Kylie's Literary Adventures in 2009

[Kylie]

Kylie's Literary Adventures in 2009

 

This is a list of books that I've read and books that I'm currently reading, which will be updated as the year progresses. Books that have been read have a rating out of 10 next to them.

 

TBR Pile as at 1 January 2009: 383

TBR Pile as at 28 December 2009: 584 (less 3 re-reads)

 

Richard Adams: Watership Down 10/10

Isaac Asimov: I, Robot 8/10

Clive Barker: The Thief of Always 8/10

Graeme Base: Animalia 10/10

Graeme Base: The Eleventh Hour 10/10

Graeme Base: The Sign of the Seahorse 10/10

Graeme Base: The Waterhole 10/10

Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly 8/10

Judy Bernard-Waite: The Riddle of the Trumpalar 6/10

Enid Blyton: The Magic Faraway Tree 7/10

John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 8/10

James M Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice 8/10

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep 8/10

Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely 9/10

Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower 9/10

John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things 9/10

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles 9/10

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four 9/10

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet 9/10

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex 10/10

Janet Evanovich: One for the Money 8/10

Janet Evanovich: Two for the Dough 8/10

Janet Evanovich: Three to Get Deadly 8/10

Janet Evanovich: Four to Score 8/10

Jasper Fforde: The Big Over Easy 9/10

Jasper Fforde: Lost in a Good Book 8/10

F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 10/10

Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy 6/10

Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank 9/10

William Goldman: The Princess Bride 10/10

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows 10/10

Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 9/10

Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road 8/10

Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd 7/10

Harry Harrison: Deathworld 1 7/10

Harry Harrison: Deathworld 2 7/10

Harry Harrison: Deathworld 3 7/10

Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game 7/10

Anne Holm: I am David 8/10

Shirley Hughes: Here Comes Charlie Moon 6/10

Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth 10/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery on Cobbett's Island (#13) 7/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Emeralds (#14) 7/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery on the Mississippi (#15) 7/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Missing Heiress (#16) 7/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Secret of the Unseen Treasure (#19) 7/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery Off Old Telegraph Road (#20) 7/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery at Mead's Mountain (#22) 7/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Queen's Necklace (#23) 7/10

CS Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 9/10

Norman Lindsay: The Magic Pudding 8/10

Melina Marchetta: Saving Francesca 8/10

John Marsden: Letters from the Inside 9/10

John Marsden: The Dead of the Night 9/10

John Marsden: Tomorrow, When the War Began 10/10

Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 8/10

Ian McEwan: Enduring Love 8/10

George Mikes: How to be an Alien 5/10

Walter Moers: The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear 10/10

Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun 10/10

Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club 9/10

Terry Pratchett: The Light Fantastic 8/10

Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites 8/10

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front 10/10

JK Rowling: Quidditch Through the Ages 8/10

WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman: 1066 and All That 4/10

Alexander McCall Smith: The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 8/10

Brian Southall: Northern Songs 8/10

Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 7/10

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath 10/10

Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories 8/10

William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair 9/10

Hunter S Thompson: The Rum Diary 9/10

Scott Westerfeld: Pretties 8/10

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies 8/10

Scott Westerfeld: Specials 8/10

Scott Westerfeld: Extras 8/10

Scott Westerfeld: Bogus to Bubbly 8/10

Gene Wilder: My French 'lady of the night' 7/10

PG Wodehouse: Carry On, Jeeves 9/10

PG Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters 9/10

PG Wodehouse: The Inimitable Jeeves 9/10

PG Wodehouse: The Man with Two Left Feet 8/10

PG Wodehouse: Meet Mr Mulliner 8/10

PG Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves 9/10

Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind 9/10

Markus Zusak: The Messenger 8/10

Edited January 19, 2010 by Kylie

[Kylie]

This is a list of books that I've read and books that I'm currently reading, which will be updated as the year progresses. Books that have been read have a rating out of 10 next to them.

 

Total read in January to June: 29 (re-reads: 3)

 

January

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1K, CL) 8/10

John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 8/10

Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd (1K, CL) 7/10

PG Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters (CL) 9/10

 

February

Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories (1K, CL) 8/10

John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things 9/10

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (1K, CL) (unfinished - lost book)

John Marsden: Tomorrow, When the War Began 10/10

 

March

Norman Lindsay: The Magic Pudding (CL) 8/10

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (1K, CL) 10/10

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies 8/10

Scott Westerfeld: Pretties 8/10

 

April

Brian Southall: Northern Songs 8/10

Scott Westerfeld: Specials 8/10

PG Wodehouse: Carry On, Jeeves 9/10

Terry Pratchett: The Light Fantastic 8/10

WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman: 1066 and All That 4/10

 

May

Melina Marchetta: Saving Francesca 8/10

Hunter S Thompson: The Rum Diary 9/10

Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank (1K, CL) 9/10

William Goldman: The Princess Bride 10/10

Markus Zusak: The Messenger 8/10

John Marsden: The Dead of the Night 8/10

James M Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1K, CL) 8/10

CS Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 9/10

 

June

F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1K, CL) 10/10

Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 9/10

Jasper Fforde: Lost in a Good Book 8/10

William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair (1K, CL) 9/10

George Mikes: How to be an Alien 5/10

Edited December 15, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

This is a list of books that I've read and books that I'm currently reading, which will be updated as the year progresses. Books that have been read have a rating out of 10 next to them.

 

Total read July to December: 58

 

July

PG Wodehouse: The Man with Two Left Feet 8/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery on Cobbett's Island (#13) 7/10

Alexander McCall Smith: The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 8/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Emeralds (#14) 7/10

Clive Barker: The Thief of Always 8/10

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows (CL) 10/10

Graeme Base: Animalia 10/10

Graeme Base: The Waterhole 10/10

Jasper Fforde: The Big Over Easy 9/10

Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun 10/10

Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly 8/10

 

August

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex 10/10

Enid Blyton: The Magic Faraway Tree (CL) 7/10

Scott Westerfeld: Extras 8/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery on the Mississippi (#15) 7/10

Scott Westerfeld: Bogus to Bubbly 8/10

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (1K, CL) 10/10

Richard Adams: Watership Down 10/10

Graeme Base: The Sign of the Seahorse 10/10

 

September

PG Wodehouse: The Inimitable Jeeves 9/10

Janet Evanovich: One for the Money 8/10

Janet Evanovich: Two for the Dough 8/10

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet 9/10

Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely 9/10

Anne Holm: I am David 8/10

Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road 8/10

Harry Harrison: Deathworld 1 7/10

Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy 6/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Missing Heiress (#16) 7/10

Ian McEwan: Enduring Love 8/10

 

October

Isaac Asimov: I, Robot 8/10

Gene Wilder: My French 'lady of the night' 7/10

Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1K, CL) 7/10

John Marsden: Letters from the Inside 9/10

PG Wodehouse: Meet Mr Mulliner 8/10

Harry Harrison: Deathworld 2 7/10

Janet Evanovich: Three to Get Deadly 8/10

 

