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Greek Lessons : author: Han Kang
異人館畫廊:失竊畫作與解謎少女 作者: 谷瑞惠
壞事不要來 悪いものが、来ませんように 作者: 蘆澤央 ****
The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin (Author)
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Nigel Cliff
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1) by Philip Pullman
Capital in the Twenty-First Century MP3 CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged (*****)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (inspired Blade runner) by Philip_K._Dick
The_Remains_of_the_Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John Romer
The NightShade Forensic Files by A.J. Scudiere
Summer 2017 June
The Turn of the Screw Kindle Edition by Henry James
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance ***
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight ****
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimony_(book) Testimony : the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
《唐滌生創作傳奇》 陳守仁 作 ****
The element of style by Struk and White (pdf). Amazon Paperback *****
《小明踢拖上神山》 作者 李小明 (****)
Catherine De Medici Leonie Frieda (Author)
The girl on the train by ****^Paula Hawkins
近代日本的崛起, 黃元淵, 諾言圖書有限公司, 2005 ****
Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal (Author)
Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah Cadbury ****
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 [Kindle Edition] By Roger Crowley
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (*****)
The girl who saved the king of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
《三体》 刘慈欣 (****+)
Jerusalem: The Biography (Vintage) by Simon Sebag Montefiore (****.)
The Travels of Ibn Battuta: in the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 by Ibn Battuta (*****)
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Paperback by Ross E. Dunn (****)
Readings (summer 2014)
藍寶石,作者: 湊佳苗,譯者:王蘊潔 (****)
Profit, Victory & Sharpness: The Lees of Hong Kong by Vivienne Poy (***)
Wars_of_the_jews_0908_librivox(audio book mp3) kindle by Flavius Josephus
Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides by Vicky Lee (*****)
In the Web by Peter Hall - (*****) An interesting book about Eurasian in Hong Kong before 1997
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (****)
Average is over by Tyler Cowen (good and east to read) ***
少爷 夏目漱石
The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire Paperback by Tom Zoellner (****) Not bad, lot of information
白崇禧将军身影 集 自先勇 (***)
The Sense of an Ending - by Julian Barnes (****)
滇国寻踪 Epic in the Bronzes: Dian Kingdom in History (****) 云南省博物館編
The Calendar by David Ewing Duncan (***** execllent)
Istanbul: A Cultural History by Peter Clark ?
那夜凌晨,我坐上了旺角開往大埔的紅van ****
Readings (summer 2013)
Before I go to sleep by S.J. Watson (*****)
唐 朝基督教之研究 龔天民著 (*****)
景教与大秦寺, 作者:关英 ,出版社:三秦出版社 (****)
烈佬傳 黃碧雲 *****
烈女圖 黃碧雲
Readings (summer 2012)
The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin
京 都八年 作者:姚巧梅 ****
銀 河鐵道之夜(銀河鉄道の夜,Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru)作家 宮澤賢治 1934
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan). by Lafcadio Hearn小 泉 八雲 ( from m.gutenberg.org Kindle3)
Distanct Star by Robeto Bolanao (****) Not a usual detective story.
Byzantium The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Age by Michael Angold ****
The Bad Girl: A Novel Mario Vargas Llosa (Author), Edith Grossman (Translator) (Mario_Vargas_Llosa wiki, Nobel prize winner 2010)
現代音樂大師----江文也的生平, ,林衡哲編 *****
Readings (summer 2010) from June 2010
Detective Story by Imre Kertész (Author), Tim Wilkinson (Translator)
Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran & Oscar and the Lady in Pink (Hardcover) by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (Author), Marjolijn De Jager (Translator) *****
Stories We Could Tell (2005) by Tony Parson
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization (Ancient Peoples and Places) (Paperback) by Michael D. Coe (Author)
Readings (summer 2009) from May 2009
《金閣寺》三島由紀夫
Unended Quest by Karl R. Popper
Ulysses by James Joyce (Author) One of the many attempts to read this book. But still fail.
Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (Author), Sandra Smith (Translator) ***** excellent , yet unfinihsed 2008 Oct 22.
佛 學十講,作者蘇淵雷、楊同甫等/著 * 出版社:書林出版有限公司 * 1999年04月26日, ISBN:9575867963
The Book Thief (Hardcover) by Markus Zusak (Author)
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World (Hardcover) by Patrick Dillon (Author)
The Emperor Constantine by Hans A. Pohlsander (****) 2008.6.19
The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Kelly
沈 從文自傳(*****)一本助你了觧民初軍閥時的書
萬 古江河: 中國歷史文化的轉折與開展作者/ 許 倬雲 (*****) 一本十分好的書
Readings (summer 2007) from 21 May 2007
The grass is singing by Doris Lessing **** interesting but difficult to grasp the meaning
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez a sentimantle book *****
<退步集> 陳丹青著
第21頁 作者:李 家同 繪者:恩 佐 出版社:九 歌 (*****) inspiring 2007 10 16
<史閱世六十年> 何炳棣, 广西师范大学出版社
启功口述历史 北京师范大学出 版社 ,啟功口述歷史_讀書頻道_新浪網
The Shadow of the Wind: A Novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Author), Lucia Graves (Translator) ***** excellent
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard By Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) ***** inspiring by Kiran Desai publisher : http://www.groveatlantic.com/
干校六记 -- 楊絳 著
杂忆与杂写 -- 楊絳 著
我們仨 -- 楊絳 著 *****
Readings (summer 2006) from 14 May 2006
圍城 -- 錢鍾書 著*****
牛棚雜憶 -- 季 羨林 著*****
The Sunday Philosophy Club : An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith (***) a simple detective story, with some cultural element
Whiteout by Ken Follett (Author) **** exciting
For One More Day (Hardcover) by Mitch Albom (Author) ****
The Fifth Mountain (Paperback) by Paulo Coelho
在書架上飛行 梁科慶 ****
老鼠愛大米 / 余杰 著 ****
棋王 作者:張 系國 *****
棋王 作者:阿城 *****
白色城堡 Beyaz Kale 作者:奧 罕‧帕慕克/著****
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford *****
THE LIFE OF A USELESS MAN by Maxim Gorky *** worth reading
從絲路的盡頭開始 / 鄒頌華著. (a surprising delight.)*****
給新新人類 / 大江健三郎著 ; 賴明珠譯. Intellectual and full of humanity****
《墨攻》 酒 見賢一
尋 羊冒險記 村上春樹著,葉蕙譯. (*****) highly recommended.
《黑色裡的白色 白色裡的黑色》劉 以鬯。香 港,獲益,1994。 (**** A good read) Links http://www.lawpun.com/,
《酒徒》。劉 以鬯。台 北,遠景,1979。
《春雨》。劉 以鬯。香 港,華漢文化,1985。
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
《五玉碟》 張系國
《龍城飛將》張系國
《一羽毛 》 張系國
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (*****) A book with adventures and a bit of heart.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (****+) A little confusing but interesting to read.
Lost Horizon by James Hilton (*****) a beautiful book.
macau architecture (****Informative)
Into the Wild (Paperback) by Jon Krakauer (***)
Uriel's Machine: Uncovering the Secrets of Stonehenge, Noah's Flood and the Dawn of Civilization by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas (From 2006.5.14)
给女兒的信 三蘇 ***** excellent book
武 俠编剧秘笈 劉天賜 *** intereresting
The Constant Gardener: A Novel by John le Carre
Readings (summer 2005) from 31 May 2005 to 2006 May 14
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers (*****from 2006.5.1-2006 5.14, a very inspiring book about regilon and philosophy)
Istanbul : Memories and the City (Hardcover) by Orhan Pamuk (*****) excellent, don't miss this if you are a fan of his novels. Melancholy and refeshing. (R 2006.4.28)
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson (Funny, from 2006.4.10)
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (***) Interesting and artistic.
《澳門街道的故事》, 林發欽主編 (*****) Excellent book on teh hostory of Macau, and amazingly it is written by a group of secodnary students in Macau.
《中東現場》作者﹕張翠容, 出版﹕馬可孛羅
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2006 April 8 *****) A very interesting book.
Millions by Joaquim Antonio Barroso Neto, Matthew (2006.2)
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2006 April 11)
Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel by Jonathan Safran (2006.2, 2006.3.16)(*** lost in the middle.)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2006.2)(*** ok but too wordy)
The Tin Drum (Vintage International) by Gunter Grass (2006.2)
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (**** a good book on practical pyschology, it clears up some of our misconception on decision making )
Whisper of the Blade : Revolutions, Mayhem, Betrayal, Glory and Death by Erik Durschmied (****) An inspiring book about revolutions, and their relation with human suffering. mOst reovultion started at a good couae but nearly all end up with killing and deadth. It is hoped that in future during the improvements of human polical systems souls can be spared and suffering can be reduced to a minimum.
靈山 / 高行健著.(05.12.23***** excellent, a new world, a new experience)
The Ringmaster's Daughter by Jostein Gaarder (06.1.3.***** A book of many little intriging stories, each can be the plot of a best seller)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt (05.12.01 Very interesrting , the book is about the life of Shakespeare and how that relates to his work****)
From Third World to First : The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew (start reading 2005 Oct 07)
On War by Carl Von Clausewitz (www.audiobooksforfree.com) ((start reading 2005 Oct 06))
Adventures of Ben Gunn by R F Delderfield (www.audiobooksforfree.com) (*** good)
Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (***) very artistic
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce, Seamus Deane (Naxos audio book 3cds)
鄭和VS哥倫布 張侃著 三聯出版 (22 Sept. 005)
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, Penguin USA Paper (Paperback - September 1995) (21 Sept. 2005)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (****) funny and informative, Bryson's style never fails.(10 Sept. 005)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, (****)(www.audiobooksforfree.com) (19 Sept. 005)
Lord jim by Joseph Conrad (www.audiobooksforfree.com) **** nice (15 Sept. 005)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling (*****) Excellent (Audio book version, Aug 2005)
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (*****)excellent book on current world affair.
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe -- by Laurence Bergreen; (July 2005)
澳門殖民滄桑中的文化雙面神 鄭妙冰 (****) excellent (www.mingpao.com)(Aug 2005)
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson (June 2005)
Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz (read by 16 July 2005)
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki (read by 16 July 2005)
French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano (read by 12 July 2005)
Memoirs of a Geisha : A Novel by ARTHUR GOLDEN (July 2005)
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (cuurent reading from 31 May 2005)
The cather in the rye by JD Salinger (****) an interesting book about adolescence. (april 2005)
Readings (summer 2004)
The Thief Lord Cornelia Funke 14.5.2004 (interesting)
For Whom the Bell tolls by Hemingway15.6.2004 (artistic)
Digital fortress by Dan Brown (*** ok, not as good as Da vinci code, 7.2004)
Living history by Hilary Clinton (6.2004-->?)
The mother tongue by Bill Bryson.(6.2004-->?)
The rule of four by Ian Caldwell (22.7.2004) Similar to Da vinci code not as good as that.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (***** excellent but quite sad 23.7.2004)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (***** Very good 25.7.2004)
Tietam brown, by Mick Foley (**** a raw and fast mving book with a sad ending)
1421 The year China discovered America, by Gavin Menzies (www.1421.tv) (*****Excellent and exciting 2004.9.3))
Old Malacaa by Sarnia Hayes Hoyt, Oxford University Press, a berif and consice history of the plave (****2004.8.20 in Singapore)
Tear of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series)
The family way -- by Tony Parsons (*****enjoyable read), A story of three sisters' paths to motherhood. A book about the psychology of men nd women in cities.
