vinay87 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 (edited) So here's my reading list for 2010 so to speak. I plan to hit atleast 30 books this year, a large target for me. Legend : Bold - Read Italics - Reading ® - Reread (W) - Wishlist Silver - Dropped 1. Melanie Rawn - The Star Scroll ~5/10 2. Baroness Emmuska Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel ~8/10 3. Melanie Rawn - Sunrunner's Fire ~2/10 4. Charles Dickens - Nicolas Nickleby 5. Fyodor Doestovsky - The Idiot 6. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables ® 7. Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers 8. Alexandre Dumas - The Man In The Iron Mask 9. Sun Tzu - The Art of War 10. Musashi Miyamoto - The Book Of Five Rings 11. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince 12. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Art Of War 13. Tad Williams - River Of Blue Frie 14. Tad Williams - Mountain Of Black Glass 15. Victor Hugo - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 16. Nathaniel Hawethorne - The House Of The Seven Gables 17. Agatha Christie - Lord Edgware Dies 18. John Grisham - The Client (W) 19. C S Lewis - The Horse And His Boy 20. C S Lewis - Prince Caspian 21. C S Lewis - The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader 22. C S Lewis - The Silver Chair 23. J R R Tolkien - The Hobbit ® 24. J R R Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings ® 25. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrel ® 26. John Grisham - The Runaway Jury (W) 27. Stephen King - Cujo ~7/10 28. Stephen King - The Gunslinger 29. Stephen King - The Drawing of the Three 30. Alistair Maclean - Ice Station Zebra (W) 31. T H White - The Once And Future King 32. T H White - The Book Of Merlyn 33. Agatha Christie - The Myserious Mr. Quin ® 34. Mark Twain - Joan Of Arc ~9/10 35. Herodotus - Histories 36. H G Wells - The War In The Air 37. Charles Dickens - Barneby Rudge 38. C S Lewis - The Last Battle 39. Christopher Reeve - Still Me ~8/10 40. Charles Dickens - Hard Times 41. Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist 42. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fanshawe 43. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House Of Seven Gables 44. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - Faust 45. Rabindranath Tagore - Gora 46. Rabindranath Tagore - Hungry Stones And Other Stories~10/10 47. Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study In Scarlet ~8/10 48. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign Of Four ~10/10 49. Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes ~10/10 50. Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound Of The Baskervilles 51. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley Of Fear 52. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes 53. Charlotte Bronte - Villette 54. Thucydides - History Of The Peloponesian War 55. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales 56. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus And Criseyde 57. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter 58. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Marble Faun 59. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Blithedale Romance 60. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales 61. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes 62. Arthur Conan Doyle - His Last Bow 63. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes 64. Bram Stoker - Dracula ~10/10 65. Jules Verne - A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth ~9/10 66. Carlo Collidi - Pinnochio ~5/10 67. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities 68. RL Stevenson - Treasure Island ~10/10 69. Johann Wyss - The Swiss Family Robinson 70. Anna Sewell - Black Beauty 71. Joseph Conrad - Victory 72. HG Wells - The Invisible Man & The Island of Dr. Moreau 73. Mark Twain - The Prince And The Pauper 74. John Milton - Complete English Poems 75. L Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz ~10/10 76. Edgar Allan Poe - Spirits Of The Dead: Tales And Poems 77. Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland 78. RL Stevenson - The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The Merry Men & Other Stories ~9/10 79. Cecila Ahern - P.S. I Love You 80. F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender Is The Night 81. Jane Austen - Pride And Prejudice 82. George Eliot - Silas Marner 83. Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince ~10/10 84. Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ~8/10 85. Jules Verne - Around The World In Eighty Days ~10/10 86. George Orwell - 1984 ~10/10 87. Pearl S. Buck - The Story Bible Vol. 1 : The Old Testament ~10/10 88. Michael Crichton - Timeline ~6/10 89. Jane Austen - Persuasion 90. Pearl S. Buck - The Story Bible Vol. 2 : The New Testament~10/10 91. Thomas Bulfinch - The Age of Fable 92. Mary W. Shelley - Frankenstein 93. Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass 94. Lew Wallace - Ben Hur ~10/10 95. Virgil - The Aeneid 96. Appollonius of Rhodes - The Voyage of the Argo 97. Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island~10/10 98. Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera Edited December 30, 2010 by vinay87 Added 2 new books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BookJumper Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 May I ask what you thought of The Scarlet Pimpernel? It's been on my wishlist for a while. Hats off and a handshake to you for planning to re-read Les Mis - it's high time I did the same methinks, after all it's been a decade... goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 Les Miserables is my favourite book The Scarlet Pimpernel is worth a read, it's a small book so it shouldn't take more than two days. I had an entire 36 hour train journey to keep me at it. Well, I enjoyed it because I could see how it served as a precursor to the superheroes of our comics these days. But to my sad loss I discovered the Pimpernel's identity by mistake and ruined the suspense part of it. The style is simple enough, the plot quick. It doesn't feel like a classic to tell you the truth. It just seems like it flows through chapter to chapter. And the ingenuity of the SP is just brilliant. I wish the edition I had (Bantam) gave a short historic note to what was actually going on. I don't know any French history after all. Yet, I say it's pretty timeless and worth 8.5/10 atleast. I hope to find the rest of the books in the series some day. Do read it someday. It's also in Project Gutenburg so getting it is easy enough unless you abstain from touching ebooks like I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kell Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Hats off and a handshake to you for planning to re-read Les Mis - it's high time I did the same methinks, after all it's been a decade... goodness. I have it too - perhaps we could all 3 of us read it together... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Thanks for the review re The Scarlet Pimpernel. I've had this on my TBR pile for a little while and can't wait to read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipread Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I have it too - perhaps we could all 3 of us read it together... If you three do read Les Mis. I`d like to join in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 If you three do read Les Mis. I`d like to join in. lol Sure thing. How about starting around the first week of feb? You title is so right, yes you will. I would like to hear what you think of John Grisham books. haha Well, seeing as Bleachers and Rainmaker are two of my favourite books, I think I will like his work all the more. I've also read The Testament but it's been so long I don't remember much except the scene where the old guy jumps off. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I'm in but no can do for starting so early - the copy I read at 14 was lent to me you see; I have tried reading other translations since and it all felt wrong, so in order to do this I'd need to get me a Garzanti edition of Les Mis; very earliest I could get one of those would be mid-to-end Feb, when my dad should be coming up to London and may bear gifts from the homeland . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Okies any time you or the others wanna try starting then. I don't know which translation I have. I have two versions of Les Miserables. 1. Penguin Popular Classics (Abridged Bleh!) Translated by Norman Deny 2. Wordsworth Classics with notes by Roger clark university of Kent at canterbury. The second one is the one I'm going to read. It's larger and the notes make the story more enjoyable. Even though I loathe endnotes. Yet I wonder who translated it... Probably Roger Clark himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I couldn't start it so soon either (maybe March or April). My copy is actually in 2 parts - I think it's the Wordsworth Classics version (with the blue edging). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 ok... Any time. Dear me, the Melanie Rawn book is begging to be put down. I can't remember another book that's this boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Then put it down there's too many books in the great library of life to waste said life reading books you're not enjoying; you could be doing something more valuable with your hours, like having a whale of a time reading something which captures your heart and soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipread Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Sure thing. How about starting around the first week of feb? I`ll join in whenever suits everyone else. I`m looking forward to reading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 (edited) yay I went to my favourite book shop and got five new books! 1. Stephen King - Cujo 2. Mark Twain - Joan Of Arc (what the ?!) 3. HG Wells - The War In The Air (Heh?!) 4. Charles Dickens - Barneby Rudge 5. Herodotus - Histories Total price 10$ 3 Pretty rare books I've never even heard of lol. Well, I've heard of barneby rudge but never found it till now. Then put it down there's too many books in the great library of life to waste said life reading books you're not enjoying; you could be doing something more valuable with your hours, like having a whale of a time reading something which captures your heart and soul. Dropped and forgotten. With good reason. Speaking of whale of a time, I remembered I've been putting off Herman Melville's Moby Dick for three years! Edited January 23, 2010 by vinay87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Just finished cujo.... I'm still undecided on King... I didn't like a lot about Cujo but then again I liked how the ending was sort of tragic. I wonder if it was the wrong book to start off with for a newbie at horror fiction... I'll buy a few more of his books someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 I've not read Cujo yet but should you decide to try King again, may I recommend: - The Dark Half, about a writer who kills his pseudonym ---> wrath of the pseudonym - Misery, about a writer who wants to kill off his main character ---> wrath of the #1 fan - Carrie, about a misfit teenage girl with telekinetic powers - Christine, about a misfit teenage boy in possession of an evil automobile Stevie's at his best when writing about writers and misfits... I promise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 okies... to think I passed up looking at several copies of Christine... nexxt month I guess... yeah I loved On Writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 In which case, The Dark Half is probably the perfect primer. And my own personal favourite, I hasten to add - the cover of mine's literally falling off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 I'll try getting that next month then. For now, I'm reading Mark Twain's Joan of Arc I have to admit it's tempting to skip reading Nicolas Nickleby... I've always found Dickens hard to understand/imagine for some reason... Must be from reading too many new age fantasy books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 Reading's going a bit slow... Almost done with Joan of Arc but mom yelled at me for reading "useless novels" instead of studying. sigh... when will that battle end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 29, 2010 Author Share Posted January 29, 2010 I finally finished Mark Twain's Joan of Arc. I think I'll review it now. Starting HG Wells's The War in The Air next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 Reading's going a bit slow... Almost done with Joan of Arc but mom yelled at me for reading "useless novels" instead of studying. sigh... when will that battle end? Namaste Vinay! If you have an Indian mum that battle will never end....I know I married one! Our kids are all doing well though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 haha so true. My parents are both indian so I sort of get that from either end lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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