Books Read in 2004

Submitted by Avalon on Thu, 09/30/2004 - 03:35
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  1. Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
  2. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  3. Body of Evidence - Patricia Cornwell
  4. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
  5. Dude, Where's My Country? - Michael Moore
  6. The Navigator of New York - Wayne Johnston
  7. Fat Land - Greg Critser
  8. The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
  9. The Mermaids Signing - Val McDermid
  10. Kingfisher Days - Susan Coyne
  11. Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Clare Morrall
  12. Brick Lane - Monica Ali
  13. Mercy Among the Children - David Adams Richards
  14. The Way the Crow Flies - Ann-Marie MacDonald
  15. Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
  16. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
  17. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
  18. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
  19. The Doubtful Guest - Edward Gorey
  20. The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
  21. The Wire in the Blood - Val McDermid
  22. The School for Wives - Andre Gide
  23. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
  24. The Shawl - Cynthia Ozick
  25. The Safe House - Nicci French
  26. The Case of the Crimson Kiss - Erle Stanley Gardner
  27. Hugh MacLennan - Alec Lucas
  28. The Educated Imagination - Northrup Frye
  29. Darkness Visible - William Styron
  30. A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
  31. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
  32. The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
  33. Flying to Nowhere - John Fuller
  34. Being There - Jerzy Kosinski
  35. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
  36. The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
  37. Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood
  38. Ruined by Reading - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
  39. The Unexpected Guest - Agatha Christie
  40. The Great Fight - William Henry Drummond
  41. Cycle of the Werewolf - Stephen King
  42. Rilla of Ingleside - L.M. Montgomery
  43. The Tinderbox - Marianne Brandis
  44. The Age of Grief - Jane Smiley
  45. The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
  46. Lasher - Anne Rice
  47. The Diving-Bell & the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
  48. Flatland - Edward Abbott
  49. The Abbess of Crewe - Muriel Spark
  50. The Worst Years of Our Lives - Barbara Ehrenreich
  51. The Newspaper of Claremont Street - Elizabeth Jolley
  52. Up at the Villa - W.Somerset Maugham
  53. Approaches to Politics - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
  54. A Civil Action - Jonathan Harr
  55. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
  56. Old Soldiers - Paul Bailey
  57. Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  58. Prochain Episode - Hubert Aquin
  59. The Romantic - Barbara Gowdy
  60. Reflections in a Golden Eye - Carson McCullers
  61. Ape and Essence - Aldous Huxley
  62. Requiem - Shizuko Go
  63. The 27th Kingdom - Alice Thomas Ellis
  64. The Palm-Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola
  65. The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
  66. A Yankee in Canada - Henry David Thoreau
  67. Magister Ludi - Hermann Hesse
  68. Farthing's Fortunes - Richard B.Wright
  69. The Viceroy of Ouidah - Bruce Chatwin
  70. Utopia - Sit Thomas More
  71. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
  72. Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
  73. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
  74. The Matisse Stories - A.S. Byatt
  75. The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon - W.O. Mitchell
  76. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
  77. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
  78. After Leaving Mr.Mackenzie - Jean Rhys
  79. The White Cottage Mystery - Margery Allingham
  80. The Clothes in the Wardrobe - Alice Thomas Ellis
  81. Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald
  82. Tete Blanche - Marie-Claire Blais
  83. The Hothouse on the East River - Muriel Spark
  84. The Web - John Wyndham
  85. The Ballad of Peckham Rye - Muriel Spark
  86. The Tenth Man - Graham Greene
  87. Candide - Voltaire
  88. The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
  89. I Was Amelia Earhart - Jane Mendelsohn
  90. Bear - Marian Engel
  91. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  92. Lament for a Nation - George Grant
  93. The Writer's Quotation Book - James Charlton
  94. The Great Fur Opera - Kildare Dobbs
  95. The Huron - Bruce Trigger
  96. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
  97. Everything in This Country Must - Colum McCann
  98. Montreal Then and Now - Bryan Demchinsky
  99. Daughters of Copper Woman - Anne Cameron
  100. Heroes and Villains - Angela Carter
  101. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers
  102. The Sensationist - Charles Palliser
  103. Utz - Bruce Chatwin
  104. Cal - Bernard MacLaverty
  105. The Silent Enemy - Eileen Pettigrew
  106. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
  107. Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them - Al Franken
  108. Foe - J.M. Coetzee
  109. Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
  110. Clairvoyant - Alison Leslie Gold
  111. The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
  112. The Pumpkin Eater - Penelope Mortimer
  113. Loitering With Intent - Muriel Spark
  114. Trudeau Albums - Sara Borins
  115. The New Romans - Al Purdy
  116. A Woman of My Age - Nina Bawden
  117. July's People - Nadine Gordimer
  118. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
  119. The Late Bourgeois World - Nadine Gordimer
  120. Visitors - John Cranna
  121. The Lost Honor of Katherina Blum - Heinrich Boll
  122. The King - Donald Barthelme
  123. Night - Edna O'Brien
  124. Misogynies - Joan Smith
  125. A Quiet Life - Beryl Bainbridge
  126. A Scandalous Woman - Edna O'Brien
  127. Elephants Can Remember - Agatha Christie
  128. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood - Alistair MacLeod
  129. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula LeGuin
  130. The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula LeGuin
  131. The Farthest Shore - Ursula LeGuin
  132. Parnassus on Wheels - Christopher Morley
  133. Codex - Lev Grossman
  134. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  135. Virginia Woolf - Nigel Nicolson
  136. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  137. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  138. Coming Through Slaughter - Michael Ondaatje
  139. Paying the Piper - Sharyn McCrumb
  140. Rumpole's Return - John Mortimer
  141. A Talent for Destruction - Sheila Radley
  142. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
  143. Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
  144. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
  145. Vox - Nicholson Baker
  146. Rhine Journey - Anne Schlee
  147. Dragonsong - Anne McCaffrey
  148. Street of Riches - Gabrielle Roy
  149. The New Girl Friend and Other Stories - Ruth Rendell
  150. The Catalyst - Josephine Bell
  151. Props on Her Sleeve - Mary Hawkins Buch
  152. A Holiday for Murder - Agatha Christie
  153. Soon She Must Die - Anna Clarke
  154. Women of Coronation Street - Daran Little
  155. Around the Coronation Street Houses - Daran Little
  156. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Inagination - Helen Fielding
  157. The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
  158. The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
  159. Letters from Maine - May Sarton
  160. Summer Lightning - Olive Senior
  161. Gift from the Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  162. Sula - Toni Morrison
  163. Quiet as a Nun - Antonia Fraser
  164. Dead Giveaway - Simon Brett
  165. Beowulf - Constance Hieatt (trans)
  166. All Over Creation - Ruth Ozeki
  167. Elle - Douglas Glover
  168. Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
  169. The Dying of the Light - Michael Dibdin
  170. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot
  171. The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories - Sinclair Ross
  172. The Wrong Way Down - Elizabeth Daly
  173. A Man of the People - Chinua Achebe
professor10/01/2004


Wow! That is some long list.

I struggle to get through more than about 20 books per year. Too much TV (and movies).
Aside from the train to work and on holiday I don't do enough reading.

My list for 2004

My list for 2003

taryn01/02/2005

Hey, I just finished Rule of Four and am wondering what you thought of it... and also how you thought it compared to Brown's Da Vinci Code--haven't read that yet. Thanks!