alright, i own it. this is a shameless rip-off of po chin's "all-i've-ever-read" page. nowhere as complete as hers, unfortunately. i try only to list fiction and essays, and only non-school books, but sometimes they creep in here.
adden. november 2008: started a non-fiction page too.
Year 2009
[June]Year 2008Ursula Le Guin - Powers (Y)
Fred Vargas - The Chalk Circle Man
Bernard Beckett - Genesis (Y)
*Julie Hearn - Rowan the Strange (Y)
Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Morris Gleitzman - Once (Y)
Julie Hearn - Sign of the Raven (Y)
Michael Morpugo - The Mozart Question (Y)
P.D. James - The Lighthouse
Rick Riordan - The Last Olympian (Y)
Sebastian Faulks - On Green Dolphin Street
Graham Greene - Travels with my Aunt
[May]Dag Solstad - Novel 11 Book 18
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Peter Stamm - Unformed Landscape
P.D. James - Unnatural Causes
Elliot Perllman - Seven Types of Ambiguity
Shaun Tan - Tales from Outer Suburbia (Y)
Jenny Valentine - The Ant Colony (Y)
Sebestian Faulks - Engleby
[April]Graham Greene - The Man Within
P.D. James - A Mind to Murder
Haruki Murakami - After the Quake
[March]
(couldn't seem to read anything new; and just went at the old favourite children's books, the nesbits and the wynne-jones)Graham Greene - Orient Express
[February]Marisha Pessl - Special Topics in Calamity Physics
[January]Vladmir Nabokov - Laughter in the Dark
John Banville - Kepler
*Graham Greene - Monsignor Quixote
Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin
Philip Pullman - Once Upon a Time in the North (Y)
Nicholas Mosley - Hopeful Monsters
Peter Dickinson - Eva (Y)
[December]Allegra Goodman - The Other Side of the Island (Y)
Giorgio Bassani - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Paul Volponi - Hurricane Song (Y)
Lloyd Alexander - Westmark (Y)
L.P. Hartley - The Shrimp and the Anemone
Lloyd Alexander - The Gawgon and the Boy (Y)
Eva Ibbotson - The Haunting of Granite Falls(Y)
Nancy Huston - Fault Lines
John Betjeman - Summoned by Bells
Gloria Emerson - Loving Graham Greene
Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Y)
[November]John Betjeman - Archie and the Strict Baptists
*Donald Barthelme - The Dead Father
Richard Brautigan - In Watermelon Sugar
Philip Reeve - Mothstorm (Y)
*Jose Saramago - The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Hugh Kenner - The Mechanical Muse
Eliot Weinberger - 9/12: New York After
[October]Terry Pratchett - Nation (Y)
Jeremy de Quidt - The Toymaker (Y)
Donald Barthelme - Forty Stories
Robert Aickman - The Attempted Rescue
Michael Cunningham - The Hours
P.D. James - Cover Her Face
Shelley Pearsall - All of the Above (Y)
Eva Ibbotson - Not Just a Witch (Y)
Lucius Apuleius - The Golden Ass
Pascal Mercier - Night Train to Lisbon
Eva Ibbotson - The Secret of Platform 13 (Y)
Eva Ibbotson - Island of the Aunts (Y)
Eva Ibbotson - Which Witch (Y)
Frances O'Dowell - Shooting the Moon (Y)
[September]Peter Ackroyd - The Lambs of London
Eva Ibbotson - The Beasts of Clawstone Castle (Y)
Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried
Eva Ibbotson - The Dragonfly Pool (Y)
*Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces
Hugh Kenner - The Elsewhere Community
J.M. Coetzee - The Master of Petersburg
Lloyd Alexander - The Marvelous Misadventures Of Sebastian (Y)
Sara Pennypacker - Clementine's Letter (Y)
Kate DiCamillo - The Tale of Despereaux (Y)
Kate DiCamillo - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Y)
Margaret Atwood - Bluebeard's Egg
Jan Mark - Heathrow Nights (Y)
John Banville - The Sea
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Tom Becker - Nighttrap (Y)
Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum
P.D. James - Devices and Desires
John Van Der Ruit - Spud (Y)
P.D. James - Death of an Expert Witness
[August]Sara Lewis Holmes - Letters from Rapunzel (Y)
Iain Pears - The Dream of Scipio
Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing
*Guy Davenport - The Death of Picasso
P.D. James - Murder Room
Diana Wynne Jones - House of Many Ways (Y)
Frank Cottrell Bryce - Cosmic (Y)
L.P Hartley - The Go-Between
P.D. James - Shroud for a Nightingale
Graham Greene - Dr Fischer of Geneva
E.L. Konigsburg - (george) (Y)
[July]Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That
Clarence Day - Life with Mother
*Guy Davenport - Every Force Evolves a Form
Clarence Day - Life with Father
Linda Newbury - Flightsend (Y)
Audrey Couloumbis - Say Yes (Y)
[June]*Donald Barthelme - 60 Stories
E. Lockhart - The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Y)
William Faulkner - Intruder in the Dust
Audrey Couloumbis - Love Me Tender (Y)
Georges Simenon - Maigret's Revolver (Le revolver de Maigret)
Lois Lowry - The Willoughbys (Y)
Georges Simenon - Maigret Hesitates (Maigret hésite)
Willem Frederik Hermans - The Darkroom of Damocles
Mary-Anne Fahey - I, Nigel Dorking (Y)
Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Old Lady (Maigret et la vieille dame)
Georges Simenon - Maigret's First Case (La Première enquête de Maigret, 1913)
Jose Saramago - Death At Intervals
Sara Pennypacker - The Talented Clementine (Y)
Sara Pennypacker - Clementine (Y)
Georges Simenon - Maigret's Little Joke (Maigret S'amuse)
Georges Simenon - Maigret Takes A Room (Maigret en meublé)
Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Young Girl (Maigret et la jeune morte)
Sara Pennypacker - The Talented Clementine (Y)
Sara Pennypacker - Clementine (Y)
Peter Taylor - A Summons to Memphis
Loretta Ellsworth - In Search of Mockingbird (Y)
*Guy Davenport - The Cardiff Team
[May]**Richard Powers - The Goldbug Variations
Linda Newbery - Nevermore (Y)
Fred Vargas - This Night's Foul Work
Timothée de Fombelle - Toby Alone (Y)
Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Y)
Henry Porter - Master of the Broken Chairs (Y)
Peter Beagle - Tam Sin (Y)
Leslie Connor - Waiting for Normal (Y)
Sally Nicholls - Ways to Live Forever (Y)
Natasha Friend - Lush (Y)
Geraldine McCaughrean - The White Darkness
Anthony Buckeridge - Thanks to Jennings (Y)
Anthony Buckeridge - According to Jennings (Y)
Alasdair Gray - Old Men in Love
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night (Y)
Sebastian Faulks - Human Traces
[April]*Guy Davenport - Eclogues
*David Markson - The Last Novel
Sioban Dowd - The London-Eye Mystery (Y)
