Lara Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) I'm going to try this again this year. Reading Goal: 52 books For Fun Mini Goals: *crossed off as completed -Read a graphic novel or comic book -Read a memoir or biography -Read a book in Spanish -Read a mystery novel -Read a book published this year (2018) -Read a book I was supposed to read for class but didn't (ha ha) -Read a book set in my hometown -Read a book of poetry cover to cover -Read 2 Shakespeare plays -Read at least 7 plays Books Read: January 1) Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4 stars) 2) An Attic of Ideals by Karen Swenson (3 stars) 3) We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4 stars) 4) Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen (4.5 stars) 5) Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (4 stars) 6) Damned by Chuck Palahniuk (3 stars) 7) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (3 stars) February 8) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (5 stars) 9) Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (2.5 stars) 10) Woyzeck by Georg Buchner (3.5 stars) 11) Hunting and Gathering by Brooke Berman (3 stars) 12) Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets (4 stars) 13) A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (4 stars) 14) Miss Julie by August Strindberg (3 stars) 15) Ruined by Lynn Nottage March 16) Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov (3 stars) 17) Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (3.5 stars) 18) Angels in America (Part One: Millenium Approaches) by Tony Kushner (4.5 stars) 19) Angels in America (Part Two: Perestroika) by Tony Kushner (4 stars) 20) The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt (4 stars) April 21) Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht (4 stars) 22) Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl (3 stars) 23) A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (4 stars) 24) The Drunkard: Or, the Fallen Saved by William H. Smith (2 stars) 25) Dutchman & The Slave by Amiri Baraka (3 stars) May 26) A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (4 stars) 27) The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (4 stars) 28) Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway (4 stars) 29) Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook by Mark Bray (4 stars) June 30) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (4 stars) 31) Genocide by Jane Springer (2 stars) 32) Pastrix by Nadi Bolz-Weber (4 stars) July 33) Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (5 stars) 34) Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland by Christopher R. Browning, Nechama Tec (5 stars) August 35) The Liars' Club by Mary Karr (4 stars) 36) Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis (4 stars) 37) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (4 stars) 38) Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing (4 stars) 39) Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O'Connor (2 stars) September October November December Edited August 21, 2018 by Lara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) To Read: *edited continually; crossed off as read -All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr -Americanah by Chimamanda Ngoz Adichie -Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner -As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner -The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan -Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson -Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information by Paul Carter -Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays by David Sedaris -Beloved by Toni Morrison -The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam -The Best We Could Do by The Bui -Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen -Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen -Born Both: An Intersex Life by Hida Viloria -A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling -Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams -The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger -Children Playing Before A Statue of Hercules by David Sedaris -Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee -The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin -The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson -A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen -Dracula by Bram Stoker -Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover -Endgame by Samuel Beckett -Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury -The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth -The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen -The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer -The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan -The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing -Florida by Lauren Groff -Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes -For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway -Freud's Mistress by Karen Mack -Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin -The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee -The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy -The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood -The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas -Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance -The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien -Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell -The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston -How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez -I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai -In The Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks -In The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka -The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd -An Ishmael of Syria by Almohammad Asaad -Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith -A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell -Just Kids by Patti Smith -LaRose by Louise Erdrich -The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski -Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen -The Likeness by Tana French -The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie -Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich -The Lover by Harold Pinter -Maggie Now by Betty Smith -The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton -Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden -Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis -The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka -The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff -Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf -My Life With Bonnie and Clyde by Blanche Caldwell Barrow -My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt -My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult -The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis -Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga -The New Jim Crow: Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander -No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy -Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami -On Liberty by John Stuart Mill -O Pioneers! by Willa Cather -Oedipus Rex by Sophocles -Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson -An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina -Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline -Othello by William Shakespeare -The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore -Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders -A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn -The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani -A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline -The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich -Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger -Ready Player One by Ernest Cline -Remainder by Tom McCarthy -The Road by Cormac McCarthy -Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl -The Santaland Diaries and Season's Greetings by David Sedaris -The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir -A Sense of Direction: Some Observations on the Art of Directing by William Ball -Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli -Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility by Germaine Greer -The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class by Bernie Sanders -The Spice Box of Earth by Leonard Cohen -A Spot of Brother by Mark Haddon -Stupid F*****g Bird by Aaron Posner -The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare -The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin -Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal -The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond -Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht -To The Novel by Michael Chekov -Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks -The Viewpoints Book by Anne Bogart -A Vindication on the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft -We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver -We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch -The Zoo Story by Edward Albee -The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman The Well Educated Mind Suggested Reading List: *hidden for the sake of saving space *to be slowly chipped away at *crossed off as read Spoiler Fiction: Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes The Pilgrim's Progress -John Bunyan Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Moby Dick - Herman Melville Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Wolfe The Trial - Franz Kafka Native Son - Richard Wright The Stranger - Albert Camus 1984 - George Orwell Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison Seize the Day - Saul Bellow One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison White Noise - Don DeLillo Possession - A.S. Byatt The Road - Cormac McCarthy Autobiography Augustine - The Confessions Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe Michel De Montaigne - Essays Teresa Of Avila - The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself Rene Descartes - Meditations John Bunyan - Grace Abounding in the Chief of Sinners Mary Rowlandson - The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration Jean Jacques Rousseau - Confessions Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Frederick Douglass - Life and Times of Frederick Douglas Henry David Thoreau - Walden Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf Mohandas Gandhi - An Autobiography: The Story of my Experiments with Truth Gertrude Stein - Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Thomas Merton - Seven Storey Mountain C.S. Lewis - Surprised by Joy: the Shape of my Early Life Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings May Sarton - Journal of a Solitude Aleskandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago Charles W. Colson - Born Again Richard Rodriguez - Hunger of Memory: Education of Richard Rodriguez Jill Ker Conway - The Road from Coorain Elie Wiesel - All Rivers Run to the Sea History/Politics Herodotus - The Histories Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War Plato - The Republic Plutarch - Lives Augustine - The City of God Bede - The Ecclesiastical History of the English People Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince Sir Thomas More - Utopia John Locke - The True End of Civil Government David Hume - The History of England, Volume V Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract Thomas Paine - Common Sense Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Alexis De Tocqueville - Democracy in America Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - Communist Manifesto Jacob Burckhardt - Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism Lytton Strachey - Queen Victoria George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier Perry Miller - The New England Mind John Kenneth Galbraith - The Great Crash Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique Eugene D. Genovese - Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made Barbara Tuchman - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - All the President's Men James McPherson - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Francis Fukuyama - End of History and the last Man Drama Aeschylus - Agamemnon Sophocles - Oedipus the King Euripides - Medea Aristophanes - The Birds Aristotle - Poetics Everyman (14th Century) Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus William Shakespeare - Richard III William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare - Hamlet Moliere - Tartuffe William Congreve - The Way of the World Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The School for Scandal Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Ernest Anton Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard George Bernard Shaw - Saint Joan T.S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral Thornton Wilder - Our Town Eugene O'Neill - Long Day's Journey into Night Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot Robert Bolt - A Man for All Seasons Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Peter Shaffer - Equus Poetry The Epic of Gilgamesh Homer - The Iliad and the Odyssey Greek Lyricists Horace - The Odes Beowulf Dante Alighieri - Inferno Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales William Shakespeare - Sonnets John Donne King James Bible - Psalms John Milton - Paradise Lost William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience Williams Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Alfred, Lord Tennyson Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Christina