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TagsFiction (545), Translated (284), 1001 (257), 2007 (203), Classic (187), Western Canon (167), British (162), French (147), Philosophy (110), American (96) — see all tags

Groups1001 Books to read before you die, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Brits, Ethical Theory, Existentialism, French Connection, French literature, 19th & 20th century, Geeks who love the Classics, Graduate Students, Happy Heathensshow all groups

Favorite authorsPaul Auster, Honoré de Balzac, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Andre Gide, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Hermann Hesse, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Franz Kafka, Immanuel Kant, Choderlos De Laclos, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, David Mitchell, Moliere, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Victor Pelevin, Georges Perec, Marcel Proust, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Suskind, Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Voltaire, Emile Zola (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBorders Birmingham, Oxfam Bookshop, Waterstone's, Waterstone's Birmingham High Street, Waterstone's Birmingham New Street

Favorite librariesAcocks Green Library, Birmingham Central Library, Knowle Library, Olton Library, Selly Oak Library, Solihull Central Library

About me International Studies/ Global Ethics Grad Student.
Interested in Ethics, Philosophy and Political Theory.

'It must be supposed that reading was one of his morbid habits, as he fell upon everything that came into his hands with equal avidity...' (Chekhov, Ward No. 6, 1892)

About my library Enjoy 'Classic' fiction, particularly French and German.
Current favourites are Hesse (Siddhartha), Zola (L'Assommoir), Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo), Balzac (Cousin Bette, The Black Sheep, Old Goriot).
Modern favourites are The Unconsoled by Ishiguro, Perfume by Suskind, Lolita by Nabokov.

Also working my way through the 1001 Books List (nowhere near completed).

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Real nameNicholas

LocationSolihull, UK

Emailflan_in_facehotmail.com

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Member sinceDec 11, 2006

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This sounds so juvenile, but your profile picture is SO cool. Alas, I've never mastered shadow puppets. Have a great day!
Thank you for listing me.
I love Balzac too (the real one)
I see we have a lot of books in common, most of them are amongst my favorite ones (sorry for my english)
I hope you'll manage to read your 12 books / month, I wish I could do so...
Cheers, and Vive Balzac !
Dear Nicholas,

Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries list. I love your collection of Penguin Black paperbacks! I also noticed that you have almost twice as many 1001 books as I do, which reminds me; the Christmas wish list is due any day now.

Anna
Wow we have a lot of books and interests in common. Thanks for listing me. I see you have American Psycho. I would be interested in your opinion on that one. I have steadfastly resisted reading it but perhaps I should give in. I have got to stop looking at people's libraries for the same reason you suggest. I spend every cent of my spare money on books. Since the advent of the internet I have had to add ten new bookshelves and they are overflowing. Cheers.

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