What Have You Read in 2007 (List)

[Lyrica]

This year I read:
(The scoring system many of you used works well, so I will use it, too)

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Memory Keeper's Daughter -
Slow Man by Coetzee -
Madeleine is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Cheri by Colette
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Still Reading:
The End by Lemony Snicket

My goal of 12 books in a year (sounds pathetic, huh?) still stands for 2008.
lyrica

 

[-Carlos-]

It does not sound pathetic. I read in the teens each year. In 2008 I have the goal of 23 books.

 

[Lyrica]

Well, thank you AquaBlue! I suppose I just wish I had time to read a lot more than that.

 

[Ronny]

Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquival 5/10
The Beach by Alex Garland 7/10
Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn 8/10
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine 5/10
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton 6/10
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig 4/10
The Last Promise by Richard Paul Evans 4/10
Danger Zone by Shirley Palmer 4/10
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, a novel of war and survival by Louise Murphy 8/10
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 9/10
Small Island by Andrea Levy 9/10
The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll 7/10
Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani 7/10
Quarantine by Jim Crace 6/10
Ahab's Wife or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund ( Unfinished, very slow going)
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon 6/10
Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin 8/10
Girls by Frederick Busch 5/10
The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde 6/10
Here On Earth by Alice Hoffman 7/10
Under The Black Flag, The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly 8/10
The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler 6/10
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter 7/10
The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson 6/10
The Prestige by Christopher Priest 8/10
The Collection by Gioia Diliberto 7/10
Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats by Steve Ettlinger 7/10
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 8/10
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving 8/10
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney 6/10
The Cider House Rules by John Irving 9/10
Helen of Troy by Margaret George 6/10
Man Or Mango? a Lament by Lucy Ellmann 8/10
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan 7/10
Mariette In Ecstasy by Ron Hansen 6/10
Unless by Carol Shields 6/10
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 8/10
Dying Light by Stuart Macbride 7/10
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 7/10
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart 6/10
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney 6/10
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson 5/10
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer 7/10
Rain by Kirsty Gunn 6/10
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 7/10
Ease by Patrick Gale 5/10
Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire 6/10
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard 8/10
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett 6/10
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks 6/10
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg 5/10
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason 6/10
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 9/10
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls 7/10
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling 8/10
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 6/10
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris 9/10
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 6/10
Einstein, His Life And Universe by Walter Isaacson 8/10
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making Of America's First Superhero by William Kalush & Larry Sloman 6/10
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 6/10
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 6/10
Sula by Toni Morrison 6/10
Monkey King by Patricia Chao 6/10
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 7/10
The Society of Others by William Nicholson 5/10
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist 6/10
The Conjurer's Bird by Martin Davies 6/10
Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway 1/10
Gangsters by Evan Zimroth 4/10
The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson 7/10
A Yellow Raft In Blue Water by Michael Dorris 5/10
The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein 7/10
East of Eden by John Steinbeck 9/10
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr 6/10
Magic Time by Doug Marlette 7/10
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (unfinished)
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant 7/10
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue 7/10
Where Or When by Anita Shreve 4/10
Cane River by Lalita Tademy 9/10
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 7/10
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk 5/10
The Lovely Bones by Alice sebold 7/10
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle 6/10
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro 6/10
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 7/10
England's Mistress, The infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams 6/10
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ( I gave up about 1/2 way on this one)
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman 6/10
The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga (unfinished, didn't care for it at all)
Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi 10/10
Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson 8/10
Salem's Lot by Stephen King 6/10
Lucky, a memoir by Alice Sebold 9/10
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards 7/10
The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen7/10
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean 5/10
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly 8/10
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 6/10

 

[Stewart]

If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (unfinished)

You're kidding?

 

[Ronny]

You're kidding?

I don't think that was the book's fault, it was a library item and damaged, many pages were missing, if I remember correctly. I will have to order a copy I guess, we just have a small library here and items are often damaged or lost.

 

[beer good]

The sprint finish with Pullman got me up to 80. Not quite as much as last year, but hey, who's counting.

