Works Read 6/07-12/10

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  1. 2007
  2. Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison *****
  3. You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs by Laurie Gaff ***
  4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling *****
  5. Beast by Donna Jo Napoli **
  6. Valencia (Live Girls) by Michelle Tea *
  7. My Friend Leonard by James Frey *****
  8. The Adventures of Auggie March by Saul Bellow ** (8/24/07)
  9. Breakfast at Tiffany's By Truman Capote ***** (8/25/07)
  10. The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams **** (9/8/07)
  11. Animal Farm by George Orwell ***** (9/13/07)
  12. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ***** (9/23/07)
  13. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden ***** (10/10/07)
  14. The Awakening by Kate Chopin **** (10/11/07)
  15. Sense and Sensibilty by Jane Austen ****(10/15/07)
  16. Emma by Jane Austen ***** (10/22/07)
  17. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume**** (10/29/07)
  18. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte **** (11/7/07)
  19. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler ***** (11/9/07)
  20. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler ***** (11/17/07)
  21. Persuasion by Jane Austen *** (11/19/07)
  22. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ****(11/20/07)
  23. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens *****(11/27/07)
  24. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck **** (11/27/07)
  25. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe *** (11/30/07)
  26. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen ***** (11/30/07)
  27. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck **** (12/6/07)
  28. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen **** (12/18/07)
  29. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck ***** (12/19/07)
  30. Slaughter House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut ***** (12/21/07)
  31. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ****(12/26/07)
  32. Atonement by Ian McEwan*****(12/27/07)
  33. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk *****(12/30/07)
  34. 2008
  35. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides **** (1/6/08)
  36. The Human Stain by Phillip Roth ***(1/10/08)
  37. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen ****(1/12/08)
  38. Lolita by Valdimir Nabokov ***** (1/14/08)
  39. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ***** (1/18/08)
  40. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace *****(2/8/08)
  41. The Shining by Stephen King ****(2/10/08)
  42. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon **** (2/13/08)
  43. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates ***** (2/19/08)
  44. The Sea by John Banville **** (2/20/08)
  45. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells ****(2/22/08)
  46. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells *****( 2/23/08)
  47. Shroud by John Banville **** (2/25/08)
  48. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan ***** (2/25/08)
  49. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells ***** (2/27/08)
  50. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells***** (2/28/08)
  51. Notes From the Underground by Fydor Dostoyevsky**** (2/29/08)
  52. Saturday by Ian McEwan ***** (3/1/08)
  53. Perfume by Patrick Suskind ***** (3/2/08)
  54. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson ** (3/3/08)
  55. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson **** (3/3/08)
  56. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ***** (3/5/08)
  57. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman **** (3/5/08)
  58. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams ***** (3/9/08)
  59. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams ***** (3/9/08)
  60. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ***** (4/2/08)
  61. The Once and Future King by T.H. White ***** (4/23/08)
  62. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe ***** (4/27/08)
  63. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey *****
  64. Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman ****
  65. Amerika by Franz Kafka ***** (5/18/08)
  66. Hard Times by Charles Dickens ***** (5/19/08)
  67. Candide by Voltaire ***** (5/24/08)
  68. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ***** (6/1/08)
  69. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ***** (6/4/08)
  70. The Trial by Franz Kafka **** (6/6/08)
  71. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison ***** (6/6/08)
  72. The Cider House Rules by John Irving ***** (6/8/08)
  73. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ***** (6/8/08)
  74. Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne **** (6/9/08)
  75. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway **** (6/9/08)
  76. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival ***** (6/10/08)
  77. The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee **** (6/13/08)
  78. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez *** (6/26/08)
  79. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera ***** (6/30/08)
  80. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino *** (6/30/08)
  81. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan ***** (7/1/08)
  82. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ***** (7/7/07)
  83. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ***** (7/15/08)
  84. A Passage to India by E.M. Forester ****
  85. Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster *****
  86. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee *****
  87. The Serial Killers Club by Jeff Povey *****
  88. Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis ***** (8/26/08)
  89. Are you there Vodka? It's me Chelsea. by Chelsea Handler ***
  90. A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire *****
  91. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ***** (11/10/08)
  92. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer ***** (11/11/08)
  93. A Cedar Cove Christmas by Debbie Macomber **** (11/16/08)
  94. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ****
  95. Marley & Me by John Grogan ***** (12/23/08)
  96. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer ***** (12/28/08)
  97. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ***** (12/28/08)
  98. 2009
  99. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky ***** (1/10/09)
  100. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer ***** (1/12/09)
  101. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks ***** (1/13/09)
  102. Tales of Beadle the Bard by J.K. Rowling *****
  103. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K Rowling#
  104. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling #
  105. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban #
  106. Wicked by Gregory Maguire #
  107. Lord of the Flies by William Golding *****
  108. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire By J.K. Rowling #
  109. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou *****
  110. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ******
  111. Eragon by Christopher Paolini ****
  112. Eldest by Christopher Paolini ****
  113. Beowulf ****
  114. Brisingr by Christopher Paolini ****
  115. Dracula by Bram Stoker *****
  116. Identity by Milan Kundera *****
  117. Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift *****
  118. What the Dickens by Gregory Maguire ****
  119. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown *****
  120. The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano *****
  121. God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy *****
  122. Citizens of the World by Oliver Goldsmith ****
  123. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith ***** (11/22/09)
  124. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy ***** (11/24/09)
  125. Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy ***** (11/26/09)
  126. The Stranger by Albert Camus ****
  127. Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber **** (12/7/09)
  128. Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes **** (12/8/09)
  129. Nausea by Jeane Paul Sartre *** (12/15/09)
  130. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen #
  131. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris *****
  132. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen ***
  133. 2010
  134. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  135. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H Winters ***** (1/21/10)
  136. The Mummy by Anne Rice ****
  137. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris ***** (2/8/10)
  138. Mr Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange **** (2/12/10)
  139. Beowulf # (2/12/10)
  140. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut **** (2/18/10)
  141. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle ***** (2/27/10)
  142. Tristan & Isolda by Richard Wagner **** (2/28/10)
  143. On Beauty by Zadie Smith **** (2/28/10)
  144. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan **** (3/3/10)
  145. The Hound of Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle ***** (3/7/10)
  146. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton ***** (3/8/10)
  147. Macbeth by William Shakespeare ***** (3/9/10)
  148. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk ***** (3/11/10)
  149. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe *** (3/12/10)
  150. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth *** (3/13/10)
  151. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ***** (3/13/10)
  152. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee *****(3/15/10)
  153. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks **** (3/18/10)
  154. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan ***** (3/21/10)
  155. Dante's Inferno by Dante Alligeri ***** (3/24/10)
  156. Bartleby the Scrivner by Herman Mellville **** (3/25/10)
  157. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse *** (3/29/10)
  158. Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk ***** (4/5/10)
  159. King Lear by William Shakespeare ***** (4/13/10)
  160. Gift of Stones by Jim Crace *** (4/16/10)
  161. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley # (4/17/10)
  162. The Travel of Sir John Mandeville **(4/18/10)
  163. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut ***** (4/19/10)
  164. Everything Which Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Conner **** (4/22/10)
  165. The True Story of Ah Q by LU Xun ** (4/22/10)
  166. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk **** (4/26/10)
  167. Beauty by Alice Walker **** (4/26/10)
  168. The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck ***** (4/26/10)
  169. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ***** (4/26/10)
  170. The Call of the Wild by Jack London ***** (4/27/10)
  171. Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steven Hockensmith ***** (4/27/10)
  172. The Lais of Marie De France ***** (4/27/10)
  173. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards ***** (5/3/10)
  174. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eudenides **** (5/7/10)
  175. The Tempest by William Shakespeare ****
  176. Hamlet by William Shakespeare #
  177. Rosencranz and Guilderstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard ***** (5/9/10)
  178. Villette by Charlotte Bronte **** (5/16/10)
  179. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro ***** (5/17/10)
  180. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis ***** (5/18/10)
  181. Jacob's Room - Virgina Woolf *** (5/20/10)
  182. Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey ****(5/21/10)
  183. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan **** (5/22/10)
  184. The Bottomless Grave and Other Victorian Ghost Stories **** (5/26/10)
  185. Classic Ghost Stories **** (5/28/10)
  186. Hot Stuff - Janet Evanovich (5/28/10)
  187. An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life - His Holiness the Dalai Lama *****
  188. Tale of the Tub - Johnathan Swift **
  189. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer #
  190. New Moon - Stephanie Meyer #
  191. Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer #
  192. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer #
  193. The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas *****
  194. The Green Man - Kingsley Amis ***** (6/22/10)
  195. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert **** (6/24/10)
  196. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephanie Meyer ***** (6/25/10)
  197. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis **** (7/3/10)
  198. Tono Bungay - H.G. Wells **(7/6/10)
  199. Moby Dick - Herman Melville *** (7/15/10)
  200. Evelina - Fanny Burney ***** (7/20/10)
  201. The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud - Ben Sherwood ***** (7/21/10)
  202. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy **** (7/31/10)
  203. American Rust - Philipp Meyer *****(8/4/10)
  204. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ***** (8/8/10)
  205. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson ***** (8/12/10)
  206. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe **** (8/25/10)
  207. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey niffeneger ***** (9/2/10)
  208. The Dante Club - Matthew Peal **** (9/7/10)
  209. Persuasion - Jane Austen #
  210. Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliff ***** (9/23/10)
  211. Club Dead - Charlaine Harris **** (9/26/10)
  212. The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson ***** (10/2/10)
  213. The Glass Castle- Jeannatte Walls *****
  214. War of the Worlds- H.G. Wells (10/12/10) #
  215. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte #
  216. The Last Queen of Heaven- Gregory Maguire (10/18/10) ****
  217. The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Dias **** (11/11/10)
  218. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe - H. Davidson *** (11/11/10)
  219. The Devils/The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *** (11/12/10)
  220. Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner *** (11/13/10)
  221. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows # (11/21/10)
  222. Prose Edda - Snorri Sturluson ****
  223. Saga of the Volsungs ****
  224. Just the Obscure - Thomas Hardy *****
  225. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens #
  226. A Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens ****
Author Comments: 

Out of *****

# re-read

I read all sorts of stuff, obviously. =)

Did you try any of the food from Like Water?

I never did, but I should...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

No. I wanted to.

I've actually had something super similar to the wedding cake though.

How was it?

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs