The Reading List consists of 63 books and book series from a variety of genres, and was compiled for me by this blog's readership in the late summer of 2007. Until I finish these books, barring any premature and unfortunate demise on my part, I will be doggedly reading my way through them and posting my findings.
Books Completed
- Ivo Andric, Bridge on the Drina. Completed April, 2009.
- Beowulf. Completed August, 2008.
- Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita. Completed February, 2008.
- Cervantes, Don Quixote. Completed June, 2009.
- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep. Completed November, 2008.
- Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. Completed January, 2008.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh. Completed August, 2009.
- Graham Greene, The End of the Affair. Completed July, 2009.
- Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. Completed October, 2009.
- Kafka, The Trial. Completed January, 2009.
- China Mieville, Perdido Street Station. Completed March, 2009.
- Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass. Completed August, 2009.
- Nabakov, Lolita. Completed March, 2008.
- Robinson, Housekeeping. Completed May, 2008.
- Pamuk, My Name is Red. Completed June, 2008.
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter books: One & Two. (April 2009)
- Scully, Dominion. Completed October, 2008.
- Twain, Huckleberry Finn. Completed April, 2008.
In Progress
(Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre) ...which is not, strictly speaking, on The Reading List, but I'm told I need it to appreciate The Eyre Affair.
- Fforde, The Eyre Affair
- Wright, The Moral Animal
- Brown, Louis Riel
- Greene, The Quiet American
Books Remaining
- Ball, Bright Earth
- Blume, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Byatt, Possession
- Campbell & Campbell, The China Study
- Camus, The Stranger
- Chaucer, Cantebury Tales
- Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent
- Davis, One River
- DeWitt, The Last Samurai
- Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel
- Donaldson, the first Thomas Covenant trilogy
- Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
- Hansen, Motoring With Mohammed
- Homer, The Iliad
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
- Joyce, Ulysses
- Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
- LeGuin, Earthsea trilogy
- L'Engle, A Wrikle in Time
- Levin, How the Universe Got its Spots
- McCall, Makes Me Want To Holler
- Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen
- Nabakov, Pnin
- Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
- Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
- Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Pullman, His Dark Materials
- Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain
- Rawicz, The Long Walk
- Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
- Rossi, What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World
- Rowling, Harry Potter books 3-7
- Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir
- Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
- Singer and Mason, The Way We Eat and Why Our Food Choices Matter
- Smiley, A Thousand Acres
- Stegner, Angle of Repose
- Updike, the other Rabbit books after Rabbit, Run
- Voltaire, Candide
- Woolf, To the Lighthouse
7 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
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