Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Library Nook Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Oh my goodness you are sooo organised! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 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'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I thought that movie looked quite interesting, didn't realise it was based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Makes my huge pile seem smaller! Makes my pile look like a crumb! Good luck with it Kylie. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 That's still a pretty decent reading rate! I hope you're feeling better now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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