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My 2011 Reads

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Gulliver's Travels by Gulliver's Travels

The Bright and The Dark by Michelle M. Welch

The Monk by Matthew Lewis

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

The City & the City by China Miéville

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

Night of the Wolf by Alice Borchardt

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle****

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

Losing the Light by Brian Cartwright

The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Vampire Mountain by Darren Shan

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran

The Trial by Franz Kafka

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Hidden by Victoria Lustbader

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

Sweet Water by Christina Baker Kline

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

Kristin Lavransdatter 1: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Mummy by Anne Rice

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

Fall of a Kingdom by Hilari Bell

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall

Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin

Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy

Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy

In the Spring by Guy de Maupassant

Pope Joan by Donna Cross Woolfolk

The Secret Histroy by Donna Tartt

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

Three Theban Plays by Sophocles

Updated 01-02-2012 at 06:42 PM by Dark Muse

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  1. qimissung's Avatar
    That's an impressive list, DM. The Shirley Jackson books are among my favorites. I also read The Crying of Lot 49 this year, and it, too, I will always think of as a favorite.
  2. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Thank you! Yeah I love Shirley Jackson. I have to admit that I found Crying of Lot 49 a bit tough. It was a very odd book but I am not sure I really got it.
  3. qimissung's Avatar
    It was a bit tough. I put it doown for awhile and when I came back to it. I read it in shorter but regular increments and his gorgous prose seemed more easily digestible. Once I finished it I read everything I could find about it on the internet. I was doing it for myself, not for an assignment, so no constraints in that area.

    And then I treated myself to this:


    http://oyc.yale.edu/english/american-novel-since-1945

    Also, did you like "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"?
    Updated 01-04-2012 at 10:17 PM by qimissung
  4. Virgil's Avatar
    OMG, how did you have the time to read all that? Some of those are long works too. Amazing and kudos. Great list. I read Kafka on the Shore too this past year. What did you think? I commented on it in my reading list blog.
  5. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil
    OMG, how did you have the time to read all that? Some of those are long works too. Amazing and kudos. Great list.
    I do not know myself how I pulled it off. There were times when I questioned if I would be able to and times when it did feel like I was pushing the limits of what it would be humanly possible to read.