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Last on Saturday, 19 May 2018 22:31

2018 Springtime For ILB: My Huggles. What Are You Reading Now? [Started by Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs) in March 2018, last updated yesterday by A is for (Aimless)] 17 new answers
Secret History vs Little Friend [Started by Michael Jacobs in January 2004, last updated yesterday by akm] 1 new answer
$900 Grandmothers aka Out Of Print Book Price Sticker Shock: Post Yr Links Here [Started by You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs) in April 2015, last updated yesterday by Bring Me The Binaural Heads Of Butch Firbanks (James Redd and the Blecchs)] 1 new answer

Last on Friday, 18 May 2018 17:30

ThReads Must Roll: the new, improved rolling fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction &c. thread [Started by fgtbaoutit (James Redd and the Blecchs) in November 2014, last updated two days ago by Robert Adam Gilmour] 1 new answer
eugene o'neill poll/discussion [Started by johnny crunch in August 2017, last updated two days ago by the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius)] 1 new answer POLL results
History of Isrel/Palestine [Started by winterland in March 2004, last updated two days ago by xyzzzz__] 1 new answer
Rolling Contemporary Literary Fiction [Started by ksh in July 2010, last updated two days ago by dow] 4 new answers

Last on Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:40

London ILB - FAP? [Started by accentmonkey (accentmonkey) in May 2004, last updated three days ago by Tim] 10 new answers

Last on Wednesday, 16 May 2018 07:33

Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately? [Started by Aimless in March 2007, last updated four days ago by Stevolende] 2 new answers

Last on Monday, 14 May 2018 19:17

Alan Hollinghurst C/D S&D [Started by jed_ in August 2012, last updated six days ago by morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)]
signet horror paperback covers of the 70s and 80s and related desiderata [Started by vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III) in July 2012, last updated six days ago by Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch)]

Last on Sunday, 13 May 2018 16:30

Tell Me About John Crowley [Started by MsLaura in January 2008, last updated one week ago by toby]
Flann O'Brien [Started by Jordan (Jordan) in September 2006, last updated one week ago by A is for (Aimless)]

Last on Saturday, 12 May 2018 13:42

Rewrite the openings to famous novels in the style of John Lanchester [Started by Matt DC in November 2015, last updated one week ago by Chuck_Tatum]

Last on Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:19

Joan Didion [Started by horseshoe in November 2007, last updated one week ago by didionfan]
so i started gravity's rainbow the other day [Started by John (jdahlem) in January 2005, last updated one week ago by two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916)]

Last on Friday, 4 May 2018 23:21

Redshifted In Memphis: Thread for a discussion of books about science or its history aimed at a general audience but not playing to the crowd [Started by Bo Diddley Is A Threadkiller (James Redd and the Blecchs) in May 2014, last updated two weeks ago by Nashville #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs)]
Who will be the next American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature? [Started by Mark Klobas in May 2005, last updated two weeks ago by lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre)]

Last on Thursday, 3 May 2018 20:55

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables [Started by roxymuzak in January 2009, last updated two weeks ago by koogs]
Lark Voorhies - True Light: A, superior, take, unto, the, premier, haloing, of, tenuation. Readily, available, True Light, provides, resource, into, time's, motifed, and, vestuved, authenticate, revel [Started by mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length) in May 2018, last updated two weeks ago by imago]

Last on Saturday, 21 April 2018 20:20

Herman Melville-The Confidence Man [Started by Local Garda in July 2009, last updated four weeks ago by valorous wokelord (silby)]

Last on Sunday, 15 April 2018 00:01

https://blackwells.co.uk/jacket/l/9780241343234.jpg [Started by DJ U OK Hun? (jed_) in March 2018, last updated one month ago by System] POLL results
Penguin 50 Moderns set @ £1 each or £50 for the box. [Started by DJ U OK Hun? (jed_) in March 2018, last updated one month ago by System] POLL results

Last on Friday, 6 April 2018 15:07

where lies the strangling fruit...Area X - The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer [Started by scott seward in April 2015, last updated one month ago by the ghost of tom, choad (thomp)]