DECEMBER
80. The Amber Spyglass - Pullman, Philip 3/5
79. The Subtle Knife - Pullman, Philip 3/5
78. The Golden Compass - Pullman, Philip 3/5
77. Watership Down - Adams, Richard 4/5
76. Allt - Lowden, Martina 4/5
75. Den mindre halvan av världen - Lundberg, Lotta (Ed.) 3/5

NOVEMBER
74. Wizard of the Crow - wa Thiong'o, Ngugi 5/5
73. Militärmusik - Kaminer, Wladimir 3/5
72. A Man Without A Country - Vonnegut, Kurt 3/5
71. Skating to Antarctica - Diski, Jenny 3/5
70. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Sterne, Laurence 3/5

OCTOBER
69. Orkanpartyt - Östergren, Klas 3/5
68. Fra smørhullet - Hammann, Kirsten 3/5
67. The Stream of Life - Lispector, Clarice 5/5
66. 80 romaner för dig som har bråttom - Lange, Henrik 4/5
65. A Scanner Darkly - Dick, Philip K 4/5
64. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Hamid, Mohsin 3/5
63. Falling Man - DeLillo, Don 4/5
62. Amberville - Davys, Tim 2/5
61. One Good Turn - Atkinson, Kate 4/5

SEPTEMBER
60. End of the World News - Burgess, Anthony 4/5
59. Siegfried - Mulisch, Harry 5/5
58. Ö.a - Andersson, Erik 5/5
57. Spook Country - Gibson, William 4/5
56. David Lynch - Odell, Colin & LeBlanc, Michelle 3/5
55. Orlando - Woolf, Virginia 5/5
54. On Chesil Beach - McEwan, Ian 4/5

AUGUST
53. Jailbird - Vonnegut, Kurt 3/5
52. Play It As It Lays - Didion, Joan 5/5
51. The Inheritance of Loss - Desai, Kiran 3/5
50. Carpe Jugulum - Pratchett, Terry 3/5
49. Myggor och tigrar - Lundgren, Maja 3/5
48. Jennifer Government - Barry, Max 2/5
47. Fight Club - Palahniuk, Chuck 5/5
46. Life: A User's Manual - Perec, Georges 4/5

JULY
45. The Lions of Al-Rassan - Kay, Guy Gavriel 3/5
44. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bryson, Bill 4/5
43. The Speed of Light - Cercas, Javier 4/5
42. The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut, Kurt 4/5
41. Lisey's Story - King, Stephen 3/5

JUNE
40. The Big Over Easy - Fforde, Jasper 3/5
39. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky, Fyodor 5/5
38. The Stain - Ducornet, Rikki 3/5
37. Varför tror du vi låter som vi låter? Svensk punk 1977-1981 3/5
36. Turning Back the Clock - Eco, Umberto 5/5
35. Rabbit, Run - Updike, John 4/5
34. The God Delusion - Dawkins, Richard 4/5
33. The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald, F Scott 4/5

MAY
32. The Whispering Muse - Sjón 4/5
31. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Nafisi, Azar 4/5
30. V For Vendetta - Moore, Alan and Lloyd, David 4/5
29. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Lindsay, Jeff 2/5
28. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness - Yates, Richard 4/5

APRIL
27. Montecore - Hassen Khemiri, Jonas 5/5
26. The Road - McCarthy, Cormac 4/5
25. Haunted - Palahniuk, Chuck 3/5
24. Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut, Kurt 5/5
23. Natives of Hemsö - Strindberg, August 4/5
22. You Don't Love Me Yet - Lethem, Jonathan 3/5
21. This Wheel's On Fire - Helm, Levon & Davis, Stephen 4/5
20. The People's Act of Love - Meek, James 5/5

MARCH
19. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday 3/5
18. Svinalängorna - Alakoski, Susanna 3/5
17. If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor - Campbell, Bruce 4/5
16. Rödby-Puttgarden - Helle, Helle 4/5
15. Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife - Savage, Sam 5/5
14. A Spot of Bother - Haddon, Mark 3/5
13. Last and First Men - Stapledon, Olaf 3/5
12. Versläsaren och den levande martyren - Gerami, Mohammed 2/5
11. Cosmicomics - Calvino, Italo 5/5

