What Have You Read in 2007 (List)

[Sofia]

this is the first year I've ever kept track.
January
1. If I'd Killed Him When I'd Met Him-sharyn McCrumb
2. Pride of Carthage: A Novel of Hannibal.....by David Anthony Durham
3. Dinner With Anna Karenina-Gloria Goldreich
4. The Pearl-John Steinbeck
5. Fox Evil-Minette Walters

February
6. The Nanny Diaries-Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus
7. The Harrowing-Alexandra Sokoloff
8. Can You Keep A Secret?-Sophie Kinsella

March
9. How To Cook A Tart-Nina Killham
10. On The Run-Iris Johansen
11. A Death In The Family-James Agee
12. Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close-Jonathan Safran Foer

April
13. A Woman In Berlin-anonymous
14. Gone For Good-Harlan Coben
15. Shutter Island-Dennis Lehane
16. Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress-Dai Sijie
17. Rosemary's Baby-Ira Levin

May
18. Snow Falling On Cedars-David Guterson
19. Mine Are Spectacular!-Janice Kaplan & Lynn Schurnberger
20. Second Glance-Jodi Picoult
21. Nature Girl-Carl Hiaasen
22. The Witch Of Portobello-Paulo Coelho
23. Shopaholic And Baby-Sophie Kinsella
24. The Woods-Harlan Coben

June
25. Heart Shaped Box-Joe Hill
26. I Am Legend-Richard Matheson
27. Bimbos Of The Death Sun-Sharyn McCrumb
28. Nineteen Minutes-Jodi Picoult
29. Predator-Patricia Cornwell
30. The Time Traveller's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger

July
31. I Heard That Song Before-Mary Higgins Clark
32. The Husband-Dean Koontz
33. Sex As A Second Language-Alisa Kwitney
34. Good In Bed-Jennifer Weiner
35. Plain Truth-Jodi Picoult
36. Lean Mean Thirteen-Janet Evanovich

August
37. The Woman Who Walked Into Doors-Roddy Doyle
38. A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hosseini
39. We Have Always Lived In The Castle-Shirley Jackson
40. Cocktails For Three-Madeleine Wickham (aka sophie Kinsella)
41. Savannah Breeze-Mary Kay Andrews
42. On Chesil Beach-Ian McEwan
43. bubbles Unbound-Sarah Strohmeyer

September
44. The Thirteenth Tale-Diane Setterfield
45. The Innocent-Harlan Coben
46. Atonement-Ian McEwan
47. The Virgin And The Gypsy-D..H. Lawrence

October
48. The End Of The affair-Graham Greene
49. Lost-Michael Robotham

November
50. Reading Lolita In Tehran-Azar Nafisi
51. Burnt Offerings-Robert Marasco
52. The Reader-Bernhard Schlink
53. girls of riyadh-rajaa alsanea
54. The Memory Keeper's Daughter-Kim Edwards
55. No Second Chance-Harlan Coben

December
56. Like Water For Chocolate-Laura Esquivel

 

[n_maw]

Off of my memory and browsing my bookshelf:

For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
The Three Junes by Julia Glass
Holes by Louis Sacher
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Holes by Louis Sacher

Non-Fiction, Essays, and Parenting (my attempts at solving the mystery questions: will my baby ever sleep through the night and will my toddler ever get potty trained):
Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein
The 5 Lessons a Millionare Taught Me by Richard Paul Evans
It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for A Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh
The Happiest Baby on the Block by Dr. Harvey Karp
The Happiest Toddler on the Block by Dr. Harvey Karp
The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Toilet Training by American Academy of Pediatrics
The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers by Elizabeth Pantley
Confessions of a Slacker Wife by Muffy Mead-Ferro
Confessions of a Slacker Mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro
The Three-Martini Playdate: A Pratical Guide to Happy Parenting by Christie Mellor
Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other Minute of It) by Andrea J. Buchanan
Babyproofing your Marriage: How to Laugh More, Argue Less, and Communicate Better as Your Family Grows by Stacie Cockrell
Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman

Currently reading:
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Planned books:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
The Gift by Richard Paul Evans

I'm going to start keeping track for 2008.

