Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers) 75 Books (or more) 2011

Well, of course I'm going to read all the books I planned to read in 2010, and didn't...

Here are the ones I didn't get to last year, plus the 2011 ANZ LitLovers selection. I'll remove them from this list as I read them and put them in comments that show my progress month by month.

YEAR OF EUROPEAN READING #2 (I did make a sizeable dint in this section of the TBR last year (see my blog category Year of European Reading) but there's lots more to go).

FRANCE
1. Germinal by Emile Zola
2. Wandering Star by J.M. Le Clézio (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008)
GERMANY
3. Faust by Wolfgang von Goethe
4. The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
5. Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann and I've also got
6. Siddharta by Herman Hesse
ITALY
7. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
8. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano (winner of the Premio Strega Award, akin to the Man Booker)
9. The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri
10. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
GREECE
12. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
ALBANIA
13. The Concert by Ismail Kadare (winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize 2005)
TURKEY (not exactly European, but...)
14. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2006)
POLAND
15. Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Then some Booker winners, from my collection:

1. Holiday by Stanley Middleton (1974 joint winner)

and two Miles Franklins from a long time ago
1. The Big Fellow by Vance Palmer (1959)
2. The Irishman by Elizabeth O'Conner (1960)

I got almost nowhere with my non-fiction TBR last year so 'will try harder' in 2011. I re-number these as I read them,

2. The Landmark Herodotus edited by Robert B Strassler
3. The Battle for Spain, The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
5. Enid Lyons, Leading Lady to a Nationby Anne Henderson
6. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson, read in conjunction with The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire by Nigel Dalziel
7. Christina Stead, a Biography by Hazel Rowley
8. Doing Life, A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley by Brian Dibble
9. Life Class, The Education of a Biographer by Brenda Niall
10. Daphne Du Maurier by Margaret Forster
11. The Rite of Spring, 75 Years of Music-Making by Martin Buzacott
12. The Vietnam Years, From the Jungle to the Australian Suburbs by Michael Caulfield
13. Australians, Origins to Eureka by Thomas Keneally
14. Other People's Words by Hilary McPhee
15. Great Pioneer Women of the Outback by Susanna de Vries
16. Judy Cassab, a Portrait by Brenda Niall
17. Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
18. Flaws in the Glass by Patrick White
19. The Angel of Grozny by Asne Seierstad
20. Wild Mary by Patrick Marnham
21. These Few Lines by Graham Seal
22. Sydney's Burning by Ian Turner

My Biggie for the year is to start reading the Bible from beginning to end, and I'll be using James L. Kugel's How to Read the Bible to do it.

I'll also source some of the very early titles from 1001 Books You Must Read, probably from Project Gutenberg, I'll read some more of Balzac's short(ish) stories, and I'll continue reading Australian literature old and new as it comes along.

Top priority for ozLit are already on my TBR. I made a good start on reading some of these last year, and you can read my reviews of those on my blog. I've added a couple more.

2. In the New Country by David Foster
3. Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds by Gregory Day
4. The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee (shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Ward)
5. Water under the Bridge by Sumner Locke Elliott
6. Wonders of a Godless World by Andrew McGahan
7. The Children's Writer by Gary Crew
8. The Rose Leopard by Richard Yaxley
9. Ocean Road by Glyn Parry
10. Sunnyside by Joanna Murray-Smith
11. The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling
12. The God of Spring by Arabella Edge
13. An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang
14. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley

ANZ LitLovers Reading Schedule choices for 2011
(I haven't listed the ones I've already read, see http://tinyurl.com/2ez6p48 for the full list).

June: Advance Australia Where? by Hugh Mackay
July: As The Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong (NZ Post Award)
November: Miles Franklin Award winner 2011 (TBA)

There's also about 800 on my To-read list at GoodReads only some of which are duplicated here. I use that TBR to record recommendations from bloggers I read so that I don't forget them - and I've also added all the ones from 1001 Books You Must Read (which took ages but now I can see where I'm going with the list).

There are worse ways to be obsessed....

I'll be watching. Hope you have some good ones to tell everyone about.

Glad to see you back, Lisa!

Welcome back!

