Posted by Lale on 10/11/2007, 11:02:23
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Rizwan knows from the earlier days of this book club, once a book is chosen by ReadLiterature.com, its sales go up, much higher than the sales of Oprah's books. Now, some publishers will have to have some of these books reprinted, so let's inform them ahead of time.
Lale
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January:
Jane Austen (English, 1775-1817)
Persuasion (1817, 272pp)
February:
Kiran Desai (Indian living in the United States, b. 1971)
The Inheritance of Loss (2006, 336pp)
March:
Bruno Schulz (Polish, 1892-1942)
The Street of Crocodiles (1934, 160pp)
AND
Ivan Turgenev (Russian, 1818-1883)
Home of the Gentry (1858, 208pp)
April:
John Kennedy Toole (American, 1937-1969)
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, 416pp)
May:
Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish, 1864-1936)
Mist (Spanish: Niebla, 1914, 352pp)
June:
Irčne Némirovsky (Ukrainian-French, 1903-1942)
Suite Francaise (2004, 448pp)
July:
Sandor Marai (Hungarian, 1900-1989)
Embers (1942, 224pp)
August:
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian, b. 1936)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977, 384pp)
September:
Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek, 1883-1957)
Zorba the Greek (1946, 335pp)
October:
Juan Rulfo (Mexican, 1917-1986)
Pedro Páramo (1955, 254pp)
November:
Julian Barnes (English, b. 1946)
Arthur and George (2005, 464pp)
December:
Giovanni Verga (Italian, 1840-1922)
The Malavoglias (aka The House by the Medlar Tree, 1881, 275pp)
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