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last books purchased: His Dark Materials trilogy, bought after watching the Golden Compass movie.. Robin Hobb's Forest Mage (already had the first in this series), Dragon Master (omnibus edition of this trilogy) by Chris Bunch, and Ken Follet's World Without End, because i remember enjoying Pillars of the Earth a long time ago..
 
The Blue Wolf by Frederic Dion
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on A Train by Patricia Highsmith
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Royal Harlot by Susan Holloway Scott
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Have Mercy On Us All by Fred Vargas
 
And speaking of venerable (as joderu just was), here we go:

Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schmidt

Sister Bernardette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey
 
Aczel, Amir D. - The Mystery of the Aleph

Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag

Jeff Long - The Wall

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart

Garry Kilworth - The Winter Soldiers

John Banville - Eclipse

Mark Helprin - City in Winter

Jess Walter - The Zero
 
Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

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I've come back after a couple of days away and now have the following books:

  • The Belly Of The Atlantic, Fatou Dimoe
  • This Earth Of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Child Of All Nations, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Footsteps, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • House Of Glass, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Metropole, Karinthy Ferenc
  • Little Big, John Crowley
  • Some Rain Must Fall, Michel Faber
 
The Solitude of Thomas Cave - Georgina Harding
Before The Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley - Christopher John Farley (no, not that guy)
A People's History of American Empire - Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki & Paul Buhle
 
Oh, and today I bought Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen, this year's winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It's a biggy. So might have to leave it to later. Much later.
 
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