Group Reads - Literature
This is a "support group" of sorts for those of us reading some of the major works of literature. Come here to share your thoughts, struggles and triumphs about the current book.
Quote of the month:
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
— Joseph Conrad
Current book:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
List of books we've read so far:
Buddenbrooks -- Thomas Mann
Wives and Daughters -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Madame Bovary -- Flaubert
Dr. Zhivago -- by Boris Pasternak
2666 - by Robert Bolano
Life and Fate-- by Vassily Grossman
Vanity Fair-- by William Thackery
The Master and Margarita-- by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Woman in White-- by Wilkie Collins
The Forsyte Saga-- by John Galsworthy
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Age of Innocence-- by Edith Wharton
The Leopard-- by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pere Goriot-- by Honore de Balzac
The Trial-- by Franz Kafka
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man-- by James Joyce
Kristin Lavransdatter-- by Sigrid Undset
Bleak House-- by Charles Dickens
Midnight's Children-- by Salman Rushdie
Middlemarch-- by George Eliot
War and Peace-- by Leo Tolstoy