54. Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
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54. Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
My reading so far this year:
1. One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
2. Golden Gate Bridge- Vikram Seth
3. As You Like It- Shakespeare
4. Asylum- Patrick McGrath
5. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- Tennessee Williams
6. Crow Road- Iain Banks
7. Doctor Faustus- Thomas Mann
8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra- Neitzsche
9. Listen To This- Alex Ross
10. The Great Gatsby- Scott F Fitzgerald
11. The Name of The Rose- Umberto Eco
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I will add more as I read.
55. All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
1. An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
2. The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
5. Don Quixote by Cervantes
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. Inferno by Dante
8. Purgatorio by Dante
9. The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
Post thread-creation (March 3rd):
10. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
11. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
12. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
13. Paradiso by Dante
14. Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville. (novella/short story)
15. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
17. The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
18. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (That was a tough one)
19. The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
20. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
21. The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker
22. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
23. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
24. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
25. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
26. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
27. Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
28. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (excellent)
29. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
13. No one writes to the Colonel- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
@Mutatis-Mutandi: You count the three sections of The Divine Comedy as seperate books? I've always thought of them as a whole, in the same way that the 12 books of Paradise Lost are still one work. Not that it matters either way.
Hey! :) I haven't been here for a while...Quote:
Originally Posted by deguonis
My list (updated):
Peter in peril - Victor Bridges
Blue silver - Victor Bridges
Porterhouse blue - Tom Sharpe
It happened in Essex - Victor Bridges
The Girl from Belfast - Victor Bridges
The Tenth Commandment - Victor Bridges
Both sides of the road - Robert Lynd
Malvinas requiem - Rodolfo Fogwill
The thirty-nine steps - John Buchan
Only The Morning - John Bede Dalley
The Autobiography of Willam Carlos Williams
Before March 6th:
1. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
2. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
3. The Crossing by Cormack McCarthy
4. Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
8. Dracula by Bram Stoker
9. Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
11. Complete Works by John Keats
12. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
13. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
After March 6th:
14. Ditte Menneskebarn by Martin Andersen Nexø
15. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
16. Lingua Tertii Imperii by Victor Klemperer
17. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
18. Mord i San Francisco by Dan Turell
19. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
20. Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad
21. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
22. On the Road (The Original Scroll) by Jack Kerouc
23. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
24. The Possessed by Fjodor Dostojevskij
25. Doppler by Erlend Loe
26. Populärmusik från Vittula by Mikael Niemi
27. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
28. Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink
56. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
List for 2011
1. An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
2. The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
5. Don Quixote by Cervantes
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. Inferno by Dante
8. Purgatorio by Dante
9. The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
10. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
11. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
12. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
13. Paradiso by Dante
14. Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville. (novella/short story)
15. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
17. The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
18. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (That was a tough one)
19. The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
20. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
21. The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker
22. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
23. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
24. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
25. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
26. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
27. Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
28. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (excellent)
29. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
before the thread
1 -La guerra della fine del mondo by Mario Vargas Llosa
2 - La malattia chiamata uomo by Ferdinando Camon
3 - La vita agra by Luciano Bianciardi
4 - De Niro's Game by Hage Rawi
5 - L'Ecornifleur by Jules Renard
6 - Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
after the thread
7 - Rituali by Cees Nooteboom
8 - The City and the City by China Mieville
9 - La signorina Else by Arthur Schnitzler
10 - Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
11 - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12 - High-Rise by J. G. Ballard
13 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
14 - Necropoli by Boris Pahor
15 - Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
16 - The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
17 - Un roman russe by Emmanuel Carrere
18 - Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
19 - Baseball - A Literary Anthology
20 - Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga
21 - The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
22 - Guanciale d'erba by Natsume Sōseki
23 - Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan
24 - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
25 - Contro i diritti umani by Slavoj Zizek
26 - Citoyens clandestins by DOA
27 - Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer
List for 2011
1. An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
2. The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
5. Don Quixote by Cervantes
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. Inferno by Dante
8. Purgatorio by Dante
9. The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
10. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
11. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
12. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
13. Paradiso by Dante
14. Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville. (novella/short story)
15. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
17. The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
18. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (That was a tough one)
19. The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
20. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
21. The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker
22. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
23. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
24. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
25. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
26. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
27. Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
28. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (excellent)
29. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
31. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
57. The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
What I've read in 2011 sofar:
1. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
2. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
3. The Crossing by Cormack McCarthy
4. Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
8. Dracula by Bram Stoker
9. Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
11. Complete Works by John Keats
12. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
13. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
14. Ditte Menneskebarn by Martin Andersen Nexø
15. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
16. Lingua Tertii Imperii by Victor Klemperer
17. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
18. Mord i San Francisco by Dan Turell
19. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
20. Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad
21. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
22. On the Road (The Original Scroll) by Jack Kerouc
23. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
24. The Possessed by Fjodor Dostojevskij
25. Doppler by Erlend Loe
26. Populärmusik från Vittula by Mikael Niemi
27. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
28. Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink
29. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1. Magick of the Beast by Osara and Saddie LaMort (8/10)
2. Sunpath to the Gods by Osara LaMort (6/10)
3. Sex and Spirit by Clifford Bishop (6/10)
4. Mysteries and Secrets of Magic by C. J. S. Thompson (5/10)
5. The Seven Churches by Milos Urban (6/10)
6. Magicon by Yliaster Daleth (6/10)
7. The Symbols and Meanings of Numbers by Hajo Banzhaf (7/10)
8. The Bloody Reign of Slayer by Joel McIver (6/10)
9. Shocking Murders by Torrente del Bosque (4/10)
10. Conspiracy Theories by Torrente del Bosque (5/10)
11. The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts (9/10)
12. Modern Sex Magick by Donald Michael Kraig (8/10)
List for 2011
1. An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
2. The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
5. Don Quixote by Cervantes
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. Inferno by Dante
8. Purgatorio by Dante
9. The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
10. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
11. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
12. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
13. Paradiso by Dante
14. Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville. (novella/short story)
15. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
17. The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
18. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (That was a tough one)
19. The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
20. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
21. The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker
22. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
23. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
24. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
25. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
26. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
27. Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
28. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (excellent)
29. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
31. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
32. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin