Challenge: 50 Books discussion

1. Tres Tristes Tigres by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
2. A Room with a View by E.M. Foster
3. Un Viejo que Leia Novelas de Amor by Luis Sepulveda
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
6. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
7. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
8. Mundo del Fin del Mundo by Luis Sepulveda

9. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder
10. Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers

11. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
12. Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers

13. Cronica de una Muerte Anunciada by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

14. Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
15. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
16. Tu Rostro Mannana: Fiebre y Lanza by Javier Marias

I LOVED Master and Margarita! What'd you think of it?

I loved it. It's hilarious... until you realize what it stands for. Very well written, and there's a lot to learn from it.

17. Buda Blues by Mario Mendoza

18. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
19. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

20. Desencuentros by Luis Sepulveda

21. Push by Sapphire

22.The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

23. Here is New York by E.B. White

24. Pedro y El Capitan by Mario Benedetti

25. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

26. Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton

27. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

28. Pudor by Santiago Roncagliolo

29. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

30. La Lampara de Aladino by Luis Sepulveda

31. La Tregua by Mario Benedetti

32. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

33. Los Jefes Los Cachorros by Mario Vargas Llosa

34. La ultima niebla: Novela by Maria Luisa Bombal

35. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

36. La sombra de lo que fuimos by Luis Sepúlveda

37. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

38. I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames

39. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

40. The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig

41. Demasiados Heroes by Laura Restrepo

42. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

43. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

44. Emma by Jane Austen
45. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
46. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

47. One Day by David Nicholls

48. Una escalera al cielo / Stairway To heaven by Mario Mendoza

49. La travesia del vidente by Mario Mendoza Zambrano

50. The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart

51. Maldito Amor by Jorge Franco

52. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

53. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

54. El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig

55. Mala Noche by Jorge Franco

56. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

57. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Adri wrote: "57. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson"

I wholeheartedly recommend "The Haunting" the 1963 film version of this. No special effects, just lighting, camera angles & mood.

Thanks! Will definitely check it out. I heard the 1999 version isn't good. What are your thoughts?

I say skip the remake. Aside from the always watchable Liam Neeson, there was nothing to recommend it. I watched the original for the first time while babysitting when I was 13 - after being told by someone NOT to do that. It was slightly less unnerving in the daylight with my brothers in the room, but then they started banging on the wall of the hallway to the bedrooms which was ran along my bedroom. And you'll have to watch the movie to understand why that would freak a girl out.

58. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

59. Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino

60. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris