School's Out for Michael5000

I don't know if you noticed, but my review of Kazuo Ishiguro's much-maligned The Unconsoled on Wednesday represented the end of the Reading List Project.  The Reading List was a largely reader-generated list of seventy-some books compiled by vote way back in the Summer of 2007.  Once the list had been compiled, I posted it in an entry called "Back to School with Michael5000," which is a fair representation of what happened.  At six and a half academic years, the Reading List lasted a lot longer than my undergraduate education.  It would be interesting to know which project involved more writing.

I think that's all I'm going to say for the time being.  This will be a day for resting on laurels.

Books Completed 

• 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.
• Ishiguro, The Unconsoled. Completed March, 2014.
• 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.