 

[n_maw]

Off of my memory and browsing my bookshelf:

For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
The Three Junes by Julia Glass
Holes by Louis Sacher
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Holes by Louis Sacher

Non-Fiction, Essays, and Parenting (my attempts at solving the mystery questions: will my baby ever sleep through the night and will my toddler ever get potty trained):
Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein
The 5 Lessons a Millionare Taught Me by Richard Paul Evans
It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for A Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh
The Happiest Baby on the Block by Dr. Harvey Karp
The Happiest Toddler on the Block by Dr. Harvey Karp
The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Toilet Training by American Academy of Pediatrics
The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers by Elizabeth Pantley
Confessions of a Slacker Wife by Muffy Mead-Ferro
Confessions of a Slacker Mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro
The Three-Martini Playdate: A Pratical Guide to Happy Parenting by Christie Mellor
Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other Minute of It) by Andrea J. Buchanan
Babyproofing your Marriage: How to Laugh More, Argue Less, and Communicate Better as Your Family Grows by Stacie Cockrell
Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman

Currently reading:
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Planned books:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
The Gift by Richard Paul Evans

I'm going to start keeping track for 2008.

 

[freespirit]

These aren't in order except for near the end. I definitely went on a big Kerouac fix recently and read a lot of autobiographies and biographies as well.

1. Confessions- Saint Augustine
2. Discourse on method-Descartes
3. Meditations on first philosophy-Descartes
4. Future of an illusion-Freud
5. Existentialism and human emotions-Jean-Paul Sartre
6. Searching for the sound-Phil Lesh
7. Miles-Miles Davis
8. Like a rolling stone: Dylan at the crossroads- Greil Marcus
9. Love is a mix tape- Rob Sheffield
10. One train later- Andy Summers
11. I feel good-James Brown
12. Cash-Johnny Cash
13. The boy who cried freebird-Mitch Myers
14. Broken Music-Sting
15. Chronicles-Bob Dylan
16. Bud Inc-Ian Mulgrew
17. Complicated shadows: Elvis Costello-Graeme Thompson
18. The show I’ll never forget- Sean manning
19. Tarantula-Bob Dylan
20. Kitchen Confidential-Anthony Bourdain
21. Junky-William Burroughs
22. On the road-Jack Kerouac
23. The Subterraneans-Jack Kerouac
24. The Dharma Bums-Jack Kerouac
25. Fargo rock city-Chuck Klosterman
26. A decade of curious people-Chuck Klosterman
27. Killing yourself to live-Chuck Klosterman
28. Disgrace-J.M. Cotzee
29. Jack Kerouac biography-Anne Chambers
30. Big Sur-Jack Kerouac
31. The Rum Diaries-Hunter S. Thompson
32. Satori in Paris-Jack Kerouac
33. When I was cool-Sam Kashner
34. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close- Johnathan Safran Foer


Currently Reading:

Into the wild-
Naked Lunch-William Burroughs
Catcher in the Rye

 

[abecedarian]

2007

January

001. Stitch N' Bitch Nation-Debbie Stoller 4/5
002. Complete Idiot's Guite to Knitting and Crochet-Gail Divin 3/5
003. Mason Dixon Knitting-Kay Gardiner & Ann Shayne 4/5
004. Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City- Alicia Cossio 2/5 (Ecuador)
005. QuixotiQ-Ali Al Saaed 1/5 (Bahrain)
006. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Alexander Solzhenitsyn 5/5 (Russia)
007.Foucault's Pendulum-Umberto Eco 4/5
008. Pride of Carthage-David Anthony Durham 5/5
009. Israel, Palestine and Peace-Amos Oz (Israel) 4/5
010. Fools, Thieves and Other Dreamers-Abdouri Ali Waberi. Florent Couoa-Zotti, and Seydi Sow (Djibouti, Benin, Senegal) 1/5
011. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories-Franz Kafka 2/5
012. Crossing the River- Caryl Phillips (St. Kitts) 4/5
013. Dead Wrong-J.A. Jance 3/5
014. Land Without Thunder and Other Stories-Grace Ogo (Kenya) 3/5
​

February

015. The Half Brother-Lars Christensen (Norway) 4/5
016. Freedom From Fear-Aung San Suukyi (Burma) 3/5
017. Fateless- Imre Kertesz (Hungary) 4/5
018. Sightseeing- Rattawut Lapcharoensap (Thailand) 3/5
019. A Dream in Polar Fog-Yuri Rytkheu (Russia) 5/5
020. Esau and Jacob- Joachim Machado deAssis (Bolivia) 2/5
021. Angela's Ashes-Frank McCourt (Ireland) 5/5
022. 'Tis-Frank McCourt (Ireland) 4/5​

March

023. African Folktales:Folklore of the Central African Republic (CAR) 3/5
024. A Fine Balance-Rohinton Mistry (India) 5/5
025. The Birth & Death of the Miracle Man-Albert Wendt(Am. Samoa) 3/5
026. House of Hunger-Damb udzo Marechera(Zimbabwe) 1/5
027. First They Killed My Father-Loung Ung(Cambodia) 5/5
028. The Apron Book-EllynAnne Geisel 3/5
029. A Death in the Family-James Agee 5/5
030. Night-Vedrana Rudan(Croatia) 1/5
031. Teacher Man-Frank McCourt 5/5​

April

032.Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy 5/5 (Russia)
033. No Longer At Ease-Chinua Achebe 3/5 (Nigeria)
034.The Colony of Unrequited Dreams-Wayne Johnston 5/5 (Canada)
035.The Ventriloquist's Tale- Pauline Melville 3/5 (Guyana)
036. In the Country of Men-Hisham Matar 4/5 (Libya)
037. Notes From the Hyena's Belly-Nega Meslekia 4/5 (Ethiopia)
038. Math Power: How to Help Your Child Love Math Even if You don't-Patrica Kenschaft 4/5
039. Dreaming in Cuban-Christina Garcia 4/5 (Cuba)
040.The Big Banana-Robert Quesada 2/5 (Honduras)
041. The Dark Child- Camera Laye 3/5 (Guinea)
042. Codex- Lev Grossman 4/5​

May

043. Years Like Brief Days-Fabian Dobles(Costa Rica) 2/5
044. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Walking for Health-Erika Peters 4/5
045. If On a Winter's Night a Traveller-Italo Calvino(Italy) 3/5
046. The Abyssinian Chronicles-Moses Isegawa (Uganda) 3/5
047. Four Corners:A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea-Kira Salak (PNG) 3/5 (if this were MY dd..she'd be in deep dark stuff upon her return!)
048. Have Mercy on Us All-Fred Vargas(France) 4/5
049. The Seventh Elephant-Alexis Stamatis(Greece)1/5
050. Refuge: Chronicle of a Flight From Hitler-Egon Schwarz(Austria) 1/5 (BORING)
051. The Store of a Million Items-Michelle Cliff (Jamaica) 2/5
052. Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think- Brian Wansink 4/5
053. Inside the Kingdom-Carmen Bin Ladin (Saudi Arabia) 4/5
054. Shipwrecks-Akira Yoshimura(Japan) 5/5 (Ya'll should read this one!)
055. The Pyramid- Ismail Kadare (Albania) 2/5
056. Authentic African Cuisine From Ghana- David & Tamminay Otoo (Ghana) 3/5
057. The Second Round-Lenrie Peters(Gambia) 3/5​

June

058. Zubrick's Rock-Robert Eringer(Monaco) 3/5
059. The Little Ice Age-Brian Fagan 4/5 (Thanks Pontalba!)
060. Not Your Mama's Crochet-Amy Swenson 4/5
061. Death in Danzig-Stefan Chwin (Poland)3/5
062. The House on the Lagoon-Rosario Ferres(Puerto Rico) 4/5
063. The Scorpion Fish-Nicolas Bouvier(Switzerland) 1/5
064. The Secrets of Columbian Cooking-Patricia McCausland-Gallo 2/5
065. The Lady in White-Wilkie Collins 5/5 (Thanks Peder!)
066. Fragment of Memorie: Memories of a Syrian Family(Syria)-Hanna Mina 3/5
067. Owls in the Family-Farley Mowat(Canada) 4/5
068. Hood- Stephen Lawhead 4/5​

July

069. Cancer Ward-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 5/5
070. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams-Peter Handke 3/5
071. We Have Our Voice-Reesom Haile 3/5
072. The Wild Trees-Richard Preston 4/5
073. Diverse Lives: Contemporary Stories ed. Jeanette Lingard 2/5
074. Born in Death-J.D. Robb 3/5
075. Dark Celebration- Christine Feehan 3/5
076. Dark Torte- Diane Mott Davidson 3/5
077. Rhythym and Revolt: Tales of the Antilles-ed Marcella Breton 2/5
078. HP and the Deathly Hallows-J.K. Rowling 4/5
079. Fortune's Fool-Mercedes Lackey 3/5
080. Liberian Writing pb. Horst Erdmann Verlag 1/5
081. Cat Pay the Devil- Shirley R. Murphy 3/5​

August

082. Left to Tell-Immaculee Ilibagiza (Rwanda) 4/5
083. When New Flowers Bloomed-ed. Enrique Jaramillo Levi (Costa Rica, Panama) 3/5
084. Lady in a Boat-Merle Collins(Grenada) 3/5
085. Lonely Planet South Pacific & Micronesia 4/5
086. Unlocking Horns:Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Burundi-David Niyonzima 2/5
087. The Last Caton-Matilde Asensi (Spain) 3/5
088. Pnin-Vladimir Nabakov 3/5
089. Rhinos For Lunch, Elephants for Supper!- Tololwa M Mollel (Tanzania) 4/5 (very cute children's book)
090. The Welsh Girl-Peter Ho Davies 5/5
091. The Antipeople- Sony Labou Tansi(Congo) 1/5
092. Blanket Boy's Moon-Peter Lenhart (Lesotho) 4/5​

September

093. The Country Under My Skin-Giocanda Beli(Nicaraugua) 4/5
094. Land of Exile:Contemporary Korean Fiction-ed. Marshall R. Pihl 3/5
095. Atonement-Ian McEwan 4/5
096. Arresting God in Katmandu-Samrat Upradhyay(Nepal) 3/5
097. Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam:Short Stories by Caribbean Women-ed. Carmen Esteves(Suriname) 2/5
098. Translations from the Night:Selected Poems of Jean Joseph
099. Rabearivelo(Madagascar) 2/5
100. The Hostage-Zayd Mutee Dammaj(Yemen) 4/5
101. A World Undone-G.J. Meyer 3/5
102. Mistral's Kiss-Laurell K. Hamilton 3/5
103. Skipping Without Ropes-Jack Mpanji(Malawi) 2/5
104. Fodor's Bermuda 3/5
105. First Light: An Anthology of Paraguayan Woman Writers-ed. Susan Smith Nash 2/5​

October

106. Absent-Betool Khedauru(Iraq) 2/5
107. Ancient Splendor:The Best of Mongolian Poetry ed. Mend-Ooyo Gombojav 3/5
108. Girls of Riyadh-Rajaa Alsanea(Saudi Arabia) 4/5
109. Batoula-Rene Maran(Gabon) 3/5
110. Born of the Sun-Joseph Diescho(Nambia) 2/5
111. Lean Mean Thirteen-Janet Evanovitch 4/5
112. Pack of Wolves-Vasil Bykov (Belarus) 5/5
​

November

113. The Voice Of Cyprus:An Anthology of Cypriot Literature ed. Andonis Decavalles 3/5
114. Borderliners-Peter Hoeg (Denmark) 2/5
115. The Day Lasts a Hundred Years-Chingiz Aitmatov(Kyrgystan) 3/5
116. Living Artfully-Sandra Magsamen 3/5
117. The Red Lances-Arturo Uslar Pietri(Argentina) 2/5
118. Small is Not Always Beautiful: The Story of Equatorial Guinea-Max Leniger Goumaz 1/5
119. Chad: A Nation in Search of Its Future- Mario Jaoquim Azevedo 2/5​

December

120. The Redemption of Elsdon Bird-Noel Virtue(NZ) 5/5
121. Wonderful Fool-Shusako Endo(Japan) 5/5
122. Letters to Olga-Vaclav Havel(Czech Rep.)
123. The Ways of Rain and other Poems-Hugo Lindo (El Salvador)
124. I Could Read the Sky-Timothy O'Grady 4/5
125. Death and the Penguin-Andrey Kurkov(Ukraine) 5/5
126. Maldives:Winds of Change in an Atoll State-Urmilla Phadnis 1/5
127. The Second Life: A Collection of Novellas and Short Stories-Carmen Firan (Romania) 1/5
128. The Black Book of Secrets-F.E. Higgins 4/5​

 

[-Carlos-]

Holy smokes abecedarian! That there is alot of books. How did you do it?

 

[abecedarian]

Holy smokes abecedarian! That there is alot of books. How did you do it?

One page at a time, like everyone else AB Actually, some on this list are pretty short, either novellas or short collections of poetry or stories. A few are pretty easy reading craft books or genre fiction. Rest assured Anna Karenina and Cancer Ward took much more time than the crochet books or cookbooks. Then there are lifestyle factors..I don't work outside the home, and I sometimes have trouble sleeping, so I probably have more free time to spend how I like than some others do. Oh, and I rarely go anywhere without a book or my current crochet or looming project in tow-usually both...If you see a middle aged woman surrounded by a crowd of kids who look alike, and she's carrying a large tote, chances are good she's me!

 

[Kenny Shovel]

The Half Brother-Lars Christensen (Norway) 4/5

Noted. I loved Herman by the same author. Foyles has some signed copies of The Model by him in stock.

A Dream in Polar Fog-Yuri Rytkheu (Russia) 5/5

This has been on my amazon wish list for a while.

Cancer Ward-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 5/5

You know my opinion of First Circle, loved it so much I'm gunna re-read it next year. I got a second-hand copy of Cancer Ward a few weeks back, I'll tuck into that at some point too.

Pack of Wolves-Vasil Bykov (Belarus) 5/5

Noted, and added to my amazon wish list.

Shipwrecks-Akira Yoshimura(Japan) 5/5 (Ya'll should read this one!)

I think I was on fairly safe ground bigging up this book. How could someone not love it?

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories-Franz Kafka 2/5
No Longer At Ease-Chinua Achebe 3/5
The Pyramid- Ismail Kadare 2/5

I mark these much higher, but as ever, 'Your Mileage May Differ'.

Wonderful Fool-Shusako Endo(Japan) 5/5

Thought you'd like that! I bet you found a lot more Christian reference points than I did too.

You really need to find somewhere to record all the best books you've found during your olympic challenge. It'll be useful when I to reading more African & South American stuff.

Regards,

K_S

 

[Kenny Shovel]

January:

01 - Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin - *****
02 - Moscow 2042 - Vladimir Voinovich - *****
03 - The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky - *****
04 - Calling the Shots: My time as England Captain - Michael Vaughan - *****
05 - Spun Out: The Shane Warne Story - Paul Barry - *****
06 - Confession of a Murderer - Joseth Roth - *****
07 - Zimmer Men - Marcus Berkmann - *****
08 - Beyond A Boundary - C L R James - *****

February:

09 - Third Man to Fatty's Leg - Steve James - - *****

March:

Zippo!

April:

10 - Parkinson on Cricket - Michael Parkinson - *****

May:

11 - Selected Poems - Marina Tsvetayeva - *****
12 - Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut - *****
13 - County Cricketeers Who's Who 2007 - Various - *****
14 - Chronicle in Stone - Ismail Kadare - *****
15 - About Love and Other Stories - Anton Chekov - *****

16 - Four Major Plays: Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House - *****
Ghosts - *****
Hedder Gabler - *****
The Master Builder - *****

17 - Five Plays: Anton Chekov

Ivanov - *****
The Seagull - *****
Uncle Vanya - *****
Three Sisters - *****
The Cherry Orchard - *****

18 - Wisden Cricket Almanack 2007 - Various - *****

June:

19 - For the Good of the Cause - Alexsander Solzhenitsyn - *****

July:

20 - Pelagia & The Black Monk - Boris Akunin - *****
21 - Special Assignments: Boris Akunin
____The Jack of Spades - *****
____The Decorator - *****

August:

22 - Bleak House - Charles Dickens - *****
23 - The Absolute at Large - Karel Capek - *****
24 - The Home of the Gentry - Ivan Turgenyev - *****
25 - Trans-Atlantyk - Witold Gombrowicz - *****
26 - Love and Garbage - Ivan Klima - *****
27 - Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - *****
28 - The Assault - Harry Mulisch - *****
29 - Herman - Lars Saabye Christensen - *****
30 - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (illustrated) - William Blake - *****
31 - The Good Woman of Setzuan - Bertolt Brecht - *****
32 - A Tomb for Boris Davidovich - Danilo Kis - *****

September:

33 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files V2 - John Wagner/Pat Mills - *****
34 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files V3 - John Wagner/Pat Mills - *****
35 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files V1 - John Wagner/Pat Mills - *****
36 - Sin City: That Yellow Bastard - Frank Miller - *****

October:

37 - Selected Poems - Osip Mandel'shtam - *****
38 - Strontium Dog: Agency Files V1 - John Wagner/Alan Grant - *****
39 - Strontium Dog: Agency Files V2 - John Wagner/Alan Grant - *****
40 - Strontium Dog: Agency Files V3 - John Wagner/Alan Grant - *****
41 - Much Obliged, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse - *****
42 - Charley's War V2 - Pat Mills - *****
43 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files V4 - John Wagner/Alan Grant - *****
44 - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse - *****
45 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files V5 - John Wagner/Alan Grant - *****
46 - The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem - *****
47 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files V6 - John Wagner/Alan Grant - *****
48 - Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse - *****
49 - Charley's War V3 - Pat Mills - *****
50 - Charley's War V4 - Pat Mills - *****
51 - The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse - *****
52 - My Man Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse - *****
53 - Pan Tadeusz - Adam Mickiewicz - *****
54 - Naive. Super - Erlend Loe - *****

November:

55 - The Old Capital - Yasunari Kawabata - *****
56 - Malvinas Requiem - Rodolfo Fogwill - *****
57 - Wonderful Fool - Shusaku Endo - *****
58 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files V7 - John Wagner/Alan Grant - *****
59 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files V8 - John Wagner/Alan Grant - *****
60 - Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer - *****

I'm also working my way through the complete works of Shakesphere. Read ten of his plays this year.

Currently reading, and may finish before the end of the year:

Dawn of the Dumb - Charlie Brooker
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (and my good God this is a sublime collection)
Incidences - Daniil Kharms

K_S

 

[abecedarian]

First Circle[/I], loved it so much I'm gunna re-read it next year. I got a second-hand copy of Cancer Ward a few weeks back, I'll tuck into that at some point too.

The think I've noticed with Solzhenitsyn is how difficult it is to get through his books! It isn't because he used big words or hard to grasp metaphors. The difficulty lies within myself, and the tough issues he portrays. Maybe I shouldn't like his stuff, but conversly, I find that I like it very much, and I find myself dwelling on the books long after I'm done wit the last sentence.



You really need to find somewhere to record all the best books you've found during your olympic challenge. It'll be useful when I to reading more African & South American stuff.


I've thought about doing this. I have a xanga, but I don't care for it at all. I'll have to look around again.

 

[St. Stephen]

1. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
2. The Painted House - John Grisham
3. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
4. Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
5. Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
6. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Hiroshima - John Hersey
9. Daisy Miller - Henry James
10. Billy Budd - Herman Melville
11. Light in August - William Faulkner
12. Our Town - Thornton Wilder
13. Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
14. Watership Down - Richard Adams
15. Chronicles - Bob Dylan
16. The Trial - Franz Kafka
17. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
18. The Man Who Ate the 747 - Ben Sherwood
19. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brein
20. The Metamorphoses - Ovid
21. Medea - Euripides
22. Beowulf - Anonymous

I slacked this year. I'll step it up for 2008.

I plan on reading:
- Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- Blue Light Jazz - Donald Miller
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Anthem - Ayn Rand
- Silent Spring - Rachel Carson

 

[abecedarian]

- Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller

Buried deep in our archives, we have a thread for this book..I would like to hear your thoughts when you get around to it.

 

[Stewart]

You really need to find somewhere to record all the best books you've found during your olympic challenge. It'll be useful when I to reading more African & South American stuff.

Abec, have you considered just logging everything you've read on GoodReads? I've found it the better of such sites, trouncing both listal and LibraryThing.

 

[abecedarian]

Abec, have you considered just logging everything you've read on GoodReads? I've found it the better of such sites, trouncing both listal and LibraryThing.

I've never heard of this one..will have to investigate. I like the groups aspect of library thing, even though I mostly lurk/glean there. I can't put my finger on what bugs be about listal..even though 'free' has a nice ring to it. As I'm sick-abed today, I'll toodle off (slowly) to check out Goodreads...

 

[abecedarian]

Abec, have you considered just logging everything you've read on GoodReads? I've found it the better of such sites, trouncing both listal and LibraryThing.

Ok,I have an account and one friend already..so how do I import my librarything list? Pontalba can't remember how she did it. It would be slower to add stuff to my amazon wishlist and go that route.(I need big pictures and easy words )

 

[Stewart]

By using this page. You can have a second friend too if you add me from my profile.

 

[abecedarian]

By using this page. You can have a second friend too if you add me from my profile.

So I see from your post at tfs..you should be getting a request about...now I'll try your link and see what happens..of course, it would all be easier if my gut and head felt better

 

[Kenny Shovel]

So what makes Goodreads better than the other two then?

 

[Stewart]

So what makes Goodreads better than the other two then?

For me, I've just never liked LibraryThing. Always thought as a website it looked cheap and nasty - and it's charge for going beyond 200 books is a waste of money when there's other sites doing the same for free. And also, my goodreads is also fed into my Facebook profile, which listal can't do. Those are just my petty gripes.

 

[matlajoie]

Books I've Read

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
House To House: An Epic Memoir of War by David Bellavia
The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis