abecedarian Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 January: 1. The Fish Can Sing-Halldor Laxness 5/5 2. Reef-Romesh Guinesekera 2/5 3. The Traveller-John Twelve Hawks 2/5 4. Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe5/5 5. Suffer the Little Children-Mary Rafftery 3/5 6. Ireland-Frank Delaney 5/5 7. Whale Rider-Whiti Ihemaera 5/5 8. The Butcher's Wife- Li Ang 2/5 9. Aunt Julia & The Scriptwriter-Mario Vargas Llosa 2/5 10.Undead and Unwed-Mary Janice Davidson 2/5 11. Creative License-Danny Gregory 5/5 12. The Rice Mother-Rani Manecka 5/5 February: 13. The Women At the Pump-Knut Hamsun 3/5 14. The Fat Man From La Paz-ed. Rosario Santos1/5 15. Anansi Boys-Neil Gaiman 5/5 16. The Wandering Unicorn-Manuel M. Lainez 2/5 17. The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction 3/5 18. Voices Made Night -Mia Couto 2/5 19. Dan Eldon: Art of Life- Jennifer New5/5 20. Breath, Eyes, Memory-Edwidge Danticat 4/5 March: 21. Shalimar the Clown- Salman Rushdie3/5 22. Broken Verses-Kamila Shamsie5/5 23. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro 3/5 24. Dirt Music-Tim Winton 4/5 25. The Pearl-John Steinbeck 4/5 26. Reading Lolita in Tehran-Azar Nafisi5/5 27. Barabbas-Par Lagerkvist 4/5 28. Cheap Ways to Tie the Knot-Cara Davis 2/5 April: 29. The Committments-Roddy Doyle3/5 30. The Snapper-Roddy Doyle 5/5 31. The Van-Roddy Doyle 5/5 32. A Bed of Red Flowers-Nelofer Pazira 4/5 33. Tears of the Giraffe-Alexander McCall Smith 3/5 34. Morality for Beautiful Girls-A.M. Smith 3/5 35. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus-Charles C. Mann 4/5 36. Troll- Johanna Sinisalo 3/5 37. The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon5/5 38. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea-Yukio Mishima 5/5 39. Korea Unmasked-Won-bok RHIE 3/5 40. The Reader- Bernhard Schlink 4/5 May: 41. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell-Susanna Clark 3/5 42. Transgressions-Sarah Dunant 4/5 43. Menopause for Dummies- Marcia Jones 3/5 44. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Childhood-Fatima Mernissi 3/5 45. Memory in Death-JD Robb 3/5 46. The Step Diet-James O. Hill 3/5 47. Relics-Mary Anna Evans 2/5 48. Cry the Beloved Country-Alan Paton 5/5 49. In the Time of the Butterflies-Julia Alvarez 5/5 50. Lolita-Vladimir Nabakov 5/5 June: 51 Sunset Song-Lewis Grassic Gibbon5/5 52. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana-Umberto Eco 4/5 53. Where We Once Belonged-Sia Figiel 1/5 54.One of Ours-Willa Cather 4/5 55. The Long Night of White Chickens-Francisco Goldman1/5 56. Love and Garbage-Ivan Klima 5/5 JUly: 57. Heavy Water and Other Stories-Martin Amis 4/5 58. Perfume-Patrick Suskind 4/5 59. A Sister of Sheherazade-Assia Djeber 3/5 60. Daughter of Fortune- Isabel Allende 5/5 61. The Return of the Water Spirit-Pepetela 1/5 62. The Last Will & Testament of Senhor la Sillva Aruanjo -Germano Almeida 1/5 63. Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel 5/5 64. Time Gifts-Zoran Zivkovic 4/5 65. The Compromise- Sergei Dovlatov 3/5 66. Oracle Night-Paul Auster5/5 August: 67. The Stars, The Earth, The River-Le Minh Hhue 2/5 68. Twelve Sharp- Janet Evanovitch 4/5 69. Leaving a Trace-Alexandra Johnson 3/5 September: 70. Stories From Blue Latitudes-ed. Elizabeth Nunez 3/5 71. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories-Horacio Quiroa 4/5 72. The Sea-Crossed Fisherman-Yashar Kemal 2/5 73. Bound Feet and Western Dress-Pang Mei Natasha Chang 4/5 74. This Day" Diaries From American Women-Joni B. Cole 4/5 75. From a Crooked Rib-Nurrudin Farah 4/5 76. Lines On the Water-David Adams Richards 4/5 77. Views From the Bridge of Europe 3/5 78. The Club Dumas-Arturo Perez Revertea 4/5 79. In the Hollow of His Hand- Doris and Larry Puckett 3/5 80. Annie John- Jamaica Kincaid 3/5 81. Dark Demon-Christine Feehan 3/5 82. Bleeding Heart-Susan Wittig Albert 3/5 October: 83. Hurramabad-Andrei Volos 3/5 84. Janini-Sharkat Osman 2/5 85. The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life-Alexandra Johnson 4/5 86. The 99 Cent Breakfast-Patricia Glinton Meicholas 3/5 87. Miramar-Naguib Mahfouz 2/5 88. Definately Dead-Charlaine Harris 3/5 89. The Book of Puka-Puka- Robert Dean Frisbie 3/5 90. Zlata's Diary-Zlata Filopovic 91. The Sex Lives of Cannibles: Adrift in the Equatorial Sea-J.Maarten Troost 4/5 92. The Winter Queen-Boris Akunin 4/5 93. The Floor Sample-Julia Cameron 3/5 94. The Stone of Laughter-Hoda Barakat 1/5 95. Danse Macabre-Laurell K. Hamilton 2/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 Um, abc...your rating system...??? Huh? I'll tell you what though, I certainly admire the sheer volume of books you manage to get through! Amazing concentration. I am too easily distracted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abecedarian Posted November 27, 2006 Author Share Posted November 27, 2006 Um, abc...your rating system...???Huh? I'll tell you what though, I certainly admire the sheer volume of books you manage to get through! Amazing concentration. I am too easily distracted. um..that rating system..the colors didn't transfer from TFS...and I when I tried to edit, I was not allowed to take out the rating system...didn't have time to mess with it anyway! Too many family issues this morning.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 OK, dawn breaks on the eastern front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abecedarian Posted November 28, 2006 Author Share Posted November 28, 2006 November: 96. Natural Novel-Georgi Gospodinov 3/5 97. The Wedding of Zein-Tayeb Salih 2/5 98. Travels With Charley-John Steinbeck 5/5 99. The Bondmaid-Catherine Lim 3/5 100. Widdershins-Charles deLint 5/5 101. Marcel- Erwin Mortier 3/5 102. Comfort Woman-Maria Rosa Henson 4/5 103. The First Circle-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4/5 104. Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos-Outhine Bounyavong 2/5 105. In the Shadow of the Ark-Anne Provoost 5/5 106. The Relic-Eca De Quieroz 3/5 107. The Book Thief-Markus Zusak 4/5 108. Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunisia -Monia Hejaij 1/5 109. Incipient Feminists: Women Writers in the Sloval National Revival- Norma Rudinsky 1/5 110. Blue Highways-William Least Heat Moon 5/5 111. Two Hill Diggers-Geralda Kahoroasiva 3/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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