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I have (for the past two years) written lists of every book that I read, just for fun.
And I am sure I am not the only one, so maybe some of you has as well? Or maybe you remember them all?
So what I'd like to know: What books did you manage to read during the year 2007?
sophie's world (yehey!)
the solitaire mystery
pride and prejudice
the phantom of the opera
one of those books by Amanda Browning (forgot the title :( )
got started on Les Miserables
got started on Girl With a Pearl Earring
What I've read during the year 2007:
A
Albom, Mitch - Tisdagarna med Morrie (Tuesdays with Morrie)
Alvtegen, Karin - Skuld (Guilt)
Asimov, Isaac - Jag, robot (I, Robot)
Atwood, Margaret - Oryx & Crake
Austen, Jane - Pride and prejudice
- Emma
- Lady Susan
B
Björndal, Cato R.P. - Det värderande ögat
C
Coelho, Paulo - Alkemisten (The Alchemist)
Connelly, Michael - Skuggspel (Lost Light)
Coupland, Douglas - Girlfriend in a coma
D
Dirie, Waris - En blomma i Afrikas öken (Desert Flower)
- Ökenblomman återvänder (Desert Dawn)
E
Eddings, David - Sagan om Belgarion: Stenens väktare (The Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy)
- Sagan om Belgarion: Profetians tid (The Belgariad: Queen of Sorcery)
- Sagan om Belgarion: Besvärjarnas kamp (The Belgariad: Magician's Gambit)
- Sagan om Belgarion: Rivas drottning (The Belgariad: Castle of Wizardry)
- Sagan om Belgarion: Ödets fullbordan (The Belgariad: Enchanters' End Game)
- Sagan om Mallorea: Belgarions son (The Malloreon: Guardians of the West)
- Sagan om Mallorea: Murgoernas konung (The Malloreon: King of the Murgos)
- Sagan om Mallorea: Demonen i Karanda (The Malloreon: Demon Lord of Karanda)
- Sagan om Mallorea: I Zandramas spår (The Malloreon: Sorceress of Darshiva)
- Sagan om Mallorea: Sierskan från Kell (The Malloreon: The Seeress of Kell)
Ehn, Billy & Löfgren, Orvar - Kulturanalyser
Ende, Michael - Den oändliga historien (The Neverending Story)
G
Gaiman, Neil - American Gods
Gavalda, Anna - Tillsammans är man mindre ensam (Hunting and Gathering)
- Jag älskade honom (Someone I loved)
Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind In The Willows
Gren, Jenny - Etik i pedagogiskt vardagsarbete
Gustafsson, Klas - Ett bluesliv: Berättelsen om Cornelis Vreeswijk.
H
Hansson, Bob - Här ligger jag och duger
Harris, Joanne - Gentlemen och spelare (Gentlemen and Players)
- Choklad (Chocolat)
- I virvlande dans (Jigs & Reels)
Hartman, Sven - Det pedagogiska kulturarvet
Hellberg, Björn - Paria
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man And The Sea
Herrström, Christina - Tusen gånger starkare
Hofmann, Corinne - Den vita massajen (The White Masai)
- Den vita massajens dotter
- Resan tillbaka till den vita massajen
J
Jacq, Christian - Konungarnas Dal (Nefer the Silent)
- Den visa kvinnan (The Wise Woman)
- Paneb den Ivrige (Paneb the Ardent)
- Sanningens Plats (The Place of Truth)
K
Khemiri, Jonas Hassen - Ett öga rött
L
Larsson, Stieg - Män som hatar kvinnor (Men who hate women (that's the translation, the English title will be "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", when it's released it English)
- Flickan som lekte med elden (The Girl Who Played With Fire)
Loe, Erlend - Volvo Lastvagnar
M
Martin, George R.R. - A Game of Thrones
McCall Smith, Alexander - Damernas Detektivbyrå (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
- Giraffens tårar (Tears Of The Giraffe)
- Vackra flickors lott (Morality for Beautiful Girls)
- Kalaharis skrivmaskinsskola för män (The Kalahari Typing School for Men)
- Flickan som gifte sig med ett lejon (The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa)
Milne, A.A. - Nalle Puhs hörna (The House at Pooh Corner)
O
Olsson, Sören - Berts dagbok (Bert's diary)
R
Rignér Lundgren, Ester - Kvirre och Hoppsan
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Rushdie, Salman - Satansverserna (The Satanic Verses)
S
Safran Foer, Jonathan - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Sue, Chun - Beijing Doll
Süskind, Patrick - Parfymen (The Perfume)
T
Thornberg, Robert - Det sociala livet i skolan
Turgenjev, Ivan - Fäder och Söner (Fathers and Sons)
According to my reading journals, in 2007 I have read:
Literature
Nabokov, V. - Speak, Memory!
