The Books I Should Have Read in School Group

Let's read "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler, published in 1939!

Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. The patriarch of the Sternwood family is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out for him - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse . . . 3.95/5.00 on Goodreads. 231 pages. *Credit to Goodreads for this summary.

Best-known as the creator of the original private eye Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of Chandler's books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of detective fiction. His books include The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business.

Let's read "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky over the course of 2 Meetups in May and June!

Reading Schedule:
May 20th – Parts 1-3 (<-- note that this isn't the last Monday of May)
June 24th – Parts 4-6 & Epilogue

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. First published in 1866. 4.26/5.00 on Goodreads, 671 pages. *Credit to Goodreads for this summary.

Let's read "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky over the course of 2 Meetups in May and June!

Reading Schedule:
May 20th – Parts 1-3 (<-- note that this isn't the last Monday of May)
June 24th – Parts 4-6 & Epilogue

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. First published in 1866. 4.26/5.00 on Goodreads, 671 pages. *Credit to Goodreads for this summary.