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73. The Guns of the South

Harry Turtledove

1992, 561 pages

alternative history

The Guns of the South, like many of Harry Turtledove's alternative history novels, begins with a fascinating if absurd premise: a bunch of white South African racists head into a time machine back to 1864 and supply the Confederacy with thousands of AK-47 rifles, allowing the South to win the Civil War. Of course, an immediate question that came to mind for me is: why would Afrikaners choose the American Civil War? Why wouldn't they travel back to South Africa and win the Boer War? Or arm their ancestors during the Great Trek? Oh well, doesn't matter really, because it's all in good fun.

I'm not as much of a fan of alternative history novels as I really should be. I always jump into them thinking, "OK this is going to be great! Suppose the Nazis won? Suppose the Japanese invaded Hawaii?" Etc. But then I get disappointed because the plot lines are always too narrow, the characters aren't fleshed out enough, the actual historical figures do and say things that make you skeptical they would do or say that. Harry Turtledove and a few other guys have made a living hacking out tons of these books and they're all formulaic and truthfully can be a chore to read. But Guns was his first effort in this genre, and maybe because of that it's for me much fresher and better than the rest.

For example, Turtledove theorizes that Robert E. Lee is elected President (after running against Nathan Bedford Forest!) and leads the South to abolish slavery, the same way Brazil did of its own accord in the 1870s. That is a fascinating question and I don't know if he is right about it, but...maybe. Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri are allowed to have elections to decide whether or not to stay in the union or secede: Tennessee votes to secede, while the others stay with the union. Again...who knows? Kansas also stays with the union. And there's a lot more of a similar vein. The characters of Lincoln, Lee, Forest and others seem to be believable. As a historical effort the book was praised by James E. MacPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom- he called it a "must read for any Civil War buff." I don't know about that but it really is awfully fun.

Later on Turtledove wrote a 11 book series about a Confederacy that lasts throughout the 20th century. It's not related to this book, and it's really strange: both World War I and World War II are fought between the US and the Confederacy. After the South loses World War I a Hitler character arises, blaming blacks and exterminating them at a concentration camp set up in Texas. It's an interesting premise but I've never been able to get through it.

Up next: Jeffery Archer's most famous novel, about two businessmen who hate each other through the decades...

 
timschochet said:
76. Dr. Neruda's Cure For Evil

Rafael Yglesias

1996, 706 pages

Psychological novel

This book represents a bit of a departure for me, both in subject matter and style. The main character, Dr. Neruda, is a half-Jewish, half Cuban psychiatrist, who, as the novel reveals, was badly abused as a child. When one of his patients commits suicide, Dr. Neruda takes it upon himself to investigate the computer software company that employed his patient- and screw with them. Basically he uses his therapy skills to mess with the minds of the people whom he blames for causing his patient to kill himself.

This sounds like it could be a humorous plot but it isn't- the author is deadly serious. Much of the novel reads like the HBO drama In Treatment (excellent and highly recommended.) Krista, if you're reading this, based on some of the stuff you like I think this might really be the one for you to try. It was previously out of print but now it's available on Kindle for $7.99. If you do try it out, let me know what you think.

Up next: A Jodi Picoult novel about an Asperger's kid who gets accused of murder...
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Excellent. Just ordered it - thank you!

Had fallen way behind on this thread and am catching up on the McCarthy stuff. You're telling it in a way that makes it read like a suspense novel, which is keeping me engrossed. :thumbup:

 
krista4 said:
timschochet said:
76. Dr. Neruda's Cure For Evil

Rafael Yglesias

1996, 706 pages

Psychological novel

This book represents a bit of a departure for me, both in subject matter and style. The main character, Dr. Neruda, is a half-Jewish, half Cuban psychiatrist, who, as the novel reveals, was badly abused as a child. When one of his patients commits suicide, Dr. Neruda takes it upon himself to investigate the computer software company that employed his patient- and screw with them. Basically he uses his therapy skills to mess with the minds of the people whom he blames for causing his patient to kill himself.

This sounds like it could be a humorous plot but it isn't- the author is deadly serious. Much of the novel reads like the HBO drama In Treatment (excellent and highly recommended.) Krista, if you're reading this, based on some of the stuff you like I think this might really be the one for you to try. It was previously out of print but now it's available on Kindle for $7.99. If you do try it out, let me know what you think.

Up next: A Jodi Picoult novel about an Asperger's kid who gets accused of murder...
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Excellent. Just ordered it - thank you!

Had fallen way behind on this thread and am catching up on the McCarthy stuff. You're telling it in a way that makes it read like a suspense novel, which is keeping me engrossed. :thumbup:
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Thanks! Hope you like Neruda, I think you will.

 
72. Kane and Abel

Jeffrey Archer

1978, 512 pages

finance suspense

As I wrote earlier, Jeffrey Archer has made a career of writing about financial suspense, and this, his breakthrough novel, is his masterpiece. William Kane is the son of Boston wealth, who becomes a banker like his father and makes millions. Abel Rosnovski is a Polish penniless immigrant who builds hotels and creates an empire. Thanks to misunderstandings dating back to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the two men hate each other and spend the next 40 years trying to destroy each other. As they both advance through the world of high finance to become richer and more powerful, their feud takes on new dimensions. Finally there is a Romeo and Juliet element thrown in as their children fall in love with each other.

The storytelling and suspense never lag in this great story of fortune making throughout most of the 20th century. Archer also wrote a fine sequel to this novel, The Prodigal Daughter, in which the hotel builder's daughter becomes the Vice President of the US and then the President. Not quite as good as the original, but still worth reading.

Next up: the ultimate Jewish turn of the last century immigrant family saga...

 
Ilov80s said:
timschochet said:
78. A Kiss Before Dying

Ira Levin

1953, 244 pages

Suspense

Like The Desperate Hours, Ira Levin's A Kiss Before Dying is a classic novel of suspense. The two works were written only a year apart, and are roughly the same length. And that's about all they have in common. As I wrote above, The Desperate Hours is a straightforward suspense work without mystery. A Kiss Before Dying is filled with mystery, so much so that I can't really reveal the plot here without giving it away. Except that involves MURDER!

The novel is divided into 3 parts. In the first part, we don't know who the narrator is, only that he intends to murder his pregnant girlfriend. In the second part, the girlfriend's sister is on the hunt for the murderer, and it's one of 3 guys, but we don't know who. By the beginning of the 3rd part, all is made clear, and the murderer is now trying to achieve his goal- will he succeed?

Ira Leven became famous over the years for Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, and The Boys From Brazil. But while those are fine novels, none of them match the brilliance of his first work, written when he was only in his early 20s. This novel reads like the best Hitchcock film is to watch- it's that's good.

Up next- John Grisham's sequel to his first (and best) novel...
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Tim, I know you aren't aiming for anything highbrow or super literary, but this is really pushing it.
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The McCarthy Era, Continued

McCarthy was now on favorite turf. He liked nothing better than a slugging match with a Secretary of State, and he hadn't had one for nearly a year. Besides, this was an exceptionally good time to do mischief. Eisenhower was about to confer with Churchill in Bernuda. An emotional televised appeal to the American people on the eve of the conference could go a long way toward sabotaging it and embarrassing the President. And that was Joe's next move. On the evening of December 3, as Ike was leaving for the meeting, McCarthy took to the air to cry out against Englishmen who fattened their bankrolls by dealing with the murderers of US soldiers. He implored "every American who feels as I do about this blood trade with a mortal enemy to write or wire the President...so he can be properly guided." 5 days later the White House acknowledged that over 50,000 messages had been received. No one in Washington had been deceived by the moonshine about guidance. This was a straight out contest between the two men.

It was at this point that became fashionable in Washington to describe McCarthy as the second most powerful man in the country. Certainly any demagogue who could trigger that sort of response had become formidable. There were other indications that McCarthyism was approaching a new crest. In the next month, January 1954, Gallup reported that public approval of the senator had risen 16 points in the past 6 months. Fewer than 3 Americans in every 10 disapproved of him. If the reactions of the man on the street can be put down to ignorance- and they probably can- those in the US Senate cannot. Nowhere else was his wickedness so well known, yet in February, when the time came to vote on a $214,000 appropriation for his permanent subcommittee (equal to 10 times that today), the membership of the Senate was reduced to quivering jelly. Exactly one senator, Fulbright of Arkansas (later the mentor of Bill Clinton), had the courage to vote against it. Among those who did not find it possible to join Fulbright were John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Kefauver, and all the other Democrats. All were resolute, their characters were strong, they were enormously popular with their constituents. But they had never before encountered a prodigy like Joseph R. McCarthy.

Who believed him? Where was his strength? Who were the hardcore McCarthyites? They were Legionaires, Minute Women, Texas millionaires, and people who felt threatened by fluoridation of public reservoirs and campaigns for mental health. They belonged to organizations like the DAR. They were anti-eggheads like William F. Buckley, who wrote that "McCarthyism is a movement around which men of good will and stern morality can close ranks." They were people who hated the New Deal, Civil Rights, and all of the modern changes to American society, which they feared. They were scared of social upheaval that was destroying the lines between the classes and the sexes.

In other words, they were the ideological parents and grandparents of the Americans that would support Spiro Agnew in the late 60s, Ross Perot in the 90s, Sarah Palin in 2008, and Donald Trump in 2016. They were the American populists, and whenever a demagogue harnessed their power he was unbeatable. Or so Joe McCarthy seemed as the year began.

 
71. Evergreen

Belva Plain

1978, 698 pages

family saga

This long saga centers on an immigrant Jewish woman, Anna Friedman, who comes to America at the turn of the last century and builds a life in New York. She survives World War I, the roaring 20s, the Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression, World War II, the 50s and Vietnam, etc. Along the way she has a child by a man other than her husband, and her son marries a Christian girl with heavy consequences for the family.

Plain wrote a series of books based on these characters but this was the first one and IMO the best. It's a classic immigrant story, and I might be a little closer to it since I recognize so many of the character types from my own family. If you enjoy good family sagas that stretch through the decades, Evergreen is probably as good as there is.

Next up: Leon Uris' epic tale of the Berlin Airlift...

 
The McCarthy era, continued

As the 2nd year of the Eisenhower administration began, the junior senator from Wisconsin stood on an awesome pinnacle, and Roy M. Cohn was right up there with him. G. David Schine was missing. He had been drafted. His absence was thought unimportant in Washington. Schine wasn't bright, like Cohn. In fact, McCarthy had secretly found him a pain in the neck. He hadn't mentioned this to Cohn because McCarthy needed Cohn. What he was just discovering was that Cohn needed someone, too. Cohn needed Schine.

Schine's greeting from the Army had arrived in July. Apparently the blow was unexpected; he seems to have forgotten that he had even registered. Until then he and Cohn had been busy having a lively time- adjoining rooms in the Statler from Monday to Friday, merry weekends in Manhattan, and the anticipatory pleasure of planning antic forays in to stodgy bureaucratic agencies. Joe, a lazy demagogue, had left the running of the subcommittee to them. They had felt, and had seemed to be, invulnerable. If no one in the capital dared strike back at them, who would? The answer was Schine's Gloversville draft board. There was irony here. The good citizens of Gloversville were too far from the power structure to know of Schine's mighty friends. They were also safe from a political fix: the one thing that Washington feared more than McCarthy was a selective service scandal.

Cohn's first thought was that his friend should be commissioned immediately. It was impossible; the Army, Navy and Air Force in turn rejected Schine as unqualified. Cohn then summoned to his office Brigadier General Miles Reber, the Army's chief of liaison on the Hill. Reber later testified that Cohn put him under "tremendous pressure" to make Schine an officer. The Army gave it serious consideration but determined that he was unqualified. Meanwhile, Schine himself started making demands about his service.

On November 3, 1953, Schine went into uniform, and after 15 days of temporary duty in New York. he was assigned to Fort Dix in New Jersey for 4 weeks of basic training. Thanks to Cohn, Schine was given a pass every weekend. His limo was allowed inside the camp to pick him up and bring him back. He was released from drill for no fewer than 250 long distance telephone calls. While this was going on, and while Cohn was making angry calls to the Pentagon about Schine's treatment, McCarthy was privately telling the Army that he didn't care if Schine returned to his committee. He said that Schine was "a good boy but there is nothing indispensable about him..it is one of the few things that I have seen Roy completely unreasonable about."

And Cohn was completely unreasonable. In his phone conversations with Schine, Cohn would learn of little ways in which his friend's life might be made easier. He would then call Secretary of the Army Stevens at any hour. Once he phoned Amherst College, where Stevens was speaking, in an effort to have Schine relieved from KP duty the following day. If his suggestions were rejected he became cross. When Stevens warned him that Schine, like 90% of all inductees, would probably draw overseas duty, Cohn said this would "wreck the army" and told Adams he, Cohn, would personally see to it that Stevens would be "through as Secretary of the Army!"

 
70. Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

Leon Uris

1963, 632 pages

Historical epic

Leon Uris' epic novel covers the occupation of western Germany and west Berlin by the Americans from 1945 to 1948, culminating in the Berlin Airlift. As befits the best of Uris' novels, there are dozens of characters: American military and fliers, a German family with Nazi and democratic ties, Russian and German communists. We get their backstories, and why they performed as they did.

The Berlin Airlift was one of the greatest achievements in all of American history, but so was the occupation of Germany itself: intelligent and patriotic American men and women who were prepared to occupy a country, who had it all planned out beforehand how to transform a former dictatorship into a democracy (which was severely lacking in Iraq) and how to combat the Soviet Union without help from their own country. Uris writes of a time in American history, not too long ago, when we achieved greatness, not by being tougher by everybody else, but by being smarter, more compassionate, and more innovative. There is a "can-do" spirit among all of the heroes in this book which I wish we were able to recapture.

If I have any criticism of Uris it's that he seems to hate happy endings: almost all of his books feature a tragic, needless death of a main character at the end. Perhaps this was evocative of his own life; but it makes one put the story down, IMO, with more regret than was necessary. In any case, a terrific read.

Next up: Herman Wouk's classic coming to age novel about a young Jewish girl who longs to be a star...

 
It's probably no surprise but Tim likes his tomes. The last two clock in at over 600 pages and in my sporadic visits to this thread, I've noticed some other lengthy novels listed. Ain't nothing wrong with that, it's just an observation.

 
Eephus said:
It's probably no surprise but Tim likes his tomes. The last two clock in at over 600 pages and in my sporadic visits to this thread, I've noticed some other lengthy novels listed. Ain't nothing wrong with that, it's just an observation.
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lol, 600 is a short novel. If it ain't 1000 pages it may not be worth reading. Several of those coming up and my top 10 is dominated by them. Dead serious.
 
timschochet said:
Eephus said:
It's probably no surprise but Tim likes his tomes. The last two clock in at over 600 pages and in my sporadic visits to this thread, I've noticed some other lengthy novels listed. Ain't nothing wrong with that, it's just an observation.
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lol, 600 is a short novel. If it ain't 1000 pages it may not be worth reading. Several of those coming up and my top 10 is dominated by them. Dead serious.
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I am a lazy reader. Purposely pick out books under 400 pages.