John Mortimer - Rumpole and the Angel of Death
John Mortimer - Rumpole and the Golden Thread
John Mortimer - Rumpole for the Defence
John Mortimer - Rumpole on Trial
John Mortimer - Rumpole a la Carte
John Mortimer - The Trials of Rumpole
John Mortimer - Rumpole of the Bailey
Diana Athill - Somewhere Towards The End
Ivan Klima - My Golden Trades
John Mortimer - Rumpole's Last Case
Cornelia Funke - Inkheart (Y)
Georges Simenon - Maigret on the Riviera (Liberty Bar)
Georges Simenon - The Bar on the Seine (La Guinguette à deux sous)
Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Madwoman (La Folle de Maigret)
Joseph Roth - The String of Pearls
Georges Simenon - Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège)
Peter Ackroyd - The Plato Papers
Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise
Jenny Valentine - Broken Soup (Y)
Diana Janney - The Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose (Y)
Fred Vargas - Have Mercy on Us All
Geoff Dyer - Paris Trance
[March]Stanislaw Lem - Mortal Engines
Joseph Roth - The Radetzky March
Thomas Bernhard - Gargoyles: A Novel
Georges Simenon - My Friend Maigret (Mon ami Maigret)
Fred Vargas - Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Fred Vargas - Seeking Whom He May Devour
Tarjei Vesaas - The Ice Palace
Per Olov Enquist - The Book About Blanche and Marie
Gennifer Choldenko - If A Tree Falls at Lunch Period (Y)
Fred Vargas - The Three Evangelists
Marc Estrin - Insect dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
Alasdair Gray - A History Maker
John Barth - Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for print, tape, live voice
*Stanislaw Lem - The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age
[February]George Saunders - Pastoralia
John Barth - Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas
John Barth - The Sotweed Factor
Jenny Downham - Before I Die (Y)
Joanne Harris - Runemarks (Y)
Sally Prue - Poor Tom (Y)
Susie Morgenstern - A Book of Coupons (Y)
Georges Simenon - Maigret in Court (Maigret aux assises)
Georges Simenon - The Friend of Madame Maigret (L'Amie de Mme Maigret)
Georges Simenon - Inspector Cadaver (L'Inspecteur Cadavre)
Sally Prue - The Truth Sayer (Y)
Georges Simenon - The Madman of Bergerac (Le Fou de Bergerac)
Ursula Le Guin - Four Ways To Forgiveness
Willem Frederik Hermans - Beyond Sleep
Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Idle Burglar (Maigret et le voleur paresseux)
Georges Simenon - Maigret in Society (Maigret et les vieillards)
Georges Simenon - Maigret's Failure (Un Échec de Maigret)
Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Ghost (Maigret et le fantôme)
Chris Riddell - Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (Y)
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Gore Vidal - A Search for The King
Georges Simenon - A Man's Head (La Tête d'un homme)
Georges Simenon - Lock 14 (Le Charretier de la Providence)
Georges Simenon - The Man on the Boulevard (Maigret et l'homme du banc)
Dana Reinhardt - Harmless (Y)
Ursula Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Aldous Huxley - Antic Hay
[January]**John Barth - Chimera
Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip
**John Barth - The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
**Mario De Carvalho - A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening
Moacyr Scliar - Max and the Cats
Susan Fletcher - The Higher Power of Lucky (Y)
Catherine Webb - The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle (Y)
Gary D. Schmidt - The Wednesday Wars (Y)
Anthony Buckeridge - That's Jennings (Y)
Anthony Buckeridge - Typically Jennings (Y)
Marthe Jocelyn - How it Happened in Peach Hill(Y)
Lauren Tarshis - Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree (Y)
Georges Simenon - Three Crimes
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
E.L. Konigsburg - The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World (Y)
Georges Simenon - The Yellow Dog (Le Chien jaune)
Anthony Buckeridge - The Jennings Report (Y)
Lydie Salvayre - In the Company of Ghosts: followed by Some Useful Notes for Process Servers
Georges Simenon - The Hotel Majestic (Les Caves du Majestic)
Melissa Marr - Wicked Lovely (Y)
Alex Williams - The Talent Thief (Y)
Tom Becker - Lifeblood (Y)
*Knut Hamsun - Hunger
John Fuller - Flawed Angel: A Tale
Year 2007
[December]Fall 2006Anne Fadiman - At Large and At Small
Lisa Klein - Ophelia
*Anita Konkka - A Fool's Paradise
Sue Limb - Charming but Insane (Y)
Hilary McKay - Forever Rose (Y)
Sonya Hartnett - The Silver Donkey (Y)
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II - The Globe
Julia Bell - Massive (Y)
Sonya Hartnett - Surrender
John Fowles - The Collector
Philip Reeve - Starcross or The coming of the moobs! or Our adventures in the fourth dimension! : a stirring tale of British vim upon seas of space and time (Y)
Eudora Welty - The Ponder Heart
*Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Y)
Sonya Hartnett - What the Birds See
Sue Limb - Absolute Torture (Y)
Sue Limb - Flirting for England (Y)
David Markson - This is Not a Novel
Gemma Malley - The Declaration< (Y)
Meg Rosoff - What I was (Y)
Jô Soares - A Samba For Sherlock
[November]Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now
Jonathon Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
Roderick Gordon/Brian Williams - Tunnels (Y)
*Alasdair Gray - Poor Things: episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish public health officer
H.G. Wells - The Island of Doctor Moreau
Alberto Moravia - Conjugal Loves
Jose Eduar Agualusa -The Book of Chameleons
Linn Ullman - Stella Descending
Guillermo Martinez - The Oxford Murders
Guo Xiaolu - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Terry Pratchett - Making Money
Florian Zeller - The Fascination of Evil
Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
[October]Heidi Julavits - The Uses of Enchantment
Philip Reeve - Here Lies Arthur (Y)
David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
Adam Haslett - You are Not A Stranger Here
*Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing
Cees Nooteboom - Lost Paradise
[August]Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Albert Camus - Exile and the Kingdom
[July]Harry Mulisch - Case 40/61: The Trial of Eichmann
John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Andrea Canobbio - The Natural Disorder of Things
Marshall Jevons - A Deadly Indifference
William Steig - Abel's Island (Y)
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Y)
Mary Hoffman - The Falconer's Knot: A Story of Friars, Flirtation and Foul play (Y)
David Henry Thoreau - Walden
Amelie Nothomb - Fear and Trembling
Amelie Nothomb - Antichrista
Rick Riordan - The Titan's Curse (Y)
Rick Riordan - The Sea of Monsters (Y)
Rick Riordan - The Lightning Thief (Y)
Kai Meyer - The Glass Word (Y)
*China Mieville - Un Lun Dun (Y)
Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
[June]Virginia Woolf - The Waves
Sharon Dogar - Waves
*Herman Melville - Moby Dick
F.E. Higgins - The Little Black Book of Secrets (Y)
Yankev Glatshteyn - Emil and Karl (Y)
Beverley Birch - Rift (Y)
Samuel Richardson - Pamela
[May]Amelie Nothomb The Life of Hunger
William Mayne - Midnight Fair (Y)
Anne Fine - The Other Darker Red (Y)
Cynthia Voigt - Tell me If the Lovers are Losers (Y)
Tom Becker - Darkside (Y)
Frank Cottrell Boyce - Millions (Y)
Robert Cormier - Tunes for Bears to Dance to (Y)
*Carlo Levi - Christ Stopped at Eboli
Diana Wynne Jones - The Game (Y)
J.M. Coetzee - Youth
Derek Landy - Skulduggery Pleasant (Y)
Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red
Lois Lowry - Gathering Blue (Y)
Truman Capote - Summer Crossing
Leigh Sauerwein - Song for Eloise
Gilbert Adair - A Closed Book
Diana Wynne Jones - Deep Secret
Dag Solstad - Shyness and Dignity
M.T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol 1. The Pox Party. (Y)
Frank Cottrell Boyce - Framed (Y)
Phillipa Pearce - The Little Gentleman (Y)
Jenny Valentine - Finding Violet Park (Y)
Cynthia Lord - Rules (Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - The Time of the Ghost (Y)
Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time
Patrick Watson - Wittgenstein and the Goshawk: A Fable (Y)
H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man
Richard Powers - The Echo Maker
[April]Elizabeth Goudge - The Little White Horse (Y)
Lois Lowry - Messenger (Y)
Lois Lowry - The Hundreth Thing about Caroline (Y)
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
Lois Lowry - Gossamer (Y)
Lois Lowry - The Giver (Y)
Frederick Manning - Her Privates We
Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia (Y)
Jacqueline Wilson - Midnight (Y)
Amelie Nothomb - The Character of Rain
Mal Peet - Tamar
Jacqueline Wilson - Secrets (Y)
Paul Magrs - Exchange (Y)
Graham Marks - How it Works (Y)
Eve Garnett - The Family from One End Street (Y)
Kai Meyer - The Stone Light (Y)
Kai Meyer - The Flowing Queen (Y)
Markus Zusak - I am the Messenger (Y)
Cynthia Voigt - Homecoming (Y)
Philip Reeve - Larklight: Or the Revenge of the White Spiders! or to Saturn's Rings and Back! A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space (Y)
Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea
Margaret Macallister - The Octave of Angels (Y)
Jan Mark - Dream House (Y)
Adele Geras - Other Echoes
Diana Wynne Jones - Unexpected Magic (Y)
Jacqueline Wilson - Clean Break (Y)
Betsy Byars - Cracker Jack (Y)
Betsy Byars - The Cybil War (Y)
Rumer Godden - The Greengage Summer (Y)
[March]Colm Tóibín - The Heather Blazing
Diana Wynne Jones - Hexwood (Y)
Jacqueline Wilson - Candy Floss (Y)BR> Peter Dimock - A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family
Jan Mark - Stratford Boys (Y)
Jacqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracy Beaker (Y)
Jacqueline Wilson - The Diamond Girls (Y)
Raymond Queneau - The Flight of Icarus
Diana Wynne Jones - Power of Three (Y)
Jan Mark - The Electric Telepath (Y)
*Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
Albert Camus - The Outsider
E.M. Foster - A Room with a View
Jacqueline Wilson - Lola Rose (Y)
Jacqueline Wilson - The Lottie Project (Y)
Andre Gide - The Immoralist
Jacqueline Wilson - Double Act (Y)
Amelie Nothomb - The Book of Proper Names
Jean-Phillipe Toussaint - Television: A Novel
Geraldine MacCaughrean - The Stones Are Hatching (Y)
Thomas Bernhard - Wittgenstein's Nephew
John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
Jan Mark - Turbulence (Y)
Jacqueline Wilson - The Illustrated Mum (Y)
Susie Morgenstern - It Happened at School (Y)
Claire de Duras - Ourika
Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
Per Pettersen - Out Stealing Horses
Ismail Kadare - Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Graham Greene - The Captain and the Enemy
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
Graham Greene - The Tenth Man
Maya Gold - Harriet the Spy: Double Agent (Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - The Crown of Dalemark< (Y)BR> Daniel Defoe - The Fortunate Mistress, or, Roxana
Neil Gaiman - Coraline (Y)
Anne Fine - Step by Wicked Step (Y)
Adele Geras - Lizzie's Wish (Y)
Jan Mark - Hairs in the Palm of the Hand (Y)
Ursula Le Guin - Voices (Y)
*Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe
[February]Ursula Le Guin - Changing Planes
Joseph Conrad - The Return
J.M. Ledgard - Giraffe
Anne Fine - The Road of Bones (Y)
Adele Geras - Watching the Roses (Y)
D.H. Lawrence - The Daughters of the Vicar
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Janet Taylor Lisle - How I Became A Writer & Oggie Learned to Drive (Y)
Janet Taylor Lisle - Sirens and Spies (Y)
*David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
*John Fowles - A Maggot
Anne Fine - Bad Dreams
Dino Buzzati - The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (Y)
David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
Anne Fine - Up on Cloud Nine (Y)
Anne Fine - The True Story of Christmas (Y)
*Patricia Duncker - Hallucinating Foucault
Patrik Ourednik - Europeana
Anne Fine - The Book of the Banshee (Y)
Ursula Le Guin - Gifts (Y)
Jonathon Coe - The House of Sleep
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Eudora Welty - The Robber Bridegroom
[January] (in which I reread all seven of the Watch books, and a lot of DWJes)
David Markson - Vanishing Point
Virginia Woolf - Orlando
*William Mayne - A Game of Dark
Antonio Tabucchi - Requiem: A Hallucination
Antonio Tabucchi - Dreams of Dreams
[December]Susan Cooper - Victory (Y)
Ng Yi-Sheng - SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21 Century
*David Markson - Reader's Block
Bernard Malamud -The Assistant
Diana Wynne Jones - The Pinhoe Egg (Y)
