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My Books for 2012

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Ok here is my list for what I read in 2012

1.Kristin Lavransdatter, Part 2: The Wife by Sigrid Undset ***
2.Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne***
3.The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot*****
4.The Iliad by Homer****
5.1Q84 by Haruki Murakami ***
6.Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon****
7.A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul****
8.The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos****
9.Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie****
10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson****
11.Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens****
12.Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie****
13.The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck****
14. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells****
15. Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya by Dick Teresi****
16.The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett****
17. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith****
18. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James****
19. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht***
20. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos****
21. The Trojan Women by Euripides****
22. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr****
23. Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim****
24. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn****
25.Bel Canto by Ann Patchett****
26.A House to Let by Charles Dickens****
27. Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus by Victoria Grossack****
28. Pompeii by Robert Harris****
29. The Odyssey by Homer*****
30.The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper****
31. World of Wonders by Robertson Davies***
32.American Gods by Neil Gaiman*****
33. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk*****
34. The Red and the Black by Stendhal****
35. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho****
36. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell*****
37. The Farce of Sodom or the Quintessence of Debauchery by John Wilmot***
38. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk****
39. The Queen's Dollmaker by Christine Trent****
40. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy*****
41. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen****
42. Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings****
43. The Six Messiahs by Mark Frost***
44. Life of Pi by Yann Martel***
45. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin****
46. The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory**
47. Summer by Edith Wharton***
48. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving****
49. Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood***
50. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys***
51. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro****
52. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde****
53. The Aeneid by Virgil****
54. Blindness by Jose Saramago****
55. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan****
56. Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson****
57. The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes From his Fool Will Somers By Margaret George****
58. The Moon and the Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham***
59. Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin****
60. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington***
61. Lonesome Dover by Larry McMurrty****
62. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian****
63. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe****
64. The Odd Women by George R. Gissing****
65.The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima****
66. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood****
67. Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago****
68. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis****
69. Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist****
70. Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro***
71. The Skystone by Jack Whyte****
72. Plainsong by Kent Haruf****
73. The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez Reverte*****
74. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte****
75. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton****
76. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin****
77. The Godson by Gloria Vitanza Basile****
78. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde****
79. Outlaw by Anguu Donald****
80. Hannibal by Thomas Harris ****
81. Rasero by Francisco Rebolledo*****
82. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor***
83. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran***
84. The Jewel of St. Petersburg by Kate Furnivall***
85. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky***
86. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien****
87. Wake Not the Dead by Johann Ludwig Tieck****
88. Count Magnus by M.R. James****
89. King Lear by Shakespeare***
89.The Dead Smile by F. Marion James ****
90. Venice Preserved: A Tragedy in Five Acts by Thomas Otway****
91. In Memoriam by Tennyson****
92. The Magic Ring by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué***
93. Coriolanus by Shakespeare****
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  1. qimissung's Avatar
    I'll tell you what I told Fifth Element-V-e-r-r-r-y impressive, Dark Muse. You read more than a book a week, it looks like. How did you schedule that? Small blocks of time? large?

    What books did you enjoy most and which the least? Lastly, did you have a theme? I'm sorry I can't remember if you said.
  2. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Several of the selections which I read are short stories, plays, novellas of which I can polish off in about a week or less, but I usually do not finish full length novels in a weeks time. But I will usually read several books per month.

    I do not have an official theme for my reading in general, but within a year I might have a couple of themes that I work on. But I do not have an overall theme for the whole year. Most my reading are chosen pretty randomly, not pre-determined.

    The Books I enjoyed the most:

    American Gods
    My Name is Red
    American Psycho
    The Club Dumas
    Coriolanus
    Rasero
    Between the Bridge and the River
    Cloud Atlas
    Fight Club

    Some that I enjoyed the least:

    The Tiger's Wife
    Wide Sargasso Sea
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    Lady Oracle
    Wise Blood
  3. Buh4Bee's Avatar
    Brilliant!!! It is something I could never accomplish! Very impressive!
  4. Virgil's Avatar
    Holy smoke! Ninety-three!! I bow to you my dear. Great reads in there too.
  5. Joreads's Avatar
    Wow Muse that is great
  6. islandclimber's Avatar
    Quite impressive Dark Muse. And many fantastic works on there as well. If you enjoyed Cloud Atlas try Mitchell's book number9dream. It's quite good.