November

Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club 9/10

Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth 10/10

Walter Moers: The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear 10/10

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four 9/10

Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind 9/10

Graeme Base: The Eleventh Hour 10/10

 

December

PG Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves 9/10

Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower 9/10

Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 8/10

Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 7/10

Shirley Hughes: Here Comes Charlie Moon 6/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery Off Old Telegraph Road (#20) 7/10

Harry Harrison: Deathworld 3 7/10

Janet Evanovich: Four to Score 8/10

Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites 8/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Secret of the Unseen Treasure (#19) 7/10

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles 9/10

JK Rowling: Quidditch Through the Ages 8/10

Judy Bernard-Waite: The Riddle of the Trumpalar 6/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery at Mead's Mountain (#22) 7/10

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Queen's Necklace (#23) 7/10

Edited January 19, 2010 by Kylie

[Kylie]

The following list, over 4 posts, represents a good portion of my TBR pile. I haven't included most of my reference books.

 

Books marked with an # indicate priority reading. Books that have been read are in bold and books that I'm currently reading are in blue. I'll include books that I buy in 2009 as I go along, and I'll mark them with an *.

 

Total Number of Books (A-C): 111

Updated Total Number of Books: 176 (16 read)

 

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

*Douglas Adams: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

*Douglas Adams: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

*Douglas Adams: Life, the Universe and Everything

*Douglas Adams: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

*Douglas Adams: Mostly Harmless

#Richard Adams: Watership Down 10/10

*Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie

*Brian Aldiss (ed): The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus

*Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim

Virginia Andrews: Flowers in the Attic

Isaac Asimov: Foundation series (x5)

#Isaac Asimov: I, Robot 8/10

Isaac Asmiov: Pebble in the Sky

Isaac Asimov: The Rest of the Robots

Isaac Asimov: The Stars Like Dust

Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye

*Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride

*Margaret Atwood: Surfacing

Jean M Auel: The Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M Auel: The Mammoth Hunters

Jean M Auel: The Valley of Horses

Jane Austen: Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon

*Murray Bail: Eucalyptus

*JG Ballard: The Drowned World

JG Ballard: Empire of the Sun

John Banville: Athena

John Banville: Doctor Copernicus

John Banville: Kepler

John Banville: Mefisto

John Banville: The Sea

*John Banville: The Untouchable

Clive Barker: Abarat

Clive Barker: Everville

Clive Barker: Galilee

Clive Barker: The Thief of Always 8/10

Clive Barker: Weaveworld

*Graeme Base: Animalia 10/10

*Graeme Base: The Eleventh Hour 10/10

*Graeme Base: The Sign of the Seahorse 10/10

*Graeme Base: The Waterhole 10/10

*Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 8/10

*Greg Bear: Eon

Frank Beddor: The Looking Glass Wars

Frank Beddor: Seeing Redd

Judy Bernard-Waite: The Riddle of the Trumpalar 6/10

*Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination

Peter Biskind: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

*Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses #1

*Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses #2: Knife Edge

*Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses #3: Checkmate

*Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses #4: Double Cross

#Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the 20th Century

*Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the World

*James Blish: Cities in Flight

*Judy Blume: Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret

#Graeme Blundell: King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy

Enid Blyton: The Magic Faraway Tree 7/10

*T Boardman (ed): Connoisseur's Science Fiction

Kyril Bonfiglioli: The Mortdecai Trilogy

Pierre Boulle: Planet of the Apes

John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 8/10

Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury: The Day it Rained Forever

Ray Bradbury: From the Dust Returned

Ray Bradbury: The Golden Apples of the Sun

Ray Bradbury: I Sing the Body Electric!

*Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury: Long After Midnight

Ray Bradbury: Machineries of Joy

Ray Bradbury: S is for Space

Ray Bradbury: The Silver Locusts

ER Braithwaite: To Sir, With Love

*Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders

Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

*Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

*Christopher Brookmyre: The Sacred Art of Stealing

*Dan Brown: Deception Point

Dan Brown: Digital Fortress

*John Brunner: The Crucible of Time

*John Brunner: The Jagged Orbit

*John Brunner: The Shift Key

#John Brunner: The Sheep Look Up

*John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider

John Brunner: The Squares of the City

John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar

*John Brunner: The Stone that Never Came Down

*John Brunner: Traveller in BlackBill Bryson: The Lost Continent

Bill Bryson: Made in America

*Bill Bryson: Mother Tongue

Pearl S Buck: The Good Earth

#Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

Anthony Burgess: 1985

*Anthony Burgess: Language Made Plain

*Anthony Burgess: The Wanting Seed

Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy

William S Burroughs: Junky

William S Burroughs: Naked Lunch

*James M Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice 8/10

Simon Callow: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles biography, Vol 1)

Simon Callow: Hello Americans (Orson Welles biography, Vol 2)

*Italo Calvino: If On a Winter's Night a Traveller

Albert Camus: The Plague

*Karel Capek: War with the Newts

*Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms

*Truman Capote: Summer Crossing

*Truman Capote: A Tree of Night and Other Stories

Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card: Ender's Shadow

*Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang

*Isobelle Carmody: The Gathering

Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn

Angela Carter: The Bl@@dy Chamber and Other Stories

Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Michael Chabon (ed): McSweeney's Echanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories

*Michael Chabon: Summerland

#Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep and Other Novels (x3) 8/10 (read 2)

Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels (x3)

*Ann Charters: The Portable Sixties Reader

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

*Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower 9/10

GK Chesterton: The Complete Father Brown Stories

*John Christopher: The Death of Grass

Agatha Christie: The Secret Adversary

Agatha Christie: Taken in at the Flood

Arthur C Clarke: Against the Fall of Night

Arthur C Clarke: Childhood's End

Arthur C Clarke: Cradle

Arthur C Clarke: The Deep Range

Arthur C Clarke: Earthlight

Arthur C Clarke: Expedition to Earth

*Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter: Firstborn

*Arthur C Clarke: The Ghost from the Grand Banks

*Arthur C Clarke: The Hammer of God

Arthur C Clarke: Imperial Earth

Arthur C Clarke: Of Time and Stars

Arthur C Clarke: The Other Side of the Sky

Arthur C Clarke: Prelude to Space

#Arthur C Clarke: Rama Revealed

Arthur C Clarke: The Space Trilogy (x3)

Susanna Clarke: The Ladies of Grace Adieu

*JM Coetzee: Disgrace

Colette: The Claudine Novels (x3)

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl 1: Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl 2: The Arctic Incident

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl 3: The Eternity Code

Tom Collins: Such is Life

*Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games #1

*Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games #2 - Catching Fire

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

#John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things 9/10

*William Corlett: The Magician's House #1: The Steps Up the Chimney

*William Corlett: The Magician's House #2: The Door in the Tree

*William Corlett: The Magician's House #3: The Tunnel Behind the Waterfall

*Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park

Edited December 28, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

Books marked with an # indicate priority reading. Books that have been read are in bold and books that I'm currently reading are in blue. I'll include books that I buy in 2009 as I go along, and I'll mark them with an *.