Makine, A. - The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
Kavafis, K. - poetry
Vlavianos, H. - poetry
Kiš, D. - Encyclopaedia of the Dead
Stojanović, V. - Zaljubljena u Hessea
Kepelski, Flumac - Anthology of contemporary Macedonian poetry (in original)
Catullus - Carmina
Brković, J. - Starinska magla oko doma
"Jezik roda moga" - a selection from Croatian lyric of 19th and 20th century
Anthology of Yugoslav literature - Slovenian poetry 1
Makine, A. - Requiem for the East
Maksimović, D. - Reči stihom okovane
Penev, P. - poetry (in original)
Mandel'shtam, O. - selected poetry (in original)
Miljković, B. - selected poetry
Crnjanski, M. - Sumatra i druge pesme
Pamuk, O. - My Name is Red
Šenoa, A. - Prijan Lovro
Milićević, N. - selected translations of poetry
Zweig, S. - The World of Yesterday (re-read, adore that book)
Camus, A. - Summer
Dostoevsky, F. - Crime and Punishment (re-read)
Turgenev, I. - Fathers and Sons
Shakespeare, W. - Venus and Adonis
Rivas, M. - O lapis do carpinteiro (I don't know how it's translated into English)
Kundera, M. - Ignorance
Sagan, F. - Bonjour tristesse
Kundera, M. - Identity
Böll, H. - short stories, selection
Nabokov, V. - Transparent Things
Kundera, M. - Life is Elsewhere
Kundera, M. - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Selimović, M. - Death and the Dervish (I re-read this every year)
Makine, A. - Le Crime d'Olga Arbelina
Alighieri, D. - Paradiso
Mann, Th. - The Holy Sinner
Márai, S. - Föld, föld!
Tabucchi, A. - Tristano muore
Pirandello, L. - Uno, nessuno e centomila
Pirandello, L. - Il fu Mattia Pascal
LaRue, M. - Casiodor's Fame (or something like that, I think I did not finish it, I found it to be really bad)
Škrinjarić, S. - Kuća od riječi (selected prose works and novels)
Pasternak, B. - selected short stories
Kundera, M. - The Courtain
Mann, Th. - Doktor Faustus
Breton, A. - Nadja
Picoult, J. - My Sister's Keeper
Singer, I. B. - The Slave
Singer, I. B. - selected short stories
Mihalić, S. - selection from poetry
Brecht, B. - Mother Courage and Her Children
Pessoa, F. - Obra poética
Oz, A. - My Michael
Dis - Drowned Souls
LeFanu, S. - Carmilla
Nothomb, A. - Mercury
Dostoevsky, F. - The Idiot
Bellow, S. - Herzog
Ovid - Metamorphoses (re-read, in Italian this time)
Kundera, M. - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, M. - The Joke
Levi, P. - Se questo e un uomo
Baudelaire, Ch. - Les Fleurs du Mal (re-read)
Baudelaire, Ch. - Le Spleen du Paris
Baudelaire, Ch. - Fusées
Baudelaire, Ch. - Mon coeur mis a nu
Kazantzakis, N. - Bios kai politeia tou Aleksi Zormpa (still reading it, in fact)
Other
Jerzy Lec, S. - Unkempt Thoughts 2
Noël, B. - Journal du Regard
Havelock, E.A. - The Muse learns to write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present
Sen, A. - Identity and Violence
Jankélévitch, V. - La mort
Bettelheim, B. - The uses of enchantment - the meaning and importance of fairy tales
Standage, T. - A History of the World in Six Glasses
Solar, M. - Contemporary World Literature
Ward, K. - God - A Guide for the Perplexed (God, this sucked, I could not finish it)
Nikić, M. - The Image of God in New Religious Movements (this is doctorial thesis from some guy on Croatian Catholic University)
Stojanović, Z. (just collected) - Theory of Tragedy (works by various philosophers, from Schelling to Hegel and on... amazing)
Chomsky, N. - Imperial Ambitions
Chapman, C. - Whose Promised Land?