 
52 Pickup
# 2 Absolute Beginners
# 3 The Accidental Tourist
# 4 According to Queeney
# 5 Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
# 6 Adam Bede
# 7 The Adventures of Augie March
# 8 The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
# 9 The Adventures of Gil Blas
# 10 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
# 11 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
# 12 The Adventures of Roderick Random
# 13 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
# 14 Affinity
# 15 The African Queen
# 16 After London; Or, Wild England
# 17 Afternoon Men
# 18 The Age of Innocence
# 19 Air
# 20 Alberta and Jacob
# 21 Ali and Nino
# 22 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
# 23 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
# 24 All Souls Day
# 25 All the Pretty Horses
# 26 Alms for Oblivion
# 27 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
# 28 The Ambassadors
# 29 American Gods
# 30 American Pastoral
# 31 American Psycho
# 32 An American Tragedy
# 33 Amongst Women
# 34 And Then There Were None
# 35 Andersonville
# 36 The Andromeda Strain
# 37 Angel
# 38 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
# 39 Animal Farm
# 40 Anna Karenina
# 41 Anthills of the Savannah
# 42 Any Human Heart
# 43 Around the World in Eighty Days
# 44 As I Lay Dying
# 45 Ascent
# 46 The Ascent of Rum Doodle
# 47 The Asphalt Jungle
# 48 The Assistant
# 49 Asterix the Gaul
# 50 At-Swim-Two-Birds
# 51 Atomised
# 52 Atonement (novel)
# 53 Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Go
# 54 Austerlitz
# 55 Auto-da-Fe
# 56 The Awakening
# 57 Babbitt
# 58 Ballet Shoes
# 59 The Bamboo Bed
# 60 Barchester Towers
# 61 The Baron in the Trees
# 62 Barry Lyndon
# 63 The Beach
# 64 The Beast Must Die
# 65 Beauty and Sadness
# 66 Before Lunch
# 67 Behind the Scenes at the Museum
# 68 Being Dead
# 69 Bel-Ami
# 70 The Bell Jar
# 71 Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel
# 72 Beloved, by Toni Morrison
# 73 A Bend in the River
# 74 Berlin Alexanderplatz
# 75 The Betrothed
# 76 Beyond Black
# 77 The Big Blowdown
# 78 The Big Nowhere
# 79 The Big Sleep
# 80 Billy Liar
# 81 Birdsong
# 82 Black and Blue
# 83 Black Beauty
# 84 Black Mischief
# 85 The Black Prince
# 86 Black Sunday (novel)
# 87 Blacklist
# 88 The Blackwater Lightship
# 89 Bleak House
# 90 The Blind Assassin
# 91 Blindness
# 92 Blood Meridian
# 93 Blott on the Landscape
# 94 The Blue Flower
# 95 The Blue Room
# 96 The Bluest Eye
# 97 Bold as Love
# 98 Bomber
# 99 Bones and Silence
# 100 The Bonfire of the Vanities
# 101 Bonjour Tristesse
# 102 The Book of Daniel
# 103 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
# 104 The Book of the New Sun
# 105 The Bottle Factory Outing
# 106 The Bourne Identity (novel)
# 107 Bouvard Et Pécuchet
# 108 Brave New World
# 109 Breakfast at Tiffany's
# 110 Breakfast of Champions
# 111 Breathing Lessons
# 112 Brewster's Millions
# 113 Bridget Jones's Diary
# 114 Bright Lights, Big City
# 115 Brighton Rock
# 116 The Brothers Karamazov
# 117 Buddenbrooks
# 118 The Buddha of Suburbia
# 119 Burmese Days
# 120 The Butcher Boy
# 121 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
# 122 The Caine Mutiny
# 123 Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard
# 124 Call It Sleep
# 125 The Call of the Wild
# 126 Camp Concentration
# 127 Candide
# 128 A Canticle for Leibowitz
# 129 Caprice
# 130 Captain Blood
# 131 Carrie's War
# 132 The Case of Comrade Tulayev
# 133 The Case of the Gilded Fly
# 134 Casino Royale
# 135 The Castafiore Emerald
# 136 The Castle of Otranto
# 137 Castle Rackrent
# 138 The Castle (novel)
# 139 Cat's Eye
# 140 Catch-22
# 141 The Catcher in the Rye
# 142 Changing Places
# 143 Charade
# 144 The Charterhouse of Parma
# 145 The Chateau
# 146 Cheese
# 147 Cheri
# 148 The Child in Time
# 149 Childhood's End
# 150 The Children of Men
# 151 The Children of the New Forest
# 152 Chronicle in Stone
# 153 The Chronicles of Narnia
# 154 Cider with Rosie
# 155 Clarissa
# 156 Claudine at School
# 157 Clayhanger
# 158 A Clockwork Orange
# 159 Cloud Atlas: the book
# 160 The Code of the Woosters
# 161 Cold Comfort Farm
# 162 Cold Mountain
# 163 The Color Purple
# 164 The Coming Race
# 165 The Commitments
# 166 A Confederacy of Dunces
# 167 Confederates
# 168 Confessions of Zeno
# 169 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
# 170 Consider Phlebas
# 171 The Constant Gardener
# 172 Cop Hater
# 173 The Corrections
# 174 Count Belisarius
# 175 The Count of Monte Cristo
# 176 The Counterfeiters
# 177 Couples
# 178 Covenant with Death
# 179 Cover Her Face
# 180 The Crab with the Golden Claws
# 181 Cranford
# 182 Crash
# 183 Crime and Punishment
# 184 The Crime of Father Amado
# 185 Crome Yellow
# 186 The Crow Road
# 187 The Cruel Sea (novel)
# 188 Cry, The Beloved Country
# 189 The Crying of Lot 49
# 190 Cryptonomicon
# 191 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
# 192 A Dance to the Music of Time
# 193 Daniel Deronda
# 194 A Dark-Adapted Eye
# 195 Darkmans
# 196 Darkness at Noon
# 197 Darkness Falls from the Air
# 198 Darwin's Radio
# 199 The Daughter of Time
# 200 Day
# 201 Day of the Jackal
# 202 The Day of the Locust
# 203 Day of the Triffids
# 204 De Niro's Game
# 205 Dead Lagoon
# 206 Dead Souls
# 207 Death and the Penguin
# 208 Death at the President's Lodging
# 209 Death in Summer
# 210 Death in Venice
# 211 Death of a Hero
# 212 The Death of the Heart
# 213 The Death of Virgil
# 214 The Debacle
# 215 The Debt to Pleasure
# 216 Decline and Fall
# 217 Deliverance
# 218 Delta of Venus
# 219 Devil in a Blue Dress
# 220 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
# 221 Diary of a Mad Old Man
# 222 Diary of a Nobody
# 223 Diary of a Provincial Lady
# 224 Dirty Tricks
# 225 The Discworld Series
# 226 Disgrace
# 227 Dissolution
# 228 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
# 229 Doctor Zhivago
# 230 Dolores Claiborne
# 231 Dom Casmurro Joaquim
# 232 Dombey and Son
# 233 Don Quixote
# 234 Double Indemnity
# 235 Dracula
# 236 The Driver's Seat
# 237 The Drowned World
# 238 A Dry White Season
# 239 Dune
# 240 Earthly Powers
# 241 Earthsea Series
# 242 East Lynne
# 243 East of Eden
# 244 The Echoing Grove
# 245 Effi Briest
# 246 The Egoist
# 247 THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION Samuel R. Delany
# 248 Elmer Gantry
# 249 Emma
# 250 Empire of the Sun
# 251 The End of the Affair
# 252 The End of the World News
# 253 Enduring Love
# 254 Enemies, a Love Story
# 255 England, Their England
# 256 The English Patient
# 257 Enigma
# 258 Ennui; Or, Memoirs of the Earl of Glenthorn
# 259 Epileptic
# 260 Epitaph for a Spy
# 261 Erewhon
# 262 Eugenie Grandet
# 263 Evelina
# 264 Everything Is Illuminated
# 265 Excellent Women
# 266 Exit Music
# 267 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
# 268 Extinction
# 269 The Face of Another
# 270 Fahrenheit 451
# 271 Fair Stood the Wind for France
# 272 A Fairy Tale of New York
# 273 Family Matters
# 274 The Family Moskat
# 275 The Famished Road
# 276 Fantomas
# 277 A Far Cry From Kensington
# 278 Far from the Madding Crowd
# 279 The Far Pavilions
# 280 A Farewell to Arms
# 281 A Fatal Inversion
# 282 Fatherland
# 283 Fathers and Sons
# 284 The Female Man
# 285 Fight Club
# 286 A Fine Balance
# 287 Fingersmith (novel)
# 288 Finnegans
# 289 Fireflies
# 290 First Love
# 291 A Flag For Sunrise
# 292 Flashman
# 293 Flaubert's Parrot
# 294 Flowers for Algernon
# 295 For Whom the Bell Tolls
# 296 Foreign Affairs
# 297 The Forever War
# 298 The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney
# 299 Fortunes of War
# 300 Foucault's Pendulum
# 301 Foundation
# 302 The Fountain Overflows
# 303 The Four Just Men
# 304 Frankenstein
# 305 The French Lieutenant's Woman
# 306 Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
# 307 The Friends of Eddie Coyle
# 308 From Here to Eternity
# 309 Frost in May
# 310 Fun Home
# 311 G.
# 312 The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis
# 313 Gargantua and Pantagruel
# 314 The Gathering
# 315 GB84
# 316 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
# 317 Germinal
# 318 Get Shorty
# 319 The Getaway
# 320 Gilead
# 321 Giovanni's Room
# 322 A Girl in Winter
# 323 Girlfriend in a Coma
# 324 The Girls of Slender Means
# 325 The Glass Bead Game
# 326 The Glass Key
# 327 A Glastonbury Romance
# 328 Go Tell It on the Mountain
# 329 The Go-Between
# 330 The God of Small Things
# 331 God's Bits of Wood
# 332 The Godfather
# 333 The Golden Notebook
# 334 Goldfinger
# 335 Gone with the Wind
# 336 Good Behaviour
# 337 The Good Companions
# 338 A Good Man in Africa
# 339 The Good Soldier Svejk
# 340 The Good Soldier
# 341 Goodbye to Berlin
# 342 Gorky Park
# 343 The Graduate
# 344 The Grapes of Wrath
# 345 The Grass is Singing
# 346 Gravity's Rainbow
# 347 Great Apes
# 348 Great Expectations
# 349 The Great Gatsby
# 350 The Great Impersonation
# 351 Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
# 352 Greenmantle
# 353 The Group
# 354 Gulliver’s Travels
# 355 A Gun for Sale
# 356 The Guns of Navarone
# 357 A Handful of Dust
# 358 Handley Cross
# 359 The Handmaid's Tale
# 360 The Hanging Gardens
# 361 Hangover Square
# 362 Hard Revolution
# 363 Hard Times
# 364 The Harpole Report
# 365 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
# 366 The Haunting of Hill House
# 367 Headlong Hall
# 368 The Hearing Trumpet
# 369 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
# 370 Heart of Darkness
# 371 A Heart so White
# 372 The Heat of the Day
# 373 Heavy Weather
# 374 Hello Summer, Goodbye
# 375 Herland
# 376 Herzog
# 377 Hideous Kinky
# 378 High Fidelity
# 379 A High Wind in Jamaica
# 380 His Dark Materials
# 381 History
# 382 The History of Tom Jones
# 383 The History Man
# 384 The History of Mr Polly
# 385 The History of Pompey the Little
# 386 A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
# 387 The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
# 388 The Hobbit
# 389 The Hollow Man
# 390 The Home and the World
# 391 The Horse's Mouth
# 392 The Hound of the Baskervilles
# 393 A House for Mr Biswas
# 394 House of Leaves
# 395 The House of Mirth
# 396 The House of the Seven Gables
# 397 How Green Was My Valley
# 398 How Late It Was, How Late
# 399 How the Dead Live
# 400 Howards End
# 401 The Human Stain
# 402 Humboldt's Gift
# 403 Hunger
# 404 The Hunters
# 405 Hurrah for St Trinian's
# 406 Hyperion
# 407 I Am Legend
# 408 I Capture the Castle
# 409 I Served the King of England
# 410 I'll Go to Bed at Noon
# 411 An Ice-Cream War
# 412 An Idiot
# 413 If Not Now, When?
# 414 Illywhacker
# 415 The Immoralist
# 416 In the Country of Last Things
# 417 Independence Day
# 418 An Infamous Army
# 419 Infinite Jest
# 420 The Influence
# 421 The Information
# 422 Ingenious Pain
# 423 Institute Benjamenta
# 424 The Insult
# 425 Invisible Cities
# 426 Invitation to the Waltz
# 427 The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
# 428 The IPCRESS File
# 429 The Island of Dr. Moreau
# 430 Ivanhoe
# 431 Jacques the Fatalist
# 432 Jane Eyre
# 433 Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth
# 434 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
# 435 Joseph Andrews
# 436 Journey into Fear
# 437 Journey To the Centre of the Earth
# 438 Journey to the End of the Night
# 439 Joy in the Morning
# 440 Jude the Obscure
# 441 A Judgment in Stone
# 442 Julie, Ou La Nouvelle Heloise
# 443 July's People
# 444 Jumper (novel)
# 445 The Jungle
# 446 Jurassic Park (novel)
# 447 Just William
# 448 Justine
# 449 A Kestrel for a Knave
# 450 Kidnapped
# 451 Kim
# 452 A Kind of Loving
# 453 Kindred
# 454 The King of Torts
# 455 King Solomon's Carpet
# 456 King Solomon's Mines
# 457 The Kingdom of This World
# 458 The Kite Runner
# 459 The L Shaped Room
# 460 L'isola Di Arturo
# 461 La Bete Humaine
# 462 La Comedie Humaine
# 463 La Condition Humaine
# 464 L.A. Confidential
# 465 La Disparition
# 466 La Vie Mode D'Emploi
# 467 Lady Audley's Secret
# 468 Lady Chatterley's Lover
# 469 Lake Wobegon Days
# 470 Lanark
# 471 Lark Rise to Candleford
# 472 The Last Chronicle of Barset
# 473 Last Exit to Brooklyn
# 474 Last Seen Wearing
# 475 The Last September
# 476 The Laughing Policeman
# 477 Le Grand Meaulnes
# 478 The League of Frightened Men
# 479 The Lecturer's Tale
# 480 the left hand of darkness
# 481 A Legacy
# 482 The Leopard
# 483 Les Enfants Terrible
# 484 Les Liaisons Dangereuses
# 485 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
# 486 Les Revenentes
# 487 Less Than Angels
# 488 Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
# 489 Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The
# 490 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
# 491 Light
# 492 Light Years
# 493 The Line of Beauty
# 494 Little Dorritt
# 495 The Little Prince
# 496 Little Women
# 497 The Little World of Don Camillo
# 498 Live Flesh
# 499 Living
# 500 Loitering with Intent
# 501 Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male
# 502 Lolly Willowes
# 503 London Fields
# 504 The Lonely Londoners
# 505 The Lonely Passion
# 506 Lonesome Dove
# 507 The Long Goodbye
# 508 A Long Long Way
# 509 Look At Me
# 510 Lord Jim
# 511 Lord of the Flies
# 512 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
# 513 Lorna Doone
# 514 A Lost Lady
# 515 Lost Souls
# 516 Love for Lydia
# 517 Love in a Cold Climate
# 518 Love in the Time of Cholera
# 519 Love on the Dole
# 520 Love Story
# 521 The Loved One
# 522 The Lover
# 523 Lucky Jim
# 524 Lush Life
# 525 The Machine Gunners
# 526 Madame Bovary
# 527 The Madman of Bergerac
# 528 The Magic Mountain
# 529 The Magnificent Ambersons
# 530 The Magus
# 531 Main Street
# 532 Malice Aforethought
# 533 Malone Dies
# 534 The Maltese Falcon
# 535 The Man in the High Castle
# 536 The Man of Property
# 537 The Man Who Loved Children
# 538 The Man Who Was Thursday
# 539 The Man With the Golden Arm
# 540 The Man Without Qualities
# 541 The Manchurian Candidate
# 542 The Mandarins
# 543 Manon Lescaut
# 544 Manservant and Maidservant
# 545 Mansfield Park
# 546 The Map of Love
# 547 The Mark of Zorro
# 548 A Married Man
# 549 Martin Chuzzlewit
# 550 Martin Eden
# 551 Mary Barton
# 552 The Mask of Dimitrios
# 553 Master and Commander
# 554 The Master and Margarita
# 555 Master Georgie
# 556 Maurice Guest
# 557 Maus: A Survivor's Tale
# 558 The Mayor of Casterbridge
# 559 McTeague
# 560 Melmoth the Wanderer
# 561 The Member of the Wedding
# 562 Memet My Hawk
# 563 Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf
# 564 Memoirs of a Survivor
# 565 Men at Arms
# 566 Microserfs
# 567 Middlemarch
# 568 Middlesex
# 569 Midnight's Children
# 570 The Midwich Cuckoos
# 571 The Mighty Walzer
# 572 The Military Philosophers
# 573 The Mill on the Floss
# 574 Millennium People
# 575 The Millstone
# 576 The Ministry of Fear
# 577 Misery (novel)
# 578 Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
# 579 Mister Johnson
# 580 Moby ****
# 581 Molesworth
# 582 Moll Flanders
# 583 Molloy
# 584 Money
# 585 The Monk
# 586 Monkey
# 587 A Month in the Country
# 588 Moo
# 589 The Moon and the Bonfire
# 590 Moon over Africa
# 591 The Moonstone
# 592 More Die of Heartbreak
# 593 Morvern Callar
# 594 Mother
# 595 Mother London
# 596 Motherless Brooklyn
# 597 The Moviegoer
# 598 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
# 599 Mr Norris Changes Trains
# 600 Mrs. Dalloway
# 601 The Murder at the Vicarage
# 602 Murder Must Advertise
# 603 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
# 604 Music and Silence
# 605 My Antonia
# 606 My Cousin Rachel
# 607 My Family and Other Animals
# 608 My Name Is Asher Lev
# 609 My Name Is Red
# 610 My New York Diary
# 611 My Search for Warren Harding
# 612 The Mysteries of Udolpho
# 613 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
# 614 The Mysterious Stranger
# 615 The Naked and the Dead
# 616 The Naked Lunch
# 617 The Name of the Rose
# 618 Narziss and Goldmund
# 619 Native Son
# 620 The Neon Rain
# 621 Neuromancer
# 622 New Grub Street
# 623 The New York Trilogy
# 624 News from Nowhere
# 625 Nice Work
# 626 The Night Sessions
# 627 The Night Watch
# 628 Nightmare Abbey
# 629 Nights at the Circus
# 630 Nightwood
# 631 Nineteen Eighty-Four
# 632 Nineteen Seventy Four
# 633 Nineteen Seventy Seven
# 634 No Bed for Bacon
# 635 No Country for Old Men
# 636 No Orchids for Miss Blandish
# 637 Non-Stop
# 638 North and South
# 639 Northanger Abbey
# 640 Norwegian Wood
# 641 Nostromo
# 642 Notes from the Underground
# 643 Novel on Yellow Paper
# 644 Oblomov
# 645 The Odd Women
# 646 Of Human Bondage
# 647 Of Love & Hunger
# 648 Of Mice and Men
# 649 Office Politics
# 650 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
# 651 The Old Man and the Sea
# 652 The Old Men at the Zoo
# 653 The Old Wives' Tale
# 654 Oliver Twist
# 655 On Beauty
# 656 On the Road
# 657 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich
# 658 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
# 659 One Hundred Years of Solitude
# 660 One of Ours by Willa Cather
# 661 Only Forward
# 662 The Ordeal of Richard Fevere
# 663 Orlando
# 664 Oroonoko
# 665 Oscar and Lucinda
# 666 Our Man in Havana
# 667 The Outsider
# 668 The Painted Bird
# 669 The Painter of Signs
# 670 Palace Walk
# 671 Pale Fire
# 672 Pamela
# 673 Parade's End
# 674 The Parasites
# 675 A Passage to India
# 676 Passing
# 677 The Passion of New Eve
# 678 The Passion
# 679 Patience and Sarah
# 680 Peace in War
# 681 Penrod
# 682 Pere Goriot
# 683 Perfume
# 684 Personality
# 685 Persuasion
# 686 The Piano Teacher
# 687 Piccadilly Jim
# 688 The Pickwick Papers
# 689 The Picture of Dorian Gray
# 690 Pictures from an Institution
# 691 Pig Tales
# 692 The Plague
# 693 Play It as It Lays
# 694 The Pledge
# 695 Pnin
# 696 Poetic Justice
# 697 Pointed Roofs
# 698 The Poisoned Chocolates Case
# 699 The Polyglots
# 700 Porterhouse Blue
# 701 Portnoy's Complaint
# 702 The Portrait of a Lady
# 703 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
# 704 Possession (novel)
# 705 Memórias Póstumas De Brás Cubas
# 706 The Postman Always Rings Twice
# 707 Postmortem
# 708 The Power and the Glory
# 709 A Prayer for Owen Meany
# 710 The Prestige
# 711 Pride and Prejudice
# 712 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
# 713 The Princess of Cleves
# 714 A Princess of Mars
# 715 The Prisoner of Zenda
# 716 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
# 717 The Professor’s House
# 718 Puckoon
# 719 The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson
# 720 The Pursuit of Love
# 721 Put Out More Flags
# 722 Quarantine
# 723 Queen Lucia
# 724 A Quiet Belief in Angels
# 725 The Rabbit Omnibus
# 726 The Radetzky March
# 727 The Ragazzi Pier
# 728 A Rage in Harlem
# 729 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
# 730 The Rainbow
# 731 Rasselas
# 732 Ratking
# 733 The Reader
# 734 Rebecca
# 735 The Recognitions
# 736 The Rector's Daughter
# 737 The Red and the Black
# 738 The Red Badge of Courage
# 739 Red Dragon
# 740 Red Harvest
# 741 The Red Room
# 742 Red Shift
# 743 Regency Buck
# 744 Regeneration
# 745 The Reluctant Orphan
# 746 The Remains of the Day
# 747 Remembering Babylon
# 748 Remembrance of Things Past
# 749 The Remorseful Day
# 750 The Restraint of Beasts
# 751 The Return of the Soldier
# 752 Revelation Space
# 753 Revolutionary Road
# 754 A Rich Full Death
# 755 Richshaw Boy
# 756 The Riddle of the Sands
# 757 Riddley Walker
# 758 The Rings of Saturn
# 759 Ringworld
# 760 The Road
# 761 Robinson Crusoe
# 762 Rogue Male
# 763 Rogue Moon
# 764 Room at the Top
# 765 Room Temperature
# 766 A Room with a View
# 767 Roxana
# 768 Rubyfruit Jungle
# 769 Ruth
# 770 The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
# 771 Samarkand
# 772 Sanctuary
# 773 The Satanic Verses
# 774 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
# 775 The Savage Detectives
# 776 The Scar
# 777 Scaramouche
# 778 The Scarlet Letter
# 779 The Scarlet Pimpernel
# 780 Schindler's Ark
# 781 Scoop
# 782 A Season in Sinji
# 783 The Secret Adversary
# 784 The Secret Agent
# 785 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
# 786 The Secret History
# 787 Sense and Sensibility
# 788 Sentimental Education
# 789 A Sentimental Journey
# 790 A Series of Unfortunate Events
# 791 Shame
# 792 Sharpe's Eagle
# 793 She: a History of Adventure
# 794 The Sheltering Sky
# 795 The Shining (novel)
# 796 The Ship of the Line
# 797 The Shipping News
# 798 Shirley
# 799 The Shrimp and the Anemone
# 800 Sidetracked
# 801 The Siege of Krishnapur
# 802 The Sign of Four
# 803 Silas Marner
# 804 Silence
# 805 Silence of the Grave
# 806 The Silent Duchess
# 807 Silver Stallion
# 808 Sirens of Titan
# 809 Sister Carrie
# 810 Slaughter House Five
# 811 The Slaves of Solitude
# 812 Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
# 813 Snow Crash
# 814 The Snow Goose
# 815 So Long, See You Tomorrow
# 816 Solaris (novel)
# 817 The Soldier's Art
# 818 Solomon Gursky Was Here
# 819 Something Fresh
# 820 Song of Solomon
# 821 Sons and Lovers
# 822 Sophie's Choice
# 823 The Sorrow of War
# 824 The Sorrows of Young Werther
# 825 The Sound and the Fury
# 826 The Sound of My Voice
# 827 Sour Sweet
# 828 South Riding
# 829 South Wind
# 830 The Space Merchants
# 831 Spies
# 832 A Sport and a Pastime
# 833 The Sportswriter
# 834 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
# 835 Squire Haggard's Journal
# 836 Star Maker
# 837 The Stars My Destination
# 838 Staying On
# 839 Steppenwolf
# 840 Strait Is the Gate
# 841 The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent
# 842 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
# 843 Stranger in a Strange Land
# 844 Strangers on a Train (novel)
# 845 A Study in Scarlet
# 846 A Suitable Boy
# 847 Suite francaise
# 848 Sunset Song
# 849 The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
# 850 The Swimming Pool Library
# 851 The Swiss Family Robinson
# 852 The Sword in the Stone
# 853 Sybil or The Two Nations
# 854 A Tale of a Tub
# 855 A Tale of Two Cities
# 856 The Talented Mr. Ripley
# 857 Tales of the City
# 858 Tales of the South Pacific
# 859 A Taste for Death
# 860 Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
# 861 Tender is the Night
# 862 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
# 863 Thank You Jeeves
# 864 Their Eyes Were Watching God
# 865 Therese Raquin
# 866 They Were Counted
# 867 The Thin Man
# 868 Things Fall Apart
# 869 The Things They Carried
# 870 The Third Man
# 871 The Third Policeman
# 872 The Thirty-Nine Steps
# 873 This Sporting Life
# 874 A Thousand Acres
# 875 Three Men in a Boat
# 876 The Three Musketeers
# 877 The Three Paradoxes
# 878 The Three Sisters
# 879 Three Soldiers
# 880 Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
# 881 The Time Machine
# 882 The Time of Indifference
# 883 The Time Ships
# 884 A Time to Be Born
# 885 A Time to Kill
# 886 The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
# 887 The Tin Drum
# 888 The Tin Roof Blowdown
# 889 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
# 890 Tintin in Tibet
# 891 Titmuss Regained
# 892 Titus Groan
# 893 To Each His Own
# 894 To Kill a Mockingbird
# 895 To The Ends of the Earth Trilogy
# 896 To the Lighthouse
# 897 Tobacco Road
# 898 Tom Brown's Schooldays
# 899 Tono-Bungay
# 900 Topper Takes a Trip
# 901 The Tortoise and the Hare
# 902 Tourist Season
# 903 Towards the End of the Morning
# 904 The Towers of Trebizond
# 905 A Town Like Alice
# 906 Toxic Shock
# 907 Trainspotting
# 908 The Transit of Venus
# 909 Travels with My Aunt
# 910 Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
# 911 The Tree of Man
# 912 Trent's Last Case
# 913 The Trial
# 914 Tropic of Cancer
# 915 Tropic of Ruislip
# 916 True History of the Ned Kelly Gang
# 917 The Turn of the Screw
# 918 Two Serious Ladies
# 919 Ulysses
# 920 The Unbearable Bassington
# 921 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
# 922 Uncle Silas
# 923 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
# 924 The Uncommon Reader
# 925 The Unconsoled
# 926 Under the Net
# 927 Under the Skin
# 928 Under the Volcano
# 929 Under Western Eyes
# 930 Underworld
# 931 The Unfortunates
# 932 Unless
# 933 Untouchable
# 934 USA (novel)
# 935 V.
# 936 The Vagabond
# 937 THe Valley of Bones
# 938 Valley of the Dolls
# 939 Vanity Fair
# 940 Vathek
# 941 The Vatican Cellars
# 942 Vendetta
# 943 Venus on the Half-Shell
# 944 The Vicar of Wakefield
# 945 The Victorian Chaise-longue
# 946 Victory: An Island Tale
# 947 Vile Bodies
# 948 Vilette
# 949 Vineland
# 950 The Virgin in the Garden
# 951 The Virgin Suicides
# 952 The Virginian
# 953 Voss
# 954 A Voyage to Arcturus
# 955 Vurt
# 956 Waiting for the Barbarians
# 957 The Wapshot Chronicle
# 958 War and Peace
# 959 The War of the Worlds
# 960 Washington Square
# 961 The Wasp Factory
# 962 Waterland
# 963 The Way of All Flesh
# 964 The Way We Live Now
# 965 We
# 966 We Need to Talk About Kevin
# 967 The Weather in the Streets
# 968 Weaveworld
# 969 The Well of Loneliness
# 970 The Westminster Alice
# 971 What a Carve Up!
# 972 When the Wind Blows
# 973 Whisky Galore
# 974 White Man Falling
# 975 White Noise
# 976 White Teeth
# 977 Who Do You Think You Are?
# 978 Whose Body?
# 979 Wide Sargasso Sea
# 980 Wieland
# 981 Williwaw
# 982 The Wimbledon Poisoner
# 983 Wind in the Willows
# 984 The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
# 985 The Wings of the Dove
# 986 Wise Children
# 987 The Witches of Eastwick
# 988 The Woman in White
# 989 Women in Love
# 990 The Woodlanders
# 991 Wuthering Heights
# 992 The Years of Rice and Salt
# 993 You Only Live Twice
# 994 The Young Lions
# 995 Z.
# 996 Zami
# 997 Zazie in the Metro
# 998 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
# 999 Zorba the Greek
# 1000 Zuleika Dobson
 
The McCarthy Era

By now the bizarre situation was being whispered about. In mid-December Drew Pearson ran an account of the Schine story. The following week the Baltimore Sun carried a long piece about it, and a New York Post article appeared in January. At the same time, McCarthy's view of the Army was darkening. Goaded by Cohn, wrathful over the discharge of Peress, and spurred, perhaps, by his need for daily victories, he erupted at a subcommittee hearing in New York on February 18. The unlucky witness at the time was Brigadier General Ralph W. Wicker, a hero of the Bulge nd the commanding officer of Camp Kilmer in New Jersey. McCarthy told Zwicker that he was "not fit to wear that uniform", that he should "be removed from command", and that he did not have the "brains of a 5 year old child."When word of this reached the Pentagon, Stevens, under pressure from Ridgeway, told the press that McCarthy would not be given the names of officers answerable for the discharge of Peress. Stevens deplored the "humiliating treatment" and "abuse" of Zwicker. He ordered the general not to appear before the subcommittee again, and said that he would testify instead. The secretary promptly received a phone call from McCarthy: "Just go ahead and try it, Robert," the senator said menacingly. "I am going to kick the brains out of anyone who protects Communists! You just go ahead. I will guarantee you that you will live to regret it!"

Now Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont defended the Army. In describing McCarthy, he said, "He dons his warpaint. He goes into his war dance. He emits his warhoops. He goes forth into battle and proudly returns with the scalp of a pink Army dentist. We may assume that this represents the depth and seriousness of the Communist penetration in the country at this time." Eisenhower himself congratulated Flanders on his remarks. The line was drawn. McCarthy and his allies were outraged. On March 11 the Army leaked Cohn's threat to "ruin the Army" over Schine.

Next day McCarthy countercharged that the Army had attempted to "blackmail" him into calling off his "exposure of Communists by holding Schine as a hostage. Plainly a full dress congressional investigation wa needed to hear both sides. A bunch of parliamentary moves followed. No Senator wanted to hold such a hearing for fear of public retaliation. Finally it was agreed that the only solution was that the conduct of McCarthy of Cohn would be investigated by their own subcommittee! McCarthy agreed to step down as chairman; Mundt, one of his most ardent admirers, would preside. Cohn was similarly unqualified to serve as chief counsel; Dirksen appointed Ray Jenkins, a Tennessee trial lawyer.

Now Lyndon Johnson, a powerful Democratic senator, pushed for a decision that would more than anything else spell the end of Joseph McCarthy and his era: LBJ demanded televised sessions. None of McCarthy's hearings had ever been watched by the public at large before. In exchange, McCarthy won the right of cross-examination- one that he had adamantly denied to witnesses when he had been chairman. McCarthy thought he had gotten the better of the deal. So did the political experts of the time. None of them realized the power that television might have in exposing the senator.

Also, nobody knew anything at all about the Army's special counsel, Joseph Welch.

 
69. Marjorie Morningstar

Herman Wouk

1955, 576 pages

Coming of age

Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar, written in 1955, is about a nice Jewish girl in New York during the Great Depression who is determined to become a success as a Broadway actress, and ends up with a nice family in suburbia instead. Yet the story and characters are timeless, especially the somewhat bohemian songwriter Noel Airman, her love interest; in Noel, Wouk creates his greatest character after Captain Queeg: a posing artistic narcissistic dilettante whose pretension and snobbery hides a deep level of insecurity and laziness. His final comeuppance in the novel is deeply satisfying.

Some modern readers of this novel may find it sexist; Marjorie's eventual fate is predetermined. She was never meant to be an actress, but always meant to be a housewife, happily raising children. And of course, it was written in 1955, after all. But despite that, the characters are so well drawn and believable that even this predictability of conclusion doesn't matter. It's a terrific novel of love and romance in the big city.

Up next: Judi Picoult's sermon on gay adoption...

 
Wouk is a good candidate for the People You Thought Were Dead thread. He's 100 and still writing but he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Caine Mutiny which was published in 1951.

 
Eephus said:
Wouk is a good candidate for the People You Thought Were Dead thread. He's 100 and still writing but he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Caine Mutiny which was published in 1951.
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Yep. He's the last of what I consider the great mid-century epic historical novelists:

Herman Wouk

Leon Uris

James Michener

James Clavell

All of them have prominent spots on my list. I often wondered which if any of these guys will be remembered 50 years from now.

