Books Read in 2010

Submitted by Ennui on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 13:42
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  1. January

  2. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  3. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
  4. Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm
  5. Hapgood - Tom Stoppard
  6. The Collected Short Stories of Saki - Hector Hugh Munro
  7. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
  8. Cities of the Red Night - William S. Burroughs

  10. February

  11. Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
  12. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
  13. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

  15. March

  16. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
  17. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  18. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  19. Under the Net - Irish Murdoch
  20. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
  21. White Noise - Don DeLillo
  22. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  23. Beloved - Toni Morrison

  25. April

  26. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
  27. T. S. Eliot: A Biography - John Worthen
  28. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  29. Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh
  30. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  31. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
  32. Meditations of First Philosophy - René Descartes

  34. May

  35. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
  36. Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
  37. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  38. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
  39. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
  40. The Cocktail Party - T. S. Eliot

  42. June

  43. An Accidental Man - Iris Murdoch
  44. The Club of Queer Trades - K. G. Chesterton
  45. The Fall - Albert Camus
  46. Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
  47. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
  48. V. - Thomas Pynchon

  50. July

  51. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  52. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
  53. The Pythons Autobiography by the Pythons
  54. The Heart of a Goof - P. G. Wodehouse
  55. Thank You, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
  56. Molloy - Samuel Beckett
  57. The Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
  58. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
  59. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  60. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

  62. August

  63. The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
  64. Three Man on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
  65. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  66. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall - Spike Milligan
  67. A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
  68. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
  69. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

  71. September

  72. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
  73. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
  74. Light in August - William Faulkner
  75. Mulliner Nights - P. G. Wodehouse
  76. Young Men in Spats - P. G. Wodehouse
  77. Cathleen ni Houlihan - W. B. Yeats
  78. Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse

  80. October

  81. Exercises in Style - Raymon Queneau
  82. A Void - Georges Perec
  83. 1916: The Easter Rising - Tim Pat Coogan
  84. A Doll House - Henrik Ibsen
  85. The Wild Duck - Henrik Ibsen
  86. Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
  87. The Master Builder - Henrik Ibsen
  88. The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
  89. Murphy - Samuel Beckett
  90. Endgame - Samuel Beckett
  91. The Maids - Jean Genet
  92. Deathwatch - Jean Genet

  94. November

  95. The Red and the Green - Iris Murdoch
  96. Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
  97. The Unicorn - Iris Murdoch
  98. Medea - Euripides
  99. In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
  100. Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham

  102. December

  103. Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
  104. An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen
  105. The Lady from the Sea - Henrik Ibsen
  106. John Gabriel Borkman - Henrik Ibsen
  107. The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
  108. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
  109. Miss Julie - August Strindberg
  110. The Stronger - August Strindberg
  111. Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
  112. The Real Inspector Hound - Tom Stoppard
Nance07/14/2010

We read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep around the same time! I found the novel original, but I still prefer the movie.

I'm a little bit scare to begin House of Leaves. Is it that hard to read?

What is your favorite read(s) so far this year? Mine are the novel The Wall by Marlen Haushofer and the graphic novel The Arrival by Shaun Tan.

Ennui12/06/2010

I have to admit House of Leaves was quite difficult at times, but that's mainly due to its original/unusual structure... which, of course, doesn't make it any less enjoyable; I definitely recommend it. :)

My (current) favourites are Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (a sort of philosophical/picaresque novel), A Void by Georges Perec and White Noise by Don DeLillo.

(Sorry I haven't replied earlier, for some reason I haven't visited this site in ages :/)