 

Total Number of Books (D-H): 94

Updated Total Number of Books: 162 (23 read)

 

*Roald Dahl: The Collected Short Stories

*Paul Davies: The Mind of God

Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel

Philip K Dick: The Divine Invasion

*Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K Dick: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

Philip K Dick: The Man in the High Castle

Philip K Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Philip K Dick: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Charles Dickens: Bleak House

Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

*Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles 9/10

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Valley of Fear

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet 9/10

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four 9/10

Arthur Conan Doyle: His Last Bow

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Daphne du Maurier: The Birds and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn

Daphne du Maurier: Julius

Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca

Alexandre Dumas: The Last Cavalier

*Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

*Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea

*Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals

George Eliot: Middlemarch

George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss

*Brett Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero

Harlan Ellison: Pulp Fiction: The Villains

#Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man

Michael Ende: The Neverending Story

*Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex 10/10

*Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides

*Janet Evanovich: One for the Money 8/10

*Janet Evanovich: Two for the Dough 8/10

*Janet Evanovich: Three to Get Deadly 8/10

*Janet Evanovich: Four to Score 8/10

*Janet Evanovich: High Five

*Janet Evanovich: Hot Six

*Janet Evanovich: Seven Up

*Janet Evanovich: Plum Lovin'

HV Evatt: Rum Rebellion

Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White

*Raymond E Feist: Magician

*Niall Ferguson: Empire

Jasper Fforde: The Big Over Easy 9/10

*Jasper Fforde: First Among Sequels

Jasper Fforde: The Fourth Bear

#Jasper Fforde: Lost in a Good Book 8/10

Jasper Fforde: Something Rotten

Jasper Fforde: The Well of Lost Plots

Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

F Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned

*F Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night

Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy 6/10

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary

Ian Fleming: Casino Royale

Ian Fleming: Diamonds are Forever

Ian Fleming: Goldfinger

Ian Fleming: Moonraker

Ian Fleming: You Only Live Twice

*Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

*John Fowles: The Collector

Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank 9/10

Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career

*Robert Frost: The Poetry of Robert Frost

Alex Garland: The Beach

Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South

Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm

William Gibson: Neuromancer

Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol: The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Other Stories

*Glen David Gold: Carter Beats the Devil

William Goldman: The Princess Bride 10/10

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows 10/10

Julia Gray: Fire Music

Julia Gray: Ice Mage

Julia Gray: Isle of the Dead

#Julia Gray: The Guardian Cycle (x5)

*Graham Greene: A Burnt-Out Case

*Graham Greene: Travels with My Aunt

*Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants

Ursula Le Guin: The Dispossessed

*Ursula Le Guin: The Earthsea Cycle #1: A Wizard of Earthsea

*Ursula Le Guin: The Earthsea Cycle #2: The Tombs of Atuan

*Ursula Le Guin: The Earthsea Cycle #3: The Farthest Shore

*Ursula Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness

*Ursula Le Guin: The Wind's Twelve Quarters

*Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 9/10

*Joe Haldeman: The Forever War

Dashiell Hammett: The Thin Man

Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road 8/10

#Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd 7/10

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy: The Woodlanders

*Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark

*Charlaine Harris: Living Dead in Dallas

*Charlaine Harris: Club Dead

*Charlaine Harris: Dead to the World

*Charlaine Harris: Dead as a Doornail

*Charlaine Harris: Definitely Dead

*Charlaine Harris: All Together Dead

*Charlaine Harris: From Dead to Worse

*Joanne Harris: Chocolat

*Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs

Harry Harrison: Deathworld 1 7/10

Harry Harrison: Deathworld 2 7/10

Harry Harrison: Deathworld 3 7/10

*Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!

Harry Harrison: The Stainless Steel Rat

*Harry Harrision: The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge

*Harry Harrision: The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

*Harry Harrision: The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You

*Harry Harrision: The Stainless Steel Rat for President

*Harry Harrison: Stars and Stripes trilogy (x3)

*Harry Harrison: The Technicolour Time Machine

*Harry Harrison: Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows

Raven Hart: The Vampire's Kiss

*Raven Hart: The Vampire's Seduction

Raven Hart: The Vampire's Secret

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

*Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land

*Joseph Heller: Closing Time

*Joseph Heller: Something Happened

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms

*Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Frank Herbert: Dune

#Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game 7/10

Hermann Hesse: Steppenwolf

*Michael Heyward: The Ern Malley Affair

*Peter Hoeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

#Anne Holm: I am David 8/10

*Nick Hornby: High Fidelity

*Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

*Michel Houellebecq: Atomised

Robert Hughes: The Fatal Shore

*Shirley Hughes: Here Comes Charlie Moon 6/10

Aldous Huxley: After Many a Summer

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley: The Devils of Loudun

Aldous Huxley: The Grey Eminence

Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley: Those Barren Leaves

Edited December 28, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

Books marked with an # indicate priority reading. Books that have been read are in bold and books that I'm currently reading are in blue. I'll include books that I buy in 2009 as I go along, and I'll mark them with an *.

 

Total Number of Books (I-R): 85

Updated Total Number of Books: 179 (22 read)

 

*John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany

*John Irving: The World According to Garp

*Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World

*Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day

*Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans

*Shirley Jackson: The Lottery and Other Stories

Henry James: What Maisie Knew

*MR James: The Haunted Doll's House

*Jerome K Jerome: Three Men in a Boat

*Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle

*Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip

*Terry Jones (Douglas Adams): Starship Titanic

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

*Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth 10/10

Carolyn Keene: Nancy Drew and the Clue of the Dancing Puppet

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden (x 19) 7/10 (read 8)

*Andrew Keogh: twentytwelve

*Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums

Jack Kerouac: On the Road (The Original Scroll)

*Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon

*Sue Monk Kidd: The Mermaid Chair

*Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees

*Stephen King: The Bachman Books

Stephen King: IT

*Stephen King: Needful Things

#Stephen King: The Stand

*Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian

*Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin: The Nanny Diaries

*Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

*Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

*Erik Larson: The Devil in the White City

*Hugh Laurie: The Gun Seller

DH Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

John Le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Donovan Leitch: The Hurdy Gurdy Man

*Stanislaw Lem: The Cyberiad

*Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress

*Stanislaw Lem: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

Stanislaw Lem: Hospital of the Transfiguration

Stanislaw Lem: Memoirs of a Space Traveler

Stanislaw Lem: More Tales of Pirx the Pilot

Stanislaw Lem: Solaris

*Madeleine L'Engle: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

*Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby

*Ira Levin: This Perfect Day

#CS Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (x 5) 9/10 (read 1)

CS Lewis: The Dark Tower

*CS Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet

CS Lewis: Perelandra

CS Lewis: That Hideous Strength

*Jeff Lindsay: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Joan Lindsay: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Norman Lindsay: The Magic Pudding 8/10

*Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue

*Lois Lowry: Messenger

*Lois Lowry: Number the Stars

*David Malouf: The Conversations at Curlow Creek

*David Malouf: An Imaginary Life

*David Malouf: Remembering Babylon

Michelle Magorian: Goodnight Mister Tom

*Gregory Maguire: A Lion Among Men

Gregory Maguire: Mirror Mirror

Gregory Maguire: Wicked

*Melina Marchetta: Finnikin of the Rock

Melina Marchetta: On the Jellicoe Road

Melina Marchetta: Saving Francesca 8/10

John Marsden: The Great Gatenby

John Marsden: The Journey

John Marsden: Letters from the Inside 9/10

John Marsden: Out of Time

*Cormac McCarthy: The Road

*Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 8/10

#Ian McEwan: Enduring Love 8/10

*Ian McEwan: The Innocent

China Mieville: Perdido Street Station

China Mieville: The Scar

*George Mikes: How to be an Alien 5/10

Henry Miller: The Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller: The Tropic of Capricorn

#Walter M Miller Jr: A Canticle for Leibowitz

*AA Milne: The House at Pooh Corner

David Mitchell: Black Swan Green

*David Mitchell: Ghostwritten

Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind

*Walter Moers: The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear 10/10

*Walter Moers: The City of Dreaming Books

*LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #2: Anne of Avonlea

*LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #3: Anne of the Island

*LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #4: Anne of Windy Poplars

*LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #5: Anne's House of Dreams

*LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #6: Anne of Ingleside

*LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #7: Rainbow Valley

*LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #8: Rilla of Ingleside

Sally Morgan: My Place

Kate Mosse: Labyrinth

*Haruki Murakami: Dance Dance Dance

*Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun 10/10

*Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase

Vladimir Nabokov: Nabokov's Dozen

#Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory

*Mary Norton: Bedknob and Broomstick

*Flann O'Brien: The Hard Life

*Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find

Maggie O'Farrell: After You'd Gone

Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel

*Chuck Palahniuk: Choke

*Chuck Palaniuk: Fight Club 9/10

*Ruth Park: Poor Man's Orange

*Dorothy Parker: The Penguin Dorothy Parker

*Eric Partridge: Usage and Abusage

Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago

Banjo Paterson: The Man from Snowy River

Matthew Pearl: The Poe Shadow

Gilbert Pearlman: Young Frankenstein

Iain Pears: An Instance of the Fingerpost

Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

#Jodi Piccoult: Vanishing Acts

Edgar Allen Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems

*Terry Pratchett: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

*Terry Pratchett: The Carpet People

*Terry Pratchett: The Dark Side of the Sun

*Terry Pratchett: The Bromeliad Trilogy: Diggers

#Terry Pratchett: Discworld #2 - The Light Fantastic 8/10

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #3 - Equal Rites 8/10

*Terry Pratchett: Discworld #5 - Sourcery

*Terry Pratchett: Discworld #7 - Pyramids

*Terry Pratchett: Discworld #10 - Moving Pictures

*Terry Pratchett: Discworld #18 - Maskerade

*Terry Pratchett: Discworld #19 - Feet of Clay

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #22 - The Last Continent

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #24 - The Fifth Elephant

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #26 - Thief of Time

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #33 - Going Postal

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #34 - Thud!

#Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens

Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials #1: Northern Lights

*Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials #2: The Subtle Knife

*Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials #3: The Amber Spyglass

Mario Puzo: The Godfather

*Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49

*Thomas Pynchon: Vineland

Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged

#Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front 10/10

*Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Club Dumas

*Mack Reynolds: Towers of Utopia

*Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire

*Philip Roth: The Human Stain

*Philip Roth: The Plot Against America

*JK Rowling: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

*JK Rowling: Quidditch through the Ages 8/10

*Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

*Jed Rubenfeld: The Interpretation of Murder

*Gillian Rubinstein: Space Demons

*Gillian Rubinstein: Skymaze

*Gillian Rubinstein: Shinkei

Edited January 19, 2010 by Kylie

[Kylie]

Books marked with an # indicate priority reading. Books that have been read are in bold and books that I'm currently reading are in blue. I'll include books that I buy in 2009 as I go along, and I'll mark them with an *.

 

Total Number of Books (S-Z): 93

Updated Total Number of Books: 148 (22 read)

 

*JD Salinger: For Esme - with Love and Squalor

*David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

*David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day

*David Sedaris: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

*Will Self: The Book of Dave

#WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman: 1066 and All That 4/10

Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice

*Shel Silverstein: Falling Up

*Georges Simenon: Maigret at the Crossroads

Alexander McCall Smith: The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom

*Alexander McCall Smith: 44 Scotland Street #2 - Espresso Tales

*Alexander McCall Smith: The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 8/10

*Alexander McCall Smith: The Kalahari Typing School for Men

*Alexander McCall Smith: Morality for Beautiful Girls

*Alexander McCall Smith: The Full Cupboard of Life

*Alexander McCall Smith: Tears of the Giraffe

*Alexander McCall Smith: Portugese Irregular Verbs

*Alexander McCall Smith: Sunday Philosophy Club #1

*Alexander McCall Smith: Sunday Philosophy Club #2 - Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

*Alexander McCall Smith: Sunday Philosophy Club #The Right Attitude to Rain

Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

*Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle

*Zadie Smith: White Teeth

*Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

#Brian Southall: Northern Songs 8/10

*Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 7/10

Nicholas Sparks: A Walk to Remember

Steven Spielberg: Clouse Encounters of the Third Kind

Olaf Stapledon: Last and First Men

Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker

John Steinbeck: East of Eden

#John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath 10/10

*John Steinbeck: The Long Valley

*John Steinbeck: The Moon is Down

John Steinbeck: The Red Pony

John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent

#Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories 8/10

*Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Beyond the Deepwoods (Book 1 of the Twig Saga)

*Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Stormchaser (Book 2 of the Twig Saga)

*Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax (Book 3 of the Twig Saga)

*Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: The Lost Barkscrolls

*Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Vox

Patrick Suskind: Perfume

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels

Michael Swift: Mapping the World

Donna Tartt: The Little Friend

Donna Tartt: The Secret History

Peter Temple: The Broken Shore

William Makepeace Thackeray: Barry Lyndon

#William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair 9/10

Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

*Hunter S Thompson: The Great Shark Hunt

Hunter S Thompson: Hell's Angels

*Hunter S Thompson: Kingdom of Fear

#Hunter S Thompson: The Rum Diary 9/10

JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion

Sue Townsend: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Sue Townsend: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

*Sue Townsend: True Confessions of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

Lynne Truss: The Lynne Truss Treasury

*Nancy Turner: Sarah's Quilt

*Nancy Turner: The Star Garden

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

John Updike: Rabbit, Run

*John Updike: The Witches of Eastwick

Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

*Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano

*Kurt Vonnegut: Welcome to the Monkey House

Dorothy Wall: Blinky Bill

Edgar Wallace: The Door with Seven Locks

Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur

*Charles Webb: Home School

HG Wells: The Cone

*HG Wells: The Island of Dr Moreau

*HG Wells: Selected Short Stories

*HG Wells: The Shape of Things to Come

*HG Wells: The Sleeper Awakes

*Scott Westerfeld: Bogus to Bubbly 8/10

*Scott Westerfeld: Extras 8/10

#Scott Westerfeld: Uglies 8/10

Scott Westerfeld: Pretties 8/10

Scott Westerfeld: Specials 8/10

*Scott Westerfeld: The Last Days

Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth

*TH White: The Once and Future King

*Gene Wilder: My French 'lady of the night' 7/10

Michael Wilding and David Myers: Best Stories Under the Sun

Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays

*Simon Winchester: The Surgeon of Crowthorne

Tim Winton: Cloudstreet

PG Wodehouse: A Pelican at Blandings

PG Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

PG Wodehouse: Blandings Castle

#PG Wodehouse: Carry On, Jeeves 9/10

PG Wodehouse: The Clicking of Cuthbert

#PG Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters 9/10

PG Wodehouse: Full Moon

PG Wodehouse: The Heart of a Goof

#PG Wodehouse: The Inimitable Jeeves 9/10

PG Wodehouse: Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

PG Wodehouse: Jeeves in the Offing

PG Wodehouse: Joy in the Morning

PG Wodehouse: Leave it to Psmith

PG Wodehouse: The Luck of the Bodkins

#PG Wodehouse: The Man with Two Left Feet 8/10

#PG Wodehouse: Meet Mr Mulliner 8/10

PG Wodehouse: Money for Nothing

PG Wodehouse: Mr Mulliner Speaking

PG Wodehouse: Much Obliged, Jeeves

PG Wodehouse: Mulliner Nights

PG Wodehouse: Piccadilly Jim

#PG Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves 9/10

PG Wodehouse: Ring for Jeeves

PG Wodehouse: Service with a Smile

PG Wodehouse: Something Fresh

PG Wodehouse: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

PG Wodehouse: Summer Lightning

PG Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings

PG Wodehouse: Ukridge

PG Wodehouse: Uncle Dynamite

PG Wodehouse: Uneasy Money

PG Wodehouse: Very Good, Jeeves!

*Gene Wolfe: The Fifth Head of Cerberus

*Tom Wolfe: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

*Jack Womack: Elvissey

Working Dog: Phaic Tan

Working Dog: San Sombrero

Jonathan Wylie: Across the Flame

#Jonathan Wylie: Island and Empires #1: The Last Augury

Jonathan Wylie: Island and Empires #2: Dark Fire

Jonathan Wylie: Island and Empires #3: Echoes of Flame

Jonathan Wylie: Other Lands

Jonathan Wylie: Shadow Maze

*John Wyndham: Chocky

John Wyndham: The Chrysalids

#John Wyndham: The Kraken Wakes

John Wyndham: The Seeds of Time

John Wyndham: Stowaway to Mars

*John Wyndham: Trouble with Lichen

*John Wyndham: Web

Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind 9/10

*Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

Emile Zola: Nana

#Markus Zusak: The Messenger 8/10

Edited December 7, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

The following books are a small selection of the total number of books on my TBR pile. These are my 'top priority' books: the books that I would most like to read this year. I won't get through them all (I expect I'll be buying others and reading them, or jumping to others on my TBR pile if they come up for reading circles), but I hope to put a big dent in this pile by the end of the year.

 

Books that have been read are in bold, with a rating out of 10 next to them. Then there are the books that I'm currently reading, books that have been borrowed and, unless otherwise stated, I'll be reading hard copies of all books.

 

Total Number of Books: 40

 

Richard Adams: Watership Down 10/10

Isaac Asimov: I, Robot 8/10

Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the 20th Century

Graeme Blundell: King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy

John Brunner: The Sheep Look Up

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep 8/10

Arthur C Clarke: Rama Revealed

John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things 9/10

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man

Jasper Fforde: Lost in a Good Book 8/10

Julia Gray: The Guardian Cycle #1: The Dark Moon

Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd 7/10

Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game 7/10

Anne Holm: I Am David 8/10

Stephen King: The Stand

CS Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia 9/10

Ian McEwan: Enduring Love 8/10

Walter M Miller Jr: A Canticle for Leibowitz

Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire

Jodi Piccoult: Vanishing Acts

Terry Pratchett: The Light Fantastic (Discworld #2) 8/10

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front 10/10

WC Sellar: 1066 and All That 4/10

Brian Southall: Northern Songs 8/10

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath 10/10

Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories 8/10

William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair 9/10

Hunter S Thompson: The Rum Diary 9/10

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies 8/10

PG Wodehouse: Carry On, Jeeves 9/10

PG Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters 9/10

PG Wodehouse: The Inimitable Jeeves 9/10

PG Wodehouse: The Man with Two Left Feet 8/10

PG Wodehouse: Meet Mr Mulliner 8/10

PG Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves 9/10

Jonathan Wylie: Island and Empires #1: The Last Augury

John Wyndham: The Kraken Wakes

Markus Zusak: The Messenger 8/10

Edited December 1, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

Wishlist

 

Here is a small selection of the books on my wish list (excluding classics, of which there are too many to list). I'll no doubt be adding more as the year goes on. Books in italics have been bought.

 

Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination

Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses (series)

Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the World

Judy Blume: Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret

John Brunner: The Jagged Orbit

John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider

Anthony Burgess: The Wanting Seed

Patrick Califia: Doc and Fluff

Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

John Christopher: The Death of Grass

Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park

Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games

Jared Diamond: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides

Jasper Fforde: First Among Sequels

Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!

Raven Hart: The Vampire's Seduction

Aldous Huxley: The Doors of Perception

Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden #35, #38, #39

Andrew Keogh: Twentytwelve

Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon

Erik Larson: The Devil in the White City

Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress

Stanislaw Lem: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

Ira Levin: This Perfect Day

Lois Lowry: Number the Stars

Vladimir Nabokov: Bend Sinister

Will Self: The Book of Dave

Jacqueline Susann: The Valley of the Dolls

Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell: The Edge Chronicles (series)

Nancy Turner: Sarah's Quilt

Nancy Turner: The Star Garden

Alan Weisman: The World Without Us

Gene Wilder: My French 'lady of the night'

Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Jack Womack: Elvissey

 

Books Bought January to June 2009

 

Because I can't fit them all in one post, here's the first half of the books I've bought in 2009.

