Books Read in 2008

Submitted by Ennui on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 12:08
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  1. January

  2. Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas
  3. The Portable Dorothy Parker
  4. My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier
  5. Orlando: A Biography – Virginia Woolf
  6. Exterminator! – William Burroughs
  7. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
  8. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

  10. February

  11. Put Out More Flags – Evelyn Waugh
  12. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  13. The String of Pearls – Anonymous
  14. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
  15. A Room of One's Own – Virginia Woolf
  16. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
  17. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
  18. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  19. This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  20. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
  21. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
  22. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

  24. March

  25. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  26. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
  27. Lighthousekeeping – Jeanette Winterson
  28. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  29. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
  30. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
  31. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  32. Venus in Furs – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  34. April

  35. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
  36. Big City Stories – Various
  37. [Encounter on a Rooftop – William Melvin Kelley;
  38. World Full of Great Cities – Joseph Heller;
  39. Luther – Jay Neugeboren;
  40. Hoods I Have Known – Sondra Spatt;
  41. Sonny's Blues – James Baldwin;
  42. A Lot You Got to Holler – Nelson Algren;
  43. Hector Rodriguez – Jeremy Larner (ed.);
  44. The Screamers – LeRoi Jones;
  45. Georgy – Jon Lomberg;
  46. Black Is My Favorite Color – Bernard Malamud;
  47. A Story for Teddy – Harvey Swados;
  48. Beautiful Light and Black Our Dreams – Woodie King, Jr.;
  49. The Enormous Radio – John Cheever;
  50. City Boy – Leonard Michaels;
  51. October in the Railroad Earth – Jack Kerouac;
  52. Christ in Concrete – Pietro di Donato;
  53. The Man Who Went to Chicago – Richard Wright;
  54. Pete: A Quarter Ahead – John Rechy;
  55. In a While Crocodile – William Eastlake;
  56. A New Day – Charles Wright;
  57. An Act of Prostitution – James Alan McPherson;
  58. A Policeman's Journal – T. Mike Walker;
  59. Cry for Me – William Melvin Kelley;
  60. Laughs, etc – James Leo Herlihy;
  61. Daddy Wolf – James Purdy;
  62. Judgement Day – Flannery O'Connor;
  63. A Pedestrian Accident – Robert Coover;
  64. The Watchers – Florence Engel Randall;
  65. The Police Band – Donald Barthelme;
  66. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.]
  67. A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
  68. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  69. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving
  70. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour: an Introduction – J. D. Salinger
  71. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
  72. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  73. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  74. Chocolat – Joanne Harris

  76. May

  77. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  78. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
  79. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
  80. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
  81. The PowerBook – Jeanette Winterson
  82. The Wild Boys – William S. Burroughs

  84. June

  85. Atonement – Ian McEwan
  86. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
  87. Murder in the Dark – Margaret Atwood
  88. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
  89. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  90. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Ken Kesey

  92. July

  93. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  94. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
  95. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
  96. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  97. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
  98. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
  99. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

  101. August

  102. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
  103. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
  104. Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
  105. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
  106. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
  107. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster

  109. September

  110. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  111. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

  113. October

  114. Ulysses – James Joyce
  115. Selected Stories – Anton Chekhov
  116. [Overseasoned;
  117. The Night before Easter;
  118. At Home;
  119. Champagne;
  120. The Malefactor;
  121. Murder Will Out;
  122. The Trousseau;
  123. The Decoration;
  124. The Man in a Case;
  125. Little Jack;
  126. Dreams;
  127. The Death of an Official;
  128. Agatha;
  129. The Beggar;
  130. Children;
  131. The Troublesome Guest;
  132. Not Wanted;
  133. The Robbers;
  134. Lean and Fat;
  135. On the Way;
  136. The Head Gardener’s Tale;
  137. Hush!;
  138. Without a Title;
  139. In the Ravine]
  140. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  141. The Thirty-nine Steps – John Buchan
  142. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  143. King Solomon's Mines – H. Rider Haggard
  144. Short Stories from the 19th Century
  145. [The Black Veil – Charles Dickens;
  146. The Withered Arm – Thomas Hardy;
  147. The Terribly Strange Bed – Wilkie Collins;
  148. The Bottle Imp – Robert Louis Stevenson;
  149. The Red-Headed League – Arthur Conan Doyle;
  150. The Stolen Bacillus – H. G. Wells;
  151. The Squire’s Story – Elizabeth Gaskell;
  152. The Journey to Panama – Anthony Trollope;
  153. The Sphinx Without a Secret – Oscar Wilde;
  154. The Judge’s House – Bram Stoker;
  155. The Necklace – Guy de Maupassant;
  156. The Kiss – Anton Chekhov;
  157. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman;
  158. Juke Judkin’s Courtship – Charles Lamb;
  159. One Dollar’s Worth – O. Henry]
  160. The Labors of Hercules – Agatha Christie

  162. November

  163. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
  164. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
  165. The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
  166. Lady Windermere's Fan – Oscar Wilde
  167. The Book Thief – Martin Zusak
  168. The Moon and Sixpence – W. Somerset Maugham

  170. December

  171. The Age of Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre
  172. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
  173. Collected Poems 1909-1962 – T. S. Eliot
  174. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
  175. Moab is My Washpot – Stephen Fry
  176. Slaughterhouse-5 – Kurt Vonnegut
  177. Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters
  178. Against Nature – Joris-Karl Huysmans
sidrah02/03/2008

how was the moonstone? i always see it lying on a rack at my favorite bookstore, but have never bothered to buy it. should i?

Ennui02/08/2008

I would definitely recommend it. It was rather enjoyable, plus I really liked the style... though, I have to admit that some parts were, perhaps, a bit too slow for my taste, but it was still veeery amusing. :D

Saddaf02/11/2008

How did you like Orlando? It's been lying on my shelf for quite sometime. I pick it up, start reading and then put it away again. I just can't get into the flow of it.

Ennui02/17/2008

I have to admit I did have some difficulties getting into it in the beginning, but I actually quite enjoyed it for the most part... not sure what it is exactly that I liked so much - I suppose I'm just a huge fan of Woolf's style, she has such an amazing way with words... :D

Nance02/21/2008

I had problem with The Pigeon, too wierd, this is sad because Perfume is one of my top book... How do you like them?

Ennui02/23/2008

I agree, The Pigeon was kind of weird, plus, most of the time I was under the impression I was somehow missing something, missing some point... like there was something I completely failed to understand. On the other hand, I really like the detailed descriptions of the mental states (or whatever is the correct expression :p) through which the main character is going through. Odd, but still somewhat amusing.

Of course, I reeeally like the Perfume - it definitely has to be one of the most unusual and unique books I've ever read. I love the whole idea, very original; and I especially liked the ending - it had completely caught me by surprise. (though, I have to say I think I would enjoy it at least somewhat more if the translation had been better... not that it was actually bad, just a bit awkward at times... I wish I could have read it in original)

Slothrop3307/30/2008

Wow so I noticed your blog listing, you live in Belgrade?

Ennui08/01/2008

Yes - I, unfortunately, do live in Belgrade.

May I ask why are you asking? :D

Slothrop3308/01/2008

I was there in 2001, a fascinating place! Although, it was shortly after the NATO bombings and Serbs weren't too keen on an American at that time. I would really like to go back and see more of it, maybe once the dust settles on the whole Kosovo/Karadzic issues.

Surprising to see you read so many Anglo writers! Ever read In the Hold by Arsenijevic? I thought it to be pretty great.