Alexia rated Less Than Zero (Picador Books): 4 stars
Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost …
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French and English books, a few in German.
Many fields, including economics, philosophy and psychology, but lately more into Buddhism of the Zen persuasion.
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Alexia rated Castle to castle: 3 stars
Castle to castle by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Castle to Castle is the English title of the 1957 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, titled in French D'un château l'autre. …
Alexia rated Kafka on the Shore: 3 stars
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Its 2005 English …
Alexia rated The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: 3 stars
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, …
Alexia rated Norwegian Wood: 4 stars
Norwegian Wood by Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young …
Alexia rated The rules of attraction: 5 stars
The rules of attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
First Sentence: “And it’s a story that might bore you, but you don’t have to listen, she told me, because …
Alexia rated Cancer Ward: 3 stars
Alexia rated The red and the black: 4 stars
The red and the black by Stendhal (Penguin classics)
Alexia rated La bête humaine: 3 stars
La bête humaine by Émile Zola (The world's classics)
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bête …
Alexia rated The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: 3 stars
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts, Thomas P. Whitney, and 3 others
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and …
Alexia rated Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances #2): 2 stars
Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances #2) by Alexandre Dumas
Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed …
Alexia rated The Three Musketeers: 3 stars
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
A young Gascon nobleman, d'Artagnan, sets off for Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers. He proves himself fighting with …
Alexia rated The Ladies' Paradise: 3 stars
The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
Au Bonheur des Dames (French pronunciation: [obɔnœʁ deˈdam]; The Ladies' Delight or The Ladies' Paradise) is the eleventh novel in …
Alexia rated Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 4 stars
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories …