Thursday, August 1, 2019

July - Gide and Camus; book recommendations

Great turnout and enjoyed the discussion about The Stranger and Tjhe Immoralist. Both short books addressing deep issues via existentialsim and absurbist.

Time for input for recommended books.
So far the following have been recommended:

It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis
The Book of Forgiving - Desmend Tutu
Where the Crawdads Sing -
Hidden Life of Trees
Daughter of Molokai - Brennert
Asymmetry - Halliday
A Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George
Mango Bride - Marivi Soliven (possible live auther series)
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
Becoming - Michelle Obama
Ficciones or The Aleph and other stories - Borges
Animal Farm - Orwell
Slaughterhouse Five or Catch 22 - Vonnegut
Midnight's Children - Rushdie
Hemingway
Fulkner
Fitzgerald
Quiet - Cain
Siddharta - Hesse
The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World - Dali Lama
The Dali Lama's Cat and the art of Meow - Michie
Stumbling on Happiness - Gilbert
The Prince - Machiavelli
The Canturbury Tales
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
Candide - Voltaire
The Castle - Kafka
Notes of a Native Son - Baldwin
Lie Down in Darkness - Styron
Black Boy - Richard Wright

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