 
GrandpaRox said:
52 Pickup
# 2 Absolute Beginners
# 3 The Accidental Tourist
# 4 According to Queeney
# 5 Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
# 6 Adam Bede
# 7 The Adventures of Augie March
# 8 The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
# 9 The Adventures of Gil Blas
# 10 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
# 11 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
# 12 The Adventures of Roderick Random
# 13 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
# 14 Affinity
# 15 The African Queen
# 16 After London; Or, Wild England
# 17 Afternoon Men
# 18 The Age of Innocence
# 19 Air
# 20 Alberta and Jacob
# 21 Ali and Nino
# 22 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
# 23 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
# 24 All Souls Day
# 25 All the Pretty Horses
# 26 Alms for Oblivion
# 27 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
# 28 The Ambassadors
# 29 American Gods
# 30 American Pastoral
# 31 American Psycho
# 32 An American Tragedy
# 33 Amongst Women
# 34 And Then There Were None
# 35 Andersonville
# 36 The Andromeda Strain
# 37 Angel
# 38 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
# 39 Animal Farm
# 40 Anna Karenina
# 41 Anthills of the Savannah
# 42 Any Human Heart
# 43 Around the World in Eighty Days
# 44 As I Lay Dying
# 45 Ascent
# 46 The Ascent of Rum Doodle
# 47 The Asphalt Jungle
# 48 The Assistant
# 49 Asterix the Gaul
# 50 At-Swim-Two-Birds
# 51 Atomised
# 52 Atonement (novel)
# 53 Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Go
# 54 Austerlitz
# 55 Auto-da-Fe
# 56 The Awakening
# 57 Babbitt
# 58 Ballet Shoes
# 59 The Bamboo Bed
# 60 Barchester Towers
# 61 The Baron in the Trees
# 62 Barry Lyndon
# 63 The Beach
# 64 The Beast Must Die
# 65 Beauty and Sadness
# 66 Before Lunch
# 67 Behind the Scenes at the Museum
# 68 Being Dead
# 69 Bel-Ami
# 70 The Bell Jar
# 71 Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel
# 72 Beloved, by Toni Morrison
# 73 A Bend in the River
# 74 Berlin Alexanderplatz
# 75 The Betrothed
# 76 Beyond Black
# 77 The Big Blowdown
# 78 The Big Nowhere
# 79 The Big Sleep
# 80 Billy Liar
# 81 Birdsong
# 82 Black and Blue
# 83 Black Beauty
# 84 Black Mischief
# 85 The Black Prince
# 86 Black Sunday (novel)
# 87 Blacklist
# 88 The Blackwater Lightship
# 89 Bleak House
# 90 The Blind Assassin
# 91 Blindness
# 92 Blood Meridian
# 93 Blott on the Landscape
# 94 The Blue Flower
# 95 The Blue Room
# 96 The Bluest Eye
# 97 Bold as Love
# 98 Bomber
# 99 Bones and Silence
# 100 The Bonfire of the Vanities
# 101 Bonjour Tristesse
# 102 The Book of Daniel
# 103 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
# 104 The Book of the New Sun
# 105 The Bottle Factory Outing
# 106 The Bourne Identity (novel)
# 107 Bouvard Et Pécuchet
# 108 Brave New World
# 109 Breakfast at Tiffany's
# 110 Breakfast of Champions
# 111 Breathing Lessons
# 112 Brewster's Millions
# 113 Bridget Jones's Diary
# 114 Bright Lights, Big City
# 115 Brighton Rock
# 116 The Brothers Karamazov
# 117 Buddenbrooks
# 118 The Buddha of Suburbia
# 119 Burmese Days
# 120 The Butcher Boy
# 121 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
# 122 The Caine Mutiny
# 123 Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard
# 124 Call It Sleep
# 125 The Call of the Wild
# 126 Camp Concentration
# 127 Candide
# 128 A Canticle for Leibowitz
# 129 Caprice
# 130 Captain Blood
# 131 Carrie's War
# 132 The Case of Comrade Tulayev
# 133 The Case of the Gilded Fly
# 134 Casino Royale
# 135 The Castafiore Emerald
# 136 The Castle of Otranto
# 137 Castle Rackrent
# 138 The Castle (novel)
# 139 Cat's Eye
# 140 Catch-22
# 141 The Catcher in the Rye
# 142 Changing Places
# 143 Charade
# 144 The Charterhouse of Parma
# 145 The Chateau
# 146 Cheese
# 147 Cheri
# 148 The Child in Time
# 149 Childhood's End
# 150 The Children of Men
# 151 The Children of the New Forest
# 152 Chronicle in Stone
# 153 The Chronicles of Narnia
# 154 Cider with Rosie
# 155 Clarissa
# 156 Claudine at School
# 157 Clayhanger
# 158 A Clockwork Orange
# 159 Cloud Atlas: the book
# 160 The Code of the Woosters
# 161 Cold Comfort Farm
# 162 Cold Mountain
# 163 The Color Purple
# 164 The Coming Race
# 165 The Commitments
# 166 A Confederacy of Dunces
# 167 Confederates
# 168 Confessions of Zeno
# 169 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
# 170 Consider Phlebas
# 171 The Constant Gardener
# 172 Cop Hater
# 173 The Corrections
# 174 Count Belisarius
# 175 The Count of Monte Cristo
# 176 The Counterfeiters
# 177 Couples
# 178 Covenant with Death
# 179 Cover Her Face
# 180 The Crab with the Golden Claws
# 181 Cranford
# 182 Crash
# 183 Crime and Punishment
# 184 The Crime of Father Amado
# 185 Crome Yellow
# 186 The Crow Road
# 187 The Cruel Sea (novel)
# 188 Cry, The Beloved Country
# 189 The Crying of Lot 49
# 190 Cryptonomicon
# 191 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
# 192 A Dance to the Music of Time
# 193 Daniel Deronda
# 194 A Dark-Adapted Eye
# 195 Darkmans
# 196 Darkness at Noon
# 197 Darkness Falls from the Air
# 198 Darwin's Radio
# 199 The Daughter of Time
# 200 Day
# 201 Day of the Jackal
# 202 The Day of the Locust
# 203 Day of the Triffids
# 204 De Niro's Game
# 205 Dead Lagoon
# 206 Dead Souls
# 207 Death and the Penguin
# 208 Death at the President's Lodging
# 209 Death in Summer
# 210 Death in Venice
# 211 Death of a Hero
# 212 The Death of the Heart
# 213 The Death of Virgil
# 214 The Debacle
# 215 The Debt to Pleasure
# 216 Decline and Fall
# 217 Deliverance
# 218 Delta of Venus
# 219 Devil in a Blue Dress
# 220 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
# 221 Diary of a Mad Old Man
# 222 Diary of a Nobody
# 223 Diary of a Provincial Lady
# 224 Dirty Tricks
# 225 The Discworld Series
# 226 Disgrace
# 227 Dissolution
# 228 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
# 229 Doctor Zhivago
# 230 Dolores Claiborne
# 231 Dom Casmurro Joaquim
# 232 Dombey and Son
# 233 Don Quixote
# 234 Double Indemnity
# 235 Dracula
# 236 The Driver's Seat
# 237 The Drowned World
# 238 A Dry White Season
# 239 Dune
# 240 Earthly Powers
# 241 Earthsea Series
# 242 East Lynne
# 243 East of Eden
# 244 The Echoing Grove
# 245 Effi Briest
# 246 The Egoist
# 247 THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION Samuel R. Delany
# 248 Elmer Gantry
# 249 Emma
# 250 Empire of the Sun
# 251 The End of the Affair
# 252 The End of the World News
# 253 Enduring Love
# 254 Enemies, a Love Story
# 255 England, Their England
# 256 The English Patient
# 257 Enigma
# 258 Ennui; Or, Memoirs of the Earl of Glenthorn
# 259 Epileptic
# 260 Epitaph for a Spy
# 261 Erewhon
# 262 Eugenie Grandet
# 263 Evelina
# 264 Everything Is Illuminated
# 265 Excellent Women
# 266 Exit Music
# 267 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
# 268 Extinction
# 269 The Face of Another
# 270 Fahrenheit 451
# 271 Fair Stood the Wind for France
# 272 A Fairy Tale of New York
# 273 Family Matters
# 274 The Family Moskat
# 275 The Famished Road
# 276 Fantomas
# 277 A Far Cry From Kensington
# 278 Far from the Madding Crowd
# 279 The Far Pavilions
# 280 A Farewell to Arms
# 281 A Fatal Inversion
# 282 Fatherland
# 283 Fathers and Sons
# 284 The Female Man
# 285 Fight Club
# 286 A Fine Balance
# 287 Fingersmith (novel)
# 288 Finnegans
# 289 Fireflies
# 290 First Love
# 291 A Flag For Sunrise
# 292 Flashman
# 293 Flaubert's Parrot
# 294 Flowers for Algernon
# 295 For Whom the Bell Tolls
# 296 Foreign Affairs
# 297 The Forever War
# 298 The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney
# 299 Fortunes of War
# 300 Foucault's Pendulum
# 301 Foundation
# 302 The Fountain Overflows
# 303 The Four Just Men
# 304 Frankenstein
# 305 The French Lieutenant's Woman
# 306 Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
# 307 The Friends of Eddie Coyle
# 308 From Here to Eternity
# 309 Frost in May
# 310 Fun Home
# 311 G.
# 312 The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis
# 313 Gargantua and Pantagruel
# 314 The Gathering
# 315 GB84
# 316 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
# 317 Germinal
# 318 Get Shorty
# 319 The Getaway
# 320 Gilead
# 321 Giovanni's Room
# 322 A Girl in Winter
# 323 Girlfriend in a Coma
# 324 The Girls of Slender Means
# 325 The Glass Bead Game
# 326 The Glass Key
# 327 A Glastonbury Romance
# 328 Go Tell It on the Mountain
# 329 The Go-Between
# 330 The God of Small Things
# 331 God's Bits of Wood
# 332 The Godfather
# 333 The Golden Notebook
# 334 Goldfinger
# 335 Gone with the Wind
# 336 Good Behaviour
# 337 The Good Companions
# 338 A Good Man in Africa
# 339 The Good Soldier Svejk
# 340 The Good Soldier
# 341 Goodbye to Berlin
# 342 Gorky Park
# 343 The Graduate
# 344 The Grapes of Wrath
# 345 The Grass is Singing
# 346 Gravity's Rainbow
# 347 Great Apes
# 348 Great Expectations
# 349 The Great Gatsby
# 350 The Great Impersonation
# 351 Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
# 352 Greenmantle
# 353 The Group
# 354 Gulliver’s Travels
# 355 A Gun for Sale
# 356 The Guns of Navarone
# 357 A Handful of Dust
# 358 Handley Cross
# 359 The Handmaid's Tale
# 360 The Hanging Gardens
# 361 Hangover Square
# 362 Hard Revolution
# 363 Hard Times
# 364 The Harpole Report
# 365 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
# 366 The Haunting of Hill House
# 367 Headlong Hall
# 368 The Hearing Trumpet
# 369 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
# 370 Heart of Darkness
# 371 A Heart so White
# 372 The Heat of the Day
# 373 Heavy Weather
# 374 Hello Summer, Goodbye
# 375 Herland
# 376 Herzog
# 377 Hideous Kinky
# 378 High Fidelity
# 379 A High Wind in Jamaica
# 380 His Dark Materials
# 381 History
# 382 The History of Tom Jones
# 383 The History Man
# 384 The History of Mr Polly
# 385 The History of Pompey the Little
# 386 A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
# 387 The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
# 388 The Hobbit
# 389 The Hollow Man
# 390 The Home and the World
# 391 The Horse's Mouth
# 392 The Hound of the Baskervilles
# 393 A House for Mr Biswas
# 394 House of Leaves
# 395 The House of Mirth
# 396 The House of the Seven Gables
# 397 How Green Was My Valley
# 398 How Late It Was, How Late
# 399 How the Dead Live
# 400 Howards End
# 401 The Human Stain
# 402 Humboldt's Gift
# 403 Hunger
# 404 The Hunters
# 405 Hurrah for St Trinian's
# 406 Hyperion
# 407 I Am Legend
# 408 I Capture the Castle
# 409 I Served the King of England
# 410 I'll Go to Bed at Noon
# 411 An Ice-Cream War
# 412 An Idiot
# 413 If Not Now, When?
# 414 Illywhacker
# 415 The Immoralist
# 416 In the Country of Last Things
# 417 Independence Day
# 418 An Infamous Army
# 419 Infinite Jest
# 420 The Influence
# 421 The Information
# 422 Ingenious Pain
# 423 Institute Benjamenta
# 424 The Insult
# 425 Invisible Cities
# 426 Invitation to the Waltz
# 427 The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
# 428 The IPCRESS File
# 429 The Island of Dr. Moreau
# 430 Ivanhoe
# 431 Jacques the Fatalist
# 432 Jane Eyre
# 433 Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth
# 434 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
# 435 Joseph Andrews
# 436 Journey into Fear
# 437 Journey To the Centre of the Earth
# 438 Journey to the End of the Night
# 439 Joy in the Morning
# 440 Jude the Obscure
# 441 A Judgment in Stone
# 442 Julie, Ou La Nouvelle Heloise
# 443 July's People
# 444 Jumper (novel)
# 445 The Jungle
# 446 Jurassic Park (novel)
# 447 Just William
# 448 Justine
# 449 A Kestrel for a Knave
# 450 Kidnapped
# 451 Kim
# 452 A Kind of Loving
# 453 Kindred
# 454 The King of Torts
# 455 King Solomon's Carpet
# 456 King Solomon's Mines
# 457 The Kingdom of This World
# 458 The Kite Runner
# 459 The L Shaped Room
# 460 L'isola Di Arturo
# 461 La Bete Humaine
# 462 La Comedie Humaine
# 463 La Condition Humaine
# 464 L.A. Confidential
# 465 La Disparition
# 466 La Vie Mode D'Emploi
# 467 Lady Audley's Secret
# 468 Lady Chatterley's Lover
# 469 Lake Wobegon Days
# 470 Lanark
# 471 Lark Rise to Candleford
# 472 The Last Chronicle of Barset
# 473 Last Exit to Brooklyn
# 474 Last Seen Wearing
# 475 The Last September
# 476 The Laughing Policeman
# 477 Le Grand Meaulnes
# 478 The League of Frightened Men
# 479 The Lecturer's Tale
# 480 the left hand of darkness
# 481 A Legacy
# 482 The Leopard
# 483 Les Enfants Terrible
# 484 Les Liaisons Dangereuses
# 485 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
# 486 Les Revenentes
# 487 Less Than Angels
# 488 Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
# 489 Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The
# 490 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
# 491 Light
# 492 Light Years
# 493 The Line of Beauty
# 494 Little Dorritt
# 495 The Little Prince
# 496 Little Women
# 497 The Little World of Don Camillo
# 498 Live Flesh
# 499 Living
# 500 Loitering with Intent
# 501 Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male
# 502 Lolly Willowes
# 503 London Fields
# 504 The Lonely Londoners
# 505 The Lonely Passion
# 506 Lonesome Dove
# 507 The Long Goodbye
# 508 A Long Long Way
# 509 Look At Me
# 510 Lord Jim
# 511 Lord of the Flies
# 512 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
# 513 Lorna Doone
# 514 A Lost Lady
# 515 Lost Souls
# 516 Love for Lydia
# 517 Love in a Cold Climate
# 518 Love in the Time of Cholera
# 519 Love on the Dole
# 520 Love Story
# 521 The Loved One
# 522 The Lover
# 523 Lucky Jim
# 524 Lush Life
# 525 The Machine Gunners
# 526 Madame Bovary
# 527 The Madman of Bergerac
# 528 The Magic Mountain
# 529 The Magnificent Ambersons
# 530 The Magus
# 531 Main Street
# 532 Malice Aforethought
# 533 Malone Dies
# 534 The Maltese Falcon
# 535 The Man in the High Castle
# 536 The Man of Property
# 537 The Man Who Loved Children
# 538 The Man Who Was Thursday
# 539 The Man With the Golden Arm
# 540 The Man Without Qualities
# 541 The Manchurian Candidate
# 542 The Mandarins
# 543 Manon Lescaut
# 544 Manservant and Maidservant
# 545 Mansfield Park
# 546 The Map of Love
# 547 The Mark of Zorro
# 548 A Married Man
# 549 Martin Chuzzlewit
# 550 Martin Eden
# 551 Mary Barton
# 552 The Mask of Dimitrios
# 553 Master and Commander
# 554 The Master and Margarita
# 555 Master Georgie
# 556 Maurice Guest
# 557 Maus: A Survivor's Tale
# 558 The Mayor of Casterbridge
# 559 McTeague
# 560 Melmoth the Wanderer
# 561 The Member of the Wedding
# 562 Memet My Hawk
# 563 Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf
# 564 Memoirs of a Survivor
# 565 Men at Arms
# 566 Microserfs
# 567 Middlemarch
# 568 Middlesex
# 569 Midnight's Children
# 570 The Midwich Cuckoos
# 571 The Mighty Walzer
# 572 The Military Philosophers
# 573 The Mill on the Floss
# 574 Millennium People
# 575 The Millstone
# 576 The Ministry of Fear
# 577 Misery (novel)
# 578 Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
# 579 Mister Johnson
# 580 Moby ****
# 581 Molesworth
# 582 Moll Flanders
# 583 Molloy
# 584 Money
# 585 The Monk
# 586 Monkey
# 587 A Month in the Country
# 588 Moo
# 589 The Moon and the Bonfire
# 590 Moon over Africa
# 591 The Moonstone
# 592 More Die of Heartbreak
# 593 Morvern Callar
# 594 Mother
# 595 Mother London
# 596 Motherless Brooklyn
# 597 The Moviegoer
# 598 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
# 599 Mr Norris Changes Trains
# 600 Mrs. Dalloway
# 601 The Murder at the Vicarage
# 602 Murder Must Advertise
# 603 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
# 604 Music and Silence
# 605 My Antonia
# 606 My Cousin Rachel
# 607 My Family and Other Animals
# 608 My Name Is Asher Lev
# 609 My Name Is Red
# 610 My New York Diary
# 611 My Search for Warren Harding
# 612 The Mysteries of Udolpho
# 613 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
# 614 The Mysterious Stranger
# 615 The Naked and the Dead
# 616 The Naked Lunch
# 617 The Name of the Rose
# 618 Narziss and Goldmund
# 619 Native Son
# 620 The Neon Rain
# 621 Neuromancer
# 622 New Grub Street
# 623 The New York Trilogy
# 624 News from Nowhere
# 625 Nice Work
# 626 The Night Sessions
# 627 The Night Watch
# 628 Nightmare Abbey
# 629 Nights at the Circus
# 630 Nightwood
# 631 Nineteen Eighty-Four
# 632 Nineteen Seventy Four
# 633 Nineteen Seventy Seven
# 634 No Bed for Bacon
# 635 No Country for Old Men
# 636 No Orchids for Miss Blandish
# 637 Non-Stop
# 638 North and South
# 639 Northanger Abbey
# 640 Norwegian Wood
# 641 Nostromo
# 642 Notes from the Underground
# 643 Novel on Yellow Paper
# 644 Oblomov
# 645 The Odd Women
# 646 Of Human Bondage
# 647 Of Love & Hunger
# 648 Of Mice and Men
# 649 Office Politics
# 650 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
# 651 The Old Man and the Sea
# 652 The Old Men at the Zoo
# 653 The Old Wives' Tale
# 654 Oliver Twist
# 655 On Beauty
# 656 On the Road
# 657 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich
# 658 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
# 659 One Hundred Years of Solitude
# 660 One of Ours by Willa Cather
# 661 Only Forward
# 662 The Ordeal of Richard Fevere
# 663 Orlando
# 664 Oroonoko
# 665 Oscar and Lucinda
# 666 Our Man in Havana
# 667 The Outsider
# 668 The Painted Bird
# 669 The Painter of Signs
# 670 Palace Walk
# 671 Pale Fire
# 672 Pamela
# 673 Parade's End
# 674 The Parasites
# 675 A Passage to India
# 676 Passing
# 677 The Passion of New Eve
# 678 The Passion
# 679 Patience and Sarah
# 680 Peace in War
# 681 Penrod
# 682 Pere Goriot
# 683 Perfume
# 684 Personality
# 685 Persuasion
# 686 The Piano Teacher
# 687 Piccadilly Jim
# 688 The Pickwick Papers
# 689 The Picture of Dorian Gray
# 690 Pictures from an Institution
# 691 Pig Tales
# 692 The Plague
# 693 Play It as It Lays
# 694 The Pledge
# 695 Pnin
# 696 Poetic Justice
# 697 Pointed Roofs
# 698 The Poisoned Chocolates Case
# 699 The Polyglots
# 700 Porterhouse Blue
# 701 Portnoy's Complaint
# 702 The Portrait of a Lady
# 703 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
# 704 Possession (novel)
# 705 Memórias Póstumas De Brás Cubas
# 706 The Postman Always Rings Twice
# 707 Postmortem
# 708 The Power and the Glory
# 709 A Prayer for Owen Meany
# 710 The Prestige
# 711 Pride and Prejudice
# 712 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
# 713 The Princess of Cleves
# 714 A Princess of Mars
# 715 The Prisoner of Zenda
# 716 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
# 717 The Professor’s House
# 718 Puckoon
# 719 The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson
# 720 The Pursuit of Love
# 721 Put Out More Flags
# 722 Quarantine
# 723 Queen Lucia
# 724 A Quiet Belief in Angels
# 725 The Rabbit Omnibus
# 726 The Radetzky March
# 727 The Ragazzi Pier
# 728 A Rage in Harlem
# 729 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
# 730 The Rainbow
# 731 Rasselas
# 732 Rating
# 733 The Reader
# 734 Rebecca
# 735 The Recognitions
# 736 The Rector's Daughter
# 737 The Red and the Black
# 738 The Red Badge of Courage
# 739 Red Dragon
# 740 Red Harvest
# 741 The Red Room
# 742 Red Shift
# 743 Regency Buck
# 744 Regeneration
# 745 The Reluctant Orphan
# 746 The Remains of the Day
# 747 Remembering Babylon
# 748 Remembrance of Things Past
# 749 The Remorseful Day
# 750 The Restraint of Beasts
# 751 The Return of the Soldier
# 752 Revelation Space
# 753 Revolutionary Road
# 754 A Rich Full Death
# 755 Richshaw Boy
# 756 The Riddle of the Sands
# 757 Riddley Walker
# 758 The Rings of Saturn
# 759 Ringworld
# 760 The Road
# 761 Robinson Crusoe
# 762 Rogue Male
# 763 Rogue Moon
# 764 Room at the Top
# 765 Room Temperature
# 766 A Room with a View
# 767 Roxana
# 768 Rubyfruit Jungle
# 769 Ruth
# 770 The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
# 771 Samarkand
# 772 Sanctuary
# 773 The Satanic Verses
# 774 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
# 775 The Savage Detectives
# 776 The Scar
# 777 Scaramouche
# 778 The Scarlet Letter
# 779 The Scarlet Pimpernel
# 780 Schindler's Ark
# 781 Scoop
# 782 A Season in Sinji
# 783 The Secret Adversary
# 784 The Secret Agent
# 785 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
# 786 The Secret History
# 787 Sense and Sensibility
# 788 Sentimental Education
# 789 A Sentimental Journey
# 790 A Series of Unfortunate Events
# 791 Shame
# 792 Sharpe's Eagle
# 793 She: a History of Adventure
# 794 The Sheltering Sky
# 795 The Shining (novel)
# 796 The Ship of the Line
# 797 The Shipping News
# 798 Shirley
# 799 The Shrimp and the Anemone
# 800 Sidetracked
# 801 The Siege of Krishnapur
# 802 The Sign of Four
# 803 Silas Marner
# 804 Silence
# 805 Silence of the Grave
# 806 The Silent Duchess
# 807 Silver Stallion
# 808 Sirens of Titan
# 809 Sister Carrie
# 810 Slaughter House Five
# 811 The Slaves of Solitude
# 812 Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
# 813 Snow Crash
# 814 The Snow Goose
# 815 So Long, See You Tomorrow
# 816 Solaris (novel)
# 817 The Soldier's Art
# 818 Solomon Gursky Was Here
# 819 Something Fresh
# 820 Song of Solomon
# 821 Sons and Lovers
# 822 Sophie's Choice
# 823 The Sorrow of War
# 824 The Sorrows of Young Werther
# 825 The Sound and the Fury
# 826 The Sound of My Voice
# 827 Sour Sweet
# 828 South Riding
# 829 South Wind
# 830 The Space Merchants
# 831 Spies
# 832 A Sport and a Pastime
# 833 The Sportswriter
# 834 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
# 835 Squire Haggard's Journal
# 836 Star Maker
# 837 The Stars My Destination
# 838 Staying On
# 839 Steppenwolf
# 840 Strait Is the Gate
# 841 The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent
# 842 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
# 843 Stranger in a Strange Land
# 844 Strangers on a Train (novel)
# 845 A Study in Scarlet
# 846 A Suitable Boy
# 847 Suite française
# 848 Sunset Song
# 849 The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
# 850 The Swimming Pool Library
# 851 The Swiss Family Robinson
# 852 The Sword in the Stone
# 853 Sybil or The Two Nations
# 854 A Tale of a Tub
# 855 A Tale of Two Cities
# 856 The Talented Mr. Ripley
# 857 Tales of the City
# 858 Tales of the South Pacific
# 859 A Taste for Death
# 860 Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
# 861 Tender is the Night
# 862 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
# 863 Thank You Jeeves
# 864 Their Eyes Were Watching God
# 865 Therese Raquin
# 866 They Were Counted
# 867 The Thin Man
# 868 Things Fall Apart
# 869 The Things They Carried
# 870 The Third Man
# 871 The Third Policeman
# 872 The Thirty-Nine Steps
# 873 This Sporting Life
# 874 A Thousand Acres
# 875 Three Men in a Boat
# 876 The Three Musketeers
# 877 The Three Paradoxes
# 878 The Three Sisters
# 879 Three Soldiers
# 880 Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
# 881 The Time Machine
# 882 The Time of Indifference
# 883 The Time Ships
# 884 A Time to Be Born
# 885 A Time to Kill
# 886 The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
# 887 The Tin Drum
# 888 The Tin Roof Blowdown
# 889 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
# 890 Tintin in Tibet
# 891 Titmuss Regained
# 892 Titus Groan
# 893 To Each His Own
# 894 To Kill a Mockingbird
# 895 To The Ends of the Earth Trilogy
# 896 To the Lighthouse
# 897 Tobacco Road
# 898 Tom Brown's Schooldays
# 899 Tono-Bungay
# 900 Topper Takes a Trip
# 901 The Tortoise and the Hare
# 902 Tourist Season
# 903 Towards the End of the Morning
# 904 The Towers of Trebizond
# 905 A Town Like Alice
# 906 Toxic Shock
# 907 Trainspotting
# 908 The Transit of Venus
# 909 Travels with My Aunt
# 910 Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
# 911 The Tree of Man
# 912 Trent's Last Case
# 913 The Trial
# 914 Tropic of Cancer
# 915 Tropic of Ruislip
# 916 True History of the Ned Kelly Gang
# 917 The Turn of the Screw
# 918 Two Serious Ladies
# 919 Ulysses
# 920 The Unbearable Bassington
# 921 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
# 922 Uncle Silas
# 923 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
# 924 The Uncommon Reader
# 925 The Unconsoled
# 926 Under the Net
# 927 Under the Skin
# 928 Under the Volcano
# 929 Under Western Eyes
# 930 Underworld
# 931 The Unfortunates
# 932 Unless
# 933 Untouchable
# 934 USA (novel)
# 935 V.
# 936 The Vagabond
# 937 THe Valley of Bones
# 938 Valley of the Dolls
# 939 Vanity Fair
# 940 Vathek
# 941 The Vatican Cellars
# 942 Vendetta
# 943 Venus on the Half-Shell
# 944 The Vicar of Wakefield
# 945 The Victorian Chaise-longue
# 946 Victory: An Island Tale
# 947 Vile Bodies
# 948 Vilette
# 949 Vineland
# 950 The Virgin in the Garden
# 951 The Virgin Suicides
# 952 The Virginian
# 953 Voss
# 954 A Voyage to Arcturus
# 955 Kurt
# 956 Waiting for the Barbarians
# 957 The Wapshot Chronicle
# 958 War and Peace
# 959 The War of the Worlds
# 960 Washington Square
# 961 The Wasp Factory
# 962 Waterland
# 963 The Way of All Flesh
# 964 The Way We Live Now
# 965 We
# 966 We Need to Talk About Kevin
# 967 The Weather in the Streets
# 968 Weaveworld
# 969 The Well of Loneliness
# 970 The Westminster Alice
# 971 What a Carve Up!
# 972 When the Wind Blows
# 973 Whisky Galore
# 974 White Man Falling
# 975 White Noise
# 976 White Teeth
# 977 Who Do You Think You Are?
# 978 Whose Body?
# 979 Wide Sargasso Sea
# 980 Wieland
# 981 Williwaw
# 982 The Wimbledon Poisoner
# 983 Wind in the Willows
# 984 The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
# 985 The Wings of the Dove
# 986 Wise Children
# 987 The Witches of Eastwick
# 988 The Woman in White
# 989 Women in Love
# 990 The Woodlanders
# 991 Wuthering Heights
# 992 The Years of Rice and Salt
# 993 You Only Live Twice
# 994 The Young Lions
# 995 Z.
# 996 Zami
# 997 Zazie in the Metro
# 998 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
# 999 Zorba the Greek
# 1000 Zuleika Dobson
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I'm curious where this list came from, but in any case I've bolded the ones I've read.

