Books you've read in the past year?

[aeroport]

Well! Hiya, syiah! Welcome to the Forum. Quite a list...

Well, here's what I can remember at the moment:

Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien translation)
Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth
When She Was Good - Roth
Portnoy's Complaint - Roth
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
On Becoming a Novelist - John Gardner
The Art of Fiction - Gardner
Prelude to Foundation - Asimov
The Sacred Fount - Henry James
'The Figure in the Carpet' - James
'The Lesson of the Master - James
'The Beast in the Jungle' - James
'Daisy Miller' - James
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams (audio version w/ Stephen Fry)
The God Delusion - Dawkins
Malloy - Samuel Beckett
The Unnameable - Beckett
some Beckett plays
The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan
Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave - Aphra Behn
A History of Western Society - McKay/Hill/Buckler
How to Study in College - Pauk Owens
Hamlet
Macbeth
King Lear
Othello
The Tempest
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Titus Andronicus
Richard III
Henry VI
Righto Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Hard Times - Dickens
The Belle of the Belfast City - Christina Reid
'Bartleby, the Scrivener' & Benito Cereno - Melville
The First Booke of the Faerie Queene - Edmund Spencer

[Mark F.]

I used to make a list of what I read, last year I was up to about 60 books. I think I read a little less this year but probably around 40 books sounds right.

These are the best ones :

"Sentimental Education" by Flaubert
"No Country For Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy
"A Scanner Darkly" by P. K. Dick
"Ask The Dust" by John Fante
"Women" by Bukowski
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey
"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The Sound and the Fury" by Faulkner
"The Fall" by Camus
"Endgame" by Samuel Beckett (drama)
"Les Amours jaunes" by Tristan Corbiere (poetry)

I also reread "L'Etranger" by Camus and "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky.

[aabbcc]

According to my reading journals, in the past year (2006) I have read:

Literature
Gogol', N.V. - Dead Souls (which I was reading at the end of 2005, according to the journal, but formally finished in 2006)
Shakespeare, W. - Othello
Shakespeare, W. - Hamlet
Shakespeare, W. - A midsummer night's dream
Brodsky, J. - Less than one
Selimović, M. - The Death and the Dervish (which I, as my favourite work, re-read every year )
Yourcenar, M. - Le coup de grace
Tahar Ben Jelloun - The Sand Child
Calderón de la Barca, P. - Life is a dream
Kertész, I. - Fateless
Baudelaire, Ch. - Les Fleurs du Mal (re-read, in original this time )
Andrić, I. - The Bridge Over Drina
Krleža, M. - The Return of Filip Latinovicz
Anthology of Serbian poetry
Anthology of Czech poetry
Mácha, K. H. - Poetry (May)
Kertész, I. - Kadish for a child unborn
Correspondances of the famous people (excerpts)
Dickens, Ch. - A Tale of Two Cities
Lucian of Samosata (?, attributed to) - Loukios ê Onos
Anthology of Bulgarian poetry
Hamvas, B. - Hungarian huperion
Canetti, E. - Die gerettete Zunge. Geschichte einer Jugend (translated in Italian as La lingua salvata)
Dostoevsky, F.M. - Brothers Karamazov
Šantić, A. - collected works by
Kostova, E. - Historian
Dostoevsky, F.M. - Notes from the Underground
Crnković, Z. & Kušan, I. - correspondance, collected letters
Nafisi, A. - Lolita in Teheran
Sládkovič, A. - Marina
Gogol', N. V. - The Overcoat
Dostoevsky, F.M. - Podrostok (which I, for reasons which elude me, failed to finish, as the note in the journal says)
Pamuk, O. - The White Castle
Schiller, F. - The Robbers
Gundulić, I. - Suze sina razmetnoga
Selimović, M. - Memoirs
Andrić, I. - Ex ponto
Balzac, H. de - Father Goriot
Bettiza, E. - Exile
Maraini, D. - Bagheria
Pontiggia, G. - Il giocatore invisibile
Baricco, A. - Castelli di rabbia
Тјutchev, F. I. - Lirika
Aeschyles - Prometheus Bound
Njegoš, P.P. - Gorski vijenac
Cesarić, D. - selected poetry
Calvino, I. - Invisible cities
Pushkin, A. S. - Evgeny Onegin (re-read)
Byron, G. G. - Childe Harold (re-read)
Malerba, L. - Le maschere
Mori, A. M. - Nata in Istria
Kranjčević, S. S. - Iza spuštenijeh trepavica - izbor iz djela
Lermontov, M. Ju. - The Hero of Our Time
Slovo o polku Igoreve
Pushkin, A. S. - Selected poems, fairy tales, dramas
Longfellow, H. W. - The Complete Poetical works by
Svevo, I. - Senilita'
D'Alessandro, G. - La puttana del tedesco
Tugovanje za Srbijom - antologija drugih srpskih romantičara
Druzhnikov, J. - Viza v pozavchera
Maupassant, G. de - short stories
Goethe, J. W. - Faust (re-read)
Gaarder, J. - Vita brevis
Ahmatova, A. A. - poetry
Pasternak, B. L. - poetry
Makine, A. - The French testament
Leopardi, G. - poetry
Alighieri, D. - Purgatorio
Sto rokiv junosti - 20th century Ukrainian poetry anthology
Gazdanov, G. - An Evening with Claire
Pamuk, O. - Istanbul
Eco, U. - Il nome della rosa
Zamyatin, E. I. - We (which I did not finish)
Robinson, E. A. - Children of the Night
Ilić, V. - poetry
Dostoevsky, F. M. - Poor Folk (re-read)
de Quincey, Th. - Confessions of an English opium eater
Goldoni, C. - La locandiera
Zola, E. - Therese Raquin
Gogol', N. V. - Revizor

