Abecedarian's 2006 Reading List

[abecedarian]

January:

1. The Fish Can Sing-Halldor Laxness 5/5

2. Reef-Romesh Guinesekera 2/5

3. The Traveller-John Twelve Hawks 2/5

4. Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe5/5

5. Suffer the Little Children-Mary Rafftery 3/5

6. Ireland-Frank Delaney 5/5

7. Whale Rider-Whiti Ihemaera 5/5

8. The Butcher's Wife- Li Ang 2/5

9. Aunt Julia & The Scriptwriter-Mario Vargas Llosa 2/5

10.Undead and Unwed-Mary Janice Davidson 2/5

11. Creative License-Danny Gregory 5/5

12. The Rice Mother-Rani Manecka 5/5

 

February:

13. The Women At the Pump-Knut Hamsun 3/5

14. The Fat Man From La Paz-ed. Rosario Santos1/5

15. Anansi Boys-Neil Gaiman 5/5

16. The Wandering Unicorn-Manuel M. Lainez 2/5

17. The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction 3/5

18. Voices Made Night -Mia Couto 2/5

19. Dan Eldon: Art of Life- Jennifer New5/5

20. Breath, Eyes, Memory-Edwidge Danticat 4/5

 

March:

21. Shalimar the Clown- Salman Rushdie3/5

22. Broken Verses-Kamila Shamsie5/5

23. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro 3/5

24. Dirt Music-Tim Winton 4/5

25. The Pearl-John Steinbeck 4/5

26. Reading Lolita in Tehran-Azar Nafisi5/5

27. Barabbas-Par Lagerkvist 4/5

28. Cheap Ways to Tie the Knot-Cara Davis 2/5

 

April:

29. The Committments-Roddy Doyle3/5

30. The Snapper-Roddy Doyle 5/5

31. The Van-Roddy Doyle 5/5

32. A Bed of Red Flowers-Nelofer Pazira 4/5

33. Tears of the Giraffe-Alexander McCall Smith 3/5

34. Morality for Beautiful Girls-A.M. Smith 3/5

35. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus-Charles C. Mann 4/5

36. Troll- Johanna Sinisalo 3/5

37. The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon5/5

38. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea-Yukio Mishima 5/5

39. Korea Unmasked-Won-bok RHIE 3/5

40. The Reader- Bernhard Schlink 4/5

 

May:

41. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell-Susanna Clark 3/5

42. Transgressions-Sarah Dunant 4/5

43. Menopause for Dummies- Marcia Jones 3/5

44. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Childhood-Fatima Mernissi 3/5

45. Memory in Death-JD Robb 3/5

46. The Step Diet-James O. Hill 3/5

47. Relics-Mary Anna Evans 2/5

48. Cry the Beloved Country-Alan Paton 5/5

49. In the Time of the Butterflies-Julia Alvarez 5/5

50. Lolita-Vladimir Nabakov 5/5

 

June:

51 Sunset Song-Lewis Grassic Gibbon5/5

52. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana-Umberto Eco 4/5

53. Where We Once Belonged-Sia Figiel 1/5

54.One of Ours-Willa Cather 4/5

55. The Long Night of White Chickens-Francisco Goldman1/5

56. Love and Garbage-Ivan Klima 5/5

 

JUly:

57. Heavy Water and Other Stories-Martin Amis 4/5

58. Perfume-Patrick Suskind 4/5

59. A Sister of Sheherazade-Assia Djeber 3/5

60. Daughter of Fortune- Isabel Allende 5/5

61. The Return of the Water Spirit-Pepetela 1/5

62. The Last Will & Testament of Senhor la Sillva Aruanjo -Germano Almeida 1/5

63. Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel 5/5

64. Time Gifts-Zoran Zivkovic 4/5

65. The Compromise- Sergei Dovlatov 3/5

66. Oracle Night-Paul Auster5/5

 

August:

67. The Stars, The Earth, The River-Le Minh Hhue 2/5

68. Twelve Sharp- Janet Evanovitch 4/5

69. Leaving a Trace-Alexandra Johnson 3/5

 

September:

70. Stories From Blue Latitudes-ed. Elizabeth Nunez 3/5

71. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories-Horacio Quiroa 4/5

72. The Sea-Crossed Fisherman-Yashar Kemal 2/5

73. Bound Feet and Western Dress-Pang Mei Natasha Chang 4/5

74. This Day" Diaries From American Women-Joni B. Cole 4/5

75. From a Crooked Rib-Nurrudin Farah 4/5

76. Lines On the Water-David Adams Richards 4/5

77. Views From the Bridge of Europe 3/5

78. The Club Dumas-Arturo Perez Revertea 4/5

79. In the Hollow of His Hand- Doris and Larry Puckett 3/5

80. Annie John- Jamaica Kincaid 3/5

81. Dark Demon-Christine Feehan 3/5

82. Bleeding Heart-Susan Wittig Albert 3/5

 

October:

83. Hurramabad-Andrei Volos 3/5

84. Janini-Sharkat Osman 2/5

85. The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life-Alexandra Johnson 4/5

86. The 99 Cent Breakfast-Patricia Glinton Meicholas 3/5

87. Miramar-Naguib Mahfouz 2/5

88. Definately Dead-Charlaine Harris 3/5

89. The Book of Puka-Puka- Robert Dean Frisbie 3/5

90. Zlata's Diary-Zlata Filopovic

91. The Sex Lives of Cannibles: Adrift in the Equatorial Sea-J.Maarten Troost 4/5

92. The Winter Queen-Boris Akunin 4/5

93. The Floor Sample-Julia Cameron 3/5

94. The Stone of Laughter-Hoda Barakat 1/5

95. Danse Macabre-Laurell K. Hamilton 2/5

 

 

 

[pontalba]

Um, abc...your rating system...???

Huh?

 

I'll tell you what though, I certainly admire the sheer volume of books you manage to get through! Amazing concentration.

 

I am too easily distracted.

[abecedarian]

Um, abc...your rating system...???

Huh?

 

I'll tell you what though, I certainly admire the sheer volume of books you manage to get through! Amazing concentration.

 

I am too easily distracted.

 

um..that rating system..the colors didn't transfer from TFS...and I when I tried to edit, I was not allowed to take out the rating system...didn't have time to mess with it anyway! Too many family issues this morning..

[pontalba]

OK, dawn breaks on the eastern front.

[abecedarian]

November:

96. Natural Novel-Georgi Gospodinov 3/5

97. The Wedding of Zein-Tayeb Salih 2/5

98. Travels With Charley-John Steinbeck 5/5

99. The Bondmaid-Catherine Lim 3/5

100. Widdershins-Charles deLint 5/5

101. Marcel- Erwin Mortier 3/5

102. Comfort Woman-Maria Rosa Henson 4/5

103. The First Circle-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4/5

104. Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos-Outhine Bounyavong 2/5

105. In the Shadow of the Ark-Anne Provoost 5/5

106. The Relic-Eca De Quieroz 3/5

107. The Book Thief-Markus Zusak 4/5

108. Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunisia

-Monia Hejaij 1/5

109. Incipient Feminists: Women Writers in the Sloval National Revival-

Norma Rudinsky 1/5

110. Blue Highways-William Least Heat Moon 5/5

111. Two Hill Diggers-Geralda Kahoroasiva 3/5