Chomsky, N. - Hegemony or Survival
Calinescu, M. - The Faces of Modernity: Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch
Harris, S. - The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason
Grlić, D. - Aesthetics
Popper, K. L. - The Open Society and its Enemies
Danto, A.C. - Transfiguration of the Commonplace
Jankélévitch, V. - Le Paradoxe de la Morale
Bruckner, P. - L'Euphorie Perpétuelle, essai sur le devoir de bonheur
Bense, M. - Aesthetics
Friedrich, H. - The Structure of Modern Lyric
A selection of essays by modernist authors
Scheler, M. - Gessamelte Werke
Foucault, M. - La volonte de savoir, L'ordre du discours, Microfisica del potere. Interventi politici, Le souci de la verite
Supek, R. - The Psychology of Modernist Lyric
Wittgenstein, L. - Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Auerbach, E. - Mimesis
I cannot find two of my reading journals (one of which is strictly for Italian, and I also use it for school-related readings), must have left them over at a friend, so the list is incomplete; still, it reflects pretty much well what I have been reading over the year.
The City of Falling Angels - Berendt, John
In Cold Blood - Capote, Truman
The Grass Harp - Capote, Truman
The Haunting of Hill House - Jackson, Shirley
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera, Milan
Women in Love - Lawrence, D.H.
Gates of Fire - Pressfield, Steven
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Rowling, J.K.
Shalimar the Clown - Rushdie, Salman
The Taming of The Shrew - Shakespeare, William
Perfume - Suskind, Patrick
In Her Shoes - Weiner, Jennifer
Ethan Frome - Wharton, Edith
I Am Charlotte Simmons - Wolfe, Tom
American Gods - Gaiman, Neil
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Gaiman, Neil and Pratchett, Terry
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev, Ivan
Junky - Burroughs, William S
The Duke's Children ~ Anthony Trollope
Henry and June ~ Anais Nin
No Ordinary Summer Pt 2 ~ Konstantin Fedin
The White Guard ~ Mikhail Bulgakov
The Conflagration ~ Konstantin Fedin
The Golovlyov Family ~ Mikhail Saltykov
Life is Elsewhere ~ Milan Kundera
He Knew He Was Right ~ Anthony Trollope
First Love ~ Ivan Turgenev
Thank You, Jeeves ~ P.G. Wodehouse
Oblamov ~ Ivan Goncharov
The Unbearable Light of Being ~ Milan Kundera
The Loved One ~ Evelyn Waugh
Oman Ra ~ Viktor Pelevin
The Tin Drum ~ Gunter Grass
Swan's Way ~ Marcel Proust
On The Eve ~ Ivan Turgenev
Autumn of the Patriarch ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Children of Hurin ~ JRR Tolkien
Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov
A Prayer For Owen Meany ~ John Irving
Decline and Fall ~ Evelyn Waugh
Call of the Toad ~ Gunter Grass
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories ~ Anton Chekhov
Caravan ~ John Galsworthy
Seeds of Tomorrow ~ Mikhail Sholokhov
The Warden ~ Anthony Trollope
Babylon ~ Viktor Pelevin
Farewell Waltz ~ Milan Kundera
Buddenbrooks ~ Thomas Mann
Norwegian Wood ~ Haruki Murakami
Harvest on the Don ~ Mikhail Sholokhov
The Painted Bird ~ Jerzy Kosinski
Spring Torrents ~ Ivan Turgenev
The Kellys and O'Kellys ~ Anthony Trollope
A Life Under Russian Serfdom: The Memoirs of Saava Dmitrievich Purkevskii ~ translated and edited by Boris B. Gorshka
The Magic Mountain ~ Thomas Mann
Independent People ~ Halldor Laxness
Envy ~ Yuri Olesha
Three Novels-Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable ~ Samuel Beckett
Under The Glacier ~ Halldor Laxness
Death and the Penguin ~ Andrey Kurkov
Iceland's Bell ~ Halldor Laxness
Those Who Seek ~ Daniil Granin
The Charterhouse of Parma ~ Stendhal
The Rat ~ Gunter Grass
Dr. Thorne ~ Anthony Trollope
The Yellow Arrow ~ Viktor Pelevin
World Light ~ Halldor Laxness
Penguin Lost ~ Andrey Kurkov
The Boat Of Longing ~ O.E. Rolvaag
Kolyma Tales ~ Varlam Shalamov
Framely Parsonage ~ Anthony Trollope
Jerusalem ~ Selma Lagerlof
Buddha's Little Finger ~ Viktor Pelevin
Dog Years ~ Gunter Grass
Home of the Gentry ~ Ivan Turgenev
The Wanting Seed ~ Anthony Burgess
Generations of Winter ~ Vassily Askyonov
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Silas Marner - George Eliot
North and South - Mrs. Gaskell
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Atonement - Ian Mcewan
Rescuing Rose - Isabell Wolff
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Dubliners - James Joyce
Parts of the Iliad - Homer
Untill I Find You - John Irving
1984 - George Orwell
Monsieur Ibrahim et le fleurs du Quran - Eric- Emmanuel Schmitt
Waiting For Godot - Samuel Beckett
A Woman Of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
A short story book by O.Henry and another by D.H.Lawrence.