Noughts and crosses by Malorie Blackman -- a story about racial discrimination in UK, excellent.
N.P.: A Novel by Banana Yoshimoto, Ann Sherif (Translator) **** A very strange story about the New Japanese.
Bleachers by John Grisham : a book about American football that I don't understand much.
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre -- ***** excellent, not an easy read to begin with but it is a nice book about living in the modern hostile world -- ugliness of human nature exposed (f 10 Nov 2004)
Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin *** average, a simple children book (f 11 Nov 2004)
Hoot (Newbery Honor Book) -- by CARL HIAASEN **** Interesting, simple and educational, concerns environmental issues.
The Fire-Eaters (Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award (Awards)) -- Good read, with a taste of nostalgia. Though the story is about the Cabin crisis 40 something years ago, the fear of world destruction is still not 100% elimianted with too many nations have gained the abosulte destructive power. And the nations that posses it do not seem to aware the danger that they are playing.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell ***** an execllent introduction to sociology and how trends emerge.
The line of beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2005-02-04 **** very artistic.
Angels and demons by Dan Brown excellent ***** 3.2005
Deception point by by Dan Brown excellent ***** 3.2005
The Opium war a four-volume novel by Chan shun sun in Chinese, excellent E31.3.2005 (ISBN:957322660X http://www.ylib.com/search/ShowBook.asp?BookNo=N9004 ) (鴉片戰爭) 陳 舜臣 著 / 蕭 志強 譯
A Painted House by JOHN GRISHAM **** a good and sentimental book E15.3.2005
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (B2005.4.1) (***** A must read classic)
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow (**** a very good introduction to the country including politics, education and people's attitude; it is so different to our perception of France as depeicted in Bristsh and American films-- at least the political side is not that romantic) (2005.4.10).
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond --(*****) It is an enjoyable read. The book has many little theories that explain why the world looks like what it is today. His target is to create a new thinking of makign history as a study of csience and hope we can predict somehow in future our societies will evolve. A very inspirying book even you don't agree every points he made.
One Hundred Years of Solitude -- by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ***** Like had a strange dream, 2005 May.
My Name Is Red by ORHAN PAMUK, ERDAG GOKNAR (Translator) ***** exceptional good, 2055 May.
Memoirs of a Geisha : A Novel by ARTHUR GOLDEN (30 May 2005) *** a simple story, a little erotic but I suppose it was meant to be a love story. I don't know what feminist think, the Japanese way of thinking of the Geisha is difficult to be perceived by outsiders.
海 邊的卡夫卡 / / 村上春樹 ; 賴明珠譯
挪 威的森林 / / 村上春樹[著] ; 葉蕙譯.
舞・ 舞・舞吧 / / 村上春樹著 ; 葉蕙譯.
Seabiscuit by Laura HillenbrandI am David by Anne Holm, L. W. Kingsland (Translator) (Paperback - January 1, 2004)
Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere by Larry King
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Why I Write (Great Ideas) by George Orwell
1776 by David McCullough
Winning by Jack Welch, Suzy Welch
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Rob Roy by Walter Scott
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love -- by Dava Sobel (wordy and boring) *
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers -- by Paul Hoffman (excellent)****
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary -- by simon Winchester (
interesting but repetitive) ****
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time -- by Dava Sobel ***** (good history
about a devoted researcher)
A Brief History of Time by STEPHEN HAWKING ***** (excellent)
The Selfish Gene -- by Richard Dawkins ***** (opening a new view for genetics)
The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA -- by James D. Watson (excellent book on how to get the
Nobel prize) *****
Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem -- by Simon Singh (good) *****
The History of Western Philosophy -- by Bertrand Russell ***** (excellent)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Steven King (**** ) Publisher: Pocket Books; (July 1, 2002) ISBN: 0743455967 : Perhaps you
have watched Steven King’s movies or read his thrillers (Green Miles, Misery etc.), but this is a not a novel but a memoir intermixed with
teaching materials of how to write. You will learn how his famous books were written, and the stories behind these stories. On the road to
becoming a writer, his account was particularly inspiring. He was a low paid worker in a laundry; however this did not discourage him to write.