FEBRUARY
10. The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Calvino, Italo 3/5
9. Exorcist - Blatty, William Peter 3/5
8. Språk och värld - Magnusson, Gert 3/5
7. Sturm - Jünger, Ernst 3/5
6. The Night Watch - Waters, Sarah 4/5
5. Keith Richards: The Unauthorized Biography - Bockris, Victor 3/5

JANUARY
4. Travels In The Scriptorium - Auster, Paul 3/5
3. Das Urteil - Kafka, Franz 3/5
2. Move Under Ground - Mamatas, Nick 3/5
1. Against The Day - Pynchon, Thomas 4/5

 

[Ronny]

Usually if I didn't finish because I really disliked the book I leave a really low rating as well but some I just didn't finish for other reasons and will get back too. I should of removed the unfinished books when I copied the list here but it's too late to edit now.

 

[ewomack]

My final 2007 list:

43. On Humour by Simon Critchley
42. Urusei Yatsura: Perfect Collection by Rumiko Takahashi
41. The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning by Takashi Murakami, et al
40. Midnight Mass by Paul Bowles
39. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
38. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
37. Turing by Andrew Hodges
36. Krazy & Ignatz: The Kat Who Walked in Beauty by George Herriman
35. How To Write a Damn Good Novel by James Frey
34. Schulz And Peanuts by David Michaelis
33. Nietzsche Within Your Grasp by Shelley O'Hara
32. Heidegger by Jonathan Ree
31. The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966 by Charles Schulz
30. Schopenhauer by Micheal Tanner
29. Hegel by Raymond Plant
28. The Meaning Of Life by Terry Eagleton
27. Nietzsche: A Guide for the Perplexed by R. Kevin Hill
26. Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley
25. Nietzsche by Ronald Hayman
24. Spinoza: A Guide For the Perplexed by Charles E. Jarrett
23. Derrida by Christo Johnson
22. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
21. Vedanta: Heart of Hinduism by Hans Torwestern
20. Spinoza by Roger Scruton
19. Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L. Cheney
18. Vedanta: A Simple Introduction by Pravrajika Vrajaprana
17. How To Practice: The Way To A Meaningful Life by Dalai Lama
16. Astro Boy, Vol 1 by Osamu Tezuka
15. The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias
14. Reading Judas by Elaine Pagels
13. Sgt. Frog, Book 2 by Mine Yoshizaki
12. Love Hina, Volume 1 by Ken Akamatsu
11. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
10. Sgt. Frog, Book 1 by Mine Yoshizaki
9. The End of Faith by Sam Harris
8. Chronicle of the Roman Republic by Philip Matyszak
7. Ty and the Babe by Tom Stanton
6. The Complete Peanuts 1963-1964 by Charles Schulz
5. Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos by Sally A. Kitt Chappell
4. Krazy & Ignatz 1939 - 1940: "A Brick Stuffed With Moom-bims" by George Herriman
3. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
2. Cartoon History of The Universe 2 by Larry Gonick
1. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

 

[Sybarite]

Because of studying, this has not been a good year for recreational reading. However:

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele
The first three Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman
Monsieur Mackintosh by Robin Chrichton
Against All Gods by AC Grayling
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Still reading:

Nana by Émile Zola
Gaudí by Gijs Van Hensbergen
Frederick the Great by Giles MacDonogh
Pepys Diaries (condensed version)

Well, I added a few more to this list to give it a modicum of respectability.

