Books I've Read
Submitted by beaemsee on Thu, 12/24/2009 - 16:44
Tags:
- X=strongly disliked, !=loved
- 2012
- stone arabia
- dana spiotta
- the sacred book of the werewolf
- victor pelevin
- a fine balance
- rohinton mistry
- the city and the city
- china mieville
- being there
- jerzy kosinski
- 2011
- unaccustomed earth
- jhumpa lahiri
- damned
- chuck palahniuk
- the hunger games (x3)
- suzanne collins
- eat the document
- dana spiotta
- mission to america
- walter kirn
- the bee-loud glade
- steve himmer
- geek love
- katherine dunn
- snow
- orhan pamuk
- freedom
- jonathan franzen
- song yet sung
- james mcbride
- tar baby
- toni morrison
- aunt julia and the scriptwriter
- mario vargas llosa
- the women of brewster place
- gloria naylor
- the yiddish policeman's union
- michael chabon
- the girl who kicked the hornet's nest
- stieg larsson
- bastard out of carolina
- dorothy allison
- the girl who played with fire
- stieg larsson
- 2010
- the great gatsby
- f scott fitzgerald
- the girl with the dragon tattoo
- stieg larsson
- the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
- junot diaz
- the crying of lot 49
- thomas pynchon
- god is dead
- ron currie, jr.
- the corrections
- jonathan franzen
- the beautiful things that heaven bears
- dinaw mengistu
- the bluest eye
- toni morrison
- bread and wine
- ignazio silone
- a wrinkle in time
- madeleine l'engle
- the time traveler's wife
- audrey niffenegger
- love in the time of cholera
- gabriel garcia marquez
- beloved (!)
- toni morrison
- sula
- toni morrison
- burmese days
- george orwell
- the golden calf
- ilya ilf and evgeny petrov, translators konstantin gurevich and helen anderson
- salute to spring
- meridel le sueur
- the body artist
- don delillo
- shark's fin and sichuan pepper: a sweet-sour memoir of eating in china
- fuchsia dunlop
- the satanic verses
- salman rushdie
- the mysteries of pittsburgh
- michael chabon
- maps for lost lovers (!)
- nadeem aslam
- drown
- junot diaz
- 2009
- illegal people: how globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants
- david bacon
- a short history of tractors in ukrainian
- marina lewycka
- bee season (!)
- myla goldberg
- in the convent of little flowers
- indu sundaresan
- the autobiography of an ex-coloured man
- james wheldon johnson
- girl
- meridel le sueur
- jazz
- toni morrison
- reservation blues
- sherman alexie
- the master and margarita
- mikhail bulgakov
- people of the book
- geraldine brooks
- deadeye dick
- kurt vonnegut
- the unbearable lightness of being
- milan kundera
- absurdistan
- gary shteyngart
- the people of paper
- salvador plascencia
- on beauty (!)
- zadie smith
- a complicated kindness
- miriam toews
- women without men
- shahrnush parsipur
- the white tiger
- aravind adiga
- the 158-pound marriage
- john irving
- 2008
- a prayer for owen meany
- john irving
- white noise (!)
- don delillo
- mrs dalloway (!)
- virginia woolfe
- rabbit, run
- john updike
- post office
- charles bukowski
- factotum
- charles bukowski
- ham on rye
- charles bukowski
- no country for old men
- cormac mccarthy
- what is the what
- dave eggers
- mountains beyond mountains: the quest of dr paul farmer, a man who would cure the world
- tracy kidder
- memoirs of a geisha
- arthur golden
- the hotel new hampshire
- john irving
- 2007
- white teeth
- zadie smith
- the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay (!)
- michael chabon
- the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
- mark haddon
- everything is illuminated
- jonathan safran foer
- letters to a young poet (!)
- ranier maria rilke
- my sister’s keeper
- jodi picoult
- the namesake
- jhumpa lahiri
- extremely loud and incredibly close
- jonathan safran foer
- the world according to garp
- john irving
- dealing with dragons
- patricia c wrede
- searching for dragons
- patricia c wrede
- ender’s game
- orson scott card
- the good earth (X)
- pearl s buck
- harry potter and the deathly hallows
- jk rowling
- harry potter and the half-blood prince
- jk rowling
- hope was here
- joan bauer
- the princess bride
- william goldman
- kappa (!)
- ryunosuke akutagawa
- 2006
- observatory mansions
- edward carey
- jesus’ son
- denis johnson
- haroun and the sea of stories (!)
- salman rushdie
- un mundo que agoniza
- miguel delibes
- the stranger (!)
- albert camus
- on truth
- harry g frankfurt
- east, west
- salman rushdie
- cruddy
- lynda barry
- the sisterhood of the traveling pants
- ann brashares
- the second summer of the sisterhood
- ann brashares
- girls in pants: the third summer of the sisterhood
- ann brashares
- blue like jazz
- donald miller
- la hojarasca
- gabriel garcia marquez
- cien anos de soledad
- gabriel garcia marquez
- 2005 and before
- god of small things (!)
- arundhati roy
- the catcher in the rye
- jd salinger
- one hundred years of solitude (!)
- gabriel garcia marquez
- a doll’s house
- henrik ibsen
- franny and zoey
- jd salinger
- nine stories (!)
- jd salinger
- raise high the roofbeam, carpenter and seymour: an introduction
- jd salinger
- interpreter of maladies
- jhumpa lahiri
- of mice and men
- john steinbeck
- the wayward bus (X)
- john steinbeck
- their eyes were watching god
- zora neale hurston
- barrel fever
- david sedaris
- naked
- david sedaris
- me talk pretty one day
- david sedaris
- dress your family in corduroy and denim
- david sedaris
- talking to high monks in the snow
- lydia minatoya
- the samurai’s garden
- gail tsukiyama
- cry, the beloved country (!)
- alan paton
- too late the phalarope
- alan paton
- othello
- william shakespeare
- hamlet
- william shakespeare
- macbeth
- william shakespeare
- the giver
- lois lowry
- dandelion wine (!)
- ray bradbury
- the life of pi
- yann martel
- one day in the live of ivan denisovich
- aleksandr solzhenitsyn
- pedro paramo
- juan rulfo
- el coronel no tiene quien le escriba
- gabriel garcia marquez
- harry potter and the sorcerer's stone
- jk rowling
- harry potter and the chamber of secrets
- jk rowling
- harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
- jk rowling
- harry potter and the goblet of fire
- jk rowling
- harry potter and the order of the phoenix
- jk rowling
- pride and prejudice
- jane ausen
- sense and sensibility
- jane austen
- persuasion
- jane austen
- emma
- jane austen
- my antonia
- willa cather
- the joy luck club
- amy tan
- the importance of being earnest
- oscar wilde
- madame bovary (X)
- gustave flaubert
- the metamorphosis
- franz kafka
- the picture of dorian gray (!)
- oscar wilde
- black rain
- ibuse masuji







