How many books have you read since...

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December '07 post the list =]

1] Frankenstein- Mary Kelley
2] Siddhartha- Herman Hesse
3] One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kessey
4] The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
5] Night- Elie Wiesel
6] Pygmalion- George Bernard Shaw
7] Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
8] The Hunchback Of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo
9] Lord Of The Flies- William Golding
10] Dead Souls- Nikolai Gogol
11] The Overcoat And Other Stories- Nikolai Gogol
12] The Squabble- Nikolai Gogol
13] At First Sight- Nicholas Sparks
14] The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks
15] Chocolat- Joanne Harris
16] Five Quarters Of An Orange- Joanne Harris
17] Eden Express- Mark Vonnegut
18] Whatever You Say I Am- Anthony Bozza
19] The Stranger- Albert Camus
20] The Rape Of Bangladesh- Anthony Mascarenhas
21] Sweeney Todd- Brain J.Burton
22] Cradle And All: A Cultural And Psychoanalytic Study Of Nursery Rhymes- Lucy Collin
23] Johnny Depp:A Modern Rebel- Brian J.Robb
24] The Heroine Diaries- Nikki Sixx
25] Kite Runner- Khalid Hosseni
26] Looking Glass Wars- Frank Beddor
27] Alice In Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
28] No Exit- Jean Paul Sartre
29] Holy Fools- Joanne Harris
30] The Namesake- Jhumpa Lahiri
31] Van Gogh's Women- Derek Fell

 

[Sleepy]

I can't vote because I've read more then 40 books. However I've just begun the 54th and didn't count the reference and textbooks.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

I can't vote either because I've read 60 books.

 

[sparkchaser]

I can't vote either because I've read 60 books.

Showoff.

 

[Elaina NV]

I can't vote because I don't keep lists??

 

[Robert]

I've read more then 40 so I guess I can't vote, either. I believe we can modify the poll, but I'll wait for disconnected for the go ahead.

 

[Stewart]

More than forty here, too. And it would have been much more if I didn't get a nasty reading block through April to June. But here's the list, not including those I've also read so much and then abandoned.

July
044. Trauma, Patrick McGrath
043. Girl Meets Boy, Ali Smith
042. The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa
041. A Clockwork Apple, Belinda Webb
040. The End Of Sleep, Rowan Somerville

June
039. The Changeling, Robin Jenkins
038. Jamelia, Chingiz Aitmatov
037. Alphabet Of The Night, Jean-Euphèle Milcé

May
036. [SIZE=-1] Metropole, Ferenc Karinthy[/SIZE]
035. Badenheim, 1939, Aharon Appelfeld
034. Mary, Vladimir Nabokov

April
033. Lobster, Guillaume Lescable
032. Sulphuric Acid, Amélie Nothomb
031. With Borges, Albert Manguel
030. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

March
029. Born Yesterday: The News As A Novel, Gordon Burn
028. [SIZE=-1] Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth[/SIZE]
027. [SIZE=-1] Envy, Alain Elkann[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]026. Clean: An Unsanitised History Of Washing, Katherine Ashenburg[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]025. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, James Meek[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]024. Becoming Abigail, Chris Abani[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]023. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]022. Silk, Alessandro Baricco[/SIZE]
021. Night Train, Martin Amis

February
020. The Book Of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck
019. A Man Without A Country, Kurt Vonnegut
018. Doctor Glas, Hjalmar Söderberg
017. Black Dirt, Nell Layshon
016. The Hour Of The Star, Clarice Lispector
015. Snakes & Earrings, Hitomi Kanehara
014. Agamemnon's Daughter, Ismail Kadare
013. The Moon Opera, Bi Feiyu

January
012. A Matter Of Death And Life, Andrey Kurkov
011. The Woman Who Waited, Andreï Makine
010. The Dreamers, Gilbert Adair
009. No One Writes To The Colonel, Gabriel García Márquez
008. Continent, Jim Crace
007. Gentlemen Of The Road, Michael Chabon
006. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
005. Secret, Philippe Grimbert
004. The Invention Of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares
003. Plain Girl, Arthur Miller
002. The Pilgrim Hawk, Glenway Wescott
001. Piercing, Ryu Murakami

 

[disconnected]

ok i am having trouble editing this post =/ i dont see the edit button there, any help please

 

[sparkchaser]

ok i am having trouble editing this post =/ i dont see the edit button there, any help please

Posts can't be edited after 15 min except by admins and mods. PM me and tell me what you want. But make it fast because I to leave in 12 minutes.