Dylan Thomas - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Avi - The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic (Y)
Julian Barnes - The Lemon Table
[November]*Richard Powers - Plowing the Dark
Graham Greene - The Human Factor
*Luis Fernando Verissimo - Borges and the Eternal Orang Utans
William Mayne - The Secondhand Horse and other stories (Y)
Avi- Ereth's Birthday (Y)
Avi - Poppy and Rye (Y)
Avi - Poppy (Y)
Nina Bawden - The Secret Passage (Y)
John Updike - Gertrude and Claudius
Angela Carter - Saints and Strangers
Nina Bawden - A Handful of Thieves (Y)
E.L. Konigsburg - About the B'Nai Bagels (Y)
Robert Musil - The Confusions of Young Torless
Graham Greene - The Quiet American
Heinrich Boll - The Bread of Those Early Years
Edith Wharton - The Old Maid
Jean Echenoz - Piano
*Andre Gide - Theseus / Oedipus
Ursula Le Guin - A Very Long Way from Anywhere
Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies
Pamela Dean - Tam Lin
Thomas Bernhard -The Voice Imitator
Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith (Y)
[October]Jan Mark - The Lady with Iron Bones (Y)
*William Mayne - A Parcel of Trees
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
*Christoph Ransmayr - The Dog King
[September]Penelope Farmer - The Summer Birds (Y)
Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men In a Boat
Leon Garfield - The Strange History of Adelaide Harris (Y)
Philip Reeve - A Darkling Plain (Y)
Betsy Byars - The Pinballs (Y)
Richard Wright - Native Son
Virginia Woolf - Carlise's House and other sketches
Jane Langton - The Fledgling (Y)
In what little time remains of the Summer, 2006
*Brooks Hansen - The Chess GardenSpring 2006
**William Mayne - Cuddy
Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Jane Langton - That Fragile Flag (Y)
Jeanette Winterson - Lighthouse Keeping
Vladimir Nabokov - Cloud, Castle, Lake.
Philip Reeve - Infernal Devices (Y)
Valerie Paradiz - Clever Maids
William Mayne - One Year and A Day (Y)
Jane Langton - The Diamond in the Window (Y)
Philip Reeve - Predator's Gold (Y)
*Bertolt Brecht - Collected Stories
Hilary Mckay - Caddy Ever After (Y)
Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Egypt Game (Y)
Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines (Y)
W.G. Sebald - On the Natural History of Destruction
Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
Fall 2005 - Children's Books Sustain me!
Natalie Babbitt - Goody Hall (Y)
Susie Morgenstern - Lettres d'Amour 0 a 10 (Y)
Penelope Farmer - Charlotte Sometime (Y)
Jacqueline Wilson - The Suitcase Kid (Y)
Gary Blackwood - Shakespeare's Spy (Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - The Eight Days of Luke (Y)
Gary Blackwood - Shakespeare's Scribe< (Y)BR> Diana Wynne Jones - Conrad's Fate (Y)
Astrid Lindgren - Emil and Piggy Beast (Y)
Gary Blackwood - The Shakespeare Stealer (Y)
* Hilary Mckay - Permanent Rose (Y)
Erich Kastner - Emil and the Detectives (Y)
**Terry Pratchett - Thud
Summer 2005 - Studying for the Generals
Joseph Conrad - The Secret AgentSpring 2005
Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Hilary McKay - Dolphin Luck (Y)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Marble Faun
Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World
Hilary Mckay - Dog Friday (Y)
Hilary Mckay - The Exiles (Y)
*Hilary Mckay - Indigo's Star (Y)
Hilary Mckay - Practically Perfect (Y)
Hilary Mckay - The Amber Cat (Y)
Hilary Mckay - The Exiles at Home (Y)
Hilary Mckay - The Exiles In Love (Y)
** Hilary Mckay - Saffy's Angel (Y)
Leon Garfield - Mr Corbett's Ghost (Y)Winter 2004
Betsy Byars - The Computer Nut (Y)
Louis Sachar - Someday Angeline (Y)
M.M. Kaye - The Ordinary Princess (Y)
Lois Lowry - Anastasia's Chosen Career (Y)
Hester Burton - Time of Trial
Margaret Mahy - The Good Fortunes Gang (Y)
Nina Bawden - Granny the Pag (Y)
Leon Garfield - The Night of the Comet (Y)
Tim Wynne-Jones - Some of the Kinder Planets (Y)
Karen Hesse - Wish on a Unicorn (Y)
Dick King-Smith - A Mouse Called Wolf (Y)
Joan Aiken - The Shoemaker's Boy (Y)
Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair
Nina Bawden - Rebel on a Rock (Y)
Nina Bawden - The Robbers (Y)
Helen Cresswell - Meet Posey Bates (Y)
E.L.Konigsburg - Altogether, One at a Time (Y)
Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son
Marion Chesney - Snobbery with Violence
E.Nesbit - The House of Arden (Y)
Natalie Babbitt - Kneeknock Rise (Y)
Wonder Tales, ed Marina Warner
Natalie Babbitt - The Search for Delicious (Y)
Alan Garner - The Red Shift (Y)
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting (Y)
David Almond - The Fire-Eaters (Y)
Leon Garfield - The Empty Sleeve (Y)
Fall 2004
Richard Peck - A Long Way From Chicago (Y)Summer 2004
Richard Peck - A Year Down Yonder (Y)
E.L. Konigsburg - T-backs, T-shirts, COAT and Suit. (Y)
Diana Athill - Instead of a Letter
Jan Mark - Nothing to be Afraid of (Y)
Michael Ende - Night of Wishes (Y)
Alex Josey - The David Marshall Trials
Jan Mark - Handles (Y)
Natalie Babbitt - The Devil's Other Story Book (Y)
Natalie Babbitt - The Devil's Story Book (Y)
Helen Ericson - Harriet Spies Again (Y)
Karen Hesse - Witness (Y)
*E.L. Konigsburg - The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (Y)
E.L. Konigsburg - The Second Mrs Giacoma (Y)
E.L. Konigsburg - The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper (Y)
*Leon Garfield - The Apprentices (Y)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Understood Betsy (Y)
Betsy Byars - Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance (Y)
Betsy Byars - Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover (Y)
Betsy Byars - Bingo Brown and the Language of Love (Y)
Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
Helen Cresswell - Bagthorpes Liberated (Y)
Leon Garfield - Footsteps (Y)
Henry Roth - Call it Sleep
*Igancio Padilla - Antipodes
Betsy Byars - The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown (Y)
E. Nesbit - The Book of Beasts (Y)
E. Nesbit - The Cockatoucan (Y)
E. Nesbit - The Town in the Library< (Y)BR> O.E. Rolvaag - Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie
E.L. Konigsburg - A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver (Y)
**Robert Aickman - Collected Strange Stories, Vol 1
**Robert Aickman - Collected Strange Stories, Vol 2
Betsy Byars - The Midnight Fox< (Y)BR> Dorothy Sayers - Whose Body?
Helen Cresswell - Absolute Zero (Y)
[August] Children's books Children's Books!Spring 2004 - Hopefully the last term of not being at schoolPeter Handke - A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
**W.G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn
Anne Fine - Charm School (Y)
Karen Hesse - The Music of Dolphins (Y)
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Peter Handke - The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
E.L. Konigsburg - Silent to the Bone (Y)
Anne Fine - Round Behind the Ice-House (Y)
Leon Garfield - Smith (Y)
E.L. Konigsburg - Journey to an 800 Number (Y)
* Anne Fine - The Flour Babies (Y)
Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native
E.L. Konigsburg - Father's Arcane Daughter(Y)
E.L. Konigsburg - Throwing Shadows(Y)
Anne Fine - A Pack of Liars(Y)
Anne Fine - Goggle-Eyes(Y)
Anne Fine - The Stone Menagerie(Y)
Philip Pullman - Count Karlstein(Y)
Helen Cresswell - Bagthorpes Beseiged(Y)
Anne Fine - Very Different(Y)
Anne Fine - The Summer-house Loon(Y)
Louise Fitzhugh - The Long Secret(Y)
Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky(Y)
Francois Mauriac - The Desert of Love
Karen Hesse - Out of the Dust(Y)
Michael Ende - Ophelia's Shadow Theatre(Y)
Nina Bawden - Devil by the Sea(Y)
Louise Fitzhugh - Sport(Y)
Anne Fine - The Tulip Touch(Y)
E.L. Konigsburg - Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William Mckinley and Me, Elizabeth(Y)
Betsy Byars - The Eighteenth Emergency(Y)
Nina Bawden - Squib(Y)
Helen Cresswell - Bagthorpes Haunted(Y)
Helen Cresswell - Bagthorpes Abroad(Y)
Louis Couperus - Cupid and Psyche
[July]Diana Wynne Jones - Fire and Hemlock(Y)
Helen Cresswell - The Bagthorpe Triangle(Y)
Margaret Mahy - The Haunting(Y)
Albert Camus - The Outsider(Y)
Mary Norton - The Borrowers(Y)
Nina Bawden - Keeping Henry(Y)
Joan Aiken - A Small Pinch of Weather(Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - Dogsbody(Y)
Jose Saramago - Blindness
*Georges Perec - W, or the Memory of Childhood
*Italo Calvino - The Non-Existent Knight
Tor Seidler - Terpin(Y)
E.L. Konigsburg - The View From Saturday(Y)
J.M. Coetzee - The Life and Times of Michael K
Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
Italo Calvino - The Cloven Viscount
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Heart of a Dog
Michael Ende - Momo(Y)
Nina Bawden - The Witch's Daughter(Y)
Italo Calvino - The Baron in the Trees
Helen Cresswell - Lizzie Dripping(Y)
Primo Levi - The Periodic Table
Italo Calvino - Under the Jaguar Sun
Robert Aickman - Cold Hand in Mine
Diana Athill - Stet
Joan Aiken - Midwinter Nightingale(Y)
Michael Ende - The Neverending Story
Nina Bawden - Off the Road(Y)
Jill Paton Walsh/Dorothy Sayers - A Presumption of Death
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Sylvia Waugh - Space Race(Y)
Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit(Y)
Philip K Dick - Collected Stories Vol 3
Helen Cresswell - Bagthorpes V. The World(Y)
Helen Cresswell - Bagthorpes Unlimited(Y)
Nina Bawden - Left in the Dark(Y)
Nina Bawden - The Outside Child(Y)
[June] - two months left! shall get as many children's books in as possible!Sylvia Waugh - Who Goes Home?(Y)
A.S. Byatt - The Little Black Book of Stories
Roderick Townley - The Great Good Thing(Y)
Joan Aiken - A Handful of Gold
Nina Bawden - The Peppermint Pig(Y)
Helen Cresswell - Ordinary Jack(Y)
Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy(Y)
Nina Bawden - Humbug(Y)
Sylvia Waugh - Mennyms Alive(Y)
Halldor Laxness - The Fish Can Sing
Sylvia Waugh - Earthborn(Y)
Tobias Wolff - Old School
Helen Cresswell - The Bongleweed(Y)
Sylvia Waugh - Mennyms Alone(Y)
Sylvia Waugh - Mennyms under Siege(Y)
Sylvia Waugh - Mennyms in the Wilderness(Y)
Sylvia Waugh - The Mennyms(Y)
Max Frisch - Bluebeard: A Tale
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
*Richard Flanagan - Gould's Book of Fish
Helen Cresswell - The Night-Watchmen(Y)
*Joan Aiken - Midnight is a Place(Y)
Russell Hoban - The Marzipan Pig(Y)
Nina Bawden - The Real Plato Jones(Y)
Helga Ruebsamen - The Song and The Truth
*Russell Hoban - The Mouse and His Child(Y)
*Russell Hoban - Frances stories(Y)
*Russell Hoban - The Sea-thing Child(Y)
Robert Aickman - The Wine-Dark Sea
Joan Aiken - Black Hearts in Battersea(Y)
Nina Bawden - The Finding(Y)
Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase(Y)
George Selden - The Cricket in Times Square(Y)
*Richard Powers - The Time of Our Singing
Nina Bawden - Carrie's War(Y)
Jane Yolen - Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast(Y)
Philip Pullman - The Firework Maker's Daughter(Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - Black Maria(Y)
*Thomas Bernhard - Extinction
[May]Winter 2003 - It occurs to me that to follow the UVA school year I should keep a separate Winter record. It is embarrassingly full of Elizabeth Peters, which Yen gave me when I was cooped up convalescent.* Jose Saramago - Baltazar and Blimunda
Danilo Kis - Encyclopaedia of the Dead
Arno Schmidt - Scenes from the Life of a Faun
Alan Garner - The Moon of Gomrath(Y)
Paolo Maurensig - The Luneburg Variation
Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen(Y)
Geof Dyer - But Beautiful
W. Somerset Maugham - Up at the Villa
William Faulkner - Sanctuary
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
Juan Goytisolo - The Garden of Secrets
Philibert Schogt - The Wild Numbers
**Jose Saramago - The Stone Raft
Susan Cooper - Dawn of Fear(Y)
Peter Handke - On a Dark Night I left My Silent House
Susan Cooper - The Boggart and the Monster(Y)
[April]*Ignacio Padilla - Shadow without a Name (Amphitryon)
Marcel Moring - The Dream Room
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Innocent Erendita and other stories
Graham Greene - England Made Me
Diana Wynne Jones - The Homeward Bounders(Y)
Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
Alan Garner - The Owl Service(Y)
Max Frisch - Homo Faber
Primo Levi - The Mirror Maker
Neil Gaiman - Stardust(Y)
Peggy Christian - The Bookstore Mouse(Y)
*Alan Garner - Elidor(Y)
Philip K Dick - Collected Short Stories - Vol 1.
