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| in progress |
| L'herbe rouge | Boris Vian | bizarre, talking animals, sexless relationships, time machines, madeup words |
| Une rose pour loyer | Ellis Peters | |
| Coule la Seine | Fred Vargas | |
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| Bilbo le Hobbit | Tolkien | a well told story |
| L'aluoette | Jean Anouilh | The story of joan of arc, strong women, weak men. |
| Les Femmes Savantes | Moliere | 5 women manipulating and being manipulated by men |
| Carmen | Prosper Merimee | the woman we all hope to meet someday, except for the knife part |
| The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill | Mark Bittner | Love conquers all even though it was in english |
| Le Rouge et le Noir | Stendahl | too boring for words, even reading back to back in English, quit 1/2 way through |
| The things they carried | Tim O'Brien | An exception writer. Incredible imagery |
| If I die in a combat zone | Tim O'Brien | Again, exception writer. |
| A short history of everything | Bill Bryson | Depressing |
| They marched into sunlight | David Maraniss | Reads like a history channel special. |
| Pars vit et reviens tard | Fred Vargas | Exceptional, even my teacher liked it. |
| Maigret en meuble | George Simenon | All the Maigrets are entertaining quick reads. |
| Et si c'était vrai | Marc Levy | I can't believe the cast Reese Witherspoon as the ghost in the movie version.oops did I give anything away? rereading this for the yale conv group in january06 |
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| Waiting on the reading table |
| Paris au mois d'aout | Rene Fallet | |
| Aux fruits de al passion | Daniel Pannec | |
| Alexis ou le traité du vain combat | Marguerite Yourcenar | |
| Mercure | Amelie Nothomb | |
| Ne le dis à personne | Harlan Coben | (traduire) |
| L'immoraliste | André Gide | |
| 30 jours à tuer | Yann Queffélec | |
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| For class | |
| Stupeur et temblements | Amelie Northomb | I loved her Hygiene de l'Assasine, and she lived in Japan! |
| L'etranger | Albert Camus | |
| L'ignorance | Milan Kundera | |
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| recommended bookstores | |
| D.Kelly fine used books | Newport RI | a lucky find |
| Shoenhofs.com | | wide selection |