For 2008, along with the literary classics, I am adding more fantasy and science-fiction, some books on Japanese culture, some biographies into my reading list. As always, this is an aspirational list - the key is just to try to read as many as I can.
- A Voice From the Attic: Essays on the Art of Reading • Robertson Davies
[13/11/2007 ~ - In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
Swann's Way
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
The Guermantes Way
Sodom and Gomorrah
The Prisoner & The Fugitive • Marcel Proust
[Translated by Carol Clark & Peter Collier]
[26/11/2007 ~
Finding Time Again
[Translated by Ian Paterson] - The Histories • Herodotus
[24/04/2007 ~ - Kristin Lavransdatter • Sigrid Undset
[Translated by Tiina Nunnally]
[27/08/2007 ~ - The Three Musketeers• Alexandre Dumas
[Translated by Richard Pevear] - The Book of Disquiet • Fernando Pessoa
- The Awakening • Kate Chopin
- Good Morning, Midnight • Jean Rhys
- After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie • Jean Rhys
- Mrs. Dalloway • Virginia Woolf
- Orlando • Virginia Woolf
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill • G.K. Chesterton
- Rebecca • Daphne Du Maurier
- Jane Eyre • Charlotte Bronte
- The Masterpiece • Emile Zola
- The Plague • Albert Camus
- The Myth of Sisyphus • Albert Camus
- Cheri and The Last of Cheri • Colette
- Earthly Paradise • Colette
- Temptation of Saint Antony • Gustave Flaubert
- Flaubert In Egypt • Gustave Flaubert
- Bel-Ami • Guy de Maupassant
- Gargantua and Pantagruel • François Rabelais [translated by M. A. Screech]
- Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes
- Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book I) • Robin Hobb
- Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy, Book II) • Robin Hobb
- Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book III) • Robin Hobb
- The Stress of Her Regard • Tim Powers
- A Canticle for Liebowitz • Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Riddlemaster Series • Patricia McKillip
- Cyteen • C. J. Cherryh
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever • James Tiptree, Jr.
- Chronicles of Amber • Roger Zelzany
- The Once and Future King • T.H. White
- The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain, Book I) • Lloyd Alexander
- The Black Cauldron (Chronicles of Prydain, Book II) • Lloyd Alexander
- The Castle of Llyr (Chronicles of Prydain, Book III) • Lloyd Alexander
- Taran Wanderer (Chronicles of Prydain, Book IV) • Lloyd Alexander
- The High King (Chronicles of Prydain, Book V) • Lloyd Alexander
- Bloodchild and Other Stories • Octavia E. Butler
- Slow River • Nicola Griffith
- The Art of Peace • Morihei Ueshiba
- Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers • Leonard Koren
- In Praise of Shadows • Junichiro Tanizaki
- The Book of Tea • Kakuzo Okakura
- Vermeer In Bosnia: Selected Writings • Lawrence Weschler
- Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence • Geoff Dyer
- The Last Temptation of Christ • Nikos Kazantzakis
- Pashazade [Arabesk Trilogy Book I] • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Effendi [Arabesk Trilogy Book II] • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Felaheen [Arabesk Trilogy Book III] • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Fledgling • Octavia E. Butler
- Bloodchild and Other Stories • Octavia E. Butler
- The Fortune of War • Patrick O'Brian
- The Surgeon's Mate • Patrick O'Brian
- The Ionian Mission • Patrick O'Brian
- Treason's Harbour • Patrick O'Brian
- The Far Side of the World • Patrick O'Brian
- 三国演义
- Under the Volcano • Malcolm Lowry
- Love Medicine • Louise Erdrich
- Molloy • Samuel Beckett
- Love • Stendhal
- The Red and the Black • Stendhal
- The Charterhouse of Parma • Stendhal
- Walden and Other Writings • Henry David Thoreau
- Essential Writings • Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Twelve Caesars • Suetonius
- Candide • Voltaire
- Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape • Barry Lopez
- The Little Prince • Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- An Unexpected Light • Jason Elliot
- The Carpet Wars • Christopher Kremmer
- The Shadow of the Sun • Ryszard Kapuscinski
- The Worst Journey in the World • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- The Places in Between • Rory Stewart
- Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates • Patrick Leigh Fermor
- A Time to Keep Silence • Patrick Leigh Fermor
- The Power and the Glory • Graham Greene
- The Heart of the Matter • Graham Greene
- The Solace of Open Spaces • Gretel Ehrlich
- A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning • Gretel Ehrlich
- Bleak House • Charles Dickens
- With Billie • Julia Blackburn
- The Looking Glass Wars • Frank Beddor
- The Iliad • Homer
- Three Bags Full • Leonie Swann
- Praeterita • John Ruskin
- The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed • Mary McCarthy
- Venice • Jan Morris
- Darkmans • Nicola Barker
- The Married Man • Edmund White
- The Salterton Trilogy • Robertson Davies
- The Leopard • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- River of Gods • Ian McDonald
- • Rebecca Solnit
- • Jorge Luis Borges
- House Rules • Heather Lewis
- Ghosts of Spain • Giles Tremlett
- Animals in Translation • Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson
7 comments:
The Book of Disquiet! That was my favourite book between ages 15 and 18. These days I prefer things that are more...narrative, but it's still a special book for me. There are passages I still know by heart. It's beautifully written and certain parts are really moving/thoughtful/inspiring.
Anyway...what a great list. There are many books in there I want to read. Herodotus' Histories, The Three Musketeers, Jane Eyre, The Amber Chronicles, Don Quixote, The Looking Glass Wars, The Iliad... and so on.
It's so cool to make a list like that. Like you said, it doesn't matter if you don't read them all - it's just nice to have something to aspire to. I'm tempted to make a list of this sort myself.
I had actually planned to read The Book of Disquiet 2 years back - but didn't have time. It's back on my list again - let's see if I can make it.
The way you describe it, it only makes me want to read it sooner. :) I hope I do justice to the book.
List-making can be fun. It helps you map out a guideline and there is a sense of satisfaction to be able to progress down a list.
You could try to make a list too - see if you like it. Could be addictive though. As you can see - I have lots of lists!
What a great list!
I plan to read Don Quixote as well and I have Rebecca Solnit on my TBR-pile for next year as well.
Myrthe Thanks! These 100 Books list always seems ambitious, but I can always just try, yes?
Don Quixote has been shortlisted for 3 years now, and I have yet to be able to finish it. I always start, and then I get distracted. :)
Oh, which Rebecca Solnit do you have? I can't decide which of her books to read - but definitely I want to read one of her books next year. Just can't decide.
So many books and so many lists! I by the way have read three Maughams on th roll. He's a great travel companion. I also have picked up more of his works that are not found back home.
What a great list! I love that you put this list together each year. I wish I could map out my intentions that well. I almost have this year!
The only book on your list that I had a strong dislike to was Candide, but I was forced to read it by a 10th grade History teacher that I couldn't stand so that could've had something to do with it.
Good luck on it!
Fantastic list! Especially the Emerson ;) Some of them are ones I'd like to read in 2008 as well.
Stefanie
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