The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak
The Bible
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
Ivanhoe by Scott
The few Vonnegut novels I haven't read yet
Don Quixote by Cervantes
just to name a few =)
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The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak
The Bible
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
Ivanhoe by Scott
The few Vonnegut novels I haven't read yet
Don Quixote by Cervantes
just to name a few =)
I have decided on these so far:
"Middlesex" - J Eugenides
"Zorba" - N Kazatzakis
"The divine Comedy" - Dante
"The 120 days of Sodom" - De Sade
"Ethan Frome" - E Wharton
2-3 Dicken's novels
"Good morning, Midnight" -J Rhys
I have at least 30 books in my own bookshelf that I haven't read yet, and then of course I always find new books in library and read those first, and I also like to re-read my old favourites, so I can't be sure whether I'll read even half of those 30 books this year...
But I'm quite sure I'll read these:
Ted Dekker - Red
Ted Dekker - White
Neil Gaiman - Stardust
Torey Hayden - Somebody Else's Kids
Torey Hayden - Beautiful Child
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Bodie & Brock Thoene - Fifth Seal
These I'm probably going to re-read this year (once again...):
Charlotte Brontė - Jane Eyre
L. M. Montgomery - The Blue Castle
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Ilmari Kelo - Tulta ja tuulta
I have an ever expanding list of books I'd like to read this year, here are some of those I'm especially keen on:
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Plague - Albert Camus
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Pale Fire - Vladmimir Nabokov
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervates Saavadera
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, or, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Walden - Henry David Thoreau (re-read)
I very much doubt I'll manage to even make a dent in this list, what with a mountain of college work already piling up, plus the fact that there are some biggies in there which will take some time to plod through. I'd also like to read a little more non-fiction this year too, I think. There are just so many books I'm itching to delve into... far too many to get through in ten years, even, let alone one.
First post.....:blush:
Have already launched on my literary journey this year...;)
Read so far:
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
Dubliners James Joyce (reread)
Walk the Blue Fields Claire Keegan (beautiful short stories)
Yet to delve into (that I can think of at the moment):
Shirley Charlotte Bronte
1984 George Orwell
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
The Master Colm Toibin
Amongst Women John McGahern
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Sea John Banville
All Quiet on the Western Front Eric Maria Remarque
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby (In French)
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters Julian Barnes
Amsterdam Ian McEwan
Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
Everyman Philip Roth
The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Adams
Brick Lane Monica Ali
The Snake's Pass Bram Stoker
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
There's a definite European slant to my list - there are lots of others that slip my mind at the moment...
:D I have to say that my venture into this new year's reading has not started off on the right foot. Since the very beginning of January I have been unable to finish Chapter one of Sons and Lovers. This new year looks dim in regards to my reading habits. But then again I did not expect that my class load this quarter would be so heavy in reading.
But I could always ditch the class work for an evening or two a week and read for leisure. Hmmmm.
Haha yes. Last year was the year of epic poetry. It was a loooonnggg year haha. I think I'm going to have a hard time this year, because the Russian's tend to be so serious, and I have some lovely Austen and Shakespeare sitting on my shelf that has yet to be read...Quote:
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This list is creepily reminiscent of the list I was just about to post. :eek2:Quote:
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I've already begun The Brother Karamazov and my list didn't have Jane Eyre, Chronicle, Survivor, Rebecca, The Lies of..., and a few others but it was essentially the same.
My public library has alot of Hermann Hesse's work but I was hesitated to read some his novels because I really don't know how it is. Can anyone suggest anything by him? My library doesn't have much books translated to my native language and I have very few selections for authors so you would think that the library would contain mostly the famous novels but for some reason they three or four novels by Hesse so I was just wondering is it worth the read at all?Quote:
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Thank you in advance.
So far...
finish War and Peace (I started it in July)
The Woman in White
The Divine Comedy
Nicholas Nickleby
Marmion
The Wings of the Dove
The GULAG Archipelago
Crime and Punishment
Paradise Lost
Emma
I got the Complete Works of Shakespeare for Christmas, so I plan to try to get through that. I'm also going to reread the Bible this year, from cover to cover.
Aside from that, I have no idea.
Hesse is mostly concerned with Schopenhauerian and Nietzschean themes. His novels contain little drama and character development, and they're more like vehicles for ideas than actual novels. His works are sincere and, in my opinion, not bad, but Mann touches the same issues and he's better. Just keep in mind that you won't be moved by his characters. Oh, and if you dismiss concepts like "Will" or "The Spirit of Music" don't even bother in the first place.Quote:
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I have also lined up the following authors :
T.C. Boyle
Edgar Allan Poe
Alphonse Daudet
Marguerite Duras
Yann Martel
My stack includes:
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich-Whoa, that's a long one.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Great Gatsby
And I need to finish Ike
Primarily a lot, and I really mean a lot, of philosophy and beyond that I thought that I might reed
Ulysses
East of Eden
Master and Margarita
The seven pillars of wisdom
Hemingways collected short stories
And maybe I'll also get my hands on some pushkin, and maybe some French writers.