Hong Kong Book Club

Readers as diverse as TS Eliot and Lou Reed appreciated Delmore Schwartz's work.

his third collection of stories and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

The theme of colonial imposition is central to the novel

follows the bizarre misadventures of Major Kovalyov and his missing nose

the novelistic equivalent of abstract painting

The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean

A classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells published in 1895.

Hawking takes readers on a journey through the history of cosmology, from ancient Greek philosophers to modern scientific theories.

The protagonist, who remains unnamed throughout the novel, is a solitary and introspective man who has never been in love.

Homage to Catalonia begins with Orwell's arrival in Barcelona in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the civil war.

In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan sensed the end of his empire…

The story revolves around the people living there, including Lee Chong, the local grocer. Doc, a marine biologist. And Mack, the leader of a group of derelicts.

Theater of the absurd. Throughout three acts, the inhabitants of a provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses.

The Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson.

In Graham Greene's _The Quiet American_ it's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule.

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West is set in New York during the Great Depression, a time of economic hardship and social upheaval.

Final story in Joyce's collection of short stories, The Dubliners.

In Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, a carefree Italian count commits murder to protect a mysterious painter, shattering their friends' innocence and proving sin is a catalyst for maturity.

…revolves around the complex and transformative friendship between two contrasting characters. Narcissus, an intellectual and monk, and Goldmund, a restless and artistic wanderer.

The narrative of the novel _Trainspotting_ by Irvine Welsh is presented through a series of interconnected short stories, each focusing on different characters within the group.

Dana, a young Black American, and her white husband, Kevin, moving into their new home. Suddenly, Dana is yanked back in time to a Maryland plantation in the early 19th century.

A collection of essays divided into two sections - Life Styles in the Golden Land and Personals.

Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a

The story follows Charles Marlow, a sailor and narrator, as he recounts his journey into the heart of Africa to find the enigmatic ivory trader Kurtz.

The peregrine J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine (1967) is a deeply immersive account of his observations of peregrine falcons in the British countryside. If he does not turn into a peregrine falcone, it seems he’s only one step away in his soaring prose. Baker divides the book into diary entries spanning several years. During this time, he meticulously documents his encounters with these birds of prey. His observations focus on a particular pair of peregrines and their hunting expeditions. The evocative...

The story of Oedipa Maas and her investigations into a world of wild conspiracies.

…an aging King Lear who decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters.

A satirical work that revolves around two main characters, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, whose lives become intertwined in a series of surreal and fantastical events.

It is a fictional autobiography that follows the eventful life of the protagonist, Logan Mountstuart, during the 20th century.

summarizes the views of his fellow secularist Bertrand Russell