Author Theme Reads

This group is for readers who wish to focus on one author at a time, in an effort to understand the development of an author's writings, literary technique, and general viewpoints on life.

2013:
Year-long Author: Emile Zola
Mini-author 1 (Jan-Mar): Honore de Balzac
Mini-author 2 (Apr-June): Guy de Maupassant
Mini-author 3 (July-Sep): Marguerite Duras
Mini-author 4 (Oct-Dec): Simone de Beauvoir

+ Year long thread on French authors in general.

Group read of Victor Hugo's "Toilers of the Sea" starts in January.

Join this group if you are interested in reading Camus.

2012: Shusaku Endo, Natsume Soseki, Kobo Abe, Ryu Murakami, Yuko Mishima
2011: Mario Vargas Llosa, Jose Saramago, JMG Le Clezio, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
2010: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Junichiro Tanizaki, Cormac McCarthy
2009: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf, JD Salinger, Kazuo Ishiguro

Not interested in our current author choice? Check out our daughter group, Monthly Author Reads.

Total members: 143 members

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Zweig: Zweig's shorter works. 34jfetting, Friday 7:27pmignore
2013 in France: What are you reading? 22BALE, June 2ignore
Guy de Maupassant: General Thread 4StevenTX, May 29ignore
The Conquest of Plassans by Zola 4rebeccanyc, May 27ignore
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The Joy of Life by Emile Zola 2slickdpdx, May 21ignore
Nana by Zola 4BALE, May 14ignore
Maupassant: Alien Hearts 1rebeccanyc, May 10ignore
Abbe Mouret's Sin by Zola 2rebeccanyc, April 28ignore
Pot Luck by Zola 5StevenTX, April 22ignore
Maupassant: Short Story Collections 1rebeccanyc, April 11ignore
Maupassant - Une Vie (A Life) 1StevenTX, March 31ignore
Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment 17Merelyplayers, March 31ignore
Balzac: Père Goriot 6SassyLassy, March 11ignore
Balzac: Eugénie Grandet 1StevenTX, March 10ignore
Balzac: Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (A Harlot High and Low) 2rebeccanyc, March 10ignore
The Kill by Zola 7rebeccanyc, March 7ignore
Balzac: Lost Illusions 1rebeccanyc, March 3ignore
Toilers of the Sea Group Read 36edwinbcn, February 11ignore
The Ladies' Paradise by Zola 5arubabookwoman, February 6ignore
French authors general thread 20edwinbcn, February 4ignore
Balzac : Colonel Chabert 1edwinbcn, February 3ignore
Mishima : Forbidden Colours 3Joe.Tranter, January 31ignore
Honoré de Balzac - Resources and General Discussion 18BALE, January 17ignore
Germinal by Zola 15rebeccanyc, January 13ignore
1Q84 Group Read 52lilisin, January 13ignore
His Excellency Eugene Rougon by Zola 6lriley, January 9ignore
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The Dream by Zola 1rebeccanyc, January 2ignore
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The Final Martyrs discussion..... 4hemlokgang, December 2012ignore
Deep River by Shusaku Endo 11JDHomrighausen, December 2012ignore
When I Whistle by Shusaku Endo. 5rebeccanyc, December 2012ignore
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Preparing for 2013 69lilisin, December 2012ignore
Monthly Author Reads Group Back Open 2PolymathicMonkey, November 2012ignore
Idea for Author Theme Reads 3BALE, November 2012ignore
Japanese authors general thread 63edwinbcn, November 2012ignore
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Preparing for 2012! 76kidzdoc, October 2012ignore
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami 3lilisin, September 2012ignore
Japan Read 2012: Translators and Presses 19lilisin, September 2012ignore
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Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryū Murakami 3cameling, September 2012ignore
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Sixty-Nine by Ryū Murakami 2rebeccanyc, July 2012ignore
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The Face of Another by Kobo Abe 3lilisin, April 2012ignore
The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo 7lilisin, March 2012ignore
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The Feast of the Goat 5rebeccanyc, September 2011ignore
2011 potential authors 40rebeccanyc, August 2011ignore
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MVL: In Praise of the Stepmother/Notebooks of Don Rigoberto 1rebeccanyc, July 2011ignore
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Conversación en la catedral (Conversation in the Cathedral) 1jfetting, February 2011ignore
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MVL: Who Killed Palomino Molero? 4rebeccanyc, January 2011ignore
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Reading Zweig. 45hemlokgang, December 2010ignore
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Cormac McCarthy's works 11jfetting, November 2010ignore
Understanding Stefan Zweig. 9jfetting, November 2010ignore
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Zweig: Marie Antoinette 1jfetting, October 2010ignore
The World of Yesterday 1jfetting, July 2010ignore
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