 

Total bought January to June 2009: 108

Total number added to TBR pile: 102 (less 6 non-fiction books)

Updated 20 November 2009

 

December 2008 (Total: 4; doesn't count)

John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms

Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel

 

January 2009 (Total: 1)

Terry Pratchett: Maskerade

 

March 2009 (Total: 63)

Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals

 

From a bookfair (62 books in all; less 3 dupes/replacements):

Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim

Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride

Margaret Atwood: Surfacing

Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Christopher Brookmyre: The Sacred Art of Stealing

John Brunner: The Crucible of Time

John Brunner: The Shift Key

Anthony Burgess: Language Made Plain

James M Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice

Italo Calvino: If On a Winter's Night a Traveller

Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang

Isobelle Carmody: The Gathering

Arthur C Clarke: The Ghost from the Grand Banks

JM Coetzee: Disgrace

Brett Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

Jasper Fforde: First Among Sequels

Jasper Fforde: Lost in a Good Book (replacement copy)

Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated

Ursula Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness

Harry Harrison: Stars and Stripes trilogy

Harry Harrison: The Technicolour Time Machine

Michael Heyward: The Ern Malley Affair

Nick Hornby: High Fidelity

Shirley Hughes: Here Comes Charlie Moon

John Irving: The World According to Garp

Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans

Stephen King: Needful Things

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Erik Larson: The Devil in the White City

Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress

Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin: This Perfect Day

David Malouf: An Imaginary Life

David Malouf: Remembering Babylon

Ian McEwan: The Innocent

China Mieville: The Scar (duplicate - oops)

George Mikes: How to be an Alien

AA Milne: The House at Pooh Corner

Haruki Murakami: Dance Dance Dance

Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Flann O'Brien: The Hard Life

Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find

Ruth Park: Poor Man's Orange

Dorothy Parker: The Penguin Dorothy Parker

Eric Partridge: Usage and Abusage

Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49

Philip Roth: The Human Stain

Jed Rubenfeld: The Interpretation of Murder

JD Salinger: For Esme - with Love and Squalor

David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle

Alexander McCall Smith: The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith: The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Alexander McCall Smith: The Full Cupboard of Life

Sue Townsend: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (duplicate - oops)

Sue Townsend: True Confessions of Adrian Mole

Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano

Kurt Vonnegut: Welcome to the Monkey House

HG Wells: The Island of Dr Moreau

HG Wells: The Sleeper Awakes

TH White: The Once and Future King

John Wyndham: Web

 

April 2009 (Total: 14)

Bill Bryson: Mother Tongue

Paul Davies: The Mind of God

Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1

Janet Evanovich: One for the Money

Janet Evanovich: Two for the Dough

Niall Ferguson: Empire

Joseph Heller: Closing Time

Jerome K Jerome: Three Men in a Boat

Ursula Le Guin: The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Philip Roth: The Plot Against America

Georges Simenon: Maigret at the Crossroads

Hunter S Thompson: Kingdom of Fear

Simon Winchester: The Surgeon of Crowthorne

Tom Wolfe: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

 

May 2009 (Total: 9)

John Banville: The Untouchable

Graeme Base: Animalia

Graeme Base: The Eleventh Hour

Graeme Base: The Sign of the Seahorse

Graeme Base: The Waterhole

Graham Greene: Travels with My Aunt

Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!

Thomas Pynchon: Vineland

 

June 2009 (Total: 20)

Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses

James Blish: Cities in Flight

Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man

John Brunner: The Jagged Orbit

John Christopher: The Death of Grass

Roald Dahl: The Collected Short Stories

Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants

Terry Jones (Douglas Adams): Starship Titanic

Stephen King: The Bachman Books

Madeleine L'Engle: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Jeff Lindsay: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Alexander McCall Smith: Morality for Beautiful Girls

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Beyond the Deepwoods

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax

Nancy Turner: Sarah's Quilt

Charles Webb: Home School

Scott Westerfeld: Bogus to Bubbly

John Wyndham: Chocky

Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

Edited December 15, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

Below is a list of the books I have bought since July.

 

Total bought July to December 2009: 182

Total number added to TBR pile: 173 (less 9 non-fiction books)

Updated 28 December 2009

 

July 2009 (Total: 1)

Scott Westerfeld: Extras

 

August 2009 (Total: 1)

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Memorial Day Fire (#35)

 

September (Total: 110)

Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the World

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

Anthony Burgess: The Wanting Seed

Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea

Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides

John Fowles: The Collector

Raven Hart: The Vampire's Seduction

Stanislaw Lem: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

Alexander McCall Smith: No 1 Ladies #2 - Tears of the Giraffe

Hunter S Thompson: The Great Shark Hunt

Nancy Turner: The Star Garden

Gene Wilder: My French 'lady of the night'

 

From a bookfair (98 books in all):

Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (dupe - doesn't count)

Douglas Adams: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams: Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

Douglas Adams: Mostly Harmless

Douglas Adams: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie

Brian Aldiss (ed): The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus

JG Ballard: The Drowned World

Greg Bear: Eon

Judy Blume: Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret

T Boardman (ed): Connoisseur's Science Fiction

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders

Dan Brown: Deception Point

John Brunner: The Stone that Never Came Down

John Brunner: Traveller in Black

Michael Chabon: Summerland

Ann Charters: The Portable Sixties Reader

Arthur C Clarke: The Hammer of God

William Corlett: The Magician's House #2: The Door in the Tree

Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park

Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Janet Evanovich: Three to Get Deadly

Janet Evanovich: Four to Score

Janet Evanovich: High Five

Janet Evanovich: Hot Six

Janet Evanovich: Seven Up

Raymond E Feist: Magician

Glen David Gold: Carter Beats the Devil

Graham Greene: A Burnt-Out Case

Ursula Le Guin: The Earthsea Cycle #1: A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin: The Earthsea Cycle #2: The Tombs of Atuan

Ursula Le Guin: The Earthsea Cycle #3: The Farthest Shore

Joe Haldeman: The Forever War

Joanne Harris: Chocolat

Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs

Harry Harrision: The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge

Harry Harrision: The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

Harry Harrision: The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You

Harry Harrision: The Stainless Steel Rat for President

Harry Harrison: Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows

Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land

Joseph Heller: Something Happened

Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

Michel Houellebecq: Atomised

John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day

MR James: The Haunted Doll's House

Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle

Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip

Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Sue Monk Kidd: The Mermaid Chair

Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees

Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian

Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin: The Nanny Diaries

Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Hugh Laurie: The Gun Seller

Stanislaw Lem: The Cyberiad

CS Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet

CS Lewis: That Hideous Strength (replacement copy - doesn't count)

Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue

David Malouf: The Conversations at Curlow Creek

Melina Marchetta: Finnikin of the Rock

David Mitchell: Ghostwritten

Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase

Mary Norton: Bedknob and Broomstick

Terry Pratchett: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Terry Pratchett: The Carpet People

Terry Pratchett: The Dark Side of the Sun

Terry Pratchett: The Bromeliad Trilogy: Diggers

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #5 - Sourcery

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #7 - Pyramids

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #10 - Moving Pictures

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #19 - Feet of Clay

Philip Pullman: The Subtle Knife

Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Club Dumas

Mack Reynolds: Towers of Utopia

Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire

JK Rowling: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

JK Rowling: Quidditch through the Ages

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

Shel Silverstein: Falling Up

Alexander McCall Smith: 44 Scotland Street #2 - Espresso Tales

Alexander McCall Smith: No 1 Ladies #5 - The Full Cupboard of Life

Alexander McCall Smith: Portugese Irregular Verbs

Alexander McCall Smith: Sunday Philosophy Club #1

Alexander McCall Smith: Sunday Philosophy Club #2 - Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Alexander McCall Smith: Sunday Philosophy Club #The Right Attitude to Rain

Zadie Smith: White Teeth

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

John Steinbeck: The Long Valley

John Steinbeck: The Moon is Down

John Updike: The Witches of Eastwick

HG Wells: Selected Short Stories

Scott Westerfeld: The Last Days

Gene Wolfe: The Fifth Head of Cerberus

John Wyndham: Trouble with Lichen

2 books on Van Gogh

 

October (Total: 34)

Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses #2: Knife Edge

Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses #3: Checkmate

Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses #4: Double Cross

John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider

Karel Capek: War with the Newts

Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms

Truman Capote: Summer Crossing

Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter: Firstborn

William Corlett: The Magician's House #1: The Steps Up the Chimney

William Corlett: The Magician's House #3: The Tunnel Behind the Waterfall

Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark

Charlaine Harris: Living Dead in Dallas

Charlaine Harris: Club Dead

Charlaine Harris: Dead to the World

Charlaine Harris: Dead as a Doornail

Charlaine Harris: Definitely Dead

Charlaine Harris: All Together Dead

Charlaine Harris: From Dead to Worse

Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon

Sonia King: Mosaic Techniques & Traditions

Cormac McCarthy: The Road

Walter Moers: The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #1: Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #2: Anne of Avonlea

LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #3: Anne of the Island

LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #4: Anne of Windy Poplars

LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #5: Anne's House of Dreams

LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #6: Anne of Ingleside

LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #7: Rainbow Valley

LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables #8: Rilla of Ingleside

Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club

Will Self: The Book of Dave

HG Wells: The Shape of Things to Come

 

November 2009 (Total: 31)

Murray Bail: Eucalyptus

Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination

Truman Capote: A Tree of Night and Other Stories

Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games #1

Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games #2 - Catching Fire

Janet Evanovich: Plum Lovin'

F Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night

Robert Frost: The Poetry of Robert Frost

Elaine M Goodwin: The Human Form in Mosaic

Charlaine Harris: Grave Sight

Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Peter Hoeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Maggy Howarth: The Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook

Shirley Jackson: The Lottery and Other Stories

Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth

Andrew Keogh: twentytwelve

Lois Lowry: Messenger

Lois Lowry: Number the Stars

Gregory Maguire: A Lion Among Men

Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Walter Moers: The City of Dreaming Books

Chuck Palahniuk: Choke

Philip Pullman: The Amber Spyglass

Gillian Rubinstein: Space Demons

Gillian Rubinstein: Skymaze

Gillian Rubinstein: Shinkei

David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Jack Womack: Elvissey

The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet

 

December 2009 (Total: 5)

Katharine Burdekin: Swastika Night

Elizebeth Garner: The Ingenious Edgar Jones

Elaine M Goodwin: Classic Mosaic

Reif Larsen: The Selected Works of TS Spivet

Jack Womack: Terraplane

Edited December 28, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

Last year I joined the 'Read 3, Buy 1' support group which meant I had to read 3 books for every 1 that I bought. This was an effort to get my TBR pile down a bit, and I did well while I was taking part. Once I stopped though, I went back to my bad ways again.

 

Now the situation is more dire so I'm reinstating the 'Read 3, Buy 1' rule for myself.

 

TBR pile as at 1 January 2009: 383

Current TBR pile: 303 (as at 28 December)

 

Total credits earned: 26

Total credits to spend: 0

 

Books read since joining 'read 3, buy 1' (books in bold represent an obtained credit. The book in blue is what I'm currently reading):

 

1. Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep

2. John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

3. Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd

4. PG Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters

5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories

6. John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things

7. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath

8. Norman Lindsay: The Magic Pudding

9. Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

10. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies

11. Scott Westerfeld: Pretties

12. Brian Southall: Northern Songs

13. Scott Westerfeld: Specials

14. PG Wodehouse: Carry On, Jeeves

15. Terry Pratchett: The Light Fantastic

16. WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman: 1066 and All That

17. Melina Marchetta: Saving Francesca

18. Hunter S Thompson: The Rum Diary

19. Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank

20. William Goldman: The Princess Bride

21. Markus Zusak: The Messenger

22. James M Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice

23. CS Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

24. Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

25. Jasper Fforde: Lost in a Good Book

26. William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair

27. George Mikes: How to be an Alien

28. PG Wodehouse: The Man with Two Left Feet

29. Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery on Cobbett's Island

30. Alexander McCall Smith: The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

31. Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Emeralds

32. Clive Barker: The Thief of Always

33. Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

34. Graeme Base: Animalia

35. Graeme Base: The Waterhole

36. Jasper Fforde: The Big Over Easy

37. Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun

38. Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

39. Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

40. Enid Blyton: The Magic Faraway Tree

41. Scott Westerfeld: Extras

42. Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery on the Mississippi

43. Scott Westerfeld: Bogus to Bubbly

44. Richard Adams: Watership Down

45. Graeme Base: The Sign of the Seahorse

46. PG Wodehouse: The Inimitable Jeeves

47. Janet Evanovich: One for the Money

48. Janet Evanovich: Two for the Dough

49. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet

50. Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely

51. Anne Holm: I am David

52. Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road

53. Harry Harrison: Deathworld 1

54. Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy

55. Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Missing Heiress

56. Ian McEwan: Enduring Love

57. Isaac Asimov: I, Robot

58. Gene Wilder: My French 'lady of the night'

59. Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game

60. PG Wodehouse: Meet Mr Mulliner

61. Harry Harrison: Deathworld 1

62. Janet Evanovich: Three to Get Deadly

63. Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club

64. Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth

65. Walter Moers: The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

66. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four

67. Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind

68. PG Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves

69. Grahame Base: The Eleventh Hour

70. Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

71. Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

72. Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

73. Shirley Hughes: Here Comes Charlie Moon

74. Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery Off Old Telegraph Road (#20)

75. Harry Harrison: Deathworld 3

76. Janet Evanovich: Four to Score

77. Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites

78. Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Secret of the Unseen Treasure (#19)

79. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles

80. JK Rowling: Quidditch Through the Ages

81. Judy Bernard-Waite: The Riddle of the Trumpalar

82. Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery at Mead's Mountain (#22)

83. Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Queen's Necklace (#23)

Edited December 28, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

Classics Challenge

I've decided to reinstate my Classics Challenge (CL) and am aiming to read 25 classics again this year (including 'modern' classics).