With exceptional endurance he finally became one of the most important writers of our time.
Foreign Mud: the Anglo-Chinese opium War -- by Maurice Collis (brief, concise and to the point about this infamous war) *****
The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another -- by W. Travis, Iii, Ph.D. Hanes, Frank Sanello ***** (a detail
account of the westerners' involvement to this war, especially the inner struggles of some of the main characters, e.g. Elliot, Elgin. A detailed
description of how and why the Chinese Royal Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) was burnt down. A fast moving book with certain sujective
judgement of the men involved.
MY EARLY LIFE: A ROVING COMMISSION – by Winston Churchill ***** (a must read for all young people)
A Short History of the World -- by H. G. Wells **** ( the first integrated history book on all nations)
The Hobbit -- by J.R.R. Tolkien (A must read) *****
The Lord of the Rings -- by J.R.R. Tolkien (Needless to say anymore) *****
Holes -- by Louis Sachar (One of the best for children and adults alike) *****
His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass (film) / Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass -- by Philip Pullman (A modern classic for children if
your not a Catholic) *****
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (good and sentimental ) *****
The Vampire's Assistant (Cirque du Freak, Book 2) by Darren Shan (Rubbish) *
A Living Nightmare (Cirque du Freak, Book 1) by Darren Shan (Rubbish) *
Treasure -- Island by Dickens (All kids should read this)*****
Man and Boy -- by Tony Parsons (modern classic, if an alien wants to known the interrelation between opposite sexes in cities, he/she/it should read
all his books) ***** (ditto)
Man and Wife -- by Tony Parsons ***** (ditto)
One for My Baby -- by Tony Parsons **** (ditto)
The Piano Tuner -- by Daniel Mason (An unusual setting , got a taste of English eccentricity) ****
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (interesting but too far fetching) ***.
The Godfather -- by Mario Puzo (One of the best books on criminals) *****
Kane & Abel -- by Jeffrey Archer (Interesting, typical Jeffery Archer’s style) ****
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less -- by Jeffrey Archer (exciting and interesting, full of tricks, his best) *****
Prison Diary 1,2 -- by Jeffrey Archer (ok, got some inside information about lives in UK prison, where everything can be obtained at a price,
even drugs) ***
When We Were Orphans -- by Kazuo Ishiguro (disappointed, too much coincidences) **
The Da Vinci Code -- by Dan Brown (fast moving and exciting, one of the best thrillers I have read for years ) *****
Envy -- by Sandra Brown (Badly written, boring and full of stereotyped people and scenarios) *
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (a good book about the struggles in Sri Lanka ) ***
The testament by John Grisham (An interesting as well as educational novel) (****) Publisher: Doubleday Books; 1st ed edition (February
2, 1999) ISBN: 0385493800. Comment: An enormously rich old man killed himself and most of his relatives were waiting for the reading of the
last will and imagining how to spend the inheritance. To everyone’s surprise, most of his money would go to the daughter who worked as a
missionary in the middle of South America and whom he had not been in touched with for years. Then a drunken lawyer was sent to find the
to-be-rich woman. The story is not about how one became rich but asks us to rethink what richness actually is.
The Iliad – by Homer and translated by Rieu ( A must read classical for understanding human nature and wars. I am too naive and surprised to
find no Trojan horse in this book, it turns out that the part was made up by Virgil in The Aeneid) *****
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA -- by Ernest Hemingway (The best book about human struggle in adverse situations) *****
A Passage to India -- by E. M. Forster (a novel about human relation and a book that speeds up the termination of the British rule in
India)*****
Decline and Fall -- by Evelyn Waugh (witty and fun)*****
Brideshead Revisited -- by Evelyn Waugh ***** (Excellent, an autobiographic account of the author. I have watched the TV movie too)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley *****
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë ****
The happy prince – oscar wilde ***** (Oscar’s best children book, also good for adults)
The Stranger -- by ALBERT CAMUS ***** (Curious classic)
The Trial -- by Franz Kafka ***** (A classic about human’s fear of any systems)
Sons and Lovers -- by D. H. Lawrence ****
Siddhartha -- by Hermann Hesse ***** (View about Buddhism)
The Journey to the East -- by Hermann Hesse *****
The Glass Bead Game: -- by Hermann Hesse (difficult to read and understand) ***
The Metamorphosis – by Franz Kafka *****
Heart of Darkness -- by Conrad ****
The Mill on the Floss -- by George Eliot ****
To Kill a Mockingbird -- by Harper Lee ***** A( An classic about America road to racial liberation)
The Mystic Masseur -- by V.S. Naipaul ***** (A modern classic, funny)
The bell -- Iris Murdoch.***** (One of her best)
The Italian Girl -- by Iris Murdoch *** (Too ambitious)
The Sandcastle -- Iris Murdoch.***** (One of her best, suitable for any middle age men with an obsession about younger women)
Disgrace -- by J. M. Coetzee (*****A must read) Publisher: Penguin Books; (October 31, 2000) ISBN: 0140296409. Comment: One of
the best known works by the Noble literary prize winner of 2003. It is about sexual harassment, politics and racial discrimination. The main
character was a middle aged professor and his dilemma of being a white man in modern South Africa after the apartheid. I think we are too
remote to actually realize the politics happening there but the story is more about human nature and humanity that we can all understand.
The Age of Reason : by Jean-Paul Sartre **** (A little difficult to understand book about inner freedom – freedom on what one should and
shouldn’t do. It takes time to digest)
Cider with Rosie : a boyhood in the west of England by Laurie Lee (***** rhythmic, pastoral, capturing the Lives in Britain at
the beginning of the 20th century ) *****
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell -- by Bertrand Arthur Russell ***** (A must read for intellectuals)
The Canterbury Tales -- Geoffrey Chaucer *****
The Complete Sherlock Holmes -- by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE *****
Ben-Hur -- by Lew Wallace *****
Robinson Crusoe -- by Daniel Defoe *****
Frankenstein -- by Mary Shelley ***
The Wings of the Dove -- by Henry James *****
The Portrait of a Lady -- by Henry James *****
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (sentimental) *****
The Count of Monte Cristo (Puffin Classics) : Abridged *****
The man with the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas *****
The Vicar of Wakefield -- by Oliver Goldsmith ****
Lady Windermere's Fan.—oscar wilde *****
War and Peace -- by Leo Tolstoy *****
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo *****
Swann in Love -- by Marcel Proust *****
Silas Marner -- by George Eliot ****
Orlando -- by Virginia Woolf *****
Pride and Prejudice -- by Jane Austen *****
Sense and Sensibility -- by Jane Austen *****
Notre-Dame De Paris by Victor Hugo *****
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, *****
Smiley's People – by John Le Carr & reading *****
To the Lighthouse -- by Virginia Woolf *****
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy *****
Round the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne *****
The Time Machine -- by H. G. Wells *****
David Copperfield -- by Charles Dickens *****
Great Expectations -- by Charles Dickens *****
Harry Potter 1-5 -- by JK Rowling 1-4=***** , 5=***
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery *****
The Turn of the Screw – by Henry James *****
The Great Gatsby -- by Fitzgerald*****
The Picture of Dorian Gray -- by OSCAR WILDE*****
Lady Chatterley's Lover -- by D.H. Lawrence *****
Don Quixote -- by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra *****
Down among the dead men ?
Masada never again *****
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : Volumes 1, 2, 3 -- by EDWARD GIBBON *****
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