Books read in 2009.
Novels
- Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
- My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
- A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie (lecture)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
- The Plague – Albert Camus
- The Trial – Franz Kafka
- Wandering Star – J. M. G. Le Clezio
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (movie review)
10. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
11. What is the What – Dave Eggers
12. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
13. Sula – Toni Morrison
14. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
15. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (movie review included)
16. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen (movie review included)
17. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
18. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
19. The Stranger – Albert Camus
20. Beloved – Toni Morrison
Drama
21. Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
22. Hamlet – Shakespeare
23. The Crucible – Arthur Miller (mention of movie included)
24. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
Short Stories/novellas
25. The tell-tale heart – Edgar Allan Poe
26. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
27. Memories of My Melancholy Whores – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoires/biographies
28. Escape from Slavery – Francis Bok
29. Living to Tell the Tale – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
30. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
31. The Autobiography of Malcolm X – (As told to) Alex Haley
32. Out of Place – Edward Said
Nonfiction and essays
33. The Slave Ship – Marcus Rediker
34. The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
35. Other Colors – Orhan Pamuk (didn’t read all of essays, but most of them)
Literary Studies
36. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative – H. Porter Abbott
37. How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literacy and Cultural Studies – Robert Dale Parker
38. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction – Jonathan Culler
ahh..great number, with just 4 months down the line..seeing you last years n this years list and your intent to read different genres, i’ll suggest Jm Coetzee, or Haruki Murakami or Sartre or Calvino..
there was year, or actually to be precise two years ago when i read Camus, Kafka, Sartre, Murakami, n Coetzee,n few others, it was the best year in my life..somehow seeing your list makes me nostalgic, i hope few more years like those will follow..
Very impressive list. Looks like you are set to more than double last year’s tally!
@ipatrol, Yes, that’s what I was thinking,too. I hope I read more than double of wha tI read last year, though. Thanks for your comment.
I agree very impressive list Zawan. quite an appetite for reading. Like driftwood, your list makes me nostalgic tot he years when I spent lots of time reading. It somehow brought peace of mind and tranquility. Somehow, one comes out of unique reading a different person! Keep it up …
Thanks Lina, I agree, people who read are more considerate; reading makes one think deeper and more thoughtfully.
Dear Zawan, have you heard of the book given as a gift by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to President Obama upon Obama’s visit to Venezuela last April? I have read a preview about the book some time back. It was written back in the seventies by Edward Galiano from Uruguay. I can not remember the exact title of the book; it ran something like: “Open Arteries of Latin America – 5 Decades of Ripping off a Continent”!! Or something like that!! A few hours following this gesture, the English version of the book was on top list of Amazon, top of “Shakers & Movers” and rated best 14th book out of thousands of books.
If you happen to run across this book, I appreciate if you communicate to me the correct title to be able to locate it. Keep up the reading!
Hi Lina, I remember watching that moment on cnn! The book is Open Veins of Latin America: http://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916
Oh, I missed that although I watch CNN from time to time.
have you heard – on BBC – recently of discovering a copy of the 1st edition of Charles Darwin’s book “The Origin of Species” published 150 years ago? I read the copy was found in a home in England and that only 1250 copies of the book were produced in its 1st print back in 1859. It is assumed that the family who owned this copy bought it when it was published back then and kept it in their library at home!
The copy will be auctioned in the UK and it is estimated that it will bring a price of 10,000 to 15,000 Sterling Pound! This is between 15,000-20,000 US Dollars.
2009 marks the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth.
I hope you are doing well at school? Do you have a summer break?
I have been searching the net for a book to read during my 2 weeks break. I went through your shelf. thinking about an easy reading. which do you recommend The Little Prince or
Totto Chan?