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Post by bookaddict on Jan 1, 2008 19:59:46 GMT -5
Here is my list of books read in 2007:
1- I am Charlotte Simmons 2- Snow Flowers and the Secret Fan 3- Fahrenheit 451 4- Suite Francaise 5- A Great and Terrible Beauty 6- Rebels Angels 7- Twilight 8- New Moon 9- A Complicated Kindness 10- A Man without a Country 11- Flyte 12- Bridge to Terabithia 13- Thirteenth Tale 14- Plum Lovin 15- Curious Incident of the Dog 16- The Time in Between 17- Water for Elephants 18- The Secret Life of Bees 19- Lean Mean Thirteen 20- Breakfast at Tiffanys 21- The Eyre Affair 22- A Northern Light 23- The Birth House 24- Summer Of My Amazing Luck 25- On Chesil Beach 26- I am the Messenger 27- The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing 28- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 29- Eclipse 30- Catcher in The Rye 31- Ella Minnow Pea 32- The Namesake 33- A Girl Named Zippy 34- Lucky 35- Breadfruit 36- Possible Side Effects 37- Skin 38- Middlesex 39- Midwives 40- Lullabies for Little Criminals 41- Physik 42- The Sweet Far Thing
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
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Post by Kristie on Jan 1, 2008 22:01:20 GMT -5
1-Secret History of the Pink Carnation Masque of the Black Tulip Scandal in Bohemia Red-Headed League Case of Identity Frangipani Breadfruit Deception of the Emerald Ring Lysistrata 10-Search for Delicious Audrey Hepburn Treasures My Dear Cassandra: The Illustrated Letters (of Jane Austen) Flirting with Pride and Prejudice Bridget Jones' Diary 300 A Long Way Gone Thirteenth Tale Reading Lolita in Tehran Persepolis 20-Catharine and Other Writings On Chesil Beach Persepolis 2 Gigi 30-Harry Potter 1-7 Breakfast at Tiffany's Mango Season Pippi Longstocking Jane Eyre Mansfield Park Tiare in Bloom The Nanny Diaries Embroideries Dreaming in Cuban 40-Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Coraline Magyk Flyte Girls of Riyadh Peony in Love Middlesex Secret of Hurricanes Peter Camenzins Woman Hollering Creek 50-Falling Leaves Fire in the Blood Mrs. Dalloway Physik The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Stardust Me and Mr. Darcy 57-Annotated P&P
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Jan 2, 2008 9:00:21 GMT -5
1. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 2. The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger 3. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal 4. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 5. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby 6. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling 8. The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron 9. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl 10. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt 11. Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares 12. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards 13. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart 14. The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian 15. Clementine by Sara Pennypaker 16. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling 17. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick 18. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 19. Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson 20. The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair by George Plimpton 21. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling 23. The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker 24. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 25. Remainder by Tom McCarthy 26. Insatiable by Gael Greene 27. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose 28. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 29. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling 30. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne 31. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July 32. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 33. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 34 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 35. The 13 Clocks by James Thurber 36. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling 37. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling 38. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 39. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 40. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dalh 41. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling 42. Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi 43. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 44. Moxy Maxwell Does Not Like Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford 45. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 46. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde 47. Uncommon Arrangemens by Katie Roiphe 48. Palm Sunday byKurt Vonnegut 49. Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut 50. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 51. Forever by Judy Blume 52. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 53. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 54. Look Me In the Eye John Elder Robison 55. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides 56. Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman 57. Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs 58. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones 59. How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton 60. Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs 61. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 62. The Principles of Uncertainty by Maria Kalman 63. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 64. Atonement by Ian McEwan 65. Allegra Maud Goldman by Edith Konecky 66. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 67. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao byJunot Diaz 68. Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis 69. Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi 70. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Jan 2, 2008 9:48:31 GMT -5
* Dreams from My Father by Barrack Obama * The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield * The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky * The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri * Life of Pi by Yann Martel * A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray * Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling (re-read) * Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling (re-read) * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (re-read) * Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi * Frankenstein by Mary Shelly * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (re-read) * So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson * Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling (re-read) * That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan * On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling (re-read) * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling * Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? by Marion Meade * Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer * The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory * Twilight by Stephanie Meyer * The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway * Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol * Magyk by Angie Sage * The Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (for school) * Mountains without Handrails by Joseph Sax (for school) * Big Bang by Simon Singh (for school) * The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter (for school) * The Girls of Summer by Jere Longman (for school) * This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin (for school) * Antigone by Sophocles (for school) * The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby * The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw (for school) * Rebel Angels by Libba Bray * New Moon by Stephanie Meyer * My Life in France by Julia Child (for school) * Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (for school) * Falling Behind by Robert H. Frank (for school) * Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (for school) * Atonement by Ian McEwan * Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer * The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Jan 2, 2008 13:21:36 GMT -5
1. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold 2. Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs 3. Transcendental Wild Oats, by Louisa May Alcott 4. L'Écume des jours, by Boris Vian 5. Brokeback Mountain, by Annie Proulx 6. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, by Gregory Maguire 7. The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum 8. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson 9. Smitten, by Janet Evanovich 10. The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck 11. Daisy Miller, by Henry James 12. Charlotte Temple, by Susanna Rowson 13. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, by Elizabeth Robinson 14. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury 15. So Many Books, So Little Time, by Sara Nelson 16. Je l'aimais, by Anna Gavalda 17. Mai, by Hilda Perera 18. Elizabeth Rex, by Timothy Findley 19. The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder 20. The Glass Menagerie, by Tenessee Williams 21. A View from the Bridge, by Arthur Miller 22. All My Sons, by Arthur Miller 23. Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie 24. Skinny, by Ibi Kaslik 25. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel 26. Grab on to me tightly as if I knew the way, by Bryan Charles 27. One for the Money, by Janet Evanovitch 28. And then there were none, by Agatha Christie 29. A moveable feast, by Ernest Hemingway 30. A man without a country, by Kurt Vonnegut 31. The bear came over the mountain, by Alice Munro 32. Notre-Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo 33. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi 34. Le blé en herbe, by Colette 35. Gigi, by Colette 36. HP and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowlings 37. HP and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowlings 38. Whose Panties are These?, edited by Jennifer Leo 39. Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, by Melissa Bank 40. Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain 41. Gold Diggers of 1929, by George Fetherling 42. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams 43. Lucky, by Alice Sebold 44. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling 45. Dress your family in corduroy and denim, by David Sedaris 46. A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray 47. Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt 48. Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee 49. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier 50. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffennegger 51. El Tunel, by Ernesto Sabato 52. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving 53. The Kitchen Boy, by Robert Alexander 54. A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby 55. The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene 56. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides 57. The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford 58. Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan 59. How to be good, by Nick Hornby 60. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, by Mark Haddon 61. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd 62. Summer, by Edith Wharton 63. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut 64. Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri 65. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf 66. Night, by Elie Wiesel 67. Carolan's Farewell, by Charles Foran 68. The Kiss, by Kathryn Harrison 69. To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Jan 3, 2008 5:02:27 GMT -5
Books read in 2007:
1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 2. The Book about Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist 3. Tutti al mare by Michele Serra 4. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath 5. Hygiene de L'Assassin by Amelie Northomb 6. Angela's Ashes by Frank Mc Court 7. The Underground Conspiracy by Catherine Storr 8. A collection of poems by Emily Dickinson 9. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway 10. War and Peace by Lev Tolstoj 11. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 12. Aspirapolvere di stelle by Stefania Bertola 13. Short STories by Fedor Dostoevskij 14. Le bambine dell'Avana non hanno paura di niente by Bianca Pitzorno 15. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 16. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 17. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 18. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 19. The Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald 20. Othello by William Shakespeare 21. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 22. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 23. Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut 24. a collection of letters by Jane Austen 25. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 26. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 27. Letters Home by Sylvia Plath 28. Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 29. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 30. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 31. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl 32. The Posthumous Paper of The Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens 33. Love and Friendship by Jane Austen 34. The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman 35. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 36. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 37. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 38. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 39. Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See 40. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 41. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 42. Th Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 43. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut 44. Dead Souls by Nikolaj Gogol’ 45. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler 46. An Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 47. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding 48. The Curios Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time by Mark Haddon 49. H/H by Banana Yoshimoto 50. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 51. La ragazza del secolo scorso by Rossana Rossanda 52. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 53. Mi Paìs Inventado by Isabel Allende 54. Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb 55. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 56. The Waves by Virginia Woolf 57. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLughlin e Nicola Krauss 58. The First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway 59. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde 60. La Bambinaia Francese by Bianca Pitzorno
Books I reread in 2007: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince Week-end by Christopher Pike Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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sarah23
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by sarah23 on Jan 26, 2008 19:26:20 GMT -5
my list is soo short its heartbreaking, but hopefully this will change in 2008
harry potter and the deathy hallows freakonomics the perks of being a wallflower the third wave the clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order wuthering heights the scarlet letter the history of love the broker the secret othello the bean trees message in a bottle in the time of the butterflies in love: a novel the interpreter the lovely bones 11 minutes the devil and miss prym tuesdays with morrie the curious incident of the don in the night-time sophie's world
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Post by swissmiss on Jan 26, 2008 22:48:17 GMT -5
Hmmn well I doubt I'll remember them all (I should start a list of all the books are read), but here we go... Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone (reread) Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (reread) Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (reread) Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire (reread) Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (reread) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Jane Eyre Size 14 isn't Fat Either Queen of Babble in the Big City Salem Falls Water for Elephants Special Topics in Calamity Physics The Thirteenth Tale The Eyre Affair The Memory Keeper's Daughter The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay On the Road Suite Francaise Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife Beloved The Awakening A Doll's House The Count of Monte Cristo Life of Pi I'll edit this post if I think of more
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Post by Dominique on Jan 27, 2008 2:01:43 GMT -5
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl The Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Slaughter House 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt The Life of Pi by Yann Martel Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess by Gael Green A Tree of Night and Other Stories by Truman Capote Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Tenant of Wildfell hall by Anne Bronte A Summer Crossing by Truman Capote I Think of You by Adhaf Soueif Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone deBeauvoir The Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaka Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugendies The Kite Runner by Kahleed Hosseni Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood Middlesex by Jeffery Eugendies Twilight by Stephanie Meyer Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer New Moon by Stephanie Meyer Me Talk Pretty One Day by Dave Sedaris The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Atonement by Ian McEwan.
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Jan 1, 2012 14:32:13 GMT -5
What books did you read in 2011?
I read 47 books, here's my list:
The Hours - Michael Cunningham Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie Speciale Violante - Bianca Pitzorno The Young Wan - Brendan O'Carroll The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray L'ultima riga delle favole - Massimo Gramellini Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag Slam - Nick Hornby Anne of Green Gables - Lucy M. Montgomery [audiobook] Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote Genesis - Bernard Beckett The Mammy - Brendan O'Carroll Unless - Carol Shields Signorsì, Sofonisba - Marina Morpurgo An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire - Arundhati Roy Mutiny on the Bounty - John Boyne The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice Mystère rue des Saints-Pères - Claude Inner Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue (White as milk, red as blood) - Alessadro D'Avenia Principessa Laurentina - Bianca Pitzorno Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling [re-read] Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami The Magicians - Lev Grossman Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Bleak House - Charles Dickens Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling [re-read] A Life Like Other People's - Alan Bennett Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sije [re-read] The Help - Kathryn Stockett The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl) - Leonardo Sciascia The Spiderwick Chronicles - J. DiTerlizzi and H. Black Starter for Ten - Brian Nicholls La banconota da un milione di sterline e altre storie - Mark Twain Speak - Laurie H. Anderson Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne Il rogo di Berlino (The Bonfire of Berlin) - Helga Schneider The New Yorkers - Cathleen Schine In Cold Blood - Truman Capote Il cavaliere inesistente (The Nonexistent Knight) - Italo Calvino Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates The Emerald Atlas - John Stephens Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy Il coperchio del mare (Umi no futa) - Banana Yoshimoto
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Post by pia on Jan 1, 2012 15:40:43 GMT -5
I read 79 book in 2011:
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Calling of the Grave by Simon Beckett Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich Eleven On Top by Janet Evanovich Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Forever by Maggie Stiefvater Linger by Maggie Stiefvater Matched by Ally Condie Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater Ein deutscher Wandersommer by Andreas Kieling Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin Die Wanderhure by Iny Lorentz To the Nines by Janet Evanovich Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich Seven Up by Janet Evanovich Hot Six by Janet Evanovich High Five by Janet Evanovich Heartless by Gail Carriger Blameless by Gail Carriger Four to Score by Janet Evanovich Changeless by Gail Carriger The Darker Side by Cody McFadyen In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Die Dienstagsfrauen by Monika Peetz Soulless by Gail Carriger Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich The Face of Death by Cody McFadyen One for the Money by Janet Evanovich Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers Voyage au centre de la terre by Jules Verne The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise by Dai Sijie The Help by Kathryn Stockett Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs Die Dämonen by Fjodor Dostojewskij Fallen by Karin Slaughter Stupeur et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb One Day by David Nicholls Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris Club Dead by Charlaine Harris Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Persuasion by Jane Austen The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Die Leiden des jungen Werthers by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen L'étranger by Albert Camus The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder by Bertolt Brecht The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Dracula by Bram Stoker Valley of the Dolls by Jacquelin Susann Anne Frank Tagebuch by Anne Frank Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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sabine
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Post by sabine on Jan 2, 2012 17:32:43 GMT -5
My 2011 list:
1) Ian McEwan: Saturday 2) Alan Bennett: Die Lady im Lieferwagen 3) Fred Vargas: Die schöne Diva von St. Jacques 4) Daniel Glattauer: Gut gegen Nordwind (reread) 5) Ursula LeGuin: A very long way 6) Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day (reread) 7) Henry James: Daisy Miller 8) Stieg Larsson: Verdammnis 9) Henry James: The Aspern Papers 10) Henry James: The Turn of the Screw 11) William Shakespeare: Richard II 12) Henry James: The Pupil 13) Henry James: The Figure in the Carpet 14) Oliver Storz: Die Freibadclique 15) Henry James: The Beast in the Jungle 16) Alexandra Potter: Me and Mr Darcy 17) William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar 18) Nicholas Drayson: A Guide to the Birds of East Africa 19) F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 20) Stieg Larsson: Vergebung 21) L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables 22) Arthur Conan Doyle: Das Zeichen der Vier 23) Astrid Lindgren: Kerstin und ich (reread) 24) Nicolas Dickner: Nikolski 25) Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking (reread) 26) Simon van Booy: Everything Beautiful Began After 27) Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go 28) Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad 29) Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles 30) Edward Albee: Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf…? 31) Alan Bennett: Die souveräne Leserin (reread)
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Post by Hanna on Jan 3, 2012 14:34:01 GMT -5
I had a goal to read 100 books in 2011. I failed miserably. I'm not sure if I even read 50. Anyway, here's the list: 1. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 2. Selected Stories by Alice Munro 3. Sheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon 4. Oath of Gold by Elizabeth Moon 5. Divided Allegiance by Elizabeth Moon 6. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 7. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James 8. Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel 9. The English Patient by Michael Ondatje 10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 11. The Turkish Embassy Letter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 12. The Tennant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 13. Moment of Freedom by Jens Bjørneboe 14. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffennegger 15. Powderhouse by Jens Bjørneboe 16. The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy 17. The Silence by Jens Bjørneboe 18. I'm with the Band by Pamela Des Barres 19. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 20. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch 21. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing 22. A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft 23. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs 24. Dreamers by Knut Hamsun 25. The Sluts by Denis Cooper 26. Catch - 22 by Joseph Heller 27. The Dirt by Motley Crue 28. Coraline by Neil Gaiman 29. The Long Way Home by Josh Whedon 30. Tales of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Josh Whedon 31. Wolves at the Gate by Josh Whedon 32. Time of Your Life by Josh Whedon 33. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne 34. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 35. Losing Battles by Eudora Welty 36. Soulless by Gail Carriger 37. Changeless by Gail Carriger 38. The Counterlife by Philip Roth 39. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 40. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton 41. Blameless by Gail Carriger 42. Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman 43. Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 44. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 45. Life by Keith Richards 46. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 47. Palo Alto by James Franco 48. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 49. The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens 50. Room by Emma Donoghue 51. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens 52. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 53. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 54. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 55. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Jan 4, 2012 5:17:28 GMT -5
I had a goal to read 100 books in 2011. I failed miserably. I'm not sure if I even read 50. wow, 100 is a lot of books! Anyway, 55 is really good Hanna...I didn't even get to 48 (or 4 books a month) this year.
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Post by Hanna on Jan 4, 2012 6:22:08 GMT -5
I had a goal to read 100 books in 2011. I failed miserably. I'm not sure if I even read 50. wow, 100 is a lot of books! Anyway, 55 is really good Hanna...I didn't even get to 48 (or 4 books a month) this year. Well, for my part, being unemployed for quite a while probably helped a lot on my reading
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