Last on Tuesday, 3 April 2018 11:33

Ursula Le Guin -- S/D, etc. [Started by spittle (spittle) in December 2003, last updated one month ago by adam the (abanana)]

Last on Monday, 2 April 2018 15:14

Post Full Names of Noted Authors Here [Started by Eloi's Comin' (James Redd and the Blecchs) in January 2018, last updated one month ago by jmm]

Last on Thursday, 29 March 2018 08:43

"This will be Fine but I'm not Buying it" [Started by xyzzzz__ in March 2018, last updated one month ago by DJ U OK Hun? (jed_)]

Last on Wednesday, 28 March 2018 15:09

ILX Book Club - Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad [Started by xyzzzz__ in May 2011, last updated one month ago by Chuck_Tatum]

Last on Friday, 23 March 2018 21:46

Bronte Siblings: FITE! [Started by Branwell Bell in December 2013, last updated one month ago by devvvine] POLL results
And The Snow Fell Softly On ILB: What Are You Reading Now Winter 2017/18 [Started by Burru Men Meet Burryman ina Wicker Man (James Redd and the Blecchs) in December 2017, last updated one month ago by Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs)]

Last on Friday, 16 March 2018 14:45

New: "I Love Writing" [Started by SRH (Skrik) in May 2004, last updated two months ago by imago]

Last on Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:46

a thread for b.s. johnson, christine brooke-rose, ann quin, alan burns, [Started by thomp in April 2012, last updated two months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:03

Genres of book there's nothing wrong with, but you just don't care about [Started by Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison) in March 2018, last updated two months ago by the pinefox]

Last on Monday, 26 February 2018 00:50

This Be The Pocket Universe: Post Here When You Realize Or Are Reminded That An SF Title Is From The Canon Of English Poetry [Started by Archaic Buster Poindexter, Live At The Apollo (James Redd and the Blecchs) in July 2015, last updated two months ago by alimosina]

Last on Tuesday, 20 February 2018 08:52

ILB Writing Club [Started by imago in October 2017, last updated three months ago by belcalis almanzar (||||||||)]

Last on Monday, 19 February 2018 00:46

Ottessa Moshfegh [Started by flappy bird in July 2017, last updated three months ago by flappy bird]

Last on Sunday, 18 February 2018 17:38

Borges translation? [Started by Moti Bahat in October 2004, last updated three months ago by dow]

Last on Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:27

Percy Bysshe Shelley [Started by Treeship in September 2014, last updated three months ago by morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)]
Don DeLillo...a disappointment? [Started by andyjack (andyjack) in March 2005, last updated three months ago by circa1916]

Last on Thursday, 15 February 2018 20:38

middlemarch [Started by j. in June 2014, last updated three months ago by JoeStork]

Last on Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:21

Karl Ove Knausgård - Min kamp [Started by nostormo in March 2014, last updated three months ago by khat person (jim in vancouver)]

Last on Thursday, 8 February 2018 11:43

paul beatty. [Started by thomp in December 2008, last updated three months ago by Matt DC]

Last on Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:44

At 10:35 on an early summer's morning, John Lanchester sat down at his study desk, switched on his new Dell computer, opened up the word processing programme that the computer had come with and began [Started by Fizzles in March 2012, last updated three months ago by Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison)]
Let's have a heated debate about At Swim-Two-Birds [Started by accentmonkey (accentmonkey) in March 2004, last updated three months ago by Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs)]

Last on Sunday, 4 February 2018 02:32

What did you read in 2017? [Started by xyzzzz__ in December 2017, last updated three months ago by dow]

Last on Saturday, 3 February 2018 08:21

DSKY-DSKY Him Sad: Official ILB Thread For The Heroic Age of Manned Spaceflight [Started by Give 'Em Enough Rope Mother (James Redd and the Blecchs) in June 2015, last updated three months ago by i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara)]
do you re-read books? [Started by |||||||| in January 2018, last updated three months ago by mookieproof] POLL results

Last on Friday, 2 February 2018 23:40

Mystery/noir/detective novels S/D [Started by gear (gear) in September 2005, last updated three months ago by dow]
Rolling Contemporary Poetry [Started by markers in October 2010, last updated three months ago by dow]