Dorothy Sayers - Clouds of Witness
Harry Mulisch - Siegfried[March]
** William Faulkner - Light in August
Iris Murdoch - The Green Knight
Jose Saramago - All the Names
* Jorge Luis Borges - This Craft of Verse
Jane Austen - History of England
Iris Murdoch - The Bell
Yann Martell - Self
Bernhard Schlink - The Reader
Max Frisch - Man in the Holocene
Wee Kim Wee - Glimpses and Reflections
Edith Wharton - The Reef
Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
*J.M. Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians
Roddy Doyle - A Star Called Henry
*George Eliot - Middlemarch
* W.G. Sebald - Austerlitz
[February]Andre Gide - Strait is the Gate
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Tobias Wolff - The Barracks Thief
Diana Wynne Jones - Archer's Goon(Y)
Margaret Atwood - Good Bones
C.K. Stead - Talking about O'Dwyer
Iris Murdoch - Under the Net
Diana Wynne Jones - The Merlin Conspiracy (Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - Year of the Griffin(Y)
ane Austen - Persuasion
Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford
E.M. Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread
* Diana Wynne Jones - Dark Lord of Derkholm(Y)
Alan Judd - The Devil's Own Work
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Of Love and Other Demons
Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase
Philippa Pearce - Shadow-Cage(Y)
V.S. Naipaul - The Mystic Masseur
Iris Murdoch - A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Philip Pullman - Clockwork(Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - Castle in the Air(Y)
*Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle(Y)
Philip K. Dick - Collected Stories Vol 5
* Diana Wynne Jones - A Tale of Time City(Y)
Susan Cooper - Greenwitch
Elizabeth Peters - Children of the Storm
Susan Cooper - Silver on the Tree(Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - The Magicians of Caprona(Y)
Ian Serrailler - The Silver Sword(Y)
Dick King-Smith - Spider Sparrow(Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - Mixed Magics(Y)
[January]*Diana Wynne Jones - The Lives of Christopher Chant(Y)
*Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life(Y)
Isak Dinesen - Ehrengard
Diana Wynne Jones - Witch's Business(Y)
Louis Sachar - Holes(Y)
Diana Wynne Jones - Witch Week(Y)
* Susan Cooper - King of Shadows(Y)
Shusaku Endo - Wonderful Fool
Elizabeth Peters - The Golden One
* Susan Cooper - The Grey King(Y)
Beverly Cleary - Jean and Johnny(Y)
* Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising(Y)
Elizabeth Peters - Lord of the Silent
Elizabeth Peters - Thunder in the Sky
Norton Juster - Alberic the Wise(Y)
Elizabeth Peters - The Last Camel Died at Noon
Philip K. Dick - Collected Stories, Vol 4
Elizabeth Peters - Seeing a Large Cat
Elizabeth Peters - The Falcon in the Portal
Elizabeth Peters - The Ape Who Guards the Balance
Elizabeth Peters - The Hippopotamus Pool
Philip K Dick - Collected Stories, Vol 2
Elizabeth Peters - The Snake, The Crocodile and The Dog
Elizabeth Peters - The Mummy Case
Elizabeth Peters - The Curse of the Pharaohs
Elizabeth Peters - Lion in the Valley
Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank
Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass(Y)
Ursula K Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife(Y)
Fall 2003 - The one where I'm not at school *scowl*
Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass(Y)2003 - The Summer between
Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero(Y)
* Richard Powers - Gain
Philip Pullman - I was a Rat(Y)
Katherine Mansfield - In a German Pension
Thomas Hardy - Fellow Townsmen
*Louis MacNeice - The Strings are False
William Maxwell - They Came Like Swallows
David Lodge - Home Truths
* Iris Murdoch - A Word Child
George Orwell - 1984
W.G. Sebald - Vertigo
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Doris Lessing - London Observed/The Real Thing
Charlotte Bronte - Villette
Fred Uhlman - The Reunion
Saul Bellow - The Actual
Jasper Fforde - The Well of Lost Plots
Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin
Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment
Graham Greene - The Third Man
*Hugo Claus - The Sorrow of Belgium
* George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
Penelope Lively - Perfect Happiness
Ursula Le Guin - The Other Wind(Y)
Jostein Gaarder - Vita Brevis
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Primo Levi - Moments of Reprieve
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
Penelope Lively - According to Mark
Ursula Le Guin - Tales from Earthsea(Y)
* Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men(Y)
Anthony Burgess - One Hand Clapping
J ose Saramago - The Tale of the Unknown Island
Ursula Le Guin - Tehanu(Y)
Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveller
Ursula Le Guin - The Farthest Shore(Y)
Ursula Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan(Y)
Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams - So long, and Thanks for all the Fish
David Lodge - Thinks
Douglas Adams - Life, The Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Milan Kundera - Ignorance
Ursula Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea(Y)
Julian Barnes - England, England
Goethe - Elective Affinities
Christopher Wilkins - The Horizontal Instrument
*Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
Ian McEwan - The Daydreamer(Y)
Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Jasper Fforde - Lost in a Good Book
Italo Calvino - The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Katherine Mansfield - The Garden Party and other stories
Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Ursula Le Guin - Orsinian Tales
Dorothy Sayers - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
reread half the Five Findouters series - oh childhood!
Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
Philip Roth - The Prague Orgy
Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair
Willem Elsschot - Cheese
Penelope Lively - Beyond the Blue Mountains
Nikolai Gogol - The Overcoat and Other Stories
Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring
Voltaire - Candide
Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger
Margriet de Moor - First Grey, Then White, Then Blue
Hermann Hesse - The Journey to the East
Roddy Doyle - The Snapper
Graham Greene - A Sort of Life
Peter Taylor - The Old Forest and Other Stories
Nicholson Baker - The Everlasting Story of Nory (Y)
Isak Dinesen - Anecdotes of Destiny
Margaret Edson - Wit
Gustave Flaubert - A Simple Heart
Dorothy Sayers - Have His Carcase
Hella Haase - Forever a Stranger and other stories
Dorothy Sayers - Five Red Herrings
*Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
Anne Carson - The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Nick Bantock - The Forgetting Room
W.G. Sebald - The Emigrants
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Agota Kristof - Yesterday
* Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
Dostoevsky - The Best Short Stories of
Pat Barker - The Eye in the Door
* Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot
Pat Barker - The Man Who Wasn't There
Martin Amis - Night Train
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
A.S. Byatt - Angels and Insects
2003 - Last Semester!
Nicholson Baker - The Mezzanine
Iris Murdoch - Something Special
** Dorothy Sayers - Gaudy Night
James Hynes - The Lecturer's Tale
Pat Barker - The Ghost Road
Margriet de Moor - The Virtuoso
Oscar van den Boogaard - Love's Death
Jona Oberski - Childhood
Willem Elsschot - Villa des Roses
Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents(Y)
** Francis Spufford - The Child That Books Built
** Terry Pratchett - Night Watch
2002 - Winter Break
Philip Roth - The Dying Animal
Truman Capote - A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, The Thanksgiving Visitor
Beverly Cleary - All the Henry Huggins of the series (reread)
Edith Wharton - The Custom of the Country
George Eliot - Silas Marner
*Pat Barker - Regeneration
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Beginning of Spring
Shirley Jackson - Collected Stories
* Tibor Fischer - The Thought Gang
Penelope Fitzgerald - Innocence
Dorothy Sayers - In the Teeth of the Evidence
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Means of Escape
* Eliot Weinberger - Karmic Traces
2002 - Fall Semester at UVA (my 7th and penultimate!)
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Knox Brothers2002 - Summer in Singapore
* Penelope Fitzgerald - The Blue Flower
* Connie Palmen - The Laws
Riddling Tales from around the World, ed Marjorie Dundas
Victorian Fairy Tales, ed. Michael Patrick Hearn
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
Harry Mulisch - The Assault
* Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Gate of Angels
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Golden Child
Martin Amis - Time's Arrow
Edith Wharton - Summer
Dorothy Sayers / Jill Paton Walsh - Thrones, Dominations
Italo Calvino - The Path to the Spiders' Nest
Penelope Fitzgerald - At Freddie's
David Lodge - Changing Places
Dorothy Sayers - Striding Folly
Dorothy Sayers - Hangman's Holiday
*Graham Greene - The End of the Affair
Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
John Fuller - A Skin Diary
Michael Bond - A Bear Called Paddington (Y)
E L Konigsburg - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Cees Nooteboom - All Souls Day
Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
Ivan Turgenev - A Month in the Country
Rosemary Sutcliff - Tristan and Iseult(Y)
David Lodge - Small World
Connie Palmen - The Friendship
Muriel Spark - Reality and Dreams
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Windy Poplars
Tibor Fischer - The Collector Collector
L.M. Mongomery - Anne of the Islands
L.M Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea
John Fuller - Look Twice: An Entertainment
* C.S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces
* Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices
*Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
James Hilton - Goodbye, Mr Chips
Issac Bashevis Singer - The Golem
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop
* Edmondo di Amicis - The Heart of Boyhood
*Harry Mulisch - The Procedure
** Harry Mulisch - The Discovery of Heaven
C.S. Lewis - Of This and Other Worlds
J.R.R Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
Pu Songling - Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio
Richard Powers - Galatea 2.2
Umberto Eco - How to Travel with a Salmon
Terry Pratchett - The Truth
C.S. Lewis - Letters to Children
2002 - Spring semester of 3rd year at UVA
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - The Little Lame Prince(Y)
* Patricia A McKillip - The Riddle Master of Hed(Y)
Patricia A McKillip - Heir of Sea and Fire(Y)
Patricia A McKillip - Harpist in the Wind(Y)
*James Thurber - The Wonderful O
Kate Bernheimer - Mirror Mirror On the Wall
*Michelle Magorian - Good Night, Mister Tom (reread)
*Salman Rushdie - Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Y)
E Nesbit - The Phoenix and the Carpet(Y)
Max Luthi - On the Nature of Fairy Tales
Elizabeth Wanning Harries - Twice Upon a Time
Spenser - Faerie Queene I II and III
Dante - Inferno
Virgil - The Aeneid
Homer - The Odyssey
Winterbreak 2001
David Markson - Wittgenstein's Mistress
Dorothy Sayers - The Nine Tailors
Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent
**Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time
Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures
Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites
Terry Pratchett - Jingo
Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum
Terry Pratchett - Maskerade
2001 Fall Semester 3rd Year
** Cees Nooteboom - In the Dutch Mountains
Nick Bantock - Griffin and Sabine
Nick Bantock - Sabine's Notebook
Nick Bantock - The Golden Mean
William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom
* James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Cees Nooteboom - A Song of Truth and Resemblance
Cees Nooteboom - Philip and The Others
*Cees Nooteboom - Rituals
John Fuller - The Worm and the Star
Marie de France - Lais
Eugene O'Neill - Long Day's Journey Into Night
Samuel Beckett - Endgame
Jean Rhys - The Wide Sargasso Sea
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Buchi Emecheta - The Bride Price
Wole Soyinka - Death and the King's Horseman
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Terry Pratchett- Small Gods
Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times
Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies
Terry Pratchett - Pyramids
Terry Pratchett - Sourcery
Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett - Hogfather
Terry Pratchett - Eric
* Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett - Mort
* Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
Terry Pratchett - Guards, Guards
Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay
Terry Pratchett - Soul Music
Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
J.R.R Tolkien - The Hobbit(Y)
Summer 2001
Milan Kundera - Identity
Jeanette Winterson - The Powerbook
* A.S. Byatt - On Histories and Stories
* Selected Letters of James Thurber
Nick Bantock - The Museum at Purgatory
The Penguin book of The City
Martin Amis - The Rachel Papers
Chretien de Troyes - Arthurian Romances
**Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story
*Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
Roald Dahl - Going Solo
Terry Prachett - Witches Abroad
Graham Swift - Waterland
Northrop Frye - The Secular Scripture
** John Fuller - Flying to Nowhere
* Roberto Calasso - The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
* Christoph Ransmayr - The Last World
Spring 2001 (trudging through
2nd year at UVA)
Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop
Angela Carter - Expletives Deleted
James Thurber - The Years with Ross
Gods and Mortals - Modern Poems on Classical Mythology
William Gass - On Being Blue
*James Thurber - The White Deer
Conversations with James Thurber
Henry Cecil - Daughters in law
Henry Cecil - The Asking Price
Henry Cecil - Ways and Means
Jeanette Winterson - Written On the Body
James Thurber - Thurber Country
Slavoj Zizek - Looking Awry
*The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Calvin Trillin - American Fried
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
* Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
*The Letters of E.B. White
Winterbreak 2000
i have no idea. i have racked my
brains and can't remember what i read then. i must have, but i don't know
what
Herman Wouk - Majorie
Morningstar
F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender
is the Night
**Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Fall 2000
Summer 2000 (My splendid summer
of children's books!)