 
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GrandpaRox said:
52 Pickup
# 2 Absolute Beginners
# 3 The Accidental Tourist
# 4 According to Queeney
# 5 Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
# 6 Adam Bede
# 7 The Adventures of Augie March
# 8 The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
# 9 The Adventures of Gil Blas
# 10 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
# 11 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
# 12 The Adventures of Roderick Random
# 13 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
# 14 Affinity
# 15 The African Queen
# 16 After London; Or, Wild England
# 17 Afternoon Men
# 18 The Age of Innocence
# 19 Air
# 20 Alberta and Jacob
# 21 Ali and Nino
# 22 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
# 23 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
# 24 All Souls Day
# 25 All the Pretty Horses
# 26 Alms for Oblivion
# 27 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
# 28 The Ambassadors
# 29 American Gods
# 30 American Pastoral
# 31 American Psycho
# 32 An American Tragedy
# 33 Amongst Women
# 34 And Then There Were None
# 35 Andersonville
# 36 The Andromeda Strain
# 37 Angel
# 38 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
# 39 Animal Farm
# 40 Anna Karenina
# 41 Anthills of the Savannah
# 42 Any Human Heart
# 43 Around the World in Eighty Days
# 44 As I Lay Dying
# 45 Ascent
# 46 The Ascent of Rum Doodle
# 47 The Asphalt Jungle
# 48 The Assistant
# 49 Asterix the Gaul
# 50 At-Swim-Two-Birds
# 51 Atomised
# 52 Atonement (novel)
# 53 Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Go
# 54 Austerlitz
# 55 Auto-da-Fe
# 56 The Awakening
# 57 Babbitt
# 58 Ballet Shoes
# 59 The Bamboo Bed
# 60 Barchester Towers
# 61 The Baron in the Trees
# 62 Barry Lyndon
# 63 The Beach
# 64 The Beast Must Die
# 65 Beauty and Sadness
# 66 Before Lunch
# 67 Behind the Scenes at the Museum
# 68 Being Dead
# 69 Bel-Ami
# 70 The Bell Jar
# 71 Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel
# 72 Beloved, by Toni Morrison
# 73 A Bend in the River
# 74 Berlin Alexanderplatz
# 75 The Betrothed
# 76 Beyond Black
# 77 The Big Blowdown
# 78 The Big Nowhere
# 79 The Big Sleep
# 80 Billy Liar
# 81 Birdsong
# 82 Black and Blue
# 83 Black Beauty
# 84 Black Mischief
# 85 The Black Prince
# 86 Black Sunday (novel)
# 87 Blacklist
# 88 The Blackwater Lightship
# 89 Bleak House
# 90 The Blind Assassin
# 91 Blindness
# 92 Blood Meridian
# 93 Blott on the Landscape
# 94 The Blue Flower
# 95 The Blue Room
# 96 The Bluest Eye
# 97 Bold as Love
# 98 Bomber
# 99 Bones and Silence
# 100 The Bonfire of the Vanities
# 101 Bonjour Tristesse
# 102 The Book of Daniel
# 103 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
# 104 The Book of the New Sun
# 105 The Bottle Factory Outing
# 106 The Bourne Identity (novel)
# 107 Bouvard Et Pécuchet
# 108 Brave New World
# 109 Breakfast at Tiffany's
# 110 Breakfast of Champions
# 111 Breathing Lessons
# 112 Brewster's Millions
# 113 Bridget Jones's Diary
# 114 Bright Lights, Big City
# 115 Brighton Rock
# 116 The Brothers Karamazov
# 117 Buddenbrooks
# 118 The Buddha of Suburbia
# 119 Burmese Days
# 120 The Butcher Boy
# 121 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
# 122 The Caine Mutiny
# 123 Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard
# 124 Call It Sleep
# 125 The Call of the Wild
# 126 Camp Concentration
# 127 Candide
# 128 A Canticle for Leibowitz
# 129 Caprice
# 130 Captain Blood
# 131 Carrie's War
# 132 The Case of Comrade Tulayev
# 133 The Case of the Gilded Fly
# 134 Casino Royale
# 135 The Castafiore Emerald
# 136 The Castle of Otranto
# 137 Castle Rackrent
# 138 The Castle (novel)
# 139 Cat's Eye
# 140 Catch-22
# 141 The Catcher in the Rye
# 142 Changing Places
# 143 Charade
# 144 The Charterhouse of Parma
# 145 The Chateau
# 146 Cheese
# 147 Cheri
# 148 The Child in Time
# 149 Childhood's End
# 150 The Children of Men
# 151 The Children of the New Forest
# 152 Chronicle in Stone
# 153 The Chronicles of Narnia
# 154 Cider with Rosie
# 155 Clarissa
# 156 Claudine at School
# 157 Clayhanger
# 158 A Clockwork Orange
# 159 Cloud Atlas: the book
# 160 The Code of the Woosters
# 161 Cold Comfort Farm
# 162 Cold Mountain
# 163 The Color Purple
# 164 The Coming Race
# 165 The Commitments
# 166 A Confederacy of Dunces
# 167 Confederates
# 168 Confessions of Zeno
# 169 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
# 170 Consider Phlebas
# 171 The Constant Gardener
# 172 Cop Hater
# 173 The Corrections
# 174 Count Belisarius
# 175 The Count of Monte Cristo
# 176 The Counterfeiters
# 177 Couples
# 178 Covenant with Death
# 179 Cover Her Face
# 180 The Crab with the Golden Claws
# 181 Cranford
# 182 Crash
# 183 Crime and Punishment
# 184 The Crime of Father Amado
# 185 Crome Yellow
# 186 The Crow Road
# 187 The Cruel Sea (novel)
# 188 Cry, The Beloved Country
# 189 The Crying of Lot 49
# 190 Cryptonomicon
# 191 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
# 192 A Dance to the Music of Time
# 193 Daniel Deronda
# 194 A Dark-Adapted Eye
# 195 Darkmans
# 196 Darkness at Noon
# 197 Darkness Falls from the Air
# 198 Darwin's Radio
# 199 The Daughter of Time
# 200 Day
# 201 Day of the Jackal
# 202 The Day of the Locust
# 203 Day of the Triffids
# 204 De Niro's Game
# 205 Dead Lagoon
# 206 Dead Souls
# 207 Death and the Penguin
# 208 Death at the President's Lodging
# 209 Death in Summer
# 210 Death in Venice
# 211 Death of a Hero
# 212 The Death of the Heart
# 213 The Death of Virgil
# 214 The Debacle
# 215 The Debt to Pleasure
# 216 Decline and Fall
# 217 Deliverance
# 218 Delta of Venus
# 219 Devil in a Blue Dress
# 220 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
# 221 Diary of a Mad Old Man
# 222 Diary of a Nobody
# 223 Diary of a Provincial Lady
# 224 Dirty Tricks
# 225 The Discworld Series
# 226 Disgrace
# 227 Dissolution
# 228 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
# 229 Doctor Zhivago
# 230 Dolores Claiborne
# 231 Dom Casmurro Joaquim
# 232 Dombey and Son
# 233 Don Quixote
# 234 Double Indemnity
# 235 Dracula
# 236 The Driver's Seat
# 237 The Drowned World
# 238 A Dry White Season
# 239 Dune
# 240 Earthly Powers
# 241 Earthsea Series
# 242 East Lynne
# 243 East of Eden
# 244 The Echoing Grove
# 245 Effi Briest
# 246 The Egoist
# 247 THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION Samuel R. Delany
# 248 Elmer Gantry
# 249 Emma
# 250 Empire of the Sun
# 251 The End of the Affair
# 252 The End of the World News
# 253 Enduring Love
# 254 Enemies, a Love Story
# 255 England, Their England
# 256 The English Patient
# 257 Enigma
# 258 Ennui; Or, Memoirs of the Earl of Glenthorn
# 259 Epileptic
# 260 Epitaph for a Spy
# 261 Erewhon
# 262 Eugenie Grandet
# 263 Evelina
# 264 Everything Is Illuminated
# 265 Excellent Women
# 266 Exit Music
# 267 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
# 268 Extinction
# 269 The Face of Another
# 270 Fahrenheit 451
# 271 Fair Stood the Wind for France
# 272 A Fairy Tale of New York
# 273 Family Matters
# 274 The Family Moskat
# 275 The Famished Road
# 276 Fantomas
# 277 A Far Cry From Kensington
# 278 Far from the Madding Crowd
# 279 The Far Pavilions
# 280 A Farewell to Arms
# 281 A Fatal Inversion
# 282 Fatherland
# 283 Fathers and Sons
# 284 The Female Man
# 285 Fight Club
# 286 A Fine Balance
# 287 Fingersmith (novel)
# 288 Finnegans
# 289 Fireflies
# 290 First Love
# 291 A Flag For Sunrise
# 292 Flashman
# 293 Flaubert's Parrot
# 294 Flowers for Algernon
# 295 For Whom the Bell Tolls
# 296 Foreign Affairs
# 297 The Forever War
# 298 The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney
# 299 Fortunes of War
# 300 Foucault's Pendulum
# 301 Foundation
# 302 The Fountain Overflows
# 303 The Four Just Men
# 304 Frankenstein
# 305 The French Lieutenant's Woman
# 306 Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
# 307 The Friends of Eddie Coyle
# 308 From Here to Eternity
# 309 Frost in May
# 310 Fun Home
# 311 G.
# 312 The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis
# 313 Gargantua and Pantagruel
# 314 The Gathering
# 315 GB84
# 316 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
# 317 Germinal
# 318 Get Shorty
# 319 The Getaway
# 320 Gilead
# 321 Giovanni's Room
# 322 A Girl in Winter
# 323 Girlfriend in a Coma
# 324 The Girls of Slender Means
# 325 The Glass Bead Game
# 326 The Glass Key
# 327 A Glastonbury Romance
# 328 Go Tell It on the Mountain
# 329 The Go-Between
# 330 The God of Small Things
# 331 God's Bits of Wood
# 332 The Godfather
# 333 The Golden Notebook
# 334 Goldfinger
# 335 Gone with the Wind
# 336 Good Behaviour
# 337 The Good Companions
# 338 A Good Man in Africa
# 339 The Good Soldier Svejk
# 340 The Good Soldier
# 341 Goodbye to Berlin
# 342 Gorky Park
# 343 The Graduate
# 344 The Grapes of Wrath
# 345 The Grass is Singing
# 346 Gravity's Rainbow
# 347 Great Apes
# 348 Great Expectations
# 349 The Great Gatsby
# 350 The Great Impersonation
# 351 Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
# 352 Greenmantle
# 353 The Group
# 354 Gulliver’s Travels
# 355 A Gun for Sale
# 356 The Guns of Navarone
# 357 A Handful of Dust
# 358 Handley Cross
# 359 The Handmaid's Tale
# 360 The Hanging Gardens
# 361 Hangover Square
# 362 Hard Revolution
# 363 Hard Times
# 364 The Harpole Report
# 365 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
# 366 The Haunting of Hill House
# 367 Headlong Hall
# 368 The Hearing Trumpet
# 369 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
# 370 Heart of Darkness
# 371 A Heart so White
# 372 The Heat of the Day
# 373 Heavy Weather
# 374 Hello Summer, Goodbye
# 375 Herland
# 376 Herzog
# 377 Hideous Kinky
# 378 High Fidelity
# 379 A High Wind in Jamaica
# 380 His Dark Materials
# 381 History
# 382 The History of Tom Jones
# 383 The History Man
# 384 The History of Mr Polly
# 385 The History of Pompey the Little
# 386 A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
# 387 The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
# 388 The Hobbit
# 389 The Hollow Man
# 390 The Home and the World
# 391 The Horse's Mouth
# 392 The Hound of the Baskervilles
# 393 A House for Mr Biswas
# 394 House of Leaves
# 395 The House of Mirth
# 396 The House of the Seven Gables
# 397 How Green Was My Valley
# 398 How Late It Was, How Late
# 399 How the Dead Live
# 400 Howards End
# 401 The Human Stain
# 402 Humboldt's Gift
# 403 Hunger
# 404 The Hunters
# 405 Hurrah for St Trinian's
# 406 Hyperion
# 407 I Am Legend
# 408 I Capture the Castle
# 409 I Served the King of England
# 410 I'll Go to Bed at Noon
# 411 An Ice-Cream War
# 412 An Idiot
# 413 If Not Now, When?
# 414 Illywhacker
# 415 The Immoralist
# 416 In the Country of Last Things
# 417 Independence Day
# 418 An Infamous Army
# 419 Infinite Jest
# 420 The Influence
# 421 The Information
# 422 Ingenious Pain
# 423 Institute Benjamenta
# 424 The Insult
# 425 Invisible Cities
# 426 Invitation to the Waltz
# 427 The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
# 428 The IPCRESS File
# 429 The Island of Dr. Moreau
# 430 Ivanhoe
# 431 Jacques the Fatalist
# 432 Jane Eyre
# 433 Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth
# 434 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
# 435 Joseph Andrews
# 436 Journey into Fear
# 437 Journey To the Centre of the Earth
# 438 Journey to the End of the Night
# 439 Joy in the Morning
# 440 Jude the Obscure
# 441 A Judgment in Stone
# 442 Julie, Ou La Nouvelle Heloise
# 443 July's People
# 444 Jumper (novel)
# 445 The Jungle
# 446 Jurassic Park (novel)
# 447 Just William
# 448 Justine
# 449 A Kestrel for a Knave
# 450 Kidnapped
# 451 Kim
# 452 A Kind of Loving
# 453 Kindred
# 454 The King of Torts
# 455 King Solomon's Carpet
# 456 King Solomon's Mines
# 457 The Kingdom of This World
# 458 The Kite Runner
# 459 The L Shaped Room
# 460 L'isola Di Arturo
# 461 La Bete Humaine
# 462 La Comedie Humaine
# 463 La Condition Humaine
# 464 L.A. Confidential
# 465 La Disparition
# 466 La Vie Mode D'Emploi
# 467 Lady Audley's Secret
# 468 Lady Chatterley's Lover
# 469 Lake Wobegon Days
# 470 Lanark
# 471 Lark Rise to Candleford
# 472 The Last Chronicle of Barset
# 473 Last Exit to Brooklyn
# 474 Last Seen Wearing
# 475 The Last September
# 476 The Laughing Policeman
# 477 Le Grand Meaulnes
# 478 The League of Frightened Men
# 479 The Lecturer's Tale
# 480 the left hand of darkness
# 481 A Legacy
# 482 The Leopard
# 483 Les Enfants Terrible
# 484 Les Liaisons Dangereuses
# 485 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
# 486 Les Revenentes
# 487 Less Than Angels
# 488 Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
# 489 Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The
# 490 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
# 491 Light
# 492 Light Years
# 493 The Line of Beauty
# 494 Little Dorritt
# 495 The Little Prince
# 496 Little Women
# 497 The Little World of Don Camillo
# 498 Live Flesh
# 499 Living
# 500 Loitering with Intent
# 501 Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male
# 