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TagsFiction (685), European (460), Translated (337), 1001 (257), Classic (235), 2007 (203), British (190), Western Canon (167), French (165), American (147) — see all tags

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

Favorite authorsPaul Auster, Honoré de Balzac, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, André Gide, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Hermann Hesse, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Molière, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Viktor Pelevin, Georges Perec, Marcel Proust, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Süskind, Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Voltaire, Émile Zola (Shared favorites)

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

Favorite librariesAcocks Green Library, Birmingham Central Library, Main Library - University of Birmingham, Olton Library, Selly Oak Library, Solihull Central Library

About meGlobal Ethics PhD Student at the University of Birmingham, UK. Interested in theories of global justice and cosmopolitan 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 libraryEnjoy most classic fiction, particularly works by French, German and Russian authors.

My favourites are Zola (L'Assommoir), Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo), Balzac (Cousin Bette, The Black Sheep, Old Goriot), Camus (The Plague), Ishiguro (Unconsoled) and all of Kafka, Dostoevsky, Roth, Chekhov, Pelevin, Maupassant, Auster, Hesse, Nabokov and Tolstoy.

I'm also interested in cosmopolitanism, Kantianism, anarchism, and global justice, and my library mostly reflects this.

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