Other
Maalouf, A. - In the name of identity
Zeldin, Th. - Intimate history of humanity
Daun, A. & Janson, S. - Europeans - culture and identity
Weinrich, H. - Linguistics of lies - can language hide thoughts
Haag, E. van de - The Jewish Mystique
Winner, E. - Gifted Children - myths and reality
Bon, G. de - Psyhology of the masses
Chesterton, G. K. - The Everlasting Man
Vrkić, J . - I u Sibiru žive ljudi - putovanje Čehovljevim putopisima
Pavičić, J. - Beneath the language - comments on the language and Croats
Zaid, G. - So many books
le Goff, J. - Medieval Civilisation
Fernández-Armesto, F. - So you think you're human
Mead, G. H. - Mind, person and society
Ware, T. - Orthodox Church
Camus, A. - The Myth of Sisyphus

I do not have all of my reading journals from that period next to me right now so the list is bound to be incomplete, but it should give the basic idea of what a mess my reading repertoire in the last year was.
I tend to read a lot and keep reading journals, so it is generally easy to remember what I read when by going through those notes (*hint, hint... do some of you also keep reading journals?)

[kitten]

i've been keeping lists of what i read every year for a few years now. i want to know i have read at least a book a week. i'm at about 48 so far this year. it sounds like that isn't much compared to some (most) of you, and i will admit that i am EXTREMELY intimidated by the reading lists on display. therefore, i won't be putting up my list.

[Mark F.]

I forgot to mention "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau.

[NickAdams]

Elephant Vanishes (horrible)
Ernest Hemingway's Collected Stories (again)
The Sun Also Rises
Sanctuary
The Manticore
The Oedipus Trilogy
Gotham Writer's Workshop (again)
Hamlet
A book G. B. Shaw one act plays (one jewel, the rest tedious)
A Light in August
Waiting for Godot
Faulkner and Cowley's Files
Jung's Essays
Molloy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (horrible)
A Clockwork Orange
A Moveable Feast (currently reading)
Midnight's Children (currently reading)
Don Quixote (currently reading)

[StayGolden]

Wow...y'all all have some rather large reading lists, there.

Kitten, almost 50 books in the course of a year is amazing, and definitely something you should be proud of!

[kitten]

thank you, SG. i was proud of myself. sorry. i AM proud.

reading the posts in the forum makes me want to try W&P though...

