeTurner says

    Hello! Just dropped by to check out your shelf...we've got several books in common. You've got several on your shelf that I forgot to add to my Wish List too!
    Did you know that The Celestine Prophecy and The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success are now available on DVD?
    LOVE your pic!!! That's soooo sweet!! Even though they seem to have met a tragic end, at least they went together. Embraced in eternal love!
    Have a great day!!! --Claire

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Mezzaluna422

    Mezzaluna422 says

    How can I arrange my books in a particular order?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • 97701fun

    97701fun says

    Thanks for inviting me to join your friend list. May I be so bold as to suggest a few books to you? Eat, Pray, Love by Gilbert. It’s a book that I’m encouraging all of my girlfriends to read. Spiritual, sassy, candid and enlightening! And as long as I’m on a roll.........Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold is one of my favorite books, which is another spiritual & enlightening book (I promise that after the first chapter of a brutal murder, it gets easier to read). Currently I am reading Dogs of Babel............I keep hoping for a dose of enthusiasm because so far, I am dragging my feet.

    Please let me know if you have any books that you think I would enjoy. Have a great day!
    j

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Diana

    Diana says

    Hello Miagrafals . . . Thank you for the friend invite. I noticed that we have many similar books. What are you currently reading? I look forward to talking with you. Blessing Diana

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )


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