 

[Stewart]

If you mean to add more options. I've just done this for you.

 

[sparkchaser]

If you mean to add more options. I've just done this for you.

Way to go Stewart!

 

[disconnected]

If you mean to add more options. I've just done this for you.

Hey thanks a tonne!!! :flowers:

 

[Wells83]

I've read 66 books so far since the first of the year.

I've blogged about each one, so they can all be found here: Book & Reader Forums - Wells83's Blog

 

[Sleepy]

I voted and took the wrong number. :lol: Stupid me.

 

[Robert]

I got my vote in for more then 50.

 

[BlueNinja]

About 10 I think, unfortunately my job takes almost all the free time I have...

 

[abecedarian]

December 2007
The Redemption of Elsdon Bird-Noel Virtue(NZ) 5/5

Wonderful Fool-Shusako Endo(Japan) 5/5

Letters to Olga-Vaclav Havel(Czech Rep.)

The Ways of Rain and other Poems-Hugo Lindo (El Salvador) 3/5

I Could Read the Sky-Timothy O'Grady 4/5

Death and the Penguin-Andrey Krukov 5/5

Maldives:Winds Of Change in an Atoll State-Urmilla Phadnis

The Second After: Collection of Novellas and Short Stories-Carmen
Firan (Romania) 1/5


2008:
January:
001. The Devil in the Flesh-Raymond Radiguet 4/5
002. The Lost Continent-Bill Bryson 4/5
003. The Fortunes of Wangrin-Amadou Hampate Ba(Mali) 3/5
004. Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow-Peter Hoeg 3/5
005. I, the Divine- Rabih Alameddine 4/5
006. The Rape of Sita-Lindsey Collen 2/5
007. Beyond Earth and Sky-A Journey into Bhutan-Jamie Zeppa 2/5
008. History and Hunger in West Africa-Laura Bigman(Guinea-Bissau) 1/5

February:

009. The Bone Collector-Jeffery Deaver 4/5
010. Jude the Obscure-Thomas Hardy 3/5
011. Women Writing Africa:Eastern Region-ed by Amandina Lihamba (Zambia) 3/5
012. Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel-ed. Esi Sutherland Addy (Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Niger) 3/5
013. A Writer at War-Vassily Grossman (Russia) 5/5
014. I am Legend-Richard Matheson 4/5
015. An African In Greenland-Tete Michel Kpomassie (Togo)3/5
016. St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A Plural Country- Dana Jinkins 3/5
018. Lonely Planet: Mauritius, Reunion, & Seychelles 3/5

March:
018. Lonely Planet: Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar 2/5
019. Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe-Thomas Eccard(Malta, Liechtenstein, Luxemborg, San Marino, Monaco) 1/5
020. History of Brunei-Graham E. Saunders 1/5
21. The Winter King- Bernard Cornwell 5/5
22.The Telephone Gambit-Seth Shulman 3/5
23. Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert 3/5
24. Three Days to Never-Tim Powers 3/5
25. Sacred Horses:Memoirs of a Turkmen Cowboy-Jonathan Maslow 2/5

April:
26.Adventures in Africa-Gianni Calati 1/5
27. Insight Guides:Oman and the UAE 2/5
28.Mister Pip- Lloyd Jones 3/5
29. Ali and Nino- Kurban Said 5/5
30. Traveller's Survival Kit: Madagascar. Comoros & Myote-James
Penrith 1/5
31. East Timor:Island in Conflict- Taro McGuinn 2/5
32. Dekok and the Begging Death-A.C. Baantje 3/5
33. Creation in Death-JD Robb 4/5


May:
34. Sweet Revenge-Diane Mott Davidson 2/5
35.Christine Falls-Benjamin Black 5/5
36.The Beekeeper's Apprentice-Laurie R. King 4/5
37.The Bounty-Derek Walcott 2/5
38. Adventure Guide:Virgin Islands-Lyn M. Sullivan 3/5
39. Adventure Guide:Cayman Islands-Petra Permenter 2/5
40.Snapshots of Belize- edited by Michael Plillips 4/5

