Read in 2011

Submitted by Nance on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 17:10
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  2. January
  3. [4/5] (lit. The Soul of the Wind), Jung-Hi Oh
  4. [2/5] (lit. The Garden Party), Jung-Hi Oh
  5. [3/5] The Last Day of a Condemned Man, Victor Hugo
  6. [1/5] Death with Interruptions, José Saramago
  7. [3/5] (lit. Little Vampire and the Normal Looking House), Joann Sfar
  8. [1/5] (lit. Little Vampire and the Poo Soup), Joann Sfar
  9. [4/5] (lit. Little Vampire and the Green Santa Clauses), Joann Sfar
  10. [4/5] (lit. Little Vampire and the Dream of Tokyo), Joann Sfar
  11. [3/5] 30 Days of Night #2: Dark Days, Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith
  12. [4/5] Tales of Mother Goose, Charles Perrault *
  13. [1/5] (lit. Today), Colette Fellous
  14. [1/5] (lit. Long Hair), Benjamin Lacombe
  15. [2/5] (lit. This Bitch of a Life), Miguelanxo Prado
  16. [4/5] Twentieth Century Eightball, Daniel Clowes
  17. [3/5] One Day Before Easter, Zoya Pirzad
  18. [5/5] The Great LIFE Photographers, John Loengard and Gordon Parks

  20. February
  21. [3/5] Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
  22. [5/5] Christiane F: Autobiography of a Girl of the Streets and Heroin Addict, Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck

  24. March
  25. [4/5] Percy Jackson & the Olympians #5: The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan
  26. [4/5] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
  27. [3/5] Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
  28. [4/5] The Princess of Montpensier, Madame de La Fayette
  29. [4/5] The Princess of Cleves, Madame de La Fayette
  30. [3/5] The Countess of Tende, Madame de La Fayette
  31. [3/5] Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

  33. April
  34. [1/5] The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare
  35. [5/5] Eight O'Clock in the Morning, Ray Nelson
  36. [5/5] [Eight O'Clock in the Morning], Ray Nelson *
  37. [3/5] Fables, Aesop
  38. [3/5] The Door: Poems, Margaret Atwood
  39. [4/5] (lit. Book of the Great Philosophical Opposites), Oscar Brenifier and Jacques Després
  40. [4/5] Owl Babies, Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson
  41. [3/5] The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Chris Van Allsburg
  42. [5/5] The Queen Of Atlantis, Pierre Benoit

  44. May
  45. [2/5] Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Anson Heinlein
  46. [4/5] The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
  47. [4/5] (lit. The God Question), Oscar Brenifier and Jacques Després
  48. [2/5] (lit. It's Good, It's Bad), Oscar Brenifier and Jacques Després
  49. [2/5] (lit. Love and Friendship), Oscar Brenifier and Jacques Després
  50. [3/5] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Lyman Frank Baum
  51. [2/5] (lit. The Good Color), Yaël Hassan
  52. [1/5] Fighting Fantasy #2: The Citadel of Chaos, Steve Jackson and Russ Nicholson

  54. June
  55. [4/5] The Foretelling, Alice Hoffman
  56. [2/5] 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Peter Boxall
  57. [4/5] Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
  58. [2/5] Selected Poems, Stéphane Mallarmé
  59. [4/5] Richard III, William Shakespeare
  60. [4/5] Electra, Jean Giraudoux
  61. [4/5] Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde
  62. [2/5] The Fruits of the Earth, André Gide
  63. [1/5] (lit. New Fruits), André Gide

  65. July
  66. [4/5] Selected Short Poems, Lord Byron
  67. [2/5] Under the Dome, Stephen King
  68. [2/5] Selected Poems, Antonio Bertoli
  69. [3/5] Selected Poems, Paul Éluard
  70. [3/5] Selected Poems, Furough Farrokhzad
  71. [2/5] Selected Poems, Émile Verhaeren
  72. [4/5] Selected Poems, Alphonse de Lamartine
  73. [1/5] Selected Poems, Mahmoud Darwich
  74. [3/5] Selected Poems, Rabîndranâth Tagore
  75. [2/5] Selected Poems, Giorgos Seferis
  76. [2/5] Selected Poems, Heinrich Heine
  77. [1/5] Selected Poems, Eugène Pottier
  78. [3/5] Selected Poems, Georges Rodenbach
  79. [3/5] The Liar, Henry James
  80. [2/5] (lit. The Meaning of Life), Oscar Brenifier and Jacques Després
  81. [2/5] (lit. Book of the Great Psychological Opposites), Oscar Brenifier and Jacques Després
  82. [4/5] Handbook of Good Manners for the Uncouth and the Impolite, Pierre Desproges
  83. [3/5] (lit. Pachyderm), Frederik Peeters
  84. [1/5] A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
  85. [2/5] 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Steven Jay Schneider
  86. [3/5] Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  87. [3/5] (lit. Close Friendship), Bastien Vivès
  88. [2/5] (lit. When I Was A Wolf), Philippe Lechermeier and Sacha Poliakova
  89. [2/5] (lit. Smileless Island), Enrique Fernández

  91. August
  92. [5/5] The World Inside, Robert Silverberg
  93. [5/5] Letter from an Unknown Woman, Stefan Zweig
  94. [3/5] Emma, Jane Austen

  96. September
  97. [2/5] Hollywood Jan, Bastien Vivès and Michaël Sanlaville
  98. [4/5] David Boring, Daniel Clowes
  99. [4/5] The God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza
  100. [2/5] Joséphine #2, Pénélope Bagieu
  101. [5/5] Lost in Austen, Emma Campbell Webster
  102. [4/5] Lighthouses, Philip Plisson and Francis Dreyer
  103. [5/5] Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré
  104. [2/5] Joséphine #3, Pénélope Bagieu

  106. October
  107. [3/5] Selected Poems, Emily Brontë
  108. [2/5] Selected Poems, Henry Wadsworth
  109. [3/5] Selected Poems, Emily Dickinson
  110. [3/5] The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré
  111. [3/5] Ubu the King, Alfred Jarry
  112. [2/5] Ice Haven, Daniel Clowes
  113. [5/5] All Alone, Christophe Chabouté
  114. [4/5] The Big Nowhere, James Ellroy
  115. [4/5] (lit. The Ghost Ship, View From The Orchestra), Jean-Claude Forest

  117. November
  118. [3/5] (lit. The Obscure Cities #12: Memories of the Eternal Present), François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters
  119. [4/5] An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
  120. [2/5] Selected Poems, Albert Samain
  121. [3/5] Smiley's People, John le Carré
  122. [4/5] The Cloven Viscount, Italo Calvino
  123. [5/5] The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
  124. [4/5] Antigone, Jean Anouilh
  125. [5/5] Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
  126. [2/5] Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
  127. [5/5] Jezabel, Jean Anouilh
  128. [2/5] Romeo and Jeannette, Jean Anouilh
  129. [5/5] Medea, Jean Anouilh
  130. [4/5] Death and the Maiden, Ariel Dorfman
  131. [4/5] Swing Cafe, Carl Norac and Rébecca Dautremer

  133. December
  134. [3/5] The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
  135. [5/5] George Sprott: 1894-1975, Seth
  136. [3/5] (lit. Fall), Éric Chevillard
  137. [4/5] Siegfried, Jean Giraudoux
  138. [1/5] The End of Siegfried, Jean Giraudoux
  139. [4/5] Judith, Jean Giraudoux
  140. [3/5] The Enchanted, Jean Giraudoux
  141. [1/5] Tessa, Jean Giraudoux
  142. [4/5] Selected Poems, Robert Louis Stevenson
  143. [3/5] Terre-Neuvas, Christophe Chabouté
  144. [2/5] The Virtuous Island, Jean Giraudoux
  145. [4/5] Ondine, Jean Giraudoux
  146. [1/5] Sodom and Gomorrah, Jean Giraudoux
  147. [3/5] Selected Poems, Marcel Lecomte
  148. [2/5] Animal'z, Enki Bilal
  149. [4/5] (lit. The Ink of the Past), Antoine Bauza and Maël
  150. [5/5] The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, Georges Perec

Author Comments: 

Read in 2011. I've read all of these in french language, but I wrote the titles in engligh for a better understanding.
I hope I didn't forget anything.
[-/5] My appreciation out of 5
(lit.) means literally.
[] are read in english language.
* re-read.

Favorite new readings 2011:
Documentary: The Great LIFE Photographers, John Loengard and Gordon Parks
Novel: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré
Short story: Letter from an Unknown Woman, Stefan Zweig
Poem or Poetic Work: Selected Short Poems, Lord Byron
Play: Medea, Jean Anouilh
Comic or Graphic novel: George Sprott: 1894-1975, Seth
Album: (lit. The God Question), Oscar Brenifier and Jacques Després