Nana by Émile Zola is now on the 'read' list, together with:

Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal

Scouse Mouse by George Melly

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Polar Star by Martin Scott Cruz

 

[Cayenne]

Suden Vuosi by Virpi Hämeen-Anttila
Nahkakolo By Mikael Niemi
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Soul Music By Terry Pratchett
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Kolmastoista Lapsi by Virpi Hämeen-Anttila
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Myrskyluodon Maija by Anni Blomqvist
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Että Hän Muistaisi Saman by Elina Hirvonen
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Koirankynnen Leikkaaja by Veikko Huovinen
Perijät by Virpi Hämeen-Anttila
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Sense And Sensibility by Jane Austen
Pirita, Karjalan Tytär by Kaari Utrio
Somebody Else's Kids by Torey Hayden

 

[tartan_skirt]

Huzzah! I read more than last years 52 books! Which surprised me since I've been too busy with university stuff to barely pick up a book in the last 3 months (or come on here). Anyway, on with the list:

1 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (finished it from 2006, so didn't know whether to count it)
2 The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
3 Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
4 Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh
5 Across the Wall - Garth Nix
6 Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
7 Complicity - Iain Banks
8 Lanark - Alasdair Gray
9 Franco and the Spanish Civil War - L.E. Snellgrove
10 The Binding Chair - Kathryn Harrison
11 Good Bones - Margaret Atwood
12 Shanghai Baby - Zhou Wei Hui
13 Suffragettes and Votes for Women - L.E. Snellgrove
14 Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary - Vivian Cook (yes, that is how you spell the title )
15 Mort - Terry Pratchett
16 The Dresden Dolls Companion - Amanda Palmer
17 Waiting - Ha Jin
18 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
19 Whit - Iain Banks
20 Dracula's Guest - Bram Stoker
21 Cradle and All - James Patterson
22 The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
23 The Mammoth Book of New Manga (this was so big I didn't count it as a volume of manga)
24 The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams
25 The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
26 Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
27 Emma - Jane Austen
28 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
29 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
30 Sons of Destiny - Darren Shan
31 Lady Friday - Garth Nix
32 A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
33 Anatomy Made Simple for Artists - Jonathan Freemantle
34 Ancient Art of the Chinese Seal - Yunn Pann (ok, so it was 88 pages and only a few inches squared )
35 Yeah! I Made it Myself - Eithne Farry
36 The Homecoming - Harold Pinter
37 The Turn of the Screw and the Aspern Papers - Henry James
38 Fern Gully - Diana Young
39 Firesong - William Nicholson
40 Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
41 Passing - Nella Larsen
42 The Steep Approach to Garbadale - Iain Banks
43 Pnin -Vladimir Nabokov
44 The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
45 Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
46 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
47 The Student Cookbook
48 The Lady of the Shroud - Bram Stoker
49 Man, Interrupted - James Bailey
50 The Penguin History of Medieval Europe - Maurice Keen
51 The Harmony Silk Factory - Tash Aw
52 On Painting - Leon Battista Alberti
53 Giotto: The Frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel - Giuseppe Basile
54 A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
55 QI: The Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
56 The Human Stain - Philip Roth (finished it today)

At around 56 books I'm pretty happy with that list. Going to try and do my best to keep around that number this year too!

 

[pangolin]

My Sister’s Keeper------------------------------ Jodi Picoult
Glass Castle---------------------------------------Jeannette Walls
Fahrenheit 451------------------------------------Ray Bradbury
Their Eyes Were Watching God---------------Zora Neale Hurston
A Wrinkle in Time-------------------------------Madeleine L’Engle
1984------------------------------------------------George Orwell
Animal Farm
Where the Heart is-------------------------------Billie Letts
The Secret Life of Bees-------------------------Sue Monk Kidd
Beloved--------------------------------------------Toni Morrison
All Creatures Great and Small------------------James Herriot
Watership Down----------------------------------Richard Adams
The Sirens of Titan-------------------------------Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Welcome to the Monkey House
Slaughterhouse-Five
Ishmael---------------------------------------------Daniel Quinn
My Ishmael
Bacchae--------------------------------------------Euripides
The Crowing of the Noble Cock---------------Herman Melville
Beneventano
Bartleby
The Giver------------------------------------------Lois Lowry
The Quiet Room----------------------------------Lori Schiller
Wolfcry--------------------------------------------Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Plucker---------------------------------------Brom
Stardust--------------------------------------------Neil Gaiman
The Scarlet Letter--------------------------------Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Awakening-----------------------------------Kate Chopin
Kite Runner----------------------------------------Khaled Hosseini
Ethan Frome---------------------------------------Edith Wharton
The Golden Compass----------------------------Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
The Great Gatsby---------------------------------F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some of them were for school.

 

[Real Great Idea]

Wow, I read a lot of books last year, but I enjoyed Angels and Demons, prob. best.....tough choice!

 

[rachael_g]

Not in any kind of order - and not as many as i'd like:
The Quest for Anastasia by John Klier
Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
Marley and Me by John Grogan
Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
How I Paid for College by Marc Acito
Everything You Know by Zoe Heller
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Left Bank by Kate Muir
The Wizard of Oz by L.Frank Baum
Elizabeth Taylor by Donald Spoto
The Secrets of Jin Shei by Alma Alexander

 

[Blindsided]

All of the dark tower series(7)
Red dragon, Hannibal, Rise of Hannibal, Silence of the lambs
Bourne identity
I am Legend
7th tower series(7)
Artemis fowl series (6)
Last lost years of merlin book
Godless:Church of liberalism
How to talk to a liberal ( if you must)
The Art of Memory
The Historian
A Walk to Remember
where the red fern grows
Tony Hawk biography
Shawn Michaels biography
The Four Feathers
The Sun Also Rises
Kite Runner
The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
Wizard heir, Warrior heir
Warriors of Camallan
Lance Armstrong biography
Eragon, Eldest
For the love of the game
Ptolomey's Gate
Sabriel, Lireal, Abhorsen
Revolutionary Road
Harry Potter 7
Genesis(the bible)
part of the illiad, odyssey, metamorphoses, my text books for college, and 2 chapters of Guns Germs and Steel

More than I would of guessed if I didn't make this list.

 

[shadforth]

Straken-Terry Brooks
Jack Of Raven-Mark Chadbourn
Life Class-Pat Barker
The Big Bad City-Ed McBain
Getting Back-William Dietrich
Dance Of Death-John Case
The Willow Man-Sue Purkiss
The Telling Pool-David Clement Davies
Dolphin Song-Michael Tod

 

[saliotthomas]

Embers - sandor Marai
Lion of al rassan -Guy Gavriel Kay
Gentlemen of the road -michael Chabon
the battle-Patrick Rambaud
Water Music_t c boyle
Anna Karenina-Tolstoy (re-read)
Shadow of the wind-Carlos ruiz Zafon
Leo the African-Amin Malouf
Snapper- Roddy Doyle(re-read)
Lamb-Christopher Moore
Dark prince-David Gemmell
Father Goriot-balzac
the leopard-Lampedusa
thae axe-Donald Westlake(re-read)
smoke_westlake
hark-ed mcBain
Pirate-george mc donald Fraser(R I P)
zorro-Isabel Allende
birds without wing-Louis de bernière
suite Francaise_Nemirovsky
starbuck 4books-bernard Cornwell

many other i don't think of know,or not worth writing about

 

[Promethean]

my list

My first post here!

My goal last year was to read 30; ended up reading 35

1. The Red Pony by Steinbeck
2. The Moon is Down by Steinbeck
3. Greenpeace by Rex Weyler
4. The Pearl by Steinbeck
5. John Gabriel Borkman by Ibsen
6. Novelas Ejemplares by Cervantes
7. All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
8. Growing Up Poor edited by Robert Coles
9. When We Dead Awaken by Ibsen
10. Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith
11. Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999 edited by Alexie, Kulka, and Danford
12. The First Part of Henry the Sixth by Shakespeare
13. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy
14. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
15. The Fox by D. H. Lawrence
16. En el Tiempo de las Mariposas by Julia Alvarez
17. Old Mortality by Katherine Anne Porter
18. Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
19. Sula by Toni Morrison
20. Memoria de Mis Putas Tristes by Gabriel García Márquez
21. The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
22. Four Plays (Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) by William Inge
23. Folk & Fairy Tales edited by Hallett and Karasek
24. The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Shakespeare
25. Rhesus by Euripides
26. Ensayo Sobre la Ceguera by José Saramago
27. Lend Me Your Ears edited by William Safire
28. Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars by Marjorie Heins
29. The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau by de Balzac
30. The Devil Kissed Her: The Story of Mary Lamb by Kathy Watson
31. After the First Death by Robert Cormier
32. La Dama del Alba; La Sirena Varada; Nuestra Natacha by Alejandro Casona
33. The Proposal by Chekhov
34. Jude the Obscure by Hardy
35. Popol Vuh by Anónimo

