Literary books (novels , plays , essays , poems) I have read:
** The old man and the sea ( by Ernest Hemingway).
** The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (by Edgar Allan Poe).
** The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck).
** Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I (by Henry Miller).
** Intruder in the dust (by William Faulkner).
** The World Set Free (by H.G. Wells).
** Hamlet (by William Shakespeare).
** Man and Superman ( by George Bernard Shaw).
** Prufrock and Other Observations (by T.S. Eliot).
** The sacred wood (by T. S. Eliot).
** In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong ( by Amin Maalouf).
** The Pearl ( by John Steinbeck).
** Nausea ( by Jean-Paul Sartre).
** Foundation and Empire ( by Isaac Asimov).
** The Sign of Four ( by Arthur Conan Doyle).
** Marriage and Morals (by Bertrand Russell).
** The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ( by William Blake).
** The Cleft (by Doris Lessing).
** On Cats (by Doris Lessing).
** The Journey to the East (by Hermann Hesse).
** 1900 or The Last President (by Ingersoll Lockwood).
** Exile (by Belen Fernandez).
** Selected American Short Stories (by Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway, Nabokov, …)
Literary books I’ve read in French:
** La Peste (The Plague by Albert Camus).
** La Peau de chagrin ( The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac ).
** À la recherche du temps perdu: Du côté de chez Swann ( In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust).
** Les dieux ont soif ( The Gods Are Thirsty by Anatole France).
** Le Chevalier de Maison–Rouge ( by Alexandre Dumas).
** Les Somnambules (The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler).
— This is a historical essay and an account of the history of science and astronomy told from the author’s point of view.
One of those books that belong to more than one category , such as ‘literary/ historical essay’ and ‘history of science’.
I put it in this page mostly because I read it as a dramatized essay and/or novel about the history of astronomy.
** Le Procès ( The Trial by Franz Kafka).
** Le Rocher de Tanios ( The Rock of Tanios , by Amin Maalouf).
** Le Diable et le Bon Dieu ( The Devil and the Good Lord by Jean-Paul Sartre).
** Alexandre le Grand ( Alexander The Great by Maurice Druon).
** Les mémoires de Zeus ( The Memoirs of Zeus by Maurice Druon).
** Le Roman de la momie ( by Théophile Gautier).
** Vie de Jésus ( Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan).
** Lettres de mon moulin ( Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet).
** Trois Contes ( Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert ).
** La Dernière Tentation du Christ ( The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantsaki).
** Candide ( by Voltaire).
** La Philosophie dans le boudoir ( Philosophy in the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade).
** Les Crimes de l’amour ( The crimes of love by the Marquis de Sade).
** Les Orientales ( by Victor Hugo).
** Tartuffe, ou l’Imposteur ( Tartuffe, or The Impostor by Molière ).
** Knock ( a play by Jules Romains).
** Rhinoceros ( a play by Eugène Ionesco).
** La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu ( a play by Jean Giraudoux).
** Andromaque ( a play by Jean Racine).
** Le Cid ( a play by Pierre Corneille).
** Jacques le fataliste et son maître ( Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot).
** Le Nœud de vipères (by François Mauriac).
** L’Iliade (The Iliad by Homer).
** L’Art d’aimer , les Remèdes à l’amour et les Produits de beauté pour le visage de la femme (The Art of Love , the Cure for Love and Women’s Facial Cosmetics , by Ovid).
** Pourquoi la guerre? ( by Albert Einstein & Sigmund Freud).
** Une femme (by Annie Ernaux).
Literary books I have read in Arabic:
** Selected Short Stories by Naguib Mahfouz.
** The Prophet (by Gibran Khalil Gibran).
** The Earth Gods (by Gibran Khalil Gibran).
** Jesus, The Son of Man (by Gibran Khalil Gibran).
** The Forerunner (by Gibran Khalil Gibran).
** The Garden of The Prophet (by Gibran Khalil Gibran).
** Rebellious Spirits (by Gibran Khalil Gibran).
** Nymphs of the Valley, also translated as Spirit Brides and Brides of the Prairie (by Gibran Khalil Gibran).
** Sand and Foam (by Gibran Khalil Gibran).
** Virgin of Quraish ( a novel by Jurji Zaydan).
** Charles Martel and Abd al-Rahman ( a novel by Jurji Zaydan).
** كان ما كان (short stories by Mikhail Naimy).
** مذكرات الارقش (a novel by Mikhail Naimy).
To be continued…
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