[grace86]

I've read more than I personally thought I would this past year, so this is a long list, for me anyway.

I will reflect a bit and then post.

[grace86]

Okay from August 06 to August 07, I think I am missing a few more:

The Oresteia
Civil Disobedience
Letter from Birmingham Jail
The Iliad
The Odyssey (sp?)
The Aeneid
Epic of Gilgamesh
Hamlet
The Inferno
The Decameron (only parts)
Cantebury Tales (only parts)
Pygmalion
Metamorphosis (Ovid)
Lysistrata
Electra
Sappho poetry
Chinese poetry
Ethan Frome
Women in Love
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Book of Lost Things
The Thirteenth Tale
The Ivory Child
Heart of Darkness
Kreutzer Sonata
Don Quixote (will be finished this August)
Crime and Punishment (edited in)

I know I am missing a couple. I might update later. Didn't think I read as much as I did. Cool.

[Niamh]

I'd started a log in january about how many i was reading and what i'd read but i'd lost track and forgot to log....
I've spent this year reading and rereading alot. For example i've read the bitter bynde saga twice this year already.
Eldest-Christopher Paolini
Should have got off at Sydney Parade- Ross o' Carroll Kelly
Ill Made Mute- Cicelia Dart Thornton x2
The lady of Sorrows- Cicelia Dart Thornton x2
Battle of Evernight-Cicelia Dart thornton x2
After Eight-Meg Cabot
The Iron Tree- Cicelia Dart Thornton
Persuasion- Jane Austen
Howls Moving castle- Wynne Jones
Blue Shoes and Happiness- Alexander MaCall Smith
Good Husband of Zedbra Drive- Alexander MaCall Smith
The Queen and I- Sue Townsend
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost stories
Madame Bovery- Gustave Flaubert
Sabriel-Garth Nix
Lirael-Garth Nix
Abhorsen-Garth Nix
The Third Policeman- Flann O'Brian
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas- John Boyne
The Magicians Guild- Trudi Canavan
The Novice- Trudi Canavan
The High Lord- Trudi Canavan
Artemis Fowl-
A.F. And the Artic Incident-
A.F and the Eternity Code- Eoin Colfer
A.F. And the Opal Deception-
A.F. and the lost Colony-

H.P. and the Philosophers stone-
H.P. and the chamber of Secrets-
H.P. and the prisoner of azkaban-
H.P. and the goblet of fire- J.K.Rowling
H.P. and the order of the pheonix-
H.P. and the half Blood Prince-
H.P. and the Deathly Hallows-

started reading but didnt finish Shalamar the Clown-Rushdie.
and thats all i can remember!

[NickAdams]

Well! Hiya, syiah! Welcome to the Forum. Quite a list...

Well, here's what I can remember at the moment:

Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien translation)
Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth
When She Was Good - Roth
Portnoy's Complaint - Roth
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
On Becoming a Novelist - John Gardner
The Art of Fiction - Gardner
Prelude to Foundation - Asimov
The Sacred Fount - Henry James
'The Figure in the Carpet' - James
'The Lesson of the Master - James
'The Beast in the Jungle' - James
'Daisy Miller' - James
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams (audio version w/ Stephen Fry)
The God Delusion - Dawkins
Malloy - Samuel Beckett
The Unnameable - Beckett
some Beckett plays
The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan
Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave - Aphra Behn
A History of Western Society - McKay/Hill/Buckler
How to Study in College - Pauk Owens
Hamlet
Macbeth
King Lear
Othello
The Tempest
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Titus Andronicus
Richard III
Henry VI
Righto Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Hard Times - Dickens
The Belle of the Belfast City - Christina Reid
'Bartleby, the Scrivener' & Benito Cereno - Melville
The First Booke of the Faerie Queene - Edmund Spencer

How helpful are the Gardner books to a writer?

I posted a question, on Beckett's Trilogy thread http://www.online-literature.com/for...hlight=beckett, and would like to see if you can answer it.

I used to make a list of what I read, last year I was up to about 60 books. I think I read a little less this year but probably around 40 books sounds right.

