Books Completed (as of February 2014)
- Ivo Andric, Bridge on the Drina. Completed April, 2009.
- Ball, Bright Earth. Completed November, 2010.
- Beowulf. Completed August, 2008.
- Judy Blume, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Completed May, 2010.
- Borges, Labyrinths. Completed February, 2014.
- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre. Completed November, 2009.
- Brown, Louis Riel. Completed December, 2009.
- Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita. Completed February, 2008.
- Byatt, Possession. Completed July, 2012
- Campbell & Campbell, The China Study. Completed June, 2013.
- Camus, The Stranger. Completed November, 2010
- Cervantes, Don Quixote. Completed June, 2009.
- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep. Completed November, 2008.
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. Completed December, 2010.
- DeWitt, The Last Samurai. Completed October, 2010.
- Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel. Completed April, 2010.
- Donaldson, the first Thomas Covenant trilogy. Completed May, 2012.
- Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. Completed January, 2008.
- Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment. Completed February, 2011.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh. Completed August, 2009.
- Graham Greene, The End of the Affair. Completed July, 2009.
- Graham Greene, The Quiet American. Completed February, 2010.
- Hansen, Motoring With Mohammed. Completed December, 2011.
- Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. Completed October, 2009.
- Homer, The Iliad. Completed June, 2010.
- Homer, The Odyssey. Completed June, 2010.
- Joyce, Ulysses. Completed August, 2010.
- Kafka, The Trial. Completed January, 2009.
- Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair. Completed December, 2009.
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies. Completed February, 2010.
- LeGuin, The Earthsea trilogy. Completed March, 2013.
- L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time. Completed November, 2010.
- Levin, How the Universe Got its Spots. Completed September, 2013.
- Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass. Completed August, 2009.
- China Mieville, Perdido Street Station. Completed March, 2009.
- Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen. Completed August, 2013.
- Nabakov, Lolita. Completed March, 2008.
- Nabakov, Pnin. Completed May, 2011.
- Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas. Completed February, 2014.
- Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country. Completed November, 2013.
- Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain. Completed November, 2011.
- Rawicz, The Long Walk. Completed April, 2013.
- Robinson, Housekeeping. Completed May, 2008.
- Pamuk, My Name is Red. Completed June, 2008.
- Pullman, His Dark Materials. Completed August, 2011
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter books: One, Two (April 2009), Three (February 2010), and Four (April 2011).
- Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir. Completed June, 2011.
- Scully, Dominion. Completed October, 2008.
- Smiley, A Thousand Acres. Completed September, 2010.
- Stegner, Angle of Repose. Completed August, 2013.
- Tolstoy, War and Peace. Completed March, 2013
- Twain, Huckleberry Finn. Completed April, 2008.
- Update, Rabbit, Redux. Completed March, 2011.
- Voltaire, Candide. Completed April, 2010.
- Woolf, To the Lighthouse. Completed April, 2011.
- Wright, The Moral Animal. Completed January, 2010.
- Ishiguro, The Unconsoled.
- None!
- Rossi, What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World. Skimmed November, 2010.
- Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent. Skimmed February, 2010.
- Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
- Rowling, Harry Potter books 5-7
- Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
- Singer and Mason, The Way We Eat and Why Our Food Choices Matter
- McCall, Makes Me Want To Holler
- Updike, Rabbit is Rich
- Updike, the final Rabbit book
- Davis, One River
8 comments:
i love that judy blume is on the list.
Good luck with Updike's Rabbit books. Hate is too mild a word....
IF ONLY I had been a blog follower when you made the list, I would have campaigned for: Adams, R. Watership Down; O'Connor, E. The Edge of Sadness; Stegner, W., Angle of Repose and also Crossing to Safety; Proulx, A. The Shipping News. And all of the Patrick O'Brien Aubrey/Maturin books.
@d: I bet it goes faster than "Ulysses," anyway.
@Elaine: I regard the first Rabbit book as one of the truly great American novels, so I doubt I will share your pain with the subsequent three. Plus, Mrs.5000 likes 'em, which is a good sign.
If only you had been a blogfollower at the time, your campaigns for "Crossing to Safety" and "Shipping News" wouldn't have gone far; I've read them both (and loved them both, incidentally) so they were ineligible. "Angle of Repose" made the list without you. I don't remember if "Watership Down" was nominated or not. "The Edge of Sadness" doesn't ring a bell. Patrick O'Brien probably would have been a dark horse, but if you'd put together the votes, I'd be reading them now.
I did not spot Stegner on your list... tsk.
O'Connor wrote mostly in the 40's-50's--The Last Hurrah might ring a bell. Edge of Sadness is a fascinating character study--multi-layered--written with killing wit. I reread it from time to time...as I do with most books I truly love. I read about equal amts nonfiction/fiction... Do you have a nonfiction list, too?
No John Irving or Tom Wolfe? I love those guys, The World According to Garp is an instant classic.
@Sam Ivy: Welcome to the show. I believe both "Garp" and a Tom Wolfe book were nominated, but failed to gather enough votes.
I'm gonna wait for this to go to DVD. ;)
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/film_adaptation_of_the_brothers?utm_source=a-section
That's a pretty good list. I don't think I could turn my TBR selection over to a committee -- I have book control issues. :)
I've read 27 of the books on your list and there are 6 more on my TBR shelf. Of the ones I've read, The Big Sleep, the Rabbit books, and Pnin were my favorites.
Next up for me is Beowulf. I read it in college a couple of times (despite Woody Allen's admonition to "never take a class where they make you read Beowulf"), but I want to read the Seamus Heaney verse translation because it won the 1999 Costa Book Award and that is one of the lists I am working on.
Happy reading!
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