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Being something of a fan of Ralph Ellison YES Invisible Man is a good suggestion, a masterpiece of American fiction IMO. However as you alluded to he did write a number of short stories (more early on) for which there is a collection published by Penguin and coincidentally just today I purchased...

Hi everyone, Please post what you are reading in the month of April. I'm currently reading Wallace Stegner's excellent Crossing To Safety.

About to post the April reading thread....:)

I like this thread. How about Hope Mirlees and Lud-In-The-Mist? She wrote some noted poetry (incl. Paris:The Poem that influenced the likes of Virginia Woolf and TS Eliott) as well but I doubt many people have read these in current times. Correction: She also wrote a couple of other novels so...

Hi David. I got sidetracked big time (in no small part due to a new job) and therefore have not yet finished M&M but I want to read and complete it this weekend. Cheers.

I have all of the novels, shorter works, most of his travel writing and other journalistic reporting but I have not by any stretch read all of that material yet but my favourite novels to date are Bleak House, Little Dorrit and Great Expectations.

I agree with Teresa. American Notes I found quite interesting but it is probably the weakest of his travelogues. I also have a copy of his travel notes in France, which makes great reading. Of course Teresa is better placed than I am in knowing exactly how biased some of his views might be...it...

I'm glad you brought Balzac back from the brink....;) Wild Ass's Skin is another in my collection but again sadly I am yet to read it. I want to read Old Goirot through in February and post here. Sorry I've been a bit slack of late...mind you I've read Rodoredra's classic Spanish Civil War...

Slightly off-topic but I really like Chesterton's Essays. He is one of my favourite 'English' essayists along with Carlyle, De Quincey, Arnold, Hazlitt, Johnson, Lamb, Bacon etc. I am planning to purchase In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton. Although it only scratches the...

Happy New Year Everyone...:) I hope Santa brought you some new reading material to savour. Please post what you are reading in January.

Hi Paul, You seem to have similar tastes to myself, at least if your favs of 2016 including Vandermeer, Harrison, Chiang et al plus here Gaiman, Wells, Zamyatin etc.. are anything to go by. I don't know if you are familiar with the VG series both the SF and Fantasy Masterworks?. I have all the...

Being quite a big fan of Borges I have that collection of his non-fiction writing, which comes highly recommended (penguin edition). I would have over half of those specific works listed but in several cases have alternate works by the listed author that I consider to be superior (having read...

@J-Sun thanks for the welcome back. As I intend to basically cover Bulgakov's entire oeuvre you may find this thread of interest as I develop it into 2017. I'm still making my way though M&M and enjoying it.

Yes it has been a while since I have done much posting but hopefully I can contribute more now...:)

Hi Stewart (and Paul), nice to find other fans. Yes Bulgakov was certainly hounded by 'The State' and of course that is central to the overall story arc but also interestingly favoured to a degree by Stalin, a fact that appears to have caused Bulgakov a certain level of guilt, which is also a...

Hi all. It's been sometime since I've had a chance to post anything on these forums but I am currently (re)reading the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), written in the tradition of Gogol, which sees the Devil arrive in atheistic Stalinist Moscow to fill a "social...

I've not read Lord Mountdrago before. I will have to look that up. I had forgotten about Flotsam and Jetsam. I remember it being one of his better stories but it has been a while since I read it. As I recall the story is a pretty vexed one full of rising tension set amidst an overwhelming...

I have been building up a relatively comprehensive selection of Western (and to a lesser extent Eastern) philosophy over the past 12 months in particular. Philosophy was never something that interested me that much in the past but ever since I began to be interested in the influence philosophers...

Hi everyone, Please let us know what you have been reading for this month...:)

Hi everyone, Please let us know what you have been reading this month. Thanks...:)