Current Reading

Have any of you read any of the following books or authors? If so, feel free to discuss.

Fiction

Samuel Beckett: Molloy (33%) Classic. Modernism.

Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim (halfway) Classic. Psychological novel, Modernism, Impressionism, Neo-Romanticism.

Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca (10%) Classic. Historical Fiction, Crime, Gothic, Mystery, Romance.

John Fante: Ask the Dust (15%) Classic. Psychological Realism.

Franz Kafka: The Trial (halfway) Classic. Modernism.

Elizabeth Hamilton: Translation of the Letters of a Hindu Rajah (20%) Epistolary Novel. Classic. Scottish Enlightenment. Difficult to read due to archaic language and style.

Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land (12%) Classic. Science Fiction.

Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns (halfway) Historical fiction, Realism.

Jack London, The Call of the Wild Classic. (20%) Classic. American Realism, Naturalism.

Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country (10%) Classic. Hard to characterize.

Tom Robbins: Still Life with Woodpecker: A Sort of Lov…