I know it's not a lot (at least not as many as the ones mentioned by you guys. But I'm kind of still getting used to a regular reading routine :D wish me luck)
Hmm, not sure I can remember exactly as the lines can kind've blur (as in, did I read that last year, or this year?) but here are some of the books I read this year:
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Paradise Lost John Milton
Blood Meridian, Child of God, The Road, No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
White Noise - Don DeLillo
As I Lay Dying, Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
Robinson Crusoe, A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietschze
Carmilla - J.S. Le Fanu
I am currently working my way through Ulysess
Paolini-eldest
Ross o'carroll, kelly- Should have got off at sydney Parade
Cecilia Dart Thornton- The ill made mute (twice)
Cecilia Dart Thornton-The Lady of Sorrows (twice)
Cecilia Dart Thornton-The Battle of Evernight (twice)
Cecilia Dart Thornton- The Iron Tree
Mag Cabot- After Eight
Austen- Persuasion (twice)
Wynnes-Jones- Howls Moving Castle
MaCall Smith- Blue Shoes and Happiness
MaCall Smith-The Good Husband Of Zebra Drive
Sue Townsend- The Queen and I
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories
Flaubert- MAdame Bovery
Garth Nix- Sabriel
Garth Nix-Lirael
Garth Nix-Abhorsen
Flann O'Brian- The Third Policeman
Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness
KAtherine Patterson- Bridge to Terrabithia
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Camber of Secrets
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl and the Artic Incedent
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Dominic Barker- Blart II
Salaman Rushdie- Started Shalimar the Clown
Henry James- Started What Maisie Knew
Ian Mac Ewan- Attonement
Trudi Canavan- The Magicians Guild
Trudi Canavan- The Novice
Trudi Canavan- The High Lord
Trudi Canavan- The Voice of The Gods
Patrick Kavanagh- Selected Poems
Yeats- The Countess Cathleen
J.M.Synge- The Playboy Of the Western World
Neil Gaiman- Fragile Things
John Connelly- The Book Of Lost Things
O'Henry- The Last Leaf
John Donne- Complete English Poems
David Wells- Developing your Psychic ability
More but i cant think of them. I havent read as much as last year though....
My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here! :D
Do you not have boy friends and girlfriends chaps and chapeses?
I only managed this:
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Camber of Secrets
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
And Haruki Murakami Books.
I have a boyfriend and a cat, if that matters. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
Plus I study full-time and work hours at two places when I can. I can't stay away from books anyway, or so it seems, doesn't it?
Hah! I have a boyfriend. I've just always been a crazy reader.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
Hah. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
I have boyfriend and friends, I go out and that going out is not limited to weekends (au contraire... ;)), I attend one of the supposedly better lycées in the city, in addition to which I play piano and have theoretical subjects in music.
Even though when all written down this sounds like I am busy, I constantly have a feeling of dolce far niente in my life, and of spending too much time essentially doing nothing and hanging in pubs with my friends. Life is good.
But then again, I never study, and I bring books to read to school instead of listening to lectures, so that might be the reason why I manage to read a lot. :D And I do cut school once in a while, to be honest...
Awwh Lote, a fellow Harry Potter nerd :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
Which one is your favourite though?
I'm sure they do have girlfriends/boyfriends...
Do you have a boyfriend Lote? ;)
(Can just imagine you now gripping on tightly to that lance of yours, so eager to strike)
Should it not be Doe he have a girlfriend?Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyW
you know he'll give you a lotish rely to that question. ie a question in return....