502 Lolly Willowes
# 503 London Fields
# 504 The Lonely Londoners
# 505 The Lonely Passion
# 506 Lonesome Dove
# 507 The Long Goodbye
# 508 A Long Long Way
# 509 Look At Me
# 510 Lord Jim
# 511 Lord of the Flies
# 512 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
# 513 Lorna Doone
# 514 A Lost Lady
# 515 Lost Souls
# 516 Love for Lydia
# 517 Love in a Cold Climate
# 518 Love in the Time of Cholera
# 519 Love on the Dole
# 520 Love Story
# 521 The Loved One
# 522 The Lover
# 523 Lucky Jim
# 524 Lush Life
# 525 The Machine Gunners
# 526 Madame Bovary
# 527 The Madman of Bergerac
# 528 The Magic Mountain
# 529 The Magnificent Ambersons
# 530 The Magus
# 531 Main Street
# 532 Malice Aforethought
# 533 Malone Dies
# 534 The Maltese Falcon
# 535 The Man in the High Castle
# 536 The Man of Property
# 537 The Man Who Loved Children
# 538 The Man Who Was Thursday
# 539 The Man With the Golden Arm
# 540 The Man Without Qualities
# 541 The Manchurian Candidate
# 542 The Mandarins
# 543 Manon Lescaut
# 544 Manservant and Maidservant
# 545 Mansfield Park
# 546 The Map of Love
# 547 The Mark of Zorro
# 548 A Married Man
# 549 Martin Chuzzlewit
# 550 Martin Eden
# 551 Mary Barton
# 552 The Mask of Dimitrios
# 553 Master and Commander
# 554 The Master and Margarita
# 555 Master Georgie
# 556 Maurice Guest
# 557 Maus: A Survivor's Tale
# 558 The Mayor of Casterbridge
# 559 McTeague
# 560 Melmoth the Wanderer
# 561 The Member of the Wedding
# 562 Memet My Hawk
# 563 Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf
# 564 Memoirs of a Survivor
# 565 Men at Arms
# 566 Microserfs
# 567 Middlemarch
# 568 Middlesex
# 569 Midnight's Children
# 570 The Midwich Cuckoos
# 571 The Mighty Walzer
# 572 The Military Philosophers
# 573 The Mill on the Floss
# 574 Millennium People
# 575 The Millstone
# 576 The Ministry of Fear
# 577 Misery (novel)
# 578 Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
# 579 Mister Johnson
# 580 Moby ****
# 581 Molesworth
# 582 Moll Flanders
# 583 Molloy
# 584 Money
# 585 The Monk
# 586 Monkey
# 587 A Month in the Country
# 588 Moo
# 589 The Moon and the Bonfire
# 590 Moon over Africa
# 591 The Moonstone
# 592 More Die of Heartbreak
# 593 Morvern Callar
# 594 Mother
# 595 Mother London
# 596 Motherless Brooklyn
# 597 The Moviegoer
# 598 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
# 599 Mr Norris Changes Trains
# 600 Mrs. Dalloway
# 601 The Murder at the Vicarage
# 602 Murder Must Advertise
# 603 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
# 604 Music and Silence
# 605 My Antonia
# 606 My Cousin Rachel
# 607 My Family and Other Animals
# 608 My Name Is Asher Lev
# 609 My Name Is Red
# 610 My New York Diary
# 611 My Search for Warren Harding
# 612 The Mysteries of Udolpho
# 613 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
# 614 The Mysterious Stranger
# 615 The Naked and the Dead
# 616 The Naked Lunch
# 617 The Name of the Rose
# 618 Narziss and Goldmund
# 619 Native Son
# 620 The Neon Rain
# 621 Neuromancer
# 622 New Grub Street
# 623 The New York Trilogy
# 624 News from Nowhere
# 625 Nice Work
# 626 The Night Sessions
# 627 The Night Watch
# 628 Nightmare Abbey
# 629 Nights at the Circus
# 630 Nightwood
# 631 Nineteen Eighty-Four
# 632 Nineteen Seventy Four
# 633 Nineteen Seventy Seven
# 634 No Bed for Bacon
# 635 No Country for Old Men
# 636 No Orchids for Miss Blandish
# 637 Non-Stop
# 638 North and South
# 639 Northanger Abbey
# 640 Norwegian Wood
# 641 Nostromo
# 642 Notes from the Underground
# 643 Novel on Yellow Paper
# 644 Oblomov
# 645 The Odd Women
# 646 Of Human Bondage
# 647 Of Love & Hunger
# 648 Of Mice and Men
# 649 Office Politics
# 650 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
# 651 The Old Man and the Sea
# 652 The Old Men at the Zoo
# 653 The Old Wives' Tale
# 654 Oliver Twist
# 655 On Beauty
# 656 On the Road
# 657 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich
# 658 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
# 659 One Hundred Years of Solitude
# 660 One of Ours by Willa Cather
# 661 Only Forward
# 662 The Ordeal of Richard Fevere
# 663 Orlando
# 664 Oroonoko
# 665 Oscar and Lucinda
# 666 Our Man in Havana
# 667 The Outsider
# 668 The Painted Bird
# 669 The Painter of Signs
# 670 Palace Walk
# 671 Pale Fire
# 672 Pamela
# 673 Parade's End
# 674 The Parasites
# 675 A Passage to India
# 676 Passing
# 677 The Passion of New Eve
# 678 The Passion
# 679 Patience and Sarah
# 680 Peace in War
# 681 Penrod
# 682 Pere Goriot
# 683 Perfume
# 684 Personality
# 685 Persuasion
# 686 The Piano Teacher
# 687 Piccadilly Jim
# 688 The Pickwick Papers
# 689 The Picture of Dorian Gray
# 690 Pictures from an Institution
# 691 Pig Tales
# 692 The Plague
# 693 Play It as It Lays
# 694 The Pledge
# 695 Pnin
# 696 Poetic Justice
# 697 Pointed Roofs
# 698 The Poisoned Chocolates Case
# 699 The Polyglots
# 700 Porterhouse Blue
# 701 Portnoy's Complaint
# 702 The Portrait of a Lady
# 703 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
# 704 Possession (novel)
# 705 Memórias Póstumas De Brás Cubas
# 706 The Postman Always Rings Twice
# 707 Postmortem
# 708 The Power and the Glory
# 709 A Prayer for Owen Meany
# 710 The Prestige
# 711 Pride and Prejudice
# 712 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
# 713 The Princess of Cleves
# 714 A Princess of Mars
# 715 The Prisoner of Zenda
# 716 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
# 717 The Professor’s House
# 718 Puckoon
# 719 The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson
# 720 The Pursuit of Love
# 721 Put Out More Flags
# 722 Quarantine
# 723 Queen Lucia
# 724 A Quiet Belief in Angels
# 725 The Rabbit Omnibus
# 726 The Radetzky March
# 727 The Ragazzi Pier
# 728 A Rage in Harlem
# 729 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
# 730 The Rainbow
# 731 Rasselas
# 732 Rating
# 733 The Reader
# 734 Rebecca
# 735 The Recognitions
# 736 The Rector's Daughter
# 737 The Red and the Black
# 738 The Red Badge of Courage
# 739 Red Dragon
# 740 Red Harvest
# 741 The Red Room
# 742 Red Shift
# 743 Regency Buck
# 744 Regeneration
# 745 The Reluctant Orphan
# 746 The Remains of the Day
# 747 Remembering Babylon
# 748 Remembrance of Things Past
# 749 The Remorseful Day
# 750 The Restraint of Beasts
# 751 The Return of the Soldier
# 752 Revelation Space
# 753 Revolutionary Road
# 754 A Rich Full Death
# 755 Richshaw Boy
# 756 The Riddle of the Sands
# 757 Riddley Walker
# 758 The Rings of Saturn
# 759 Ringworld
# 760 The Road
# 761 Robinson Crusoe
# 762 Rogue Male
# 763 Rogue Moon
# 764 Room at the Top
# 765 Room Temperature
# 766 A Room with a View
# 767 Roxana
# 768 Rubyfruit Jungle
# 769 Ruth
# 770 The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
# 771 Samarkand
# 772 Sanctuary
# 773 The Satanic Verses
# 774 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
# 775 The Savage Detectives
# 776 The Scar
# 777 Scaramouche
# 778 The Scarlet Letter
# 779 The Scarlet Pimpernel
# 780 Schindler's Ark
# 781 Scoop
# 782 A Season in Sinji
# 783 The Secret Adversary
# 784 The Secret Agent
# 785 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
# 786 The Secret History
# 787 Sense and Sensibility
# 788 Sentimental Education
# 789 A Sentimental Journey
# 790 A Series of Unfortunate Events
# 791 Shame
# 792 Sharpe's Eagle
# 793 She: a History of Adventure
# 794 The Sheltering Sky
# 795 The Shining (novel)
# 796 The Ship of the Line
# 797 The Shipping News
# 798 Shirley
# 799 The Shrimp and the Anemone
# 800 Sidetracked
# 801 The Siege of Krishnapur
# 802 The Sign of Four
# 803 Silas Marner
# 804 Silence
# 805 Silence of the Grave
# 806 The Silent Duchess
# 807 Silver Stallion
# 808 Sirens of Titan
# 809 Sister Carrie
# 810 Slaughter House Five
# 811 The Slaves of Solitude
# 812 Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
# 813 Snow Crash
# 814 The Snow Goose
# 815 So Long, See You Tomorrow
# 816 Solaris (novel)
# 817 The Soldier's Art
# 818 Solomon Gursky Was Here
# 819 Something Fresh
# 820 Song of Solomon
# 821 Sons and Lovers
# 822 Sophie's Choice
# 823 The Sorrow of War
# 824 The Sorrows of Young Werther
# 825 The Sound and the Fury
# 826 The Sound of My Voice
# 827 Sour Sweet
# 828 South Riding
# 829 South Wind
# 830 The Space Merchants
# 831 Spies
# 832 A Sport and a Pastime
# 833 The Sportswriter
# 834 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
# 835 Squire Haggard's Journal
# 836 Star Maker
# 837 The Stars My Destination
# 838 Staying On
# 839 Steppenwolf
# 840 Strait Is the Gate
# 841 The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent
# 842 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
# 843 Stranger in a Strange Land
# 844 Strangers on a Train (novel)
# 845 A Study in Scarlet
# 846 A Suitable Boy
# 847 Suite française
# 848 Sunset Song
# 849 The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
# 850 The Swimming Pool Library
# 851 The Swiss Family Robinson
# 852 The Sword in the Stone
# 853 Sybil or The Two Nations
# 854 A Tale of a Tub
# 855 A Tale of Two Cities
# 856 The Talented Mr. Ripley
# 857 Tales of the City
# 858 Tales of the South Pacific
# 859 A Taste for Death
# 860 Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
# 861 Tender is the Night
# 862 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
# 863 Thank You Jeeves
# 864 Their Eyes Were Watching God
# 865 Therese Raquin
# 866 They Were Counted
# 867 The Thin Man
# 868 Things Fall Apart
# 869 The Things They Carried
# 870 The Third Man
# 871 The Third Policeman
# 872 The Thirty-Nine Steps
# 873 This Sporting Life
# 874 A Thousand Acres
# 875 Three Men in a Boat
# 876 The Three Musketeers
# 877 The Three Paradoxes
# 878 The Three Sisters
# 879 Three Soldiers
# 880 Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
# 881 The Time Machine
# 882 The Time of Indifference
# 883 The Time Ships
# 884 A Time to Be Born
# 885 A Time to Kill
# 886 The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
# 887 The Tin Drum
# 888 The Tin Roof Blowdown
# 889 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
# 890 Tintin in Tibet
# 891 Titmuss Regained
# 892 Titus Groan
# 893 To Each His Own
# 894 To Kill a Mockingbird
# 895 To The Ends of the Earth Trilogy
# 896 To the Lighthouse
# 897 Tobacco Road
# 898 Tom Brown's Schooldays
# 899 Tono-Bungay
# 900 Topper Takes a Trip
# 901 The Tortoise and the Hare
# 902 Tourist Season
# 903 Towards the End of the Morning
# 904 The Towers of Trebizond
# 905 A Town Like Alice
# 906 Toxic Shock
# 907 Trainspotting
# 908 The Transit of Venus
# 909 Travels with My Aunt
# 910 Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
# 911 The Tree of Man
# 912 Trent's Last Case
# 913 The Trial
# 914 Tropic of Cancer
# 915 Tropic of Ruislip
# 916 True History of the Ned Kelly Gang
# 917 The Turn of the Screw
# 918 Two Serious Ladies
# 919 Ulysses
# 920 The Unbearable Bassington
# 921 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
# 922 Uncle Silas
# 923 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
# 924 The Uncommon Reader
# 925 The Unconsoled
# 926 Under the Net
# 927 Under the Skin
# 928 Under the Volcano
# 929 Under Western Eyes
# 930 Underworld
# 931 The Unfortunates
# 932 Unless
# 933 Untouchable
# 934 USA (novel)
# 935 V.
# 936 The Vagabond
# 937 THe Valley of Bones
# 938 Valley of the Dolls
# 939 Vanity Fair
# 940 Vathek
# 941 The Vatican Cellars
# 942 Vendetta
# 943 Venus on the Half-Shell
# 944 The Vicar of Wakefield
# 945 The Victorian Chaise-longue
# 946 Victory: An Island Tale
# 947 Vile Bodies
# 948 Vilette
# 949 Vineland
# 950 The Virgin in the Garden
# 951 The Virgin Suicides
# 952 The Virginian
# 953 Voss
# 954 A Voyage to Arcturus
# 955 Kurt
# 956 Waiting for the Barbarians
# 957 The Wapshot Chronicle
# 958 War and Peace
# 959 The War of the Worlds
# 960 Washington Square
# 961 The Wasp Factory
# 962 Waterland
# 963 The Way of All Flesh
# 964 The Way We Live Now
# 965 We
# 966 We Need to Talk About Kevin
# 967 The Weather in the Streets
# 968 Weaveworld
# 969 The Well of Loneliness
# 970 The Westminster Alice
# 971 What a Carve Up!
# 972 When the Wind Blows
# 973 Whisky Galore
# 974 White Man Falling
# 975 White Noise
# 976 White Teeth
# 977 Who Do You Think You Are?
# 978 Whose Body?
# 979 Wide Sargasso Sea
# 980 Wieland
# 981 Williwaw
# 982 The Wimbledon Poisoner
# 983 Wind in the Willows
# 984 The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
# 985 The Wings of the Dove
# 986 Wise Children
# 987 The Witches of Eastwick
# 988 The Woman in White
# 989 Women in Love
# 990 The Woodlanders
# 991 Wuthering Heights
# 992 The Years of Rice and Salt
# 993 You Only Live Twice
# 994 The Young Lions
# 995 Z.
# 996 Zami
# 997 Zazie in the Metro
# 998 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
# 999 Zorba the Greek
# 1000 Zuleika Dobson
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I'm curious where this list came from, but in any case I've bolded the ones I've read.
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Michener's books are longer than this by three orders of magnitude.

