Your reading during the year 2007

[thelastmelon]

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?

[amanda_isabel]

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

[thelastmelon]

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)

[aabbcc]

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.

[papayahed]

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

[Idril]

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

[Nossa]

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 wish me luck)

[metal134]

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

[Niamh]

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....

[Lote-Tree]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here!

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.

[thelastmelon]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here!

Do you not have boy friends and girlfriends chaps and chapeses?

I have a boyfriend and a cat, if that matters.
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?

[Niamh]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here!

Do you not have boy friends and girlfriends chaps and chapeses?

Hah! I have a boyfriend. I've just always been a crazy reader.

[aabbcc]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here!

Do you not have boy friends and girlfriends chaps and chapeses?

Hah.
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. And I do cut school once in a while, to be honest...

[LadyW]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here!

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.

Awwh Lote, a fellow Harry Potter nerd
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)

[Niamh]

Awwh Lote, a fellow Harry Potter nerd
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?
you know he'll give you a lotish rely to that question. ie a question in return....