Tuesday, January 5, 2010

2009 (+) Pages Turned

Following the trend, I decided to pull together the list of books I've read over the past year. My list of "to read" books grows faster than I can read them, but I'd still love to hear the number one "must read" book you think I should tackle in 2010.

Cheers!

Reading List 2009

Adorno – The Culture Industry
Alvarez – In the Time of the Butterflies
Aristotle – On Poetics
Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation (Glaser)
Bauer – The Well-Educated Mind
Benjamin – Illuminations
Blake – "The Book of Urizen"
Blake – "Visions of the Daughters of Albion"
Blake – "Milton"
Bloom – Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Braddon – Lady Audley’s Secret
Camus – “Myth of Sisyphus”
Camus – The Rebel
Camus – Reflections on the Guillotine
Coetzee – Waiting for the Barbarians
Collins – The Woman in White
Cooper – Over Sea, Under Stone
Cooper – The Dark is Rising
Cooper – Greenwitch
Cooper – The Grey King
Cooper – Silver on the Tree
Cosby – Cosbyology
Dickens – Great Expectations
Dickens – The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dostoevsky – The Idiot (Garnett/Yuffa)
Durkheim – The Division of Labor
Eagleton – Literary Theory: An Introduction
El Saadawi – Woman at Point Zero
Eliot – The Lifted Veil
Everts – God in the Flesh
Fanon – Peau noir, masques blancs
FitzGerald – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Frye – Fearful Symmetry
Gaddis – The Cold War: A New History
Garcia-Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera (Grossman)
Hardy – Jude the Obscure
Havel – Temptation (?)
Homer – The Iliad (Butler)
Homer – The Odyssey (Butler)
Ionesco – Les Chaises
Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany
Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
Jones – Mister Pip
Joyce – Dubliners
Kincaid – Autobiography of My Mother
Kotlowitz – There Are No Children Here
L’Engle – The Arm of the Starfish
LeGuin – Lavinia
Levitt/Dubner – Freakonomics
Li – The Vagrants
Lynch – Catching the Big Fish
Marks – Cortés
Morrison – A Mercy
Nafisi – Things I Have Been Silent About
Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife
O’Brien – The Things They Carried
Paolini – Brisingr
Paolini – Eldest
Paolini – Eragon
Picoult – Harvesting the Heart
Ragland-Sullivan/Bracher – Lacan and the Subject of Language
Ramazani – The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale
Rivers – Leota’s Garden
Rodley – Lynch on Lynch
Roose – The Unlikely Disciple
Roy – The God of Small Things
Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
Said – Orientalism
Shakespeare – As You Like It
Shakespeare – Henry IV, p. 2
Shakespeare – Henry VI, p. 1
Shakespeare – Henry VI, p. 2
Shakespeare – Henry VI, p. 3
Shakespeare – Henry VIII
Shakespeare – King John
Shakespeare – Richard II
Shakespeare – Venus and Adonis
Shaw – Pygmalion
Shusterman – Unwind
Stoker – Dracula
Tolan – The Lemon Tree
Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Valette/Morgenroth – C’est de la prose
Walcott – Selected Poems
Weir – Eleanor of Aquitaine
Weir – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Winter – Perfecting Ourselves to Death
Wood – East Lynne
Wrong – In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz

*Books in bold are the ones I especially liked.
*Names in parentheses are translators.

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