And City of Spades was better than Absolute Beginners

 
timschochet said:
hagmania said:
timschochet said:
urbanhack said:
Ministry of Pain said:
Trump brings people out to vote that we don't always hear from, that's exciting to me. I want to be honest about the country I live in and if this country is filled with a bunch of white racists(I doubt it) I want to know about it. Give them a voice and let's hear what their real concerns are. I bet it revolves around having a job and money.
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:lmao:
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Yeah, I don't particularly want to hear from the Trump supporters. I don't want them to have a voice.

When did elitism get a bad rap in our society? We've always been better off ignoring the riff raff. Put on Jerry Springer for them, and keep them the #### away from having political influence. That's my anti-populist philosphy in a nutshell.
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Your views on elitism always seem to conflict with your views on immigration.
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Really? Think again.
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I'm going to need you to hold my hand, if you've the time.

 
No problem. First of all, I do like to consider myself an elitist, but it's an elitism of thinking people. I want smart people to decide stuff and would prefer that the dumb ones not get involved. That's one reason why I dislike populism- it attracts dumb folks who normally are not interested in politics. (There are other reasons as well.) But my point is, it's not an elitism of class or race or even political philosophy. I really don't care where you're from or how you think so long as you think. If you think, and if you're a good person, I will always prefer you over somebody who doesn't.

Now specifically with regard to illegal immigration- I am for it, in rough terms, for many of the same reasons the Chamber of Commerce is for it: because it provides low paying workers necessary for our economic prosperity. That's about as elitist a position as anybody can have. There are of course more idealistic reasons why I am in favor as well, but this is a pretty big one. I want employers to have the freedom to hire people at very low wages in order to be competitive with the items they produce.

 
hagmania said:
I had wrongly attached an idealistic reason to your immigration stance. I see now.
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There is also an idealistic reason. I really do believe in the words on the Statue of Liberty. Let them come here, let them be free, let them enjoy our system and prosper.

But if they're stupid, I'd prefer they stayed away from the voting booth or political office.

 
Tim - I saw that you listed Handmaid's Tale as a novel you have read. Curious if you liked it. I am huge Atwood fan, and that is one that a lot of people don't seem to have read.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Tim - I saw that you listed Handmaid's Tale as a novel you have read. Curious if you liked it. I am huge Atwood fan, and that is one that a lot of people don't seem to have read.
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I liked it. Didn't love it. Im not much on dystopian novels, though lately they've become a huge deal- especially if you write one for young adults: just take 1984, stick a teenage girl in it, give her some love interests= millions!!!Atwood's book is not for YA and was written before the craze so it's better than most. There's a novel by Hillary Jordan, When She Woke which is very similar BTW.

I haven't read any other Atwood novels so I can't compare.

 
The McCarthy Era, Continued

The hearings opened in the floodlit Corinthian splendor of the Senate Caucus Room on the morning of April 22, 1954. Everything seemed to be in order. Jenkins was at the microphone. Mundt held the gavel. The Democrats were represented by their minority council, 28 year old Robert F. Kennedy, then known chiefly for his hostility to Cohn. Mundt asked Jenkins to call the first witness, but before he could speak there was an interruption:

McCarthy: A point of order, Mr. Chairman, may I raise a point of order?

According to H.M. Roberts Rules of Order, a chairman may be interrupted on a point of order, provided that the question is one of propriety under the rules. McCarthy had something else in mind:

McCarthy: I have heard from people in the military all the way from generals with the most upstanding combat records down to privates recently inducted and they indicate they are very resentful of the fact that a few Pentagon politicians attempting to disrupt our investigations are naming themselves the Department of the Army...the Department of the Army is not doing this. It is 3 civilians in the Army and they should be so named.

An impartial chairman would have gaveled McCarthy into silence the moment it became clear that, far from raising a procedural matter, he was making a speech. Mundt let him make it. Placidly he agreed to a preposterous McCarthy proposal: that judgment be withheld on whether the Secretary of the Army represented the Army. With that as an opening, McCarthy interrupted to make the same speech again. "Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman," he sang out in that tight whine. Mundt looked down the table and nodded, and Joe made his point again:

McCarthy: I maintain it is a disgrace and a reflection upon every one of the million outstanding men in the Army to let a few civilians who are trying, trying to hold up an investigation of Communists labeling themselves as the Department of the Army.

Mundt then invited McCarthy, without swearing him in, to explain "just what the set up of the Communists is." To the dismay of those who had been through this so many times before, Joe produced maps mounted on easels and a pointer, At the end of his lecture he said, "there are many people who think we can live side by side with Communists." Eagerly Jenkins said, "What do you say about that, sir? Remember that you have an audience of about 20 to 30 million people. I want you to tell them what each individual American man, woman, and child can do to do their bit to liquidate the Communist party." McCarthy's answer took up the rest of the broadcast for that day.

His critics were in despair. The senator seemed invincible. Nothing, not even the US Army, was a match for him. By the force of his personality he was turning each session into a McCarthy melodrama, with doctored photographs, phony FBI reports, and savage little McCarthy homilies. The moment any testimony unfavorable to him began to get interesting he would mumble into the record with one of his vibrant calls for "A point of order!" or "Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman!" and then he would be off with a digression about how "sick and tired" he was of "sitting down here and hearing all these pack of lies."

So one sided were the hearings becoming that the Caucus Room audience, which had come to see a fight, cheered Senator Stuart Symington just for having the courage to talk back to Joe: "You said something about being afraid. I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that I'm not afraid of anything about you or anything you've got to say any time, any place, anywhere."

No one else around the table seemed prepared to go farther than that, and of all of them the man who appeared least likely to take on McCarthy was the Army's special counsel. Tall, portly, and birdlike, Joseph N. Welch was 63, a lifelong Republican and a senior partner in the eminently respectable Boston firm of Hale and Dorr. He had undertaken this assignment for no fee. And that, said, reporters, must have been why he had been chosen. Hour after hour he sat quietly with an elbow on the table. He might have been another spectator for he said nothing, made no objections. He simply listened.

 
68. Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult

2011, 410 pages

legal drama

I enjoy Jodi Picoult, and this is my favorite of her novels. A couple trying to have children stores in vitro eggs away for future use. They then get divorced. The husband becomes a born again Christian, while the wife, discovering that she was a lesbian all along, falls in love with another woman. The new couple desires to have children so they ask permission to use the eggs; the former husband, goaded by his pastor looking for publicity, refuses and the case goes to court.

It's a fine novel dealing with gay marriage, religion, gay adoption. Picoult is a liberal and if you're not one you're probably not going to be happy with this story. But otherwise it's well written with interesting characters and suspensful throughout. One annoying aspect: Picoult wrote some folk songs for this novel and begins each chapter with a folkie friend of hers singing each song. Indigo Girls it ain't. In fact the music which is available on MP3 (and which you're forced to listen to if you get the audible version) is simply dreadful. Jodi should stick to writing novels.

Up next: Two famous journalists, Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre, write a terrifying nuclear thriller...

 
I got this from a book I'm reading: live shows in Las Vegas from 50 years ago (1966):

The Dunes- Joey Bishop

The Aladdin-Perry Como

The Sands- Frank and Nancy Sinatra

The Riviera- Patti Page

The Stardust- Dean Martin

The Fabulous Flamingo- Robert Goulet and Jack Benny

 
For anybody that cares:

Today is January 31. I am taking a month off of political discussion. I can't stand it anymore. I'll continue to read what people have to say but somebody else will have to call out the idiocy. I'm done for now.

I'll continue to post on other subjects, but if you're expecting me to comment on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders, et al, dont. Perhaps when March rolls around I'll feel refreshed. Perhaps the world will seem a saner place. We'll see.

 
bananafish said:
timschochet said:
For anybody that cares:

Today is January 31. I am taking a month off of political discussion. I can't stand it anymore. I'll continue to read what people have to say but somebody else will have to call out the idiocy. I'm done for now.

I'll continue to post on other subjects, but if you're expecting me to comment on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders, et al, dont. Perhaps when March rolls around I'll feel refreshed. Perhaps the world will seem a saner place. We'll see.
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Now? Right when Bernie's gonna win Iowa?I kid. Don't take it so seriously, Tim. The Trump fans, just like the Palin and George W. fans before them, will have to live with their idiocy.

I, for one, will miss your banter.
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Thanks. But I need a break. It may not be a month, we'll see. But I need to relax a little bit and not think about this stuff so much. It stresses me out.
 
bananafish said:
timschochet said:
For anybody that cares:

Today is January 31. I am taking a month off of political discussion. I can't stand it anymore. I'll continue to read what people have to say but somebody else will have to call out the idiocy. I'm done for now.

I'll continue to post on other subjects, but if you're expecting me to comment on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders, et al, dont. Perhaps when March rolls around I'll feel refreshed. Perhaps the world will seem a saner place. We'll see.
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Now? Right when Bernie's gonna win Iowa?

I kid. Don't take it so seriously, Tim. The Trump fans, just like the Palin and George W. fans before them, will have to live with their idiocy.

I, for one, will miss your banter.

ETA: and don't let MoP get under your skin. He's not a racist or a bigot, nor misinformed. He's just a verbose imbecile who can't read too well.
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Agreed, hang in there, Tim, and stay cool. Take care.

 
Hey Tim I do have a music question I have been meaning to ask you.

A while back you posted a cool music site that showed artists by album and all the tracks on each album and even had some music files.

What was that? Thanks.

 
Flowers For Algernon was a novel?

And Margaret Atwood wrote interesting stuff. She wrote a controversial short story once, which is my preferred form. By far. Don't want to mention it by name, but we had to read it in Women's Lit. Also, I happen to know some young women that can confirm your dystopic thesis.

And don't take the month off from politics, tim. Why now?

 
rockaction said:
Flowers For Algernon was a novel?

And Margaret Atwood wrote interesting stuff. She wrote a controversial short story once, which is my preferred form. By far. Don't want to mention it by name, but we had to read it in Women's Lit. Also, I happen to know some young women that can confirm your dystopic thesis.

And don't take the month off from politics, tim. Why now?
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Flowers for Algernon started off as a short story and was expanded into a novel. It's on my list so I'll get into it later.
 
67. The Fifth Horseman

Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre

1980, 519 pages

suspense

It really doesn't get any scarier than this novel, which, although written in 1980, is still timely 35 years later. A radical Islamist leader hides a thermonuclear bomb in Manhattan (in the book it's Moammar Gaddafi, but it really could be several people.) The bomb will be detonated unless the USA forces Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories. As the President attempts to negotiate, the NYPD and the FBI are on a manhunt to find the bomb in time.

Collins and LaPierre were two journalists famous for their non-fiction works such as Is Paris Burning and O'Jerusalem. They bring their vast knowledge to this tale, including a discussion of how an Arab country would obtain thermonuclear weapons which is still pertinent today. Some of the technology has changed but not much. This was their first attempt at fiction (Larry Collins went on to write a few other thrillers) and they do a very good job with the characters and keeping up the suspense throughout. Everything is highly believable; that's what makes it so chilling.

Up next: Pat Conroy explores the late 60s and 21st century in South Carolina...

 
Billboard's #1 hit 60 years ago this week: "Memories Are Made of This"- Dean Martin

50 years ago: "We Can Work It Out"- The Beatles

40 years ago: "Love Rollercoaster"- The Ohio Players

30 years ago: "That's What Friends Are For"- Dionne and Friends

20 years ago: "One Sweet Day"- Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men

10 years ago: "Grillz"- Nelly

 
Do you not see a similarity between McCarthy and throwing the label communist out as a weapon and your current crusade labeling people as racist? Both words serve as a tool of silence and suppression.

 
Ladsud said:
Do you not see a similarity between McCarthy and throwing the label communist out as a weapon and your current crusade labeling people as racist? Both words serve as a tool of silence and suppression.
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:lmao:

During my time at FFA, I have called 5 people racist:

Jim11

LHUCKS

Clinton

GrandpaRox

JamesBrownKid

That's it. There are many other people who have expressed racist views in this forum, and I have called them out for that, but that doesn't make them racist. I don't believe most people are racist. If you are referring to my recent comments about Trump supporters in general, you might want to go back and read them again.

Your comment, however, indicates that you either did not read what I wrote about the McCarthy era or you didn't understand it. That's too bad.

 
timschochet said:
For anybody that cares:

Today is January 31. I am taking a month off of political discussion. I can't stand it anymore. I'll continue to read what people have to say but somebody else will have to call out the idiocy. I'm done for now.

I'll continue to post on other subjects, but if you're expecting me to comment on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders, et al, dont. Perhaps when March rolls around I'll feel refreshed. Perhaps the world will seem a saner place. We'll see.
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Man, that month just flew by.

 
PlasmaDogPlasma said:
timschochet said:
For anybody that cares:

Today is January 31. I am taking a month off of political discussion. I can't stand it anymore. I'll continue to read what people have to say but somebody else will have to call out the idiocy. I'm done for now.

I'll continue to post on other subjects, but if you're expecting me to comment on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders, et al, dont. Perhaps when March rolls around I'll feel refreshed. Perhaps the world will seem a saner place. We'll see.
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Man, that month just flew by.
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:P

It did. I was in a terrible mood yesterday. I recovered quicker than I thought. Hope you don't mind. Too much going on, too fun to discuss.

 
Time off from politics won't stop you from posting more McCarthy stuff, right? Please? I continue to enjoy it immensely.

 
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