 

CL reading in 2009: (currently reading)

Richard Adams: Watership Down

James M Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd

Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game

Norman Lindsay: The Magic Pudding

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath

Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories

William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair

PG Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters

 

 

 

1001 Books Challenge

I've also decided to give the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Challenge (1K) another go. This incorporates books that are listed in the abovementioned book by Peter Boxall. I'll be aiming to read 20 books for this challenge, the same amount that I read in 2008.

 

1K reading in 2009: (currently reading)

Isaac Asimov: I, Robot

James M Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd

Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game

Ian McEwan: Enduring Love

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath

Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories

William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair

PG Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters

Edited December 18, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

I've acquired quite a few short stories in ebook format recently and I'd really like to get through some of them this year so I've decided to create a Short Story Challenge (SS).

 

I plan on putting the stories on my iPod so I can read them going to and from work. I aim to read 2 per month, or 24 in total.

 

SS reading in 2009: (currently reading)

Brian W Aldiss: Super-Toys Last All Summer Long 8/10

Harlan Ellison: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

F Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 9/10

F Scott Fitzgerald: The Jelly-Bean 7/10

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth-Mark 9/10

Edgar Allan Poe: The System of Dr Tarr and Prof Fether 9/10

Leo Tolstoy: Ivan the Fool 7/10

Ivan Turgenev: The Diary of a Superfluous Man

 

TBR books that qualify for the SS challenge:

Ray Bradbury: The End of the Beginning

Ray Bradbury: The Foghorn

Ray Bradbury: Last Rites

Ray Bradbury: The October Game

Ray Bradbury: Pendulum

Ray Bradbury: The Sound of Thunder

Ray Bradbury: Unterderseaboat Doktor

Ray Bradbury: The Veldt

John Brunner: The Iron Jackass

John Brunner: The Pronounced Effect

John Brunner: Thinkertoy

John Brunner: Who Steals My Purse

Philip K Dick: Captive Market

Philip K Dick: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

Philip K Dick: The Minority Report

Philip K Dick: Oh, to be a Blobel!

Philip K Dick: Project Earth

Philip K Dick: Rautavaara's Case

Philip K Dick: Second Variety

Philip K Dick: War Game

Philip K Dick: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Stanislaw Lem: Automathew's Friend

Stanislaw Lem: King Krool

Stanislaw Lem: Seventh Voyage

CS Lewis: Spirits in Bondage

Richard Matheson: Buried Talents

Richard Matheson: Dance of the Dead

Richard Matheson: Mad House

Richard Matheson: Near Departed

Kurt Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut: Bagombo Snuff Box

Kurt Vonnegut: Long Walk to Forever

Kurt Vonnegut: Next Door

Kurt Vonnegut: Report on the Barnhouse Effect

Kurt Vonnegut: Unready to Wear

John Wyndham: Compassion Circuit

John Wyndham: More Spinned Against

John Wyndham: The Stare

Edited November 3, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

So I've decided to start another challenge: the 100 Books Challenge.

 

I've already read 48 books, 6 of those this year. I'll aim to read just 3 more by the end of the year, which is roughly one per month and will bring me to a total of 50.

 

Italicised books are on my TBR pile.

 

Updated: 50

 

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible - (children's version)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 1984 - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Edited November 25, 2009 by Kylie

[Kylie]

I think Gyre's Series Challenge is a terrific idea so I'm going to shamelessly copy.

 

The following are the series that I have (italicised books have been read):

 

Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

 

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (unfinished)

Life, the Universe and Everything

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Mostly Harmless

 

Isaac Asimov

Foundation series

 

Frank Beddor

The Looking Glass Wars

 

Malorie Blackman

Noughts & Crosses

 

Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game

Ender's Shadow

 

Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep and Other Novels

The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels

Edited August 19, 2009 by Kylie

[The Library Nook]

Oh my goodness you are sooo organised!

[Kylie]

Thanks! I'm not quite as organised as last year though. I just copied over a lot of what I used last year and tweaked it a little.

 

My reading year has gotten off to a slow start. There are too many distractions around (read: my partner). I'm loving the two books that I'm reading though: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (talk about classic crime!) and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.

[Kylie]

I finished The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F Scott Fitzgerald yesterday. Nicely written and ultimately quite sad. An excellent short read and highly recommended. I really want to see the movie, although I can already tell it's going to be very different to the story.

 

I also just finished Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. I had been looking forward to reading this classic of crime fiction for a while, and it didn't disappoint. There are some terrific one-liners in there that bear repeated readings and which left me chuckling. I did struggle to follow the plot a little though. I thought I was being dense but then read that the plot is well-known as being hard to follow so I feel better now.

 

This book has pretty much been my introduction to the crime genre and I'm looking to reading more of Chandler.

 

Now I'm continuing on with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. I've been reading bits and pieces in between my other reads but I expect to get through it quickly now that I can devote all my reading time to it. It's not going too badly so far, although it seems a little 'cutesy'.

[poppy]

I thought that movie looked quite interesting, didn't realise it was based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald book

[Janet]

Blimey, what a lot of books you have to read. Makes my huge pile seem smaller!

 

Will you manage them all in 2009 do you think?

[Charm]

Makes my huge pile seem smaller!

 

Makes my pile look like a crumb!

 

Good luck with it Kylie. Enjoy!

[Kylie]

Will you manage them all in 2009 do you think?

 

Not a chance! I'm not quite as fast a reader as you.

 

I generally read around a book per week so I'll only get through 50 or so this year. I debated whether or not I should even list them all because, let's face it, reading 52 books won't take a huge chunk out of my TBR pile and the list will look just as depressing at the end of the year as it does right now. Oh well. I can only try!

[Kylie]

I finished The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas last night. Not a bad read. As I said previously, I thought it was a little cutesy, but ultimately a tear-jerker. Recommended.

 

I'm now reading Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. I tried reading this at the end of 2007 but got distracted by life so now I'm attempting it again. I've already read a few chapters and the going is good so far. The style of writing is right up my alley.

[Janet]

Not a chance! I'm not quite as fast a reader as you.

 

I generally read around a book per week so I'll only get through 50 or so this year. I debated whether or not I should even list them all because, let's face it, reading 52 books won't take a huge chunk out of my TBR pile and the list will look just as depressing at the end of the year as it does right now. Oh well. I can only try!

Oh, I'm not fast - I managed 40 in 2008! I've read three so far this year which is very fast for me, but that's because I've been ill so I haven't left the house (apart from a quick trip to the Doctors) since I got in from work on Sunday morning!

 

Good luck with getting through some of them, anyway!

[Kylie]

That's still a pretty decent reading rate!

 

I hope you're feeling better now