These are the best ones :

"Sentimental Education" by Flaubert
"No Country For Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy
"A Scanner Darkly" by P. K. Dick
"Ask The Dust" by John Fante
"Women" by Bukowski
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey
"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The Sound and the Fury" by Faulkner
"The Fall" by Camus
"Endgame" by Samuel Beckett (drama)
"Les Amours jaunes" by Tristan Corbiere (poetry)

I also reread "L'Etranger" by Camus and "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky.

How is Women by Bukowski? I was reading a little of Pulp in B&B today.

Okay from August 06 to August 07, I think I am missing a few more:

The Oresteia
Civil Disobedience
Letter from Birmingham Jail
The Iliad
The Odyssey (sp?)
The Aeneid
Epic of Gilgamesh
Hamlet
The Inferno
The Decameron (only parts)
Cantebury Tales (only parts)
Pygmalion
Metamorphosis (Ovid)
Lysistrata
Electra
Sappho poetry
Chinese poetry
Ethan Frome
Women in Love
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Book of Lost Things
The Thirteenth Tale
The Ivory Child
Heart of Darkness
Kreutzer Sonata
Don Quixote (will be finished this August)

I know I am missing a couple. I might update later. Didn't think I read as much as I did. Cool.

There are a number of early works on your list. Are you researching, studying, or just enjoy them?

Well, there's no way I can remember everything I've read in the past year, so here are the ones that stuck :

Honey for the Bears - Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Wanting Seed - Anthony Burgess
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Faust - Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
Interview With a Vampire - Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
The Tale of the Body Thief - Anne Rice
The Devil Memnoch - Anne Rice
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
Sickness Unto Death - Soren Kierkegaard
Ivanov - Ivan Chekhov
The Seagull - Ivan Chekhov
Uncle Vanya - Ivan Chekhov
Three Sisters - Ivan Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard - Ivan Chekhov
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Flowers of Evil - Baudelaire
Alphabet of Thorn - McKillips
Apprentice - Feist
Master - Feist
The Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzche
Mein Kampf - Hitler
Antichrist - Nietzche
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Juliette - Marquis De Sade
120 Days of Sodom - Marquis De Sade
Philosophy of a Bedroom - Marquis De Sade
Venus in Furs - Sacher-Masoch
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Diary of a Madman - Gogol
Dead Souls - Gogol
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Demons - Dostoevsky
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Warriors Don't Cry - Beals
Criminal Defense - Cicero
Digital Fortress - Brown
Angels and Demons - Brown
Twilight - Meyers
Eclipse - Meyers
Genesis
Exodus
Deuteronomy
Numbers
The Odyssey
And I was forced to translate the Illiad in school...>.> That DEFINETLY stuck.

I live in books...
And yes! I did discover a new favorite author: Anthony Burgess.

Ugo Tarchetti? Never heard of him. Sorry.

I discovered Burgess this month. I read A Clockwork Orange and enjoyed it. Not so much for the story, but for Burgess' use of language. I've been looking into his linguistic works. What an interesting fellow. I've been looking for Quest for Fire, because he invented a kind of prehistoric language, but I don't know if it was just for the movie.

[grace86]

There are a number of early works on your list. Are you researching, studying, or just enjoy them?

Some of the earlier works, well most of them were for my world literature course last fall. I was interested in the parts we read for class, so I almost always went back to pursue the rest of the works. Have to admit I didn't get through all of them completely (for lit class anyway - my personal readings I finished), but I was happy to get through the ones I did...hence the current reading of Don Quixote.

Some how lit class always gave me just the right taste and intro into a piece that it fueled a lot of late night readings and pure enjoyment readings.

Never quite appreciated the Iliad and the Odyssey as I do today. They are fantastic.

[NickAdams]

Never quite appreciated the Iliad and the Odyssey as I do today. They are fantastic.

Prose or verse translation. Which do you prefer?

[grace86]

If I remember correctly it was verse. Can't remember the translator but he was pretty good...I know though it wasn't Fagles' translation (hmm or maybe it was), I do remember the verse however. I will check when I get to my apartment and have access to the books.

Can't say I actually knew there was a prose version.