Books on my to read shelf
Submitted by parasionok on Thu, 03/09/2006 - 05:06
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- 1. Paradise by A.L. Kennedy
- 2. The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
- 3. The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
- 4. Cat's Eyes by Margaret Atwood
- 5. The First Man by Camue
- 6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- 7. The Man of Petersburg by Coetzee
- 8. The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal
- 9. Ulysses by James Joyce
- 10. Testament Betrayed by Milan Kundera
- 11. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- 12. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
- 13. Saturday by Ian McEwan
- 14. Life is a User's Manual by George Perec
- 15. Baltasar & Blimunda by Jose Saramago
- 16. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
- 17. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- 18. A Passage to India by E.M. Foster
- 19. A Plea For Eros by Siri Hustvedt
- 20. Middle Age by Joyce Carol Oates
- 21. Breaking the Tongue by Vyvyane Loh
- 22. Written Lives by Javier Marias
- 23. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- 24. Author, Author by David Lodge
- 25. Botchan by Natsume Soseki
- 26. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
- 27. Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
- 28. The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
- 29. Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee
- 30. The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
- 31. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- 32. Wild Swans by Jung Chang
- 33. Mao. The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
- 34. Dublin by Edward Rutherfurd
- 35. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- 36. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
- 37. Villages by John Updike
- 38. The Devil's Feather by Minette Walters
- 39. Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
- 40. The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
- 41. Light and Darkness by Soseki Natsume
- 42. The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa
- 43. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Ulysses seems to be on everyone's to read shelf (on mine, too). I wonder how many actually manage to read it. They can be really proud of themselves... :-)
In fact I have just started Ulysses, and I am enjoying it so far. The 3rd Episode Part One was rather hard going and I had to refer to all the notes and comments (I am reading it in a Russian translation) in the end of the book which actually helped a lot but also slowed me down. I hope I won't abandon it halfway through as have many people I know :/
Memoirs of a Geisha is a beautiful book, and I hope that you enjoy whenever you get around to it.
But whatever you do, please, for the love of God, skip the movie.
I did enjoy the book, thanks for the tip. I actually also liked the movie. Why do you think the movie is so bad?