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Sunday, March 07, 2010

From Lynn Barber's An Education

My knowledge of the world was based on Shakespeare, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontes and none of them had a word to say about living on a kibbutz or making Molotov cocktails.

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Books Read 2010

27. Just Kids by Patti Smith (12/19)
26. Evening by Susan Minot (12/9)
25. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (10/30)
24. Annette Vallon by James Tipton (10/10)
23. L'Assommoir by Emile Zola (9/17)
22. Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse #2) by Charlaine Harris (8/9)
21. Looking for Alaska by John Green (8/1)
20. Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1) by Charlaine Harris (7/31)
19. Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (7/29)
18. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (7/25)
17. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (7/5)
16. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (6/24)
15. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (6/7)
14. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (5/24)
13. Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers (5/14)
12. Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942 by Joyce Dennys (4/24)
11. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (4/4)
10. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (3/28)
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (3/19)
8. An Education by Lynn Barber (3/7)
7. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2/27)
6. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2/21)
5. Fables: The Mean Seasons (Vol.5) By Bill Willingham (2/14)
4. Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (2/11)
3. Ignorance by Milan Kundera (2/1)
2. The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel (1/25)
1. French Milk by Lucy Knisley (1/2)

Books Read 2009

37. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffennegger
36. Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
35. The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
34. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (re-read)
33. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
32. The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
31. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
30. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
29. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
28. The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
27. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (re-read)
26. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
25. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
24. The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
23. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
22. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
21. Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
20. The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
19. Watchmen by Alan Moore
18. Life Studies: Stories by Susan Vreeland
17. Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers (vol. 4) by Bill Willingham
16. Fables: Storybook Love (vol.3) by Bill Willingham
15. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
14. The Sandman: Dream Country (vol. 3) by Neil Gaiman
13. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
12. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
11. Murder on the Eiffel Tower: A Victor Legris Mystery by Claude Izner
10. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
9. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
8. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
7. Fables: Animal Farm (vol.2) by Bill Willingham
6. The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
5. The Sandman: The Doll House (vol.2) by Neil Gaiman
4. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
3. Fables: Legends in Exile (vol.1) by Bill Willingham
2. The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (vol. 1) by Neil Gaiman
1. Alexandra: The Last Tsarina by Carolly Erickson

Books Read 2008

27. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
26.Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
25. The Romanov Bride by Robert Alexander
24. A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories by Amy Bloom
23. Versailles by Kathryn Davis
22. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
21. The Art Thief by Noah Charney
20. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laura Viera Rigler
19. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
18. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
17. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
16. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
15. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
14. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
13. Kafka was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard
12. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
11. Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
10. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilber
9. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
8. To Dance With Kings by Rosalind Laker
7. Persuasion by Jane Austen
6. Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence
5. Identity by Milan Kundera
4. The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
3. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in 2 Acts by Samuel Beckett
2. Taming the Tiger Within by Thich Nhat Hanh
1. The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

Books Read 2007

25. The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett
24. The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
23. The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
22. Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir
21. The Sidewalk Artist by Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk
20. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
19. The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
18. Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
17. No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July
16. Austenland by Shannon Hale
15. At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
14. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
13. A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath by Nancy Hunter Steiner
12. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
11. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
9. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
8. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
7. You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
6. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield
4. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
3. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
2. Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Women Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade
1. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory