Books Read in 2009

Submitted by Ennui on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 03:50
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  1. January

  2. Nightwood - Djuna Barnes (re-read)
  3. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (re-read)
  4. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  5. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  7. February

  8. The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. Howards End - E. M. Forster
  10. Heart of Darkness and Other Stories - Joseph Conrad
  11. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
  12. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

  14. March

  15. Queer - William S. Burroughs
  16. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
  17. Possession - A.S. Byatt
  18. Dubliners - James Joyce
  19. The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule

  21. April

  22. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
  23. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  24. Ape and Essence - Aldous Huxley
  25. The Pursuit Of Love - Nancy Mitford
  26. Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
  27. Strait is the Gate - André Gide
  28. Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
  29. Good Bones - Margaret Atwood

  31. May

  32. The Rebel - Albert Camus
  33. Lamb - Christopher Moore
  34. Salomé - Oscar Wilde (re-read)
  35. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  36. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh (re-read)
  37. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
  38. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

  40. June

  41. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (re-read)
  42. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
  43. Sweet Bird of Youth - Tennessee Williams
  44. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
  45. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
  46. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
  47. Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb

  49. July

  50. The Life of Hunger - Amélie Nothomb
  51. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
  52. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  53. Herzog - Saul Bellow
  54. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
  55. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
  56. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

  58. August

  59. The Aspern Papers - Henry James
  60. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  61. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
  62. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (re-read)
  63. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  65. September

  66. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
  67. The First Forty-Nine Stories - Ernest Hemingway
  68. Tess of d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  69. Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov
  70. Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  71. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  72. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (re-read)
  73. An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde (re-read)

  75. October

  76. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  77. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
  78. The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore - Tennessee Williams
  79. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
  80. Baba Jaga je Snijela Jaje (Baba Yaga Laid an Egg) - Dubravka Ugresic
  81. The Night of the Iguana - Tennessee Williams
  82. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
  83. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E. M. Forster
  84. Old Possum's Book of Pracitcal Cats - T. S. Eliot

  86. November

  87. Gods and Soldiers - Various
  88. Wandering Star - J. M. G. Le Clézio
  89. We'll Always Have Paris - Ray Bradbury
  90. The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs
  91. Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
  92. Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
  93. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
  94. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
  95. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

  97. December

  98. Night and Day - Tom Stoppard
  99. King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
  100. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
  101. The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
  102. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
  103. Indian Ink - Tom Stoppard
  104. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Nance05/14/2009

This must be a weird question... if we know the ending of The Sorrows of Young Werther, do you think we can still enjoy the reading?

Ennui06/22/2009

I thinks so - personally, I knew the ending, but I was still able to enjoy the book (more or less)... Of course, it's difficult to say whether I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't knew it... I don't think the ending comes as much of a surprise anyway :P.

(sorry for the late reply - I haven't been around here for quite a while :D)

Elston07/03/2009

What are your favourite books?

Ennui07/19/2009

To be honest, that mostly depends on my current mood, I guess, but some of my all-time favourites are (not any particular order): The Picture of Dorian Gray, Naked Lunch, Catch-22, Lolita, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Franny and Zooey, The Age of Reason, Nausea, Vile Bodies, Brideshead Revisited, Point Counter Point, Brave New World, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, This Side of Paradise, Passage to India, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rebecca, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Atrocity Exhibition, The Blind Assassin, Through the Looking Glass, Moon Palace, Lord of the Flies, The Heart of Darkness, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Nightwood, The Master and Margarita...