 

[Oklahoma]

My 2007 list. I rated all on a scale of 1/2 a star to five stars. I didn't rate non-fiction/reference. I figure they always deserve a certain respect just for effort.



1. Arsenic and Old Lace -Joseph Kesserling *****

2. The Red Tent-Anita Diamant *****

3. The Greenlanders-Jane Smiley **

.4. Cold Sassy Tree-Olivia Burns *****

5. If it's laughter you're after-Harral

6. The White Witch of Rosehall-Herbert G. De Lisser ***1/2

7. The Oxford illustrated British history

8. The Road to Wellville T. Boyle Coraghessan ***

9. Elvenbane-Mercedes Lackey/Andre Norton ****

10. Tender is the night-F.Scott Fitzgerald *****

11. The Best Awful-Carrie Fisher **

12. The Girl with the Pearl Earring-Tracey Chevalier ****

13. Auntie Mame Patrick Dennis ***1/2

14. The Last Command-Timothy Zahn ****

15. Harbin's Ridge -Henry Giles 233 pages ***

16. The Ballad of Cat Ballou-Roy Chanslor ?? *

17. The Egg and I--Betty MacDonald **

18. The Scotswoma-- Inglis Fletcher *****

19. Dare Philip--Jose Farmer ****

20. The World's Greatest Events Vol. I

21. Sharpe's Triumph-Bernard Cornwell ****1/2

22. Northanger Abbey--Jane Austen ****

23.Walda--Mary Holland Kincaid **

24. Songs of Bilitis--Pierre Louys ****

25. The Golden Compass--Philip Pullman- *****

26. The Subtle Knife--Philip Pullman- ****

27. The Amber Spyglass--Philip Pullman- ****

28. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows--J.K. Rowlings **

29. The Naked Civil Servant--Quentin Crisp- ****1/2

.30. Cell--Stephen King *****

31.Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Doestoevsky. *****

32. The African Queen--C.S. Forster ***1/2

33. Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel ***1/2

34. Spencer's Mountain -Earl Hamner, Jr. **

35. I Was Amelia Earhart-Jane Mendelsohn *

36. The Wind Done Gone Alice Randall 1/2

37. Roses for Mama--Janette Oke *

38. The Quilter's Apprentice--Jennifer Chiaverini ****

39. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams *****

40. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe-- *****

41. Life, the Universe and Everything-- *****

42. Far From the Madding Crowd--Thomas Hardy *****

43. The Rosewood Casket--Sharyn McCrumb ****

44. Freshwater Fishing Secrets-

45. Anglers Handbook-

46. Modern Science-

47. A Thousand Acres--Jane Smiley *1/2

48. The Hound Dog Man-Fred Gipson ***

49. The Lady and the Unicorn--Tracy Chevalier. ***

50 The Pearl-John Steinbeck *****

51 The Anyhow Stories--Lucy Lane Clifford ***1/2

52. The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter--Sharyn McCrumb ****

53. Inkheart-Cornelia Funke 1/2

54. Valley of the Horses by Jean M. Auel **1/2

55. The Way of the Priests--Robert J. Conley *****

56. The Mammoth Hunters--Jean M. Auel **1/2

57. The Sugar Cookie Murder--Joanne Fluke ***1/2

58. Home By Suppertime-martha Cash Bennett **

59. The Strawberry Shortcake Murder--Joanne Fluke ***

60. Tuesdays With Morrie--Mitch Albom ****

61. The Dark Way--Robert J. Conley *****

62. The Comstock Camels--Gary McCarthy *****