Rossetti Gerald Manley Hopkins William Butler Yeats Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Frost Carl Sandburg William Carlos Williams Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot Langston Hughes W.H. Auden Science Hippocrates - On Airs, Waters and Places Aristotle - Physics Lucretius - On the Nature of Things Nicolaus Copernicus - Commentariolus Francis Bacon - Novum Organum Galileo Galilie - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Robert Hooke - Micrographia Isaac Newton - excerpts from Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Georges Cuvier - Preliminary Discourse Charles Lyell - Principles of Geology Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species Gregor Mendel - Experiments in Plant Hybridization Alfred Wegener - The Origin of Continents and Oceans Albert Einstein - The General Theory of Relativity Max Planck - The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory Julian Huxley - Evolution: The Modern Synthesis Erwin Schrodinger - What is Life? Rachel Carson - Silent Spring Desmond Morris- The Naked Ape James D. Watson - The Double Helix Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene Steven Weinberg - The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe E. O. Wilson- On Human Nature James Lovelock - Gaia Stephen Jay Gould - The Mismeasure of Man James Gleick - Chaos: Making a New Science Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time Walter Alvarez - T. Rex and the Crater of Doom Edited August 21, 2018 by Lara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) Statistics *updated monthly 2018 total number of books read so far: 38 Number read for school: 19 Number read for pleasure: 20 Number of non-fiction: 10 Number of fiction: 29 Number of plays: 19 Number of poetry collections: 1 Number of graphic novels/comics: 0 Number of new authors: 31 Number of known authors: 5 Number of books with male authors: 25 Number of books with female authors: 14 Nationality of authors: American - 22 Bohemian/Czech - 1 British - 2 Canadian - 2 German - 2 Greek - 1 Italian - 1 Nigerian - 1 Norwegian - 1 Russian - 1 South African - 1 Swedish - 1 Swiss - 1 Number of books not originally in English: 8 Number of books not in English: 0 Time period published: -Ancient: 1 -Medieval: 0 -1500-1700: 0 -18th century: 0 -19th century: 5 -1900 to 1950: 6 -1951 to 1980: 8 -1981 to 1999: 6 -21st century: 13 (-2018: 1) Average rating: Longest book: Shortest book: Most read author: Edited August 21, 2018 by Lara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 (edited) Read Last Year (2017): -Moshiah by Andrew Craven -Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, and 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks -God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut -Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare -All My Sons by Arthur Miller -Brave New World by Aldous Huxley -Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett -Trifles by Susan Glaspell -The Dramatic Imagination by Robert Edmund Jones -God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut -Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss -Hamlet by William Shakespeare (re-read) -Arcadia by Lauren Groff -Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger -Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage -Machinal by Sophie Treadwell -Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris -Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney -The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht -Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell -Theft by Finding by David Sedaris -The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway -Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard -Three Crows Yelling: Poems by Bill Noble, William Keener, and Michael Day -True West by Sam Shepard -Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 by J.K. Rowling and Jack Thorne -Buried Child by Sam Shepard -The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich -Antigone by Sophocles -The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd -Wonder by R.J. Palacio Edited February 2, 2018 by Lara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 Open for business! Here's to 2018! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Happy New Year Lara! I will enjoy following your progress. You've got a varied TBR but it looks like you have some crackers in your future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Happy New Year Lara! You have a great mix of reads in both your read and tbr lists. I can highly recommend Orphan Train, An Invention of Wings and the Road, I hope you get to them this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Happy New Year Lara, I hope you have a great year in 2018 ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anisia Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Happy New Year! Really like your TBR, noticed a couple of books I've read and enjoyed a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara Posted January 3, 2018 Author Share Posted January 3, 2018 Thank you everyone! Today I finished my first two reads of 2018. Dear Ijawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and a collection of poetry titled An Attic of Ideals by Karen Swenson. Dear Ijawele, while not particularly groundbreaking, was perfect for what it was - honest, to the point, and clearly communicated. It is a short book, 60ish pages long, taken from a letter Adichie wrote to a friend who asked her how to raise her daughter feminist. Adichie writes about feminism without being moralizing, a quality I appreciate in any social discourse. An Attic of Ideals is a book I came across by chance. Of its many poems there were both hits and misses, but the hits were of excellent quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 So it seems this has been a good start to the year for me. Since I last updated, I finished both Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen and Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. Both were great. I've started reading Jane Eyre for the readathon, but I had less time last weekend than I hoped and I didn't get that far. I think I'll pick that one back up during the next readathon and finish it. It's my first book by a Bronte sister Currently, I'm reading Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff. God save us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Happy Reading in 2018, Lara ! A thumbs up for Memoirs of a Geisha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/27/2018 at 7:54 PM, Little Pixie said: Happy Reading in 2018, Lara ! A thumbs up for Memoirs of a Geisha. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Have a great reading year in 2018! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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