June:
41.Menopause and the Mind-Claire Warga 4/5
42. Double Play: The Story of An Amazing World Record-Frank M. Arion 4/5
43. A Stranger's Supper: An Oral History of Centenarian Women in
Montenegro-Zorka Milich 4/5
44. Winter Study-Nevada Barr 3/5
45. Hong Kong Collage-ed. Martha P.Y. Cheung 1/5
46. The Fire of Origins-Emmauel Dongala 4/5

July:
47. The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Echemeta 5/5

Looks like July is my 'slacker' month..but I've gotten loads of crochet projects done and put in tons of time poolside for lessons, practices and swim meets:lol:

 

[disconnected]

About 10 I think, unfortunately my job takes almost all the free time I have...

i know what you mean, i had taken extra classes this semester, plus i was doing an internship that required weekend appearances too at various events, that took up my whole day,plus i just moved from New York to Michigan, so spent all my time packing and unpacking, but i still got in a decent amount into my list =]

 

[disconnected]

I voted and took the wrong number. :lol: Stupid me.

lol really Stupid!! lol not trying to be offensive, just kidding, so how many books have you read? and list some!!! need a little inspiration for exciting new books

 

[Oklahoma]

I can't say for certain how many I read in December '07, but this is my list since then. A good deal of them are YA, as I sort of skipped over them in my childhood in my eagerness to get at the ' grown-up books'. June was definitely a slacker month due to the rose garden. Now that it is withering to death in the drought, I can read again...:whistling:

Jan.

1. The Lovers-Philip Jose Farmer
2. The Chamber of Secrets-J.K. Rowlings
3. Must Love Dogs--Claire Cook
4. Mutiny on the Bounty--C. Nordhoff/J.N. Hall
5.The Looking Glass War Frank Beddor
6. Owls well that Ends Well--Donna Andrews
7.Quite a Year for Plums--Bailey White
8. Called Out--A.G. Mojitbai
9. The Ides of March--Thornton Wilder

Feb.

10. The Reader--Bernhard Schlink
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie--Muriel Spaek
12. Memoirs of a Geisha--Arthur Golden
13. Gertrude and Claudius--John Updike
14.Frankenstein Unbound--Brian w, Aldiss
15. Ice Station Zebra--Alistair MacLean
16. American Psycho--Bret Easton Ellis
17. The Owl and the Pussycat--Richard
18. The DeerHunter
19. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister--Gregory maguire
20. Communion---Whitley Striber
21. Deliverance--James Dickey

Mar.

22. Tobacco Road--Erskine Caldwell
23. Atonement--IanMcEwan
24. West of the Moon--Nasaw
25. Ladies of Missalonghi--Colleen McCullough
26. Hatchet--Gary Paulsen
27. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. Goodbye Mr. Chips
29. Lord of the Flies--William Golding
30.Life of Pi--Yann Martel
31. Silverhill--Phyllis A. Whitney
32. The Adam Experiment---Geoffrey Simmons
33. The Book of Fred ---Abby Bardi


April

34. Born For Love--Leo Buscaglia
35.The Rag Nymph --- Catherine Cookson
36. Tanner's Twelve Swingers---Lawrence Block
37. All Quiet on the Western Front--Eriche Maria Remarque
38. Field Guide to Chickens --Pam Percy
39. At Wit's End--Erma Bombeck
40. Oh, Kentucky!--Betty Layman Receveur
41. Woman's Doctor
42. Forever--Judy Blume
43. Flowers for Algernon--Daniel Keyes

May

44.Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
45. Practical Demonkeeping
46. The Neverending Story
47. Cheaper By the Dozen
48. The Shadow Riders
49 A Boy Called Hopeless
50.The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse
51. Beneath the Wheel
52. The Stone Diaries
53. Jamie



June

54. Crazy Ladies
55. How to Murder your Mother-in-Law
56. The Green Berets
57. So Dear to My Heart
58. The Bell Jar
59. Dreamcatcher
60. This Perfect Day



July

61. Plains of Passage
62. Shelters of Stone
63. Needlework in America
64. Steffie Can't Come Out to Play
65. Lord Jim
66. Me and Emma