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson - Boating for Beginners
James Thurber - Men Women and Dogs
Northrop Frye - The Educated Imagination
Milton - Paradise Lost
Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
Jeanette Winterson - The World and Other Places
*
Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects
*Jeanette Winterson - Art and Lies
Italo Calvino - Marcovaldo, or Seasons in the City
Shore Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Stories of Edith Wharton
Short Stories of E.M. Forster
A.S. Byatt - Sugar and other stories
E Nesbit - The Railway Children
*
E Nesbit - The Treasure Seekers
*
E Nesbit - The Wouldbegoods
*
E Nesbit - Further Adventures of the Treasureseekers
E Nesbit - Five Children and It
Madeleine L’engle - Arm of the Starfish
Madeleine L’engle - The Young Unicorns
*
Madeleine L’engle - Many Waters
Madeleine L’engle - Dance in the Desert
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
Richmal Crompton - William stories
Gerald Durrell - Marrying Off Mother and Other stories
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
John D Fitzgerald – All the Great brain books (rereads)
Noel Streatfeld - Ballet Shoes
Noel Streatfeld - Dancing Shoes
Noel Streatfeld - Gemma the Star
Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
*
David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing
Spring 2000 (ending first year at UVA!)
*Don Marquis - Archy and Mehitabel
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
James Thurber – Fables for our Time
James Thurber – Lanterns and Lances
James Thurber - Credos and Curios
Essays of EB White
Henry Fielding - Tom Jones
Winter 1999
Thomas Pynchon - Crying of Lot 49
Bill Bryson - Mother Tongue (Winter 00)
1999 (Starting out at UVA)
*Tom Stoppard - Arcardia
Henry Cecil - Brothers in Law
**
James Thurber - The Thirteen Clocks
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell - Birds Beasts and Relatives
Gerald Durrell - Zoo in my Luggage
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
J.K Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
1999 Bumming prior to College
*Milan Kundera - The Joke
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Joseph Heller - Something Happened
Philip Roth - When She was Good
Philip Roth - Sabbath’s Theater
*Philip Roth - Deception
Anne Fadiman - Ex Libris
*
Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Joyce Carol Oates - Haunted
Italo Calvino - Numbers in the Dark
Ernest Hemingway – Men without Women
A.S. Byatt - The Matisse Stories
*
C.S. Lewis - Narnia Chronicles
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
George Bernard Shaw - St Joan
Madeleine L’engle - A Wrinkle In Time
*
Madeleine L’engle - A Wind in the Door
Madeleine L’engle - A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L’engle - Dragons in the Waters
1998 - JC2 *
A.S. Byatt - Possession
**
A.S. Byatt - The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye
Philip Roth - Portnoy’s Complaint
Frank McCourt - Angela’s Ashes
Milan Kundera - Slowness
*
Milan Kundera - Life is Elsewhere
Jostein Gaardner - Through a Glass, Darkly
Forrest Carter - The Education of Little Tree
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small things
Saki - The Saki Omnibus
David Gutterson -The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind
1997 - JC1
*W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
Erich Remarque Marquez - All Quiet on the Western Front
J
ulian Barnes - History of the World in 10 1/2 chpters
Salman Rushdie - East. West.
F Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
Philip Roth - Goodbye Columbus
Milan Kundera - Laughable Loves
D.H. Lawrence - Women In Love
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
David Gutterson - Snow Falling on Cedars
Giovanni Guraeshchi - Comrade Don Camillo
Giovanni Guraeshchi - Don Camillo and His Flock
Giovanni Guraeshchi - Duncan and Clotilda
*
Agota Kristof – The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie
William Kotzwinkle - The Bear Went over the Mountain
*
Michael Crichton - Eaters of the Dead
Michael Crichton - Disclosure
*Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker
Paul Gallico - Mrs Harris stories
J
effery Archer - The Fourth Estate
Fynn - Anna and the Black Knight
Fynn - Mister God, this is Anna
Gelsey Kirkland - Dancing on My Grave
Leo Rosten - The Education of Hyman Kaplan
Peter Mayle - A Dog’s Life
George Farquhar - Beaux' Stratagem
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
1993-1996 (RGS days)
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
*Milan Kundera - Immortality
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Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward
*Herman Wouk - City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder
C.S. Lewis – The Screwtape Letters
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Banana Yoshimoto - Lizard
Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton – Sphere
Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton – Congo
*Michael Crichton – Travels
Michael Crichton – Terminal Man
Michael Crichton – Rising Sun
Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
Jostein Gaardner - The Solitaire Mystery
Jostein Gaardner - The Christmas Mystery
George Bernand Shaw – Pygmalion
Thomas Hardy – Far From the Madding Crowd
Alan Paton – Cry the Beloved Country
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
J.B. Priestley – An Inspector Calls
Four Plays by Chekhov
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
**Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
*J.G. Ballard - The Empire of the Sun
Madeleine L’engle - Meet the Austins
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Madeleine L’engle - The Moon By Night
*Madeleine L’engle - A Ring of Endless Light
Bryce Courtenay – The Power of One
Bryce Courtenay - Tandia
Graham Greene - Selected Short Stories
Jostein Gaardner - Sophie’s World
Amy Tan - Joy Luck Club
John Grisham – The Firm
Jeffery Archer – First Among Equals
Jeffery Archer - Not a Penny more, Not a Penny less
Jeffery Archer - Kane and Abel
Jeffery Archer - The Prodigal Daughter
Jeffery Archer - Shall We Tell the President
Jeffery Archer - As the Crow flies
Infancy to Teenage life
Nearly any Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl etc one cares to name.
Some L'Engles.
More Chinese books than English, certainly.