Last on Saturday, 27 January 2018 18:32

cat person [Started by |||||||| in December 2017, last updated three months ago by 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek)]

Last on Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:33

Which Translators do you Trust? [Started by xyzzzz__ in September 2009, last updated three months ago by mookieproof]

Last on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:21

literary twitter feeds good and bad [Started by mark s in August 2016, last updated three months ago by mookieproof]

Last on Tuesday, 23 January 2018 03:25

Help me make a reading list of classic African-American literature [Started by equinox in August 2004, last updated three months ago by dow]

Last on Saturday, 20 January 2018 23:51

Elena Ferrante - The Neapolitan Novels [Started by xyzzzz__ in October 2014, last updated four months ago by flopson]
'may and must, and may, and must, and may, and must': a thread for jenny erpenbeck's novel 'visitation' [Started by -Θ--Θ- (Lamp) in January 2011, last updated four months ago by Curly Morlocks (James Redd and the Blecchs)]
Why isn't JP Donleavy more popular? [Started by Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox) in April 2004, last updated four months ago by Fizzles]

Last on Friday, 19 January 2018 14:51

ts big dogs 2014 edition #2 : GERTRUDE STEIN vs THE BRONTES [Started by ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp) in July 2014, last updated four months ago by xyzzzz__] POLL results

Last on Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:07

Authors who don't use quotation marks: why? [Started by Revivalist (Revivalist) in January 2007, last updated four months ago by j.]

Last on Wednesday, 17 January 2018 15:59

Philip Roth - Where to begin? [Started by Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon) in January 2005, last updated four months ago by johnny crunch]

Last on Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:42

Ann Quin and... [Started by xyzzzz__ in May 2008, last updated four months ago by xyzzzz__]
Anna Kavan [Started by flappy bird in January 2018, last updated four months ago by na (NA)]

Last on Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:35

Anna Karenina [Started by Moti Bahat in March 2006, last updated four months ago by treeship 2]
War and Peace 2012 [Started by The New Dirty Vicar in January 2012, last updated four months ago by Mordy]
The Finite Library [Started by Before Hollywood Swing (James Redd and the Blecchs) in January 2018, last updated four months ago by dogs]

Last on Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:39

Book Group: Helen DeWitt's "The Last Samurai" - Discussion Thread [Started by jed_ in September 2010, last updated four months ago by Fizzles]

Last on Thursday, 11 January 2018 22:33

I had scarcely left my mother's womb when i suffered my first exile - reading Chateaubriand's Memoirs [Started by Fizzles in December 2017, last updated four months ago by Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison)]

Last on Wednesday, 10 January 2018 16:27

Grace Paley: search & destroy; classic or dud; etc. [Started by otto in April 2004, last updated four months ago by non-nabisco]

Last on Monday, 8 January 2018 19:36

'Tis the Season = M.R. James [Started by http://uktv.co.uk/ can fuck right off imo (Noodle Vague) in November 2009, last updated four months ago by Here comes the phantom menace (ledge)]

Last on Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:10

Search/Destroy Every Nobel Prize Winner For Literature [Started by scott seward in October 2016, last updated four months ago by very stabbable gaius (wins)]

Last on Monday, 1 January 2018 02:54

words that you only ever read in science fiction [Started by TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand) in September 2013, last updated four months ago by dow]

Last on Thursday, 21 December 2017 19:16

Fall 2017 Happy Families Are Alike. What Are You Reading Now? [Started by Merry-Go-Sorry Somehow (James Redd and the Blecchs) in September 2017, last updated four months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Saturday, 16 December 2017 09:10

Books on the Russian Revolution: S and D [Started by J.D. in March 2007, last updated five months ago by Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari)]

Last on Monday, 11 December 2017 13:27

rip William H. Gass [Started by didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin) in December 2017, last updated five months ago by didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin)]

Last on Sunday, 10 December 2017 23:07

Michael Hofmann: poet, translator, critic [Started by The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs) in September 2014, last updated five months ago by Anne Git Yorgun (James Redd and the Blecchs)]
TS Heavy Hitters Poll #1: Yeats vs. Shakespeare [Started by in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved) in May 2010, last updated five months ago by remember the lmao (darraghmac)] POLL results

Last on Monday, 4 December 2017 13:43

thomas mann's "the magic mountain" [Started by J.D. (Justyn Dillingham) in March 2006, last updated five months ago by Daniel_Rf]

Last on Tuesday, 28 November 2017 22:23

Dario's poem "A Roosevelt" [Started by Clellie in March 2004, last updated five months ago by i n f i n i t y (∞)]

Last on Sunday, 19 November 2017 07:45

I'm back with a HUGE PILE OF ITALIAN BOOKS!!!!! [Started by Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger) in March 2005, last updated six months ago by Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison)]

Last on Saturday, 18 November 2017 15:06

non-77 thread for my epic novel [Started by an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago) in March 2017, last updated six months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Thursday, 16 November 2017 23:50

Books you stopped reading (for whatever reason) [Started by scott seward (scott seward) in December 2003, last updated six months ago by mom tossed in kimchee (quincie)]
good blitz novels? [Started by Daniel_Rf in November 2017, last updated six months ago by Daniel_Rf]

Last on Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:08

First Book You Can Remember Reading [Started by Tico Tico (Tico Tico) in December 2003, last updated six months ago by A is for (Aimless)]
Biographies and Autobiographies About Authors, S/D [Started by I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura) in May 2004, last updated six months ago by abcfsk]

Last on Tuesday, 14 November 2017 03:44

Lydia Davis [Started by jed_ in February 2012, last updated six months ago by Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison)]

Last on Wednesday, 1 November 2017 23:33

Scando Lit: search [Started by xyzzzz__ in August 2009, last updated six months ago by Frederik B]

Last on Sunday, 29 October 2017 14:50

Samuel Delany [Started by Julio Desouza (jdesouza) in January 2004, last updated six months ago by Susan Stranglehands (jed_)]

Last on Friday, 27 October 2017 05:54

The Mysteries of J.D. Salinger [Started by the bellefox in April 2005, last updated six months ago by (The Other) J.D. (J.D.)]

Last on Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:43

Broch-Sleepwalkers [Started by Ronan in January 2008, last updated six months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Monday, 23 October 2017 01:56

Henry Green vs Graham Greene [Started by woof in April 2016, last updated six months ago by estela] POLL results

Last on Sunday, 22 October 2017 21:43

george saunders [Started by cutty (mcutt) in September 2005, last updated six months ago by Susan Stranglehands (jed_)]

Last on Thursday, 19 October 2017 09:17

libraries - C/D; S/D [Started by cozen (Cozen) in March 2004, last updated seven months ago by Terry Micawber (Tom D.)]

Last on Thursday, 12 October 2017 19:59

Sumer Is Icumen In 2015, What Are You Reading Now? [Started by Bredda Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs) in June 2015, last updated seven months ago by Le Bateau Ivre]
Cesar Aira [Started by EvR in August 2014, last updated seven months ago by Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison)]

Last on Wednesday, 11 October 2017 14:14

Rolling dead and forgotten author thread [Started by xyzzzz__ in March 2011, last updated seven months ago by pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague)]

Last on Monday, 9 October 2017 22:56

The Count of Monte Cristo: Classic or Dud [Started by Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino) in July 2015, last updated seven months ago by Chuck_Tatum]
Obscure Nobel Prize Winners [Started by justfanoe (Greg Fanoe) in December 2013, last updated seven months ago by alimosina] POLL results
Chris Kraus [Started by on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive) in November 2015, last updated seven months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Thursday, 5 October 2017 13:25

Kazuo Ishiguro [Started by Alice Blanding in November 2004, last updated seven months ago by Roberto Spiralli]

Last on Saturday, 30 September 2017 02:05

Heavy Hitters #2: Emily Dickinson v Walt Whitman [Started by decent skinsmanship (Michael B) in November 2010, last updated seven months ago by difficult listening hour] POLL results

Last on Saturday, 23 September 2017 21:51

Heavens! Look at the Time: What Are You Reading During This Summer of 2017? [Started by A is for (Aimless) in July 2017, last updated seven months ago by Merry-Go-Sorry Somehow (James Redd and the Blecchs)]

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