- The Names of Things:
Life, Language, and Beginnings in the Egyptian Desert Susan Brind Morrow
[02/12/2006 ~ 16/12/2006]- In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
Swann's Way
translated by Lydia Davis
[11/07/2006 ~ 09/08/2006]
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
translated by James Grieve
[09/08/2006 ~ 16/09/2006]
The Guermantes Way
translated by Mark Treharne
[16/09/2006 ~ 09/12/2006]
Sodom and Gomorrah
The Prisoners & The Fugitive
Finding Time Again- No God But God:
The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam Reza Aslan
[11/11/2006 ~ 04/12/2006]- A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
[08/11/2006 ~ 16/11/2006]- Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere Jan Morris
[03/10/2006 ~ 28/10/2006]- Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
[12/09/2006 ~ 03/10/2006]- Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser
[17/08/2006 ~ 12/09/2006]- The Moonstone Wilkie Collins
[27/07/2006 ~ 23/08/2007]- The Snow Leopard Peter Matthiessen
[01/06/2006 ~ 10/07/2006]- Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
[27/06/2006 ~ 09/07/2006]- The Road to Oxiana Robert Byron
[07/06/2006 ~ 25/06/2006]- The Pure and the Impure Colette
[12/06/2006 ~ 24/06/2006]- His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
Book I: The Golden Compass
[26/05/2006 ~ 29/05/2006]
Book II: The Subtle Knife
[29/05/2006 ~ 31/05/2006]
Book III: The Amber Spyglass
[31/05/2006 ~ 12/06/2006]- Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[26/05/2006 ~ 09/06/2006]- Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus
[29/05/2006 ~ 05/06/2006]- The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
[11/05/2006 ~ 15/05/2006]- Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
[14/02/2006 ~ 13/05/2006]- Beyond Belief Elaine Pagels
[09/05/2006 ~ 12/05/2006]- Istanbul : Memories and the City Orhan Pamuk
translated by Maureen Freely
[05/05/2006 ~ 09/05/2006]- Natasha's Dance Orlando Figes
[26/02/2006 ~ 07/05/2006]- Death In Venice Thomas Mann
[09/04/2006 ~ 26/04/2006]- Dhammapada
[22/04/2006 ~ 23/04/2006]- Wanderlust Rebecca Solnit
[09/04/2006 ~ 22/04/2006]- The Quiet American Graham Greene
[28/03/2006 ~ 01/04/2006]- Book of Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi
[12/01/2006 ~ 28/03/2006]- Letters To A Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke
[17/03/2006 ~ 18/03/2006]- To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
[12/03/2006 ~ 15/03/2006]- Master And Commander Patrick O'Brian
[04/03/2006 ~ 08/03/2006]- Kim Rudyard Kipling
[16/02/2006 ~ 23/02/2006]- Break, Blow, Burn Camille Paglia
[25/12/2005 ~ 09/02/2996]- The Night Watch Sarah Waters
[26/01/2006 ~ 29/01/2006]- The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
[07/01/2006 ~ 16/01/2006]- The Deptford Trilogy Robertson Davis
[03/12/2005 ~ 14/01/2006]- Meditations Marcus Aurelius
[30/12/2005 ~ 05/01/2006]- Fruits of the Earth Andre Gide
[01/01/2006 ~ 05/01/2006]- The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles's Antigone
translated by Seamus Heaney
[26/12/2005 ~ 26/12/2005]
& The Three Theban Plays: "Antigone","Oedipus the King","Oedipus at Colonus"
translated by Robert Fagles
[26/12/2005 ~ 31/12/2005]- The Prophet Khalil Ghibran
[26/12/2005 ~ 30/12/2005]- Taras Bulba Nikolai Gogol
[17/12/2005 ~ 26/12/2005]- Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair Pablo Neruda
[09/12/2005 ~ 10/12/2005]- The Four Quartets T. S. Eliot
[01/12/2005 ~ 09/12/2005]- A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
[25/11/2005 ~ 03/12/2005]- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
[23/11/2005 ~ 25/11/2005]- The Claudine Novels Colette
[22/07/2005 ~ 30/08/2005]- Death and the Dervish Meša Selimović
translated by Bogdan Rakić & Stephen Dickey
[17/11/2006 ~- Yogasutra of Patanjali
- Dracula Bram Stoker
[25/10/2006 ~- The Black Book Orhan Pamuk
[17/10/2006 ~- War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
translated by Anthony Briggs
[18/06/2006 ~- Stories Anton Chekhov
translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
[11/08/2006 ~- New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
Volume I:
[29/05/2006 ~- Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
[26/01/2006 ~- Maximum City Suketu Mehta
[29/04/2006 ~- Moby Dick Herman Melville
[12/07/2005 ~- A Crack in the Edge of the World : America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 Simon Winchester
- Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
- The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Double and The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
- Norwegian Woods Haruki Murakami
- The Claudius Novels Robert Graves
- Nightwood Djuna Barnes
- Perfume Patrick Suskind
- The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
- The Iliad Homer
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
- The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels Freya Stark
- The Wings of the Dove Henry James
- Great Expectations Charles Dickens
- Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
- Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
- A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
- Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
- The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
- Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar
- The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
- Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton
- Captain Alatriste Arturo Perez-Reverte
- Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
- The Myths Boxset: "A Short History of Myth," "The Penelopiad" & "Weight" Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood & Jeanette Winterson
- The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Blindness Jose Saramago
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke
- The Complete Short Novels Anton Chekhov
- Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
- Fall on Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond
- Art of War Sun Tzu
- Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton
- Stiff Mary Roach
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Dee Brown
- A History of God Karen Armstrong
- The Places that Scares You Pema Chodron
- The Histories Herodotus
- Bhagavad Gita
- An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth Mohandas Gandhi
- Saint Francis of Assisi G. K. Chesterton
- From the Holy Mountain William Dalrymple
- The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol
- Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
- Orlando Virginia Woolf
P/S: The 100 Books To Read List for 2006 has been amended from time to time. Hence, Version 4.0. If anyone is interested, the original list is available here.
10 comments:
From your list,
I have read a measely one book - Lolita.
But i have watched two - Great Expectations and Unbearable Lightness of Being.
So does that count as 3? Or still 1?
Am planning on acquiring a copy of "Crying out Love in the centre of the world" to read. Flipped through a page yesterday, every sentence is so tragic! Must read! Wannabe depressives must read tragic books! The Japanese version somemore, i'll be lucky to finish it in 2 months.
Hey. How have you been since Howl?
Liked your list and greeted two titles with the kind of bitter-sweet surprise one reserves for books one remembers fondly for wanting very much to read long, long ago and never actually having read - Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (Dee Brown), and The Snow Leopard (Peter Matthiessen). A handful of the other ones on your list are on my present list too. Wanderlust (Rebecca Solnit) is the newest addition to my list, but I don't think I'll get to it this year. Good luck to you, though :).
Forgot to add that George R R Martin was on my 'last books to borrow before membership at uni library expires' list...Am still tempted to actually read those books...
Hey Elaine,
Why don't you just pick up "Dracula" or something and make it a good Number 2?
How's your back?
hey, if u haven't bought letters to a young poet, don't buy. i have.
jonathan strange.. i love that book..
Heard many good things about "Jonathan Strange", but just can't seem to find the time to get around to reading it - YET.
This is truly an awesome list -- varied and interesting. I might have to steal some books from off it. I loved Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust, by the way.
Hi Dorothy W. Thanks, I keep changing a few titles from time to time though.
BTW, if you have time, you might like to try Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide To Getting Lost (if you have not already.)
Personally I find it much better than Wanderlust. It's more personal, but it's amazing how she can expand the personal to a thoughtful exposition on a subject.
Your list is pretty impressive! My own list of books to read (not in 2007, just within my lifetime) is on Amazon and runs to 11 pages. I love it that Neruda and Marquez are on your list, and can't wait to hear what you think of both!
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