Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Reading List Index!

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

In Progress

Fforde, The Eyre Affair

On Deck
  • 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

4 comments:

Michael5000 said...

@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.

Samantha Ivy said...

No John Irving or Tom Wolfe? I love those guys, The World According to Garp is an instant classic.

Michael5000 said...

@Sam Ivy: Welcome to the show. I believe both "Garp" and a Tom Wolfe book were nominated, but failed to gather enough votes.

Rebel said...

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