January
1. Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C.S.Forester http://tinyurl.com/29fgdg8
2. Beatrix Potter, the extraordinary life of a Victorian Genius, by Linda Lear http://tinyurl.com/2vx4nxj
3. Falling Man by Don De Lillo http://tinyurl.com/22our6k
4. The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer http://tinyurl.com/252bkqt
5. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis http://tinyurl.com/25s2fgr
6. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey http://tinyurl.com/2egdbqd
7. Spinner by Ron Elliott http://tinyurl.com/4nfcs68
8. Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer http://tinyurl.com/4hnwn3q
9. Bereft by Chris Womersley http://tinyurl.com/49xk7fp
10. Distant Music by Lee Langley http://tinyurl.com/4ofqm4h
11. I for Isobel by Amy Witting http://tinyurl.com/4q5f2cg
12. Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther http://tinyurl.com/4r8srwz
13. Benang by Kim Scott http://tinyurl.com/4g8yxwj
14. The Messenger by Yannick Haenel http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10333...
15. That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott http://tinyurl.com/4vl25a7

La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac. My reviews (often more like summaries so that I can remember the content) are only on GoodReads:
1. The Unknown Masterpiece http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/962...
2. The Imaginary Mistress http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/137...
3. A Prince of Bohemia
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/137...
4. The Hated Son
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
5.Sarrasine http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
6.The Red Inn
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
7. Juana http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
8. A Second Home/A Double Life/ A Double Family http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
9. Beatrix http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
10. Domestic Peace http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
11. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
12. El Verdugo http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
13. The Gondreville Mystery/An Historical Mystery http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
14. Louis Lambert http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...
15. Eugenie Grandet http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/962...
16. The Alkahest http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138...

Novellas
1. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, brief review only on GoodReads.

Looking forward to following your reading this year. I also have a large 'to read' list over on GoodReads. It's fairly convenient place to keep an 'I might be interested, but need to know more' sort of list.

Yes, I find GoodReads really good like that...for example, although I have (literally) a couple of thousand books on the TBR shelf there, (because I've entered all the ones I've read/still have to read from 1001 Books You Must Read whether I've got a copy yet or not) - by tagging some of them 'aim to read in 2010' I can then sort them into the order I think I'd like to read them in and mark then off as they're done. I've also tagged some by what prizes they've won so that I can keep tabs of how I'm going working my way through the Booker prize winners, Nobels, Miles Franklins etc.
Lisa
PS What's your moniker on GR? Mine is Lisa Hill

I've sent you a friend request on GR (I'm Kerry Aluf over there). I'm going to have to sort my GR 'to read' list into some sort of order, theres more than 600 books on my list now. My priority reading is the 'books in my house at present' pile.

#7: Can I send you a friend request on GR too, Lisa?

#9 Stasia, please do! Don't forget to answer the GR question I've posed *grin*

***update 2 minutes later***
I've found you there and sent you a friend request - well, I hope it's you!
Lisa

I got it! Thanks!

What GR question?

#11 On GR, you can set it up so that people who initiate friending you have to answer a question that you set for them: this acts as a bit of a restraint on people who just want to gather as many friends as they can to look good. (You know, the ones with 800 'friends' LOL). My Q is easy, all they have to do is visit my blog and they'll work it out straight away.
Lisa

Hi Lisa, happy new year! You have a lot of good books to pick from there - I haven't read many of them but I did really enjoy The Cello Suites in December. (It helps a lot if you are a fan of the suites already.) And I got a fair way into The Battle for Spain in 2008 then got distracted, and lost the thread - it was very dense but well written like his other books.

Do you mind taking me off the emails for ANZLL? The digest still turns up and I keep meaning to tell you! It goes into its own folder and they just pile up. Thanks.

Hope you are far away from the terrible Aussie weather. There was a photo of swimming snakes in the local paper yesterday... ugh.

Thanks Lisa. OK, I tried, but I remember that my login was not my usual yahoo or xtra one - so I can't get into the site! (Probably why I never turned it off when I left the group). I always just got the emails, didn't go to the website.

Hi There

I'm compiling a list of birthdays of our group members. If you haven't done so already, would you mind stopping by this thread and posting yours.

Thanks.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/105833

Reading Progress February
18. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer http://tinyurl.com/4e885dk
19. The Accident by Ismail Kadare http://tinyurl.com/4nqcsqy
20. The Fanfrolico Press by John Arnold http://tinyurl.com/5w8yxnv
21. Potiki by Patricia Grace http://tinyurl.com/5r3rrvc
22. The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre http://tinyurl.com/5s2b3xj
23. Black Glass by Meg Mundell http://tinyurl.com/6bvu8mo
24. The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker http://tinyurl.com/4rj463l

La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac. Some of these are very short indeed so I don't count them as books, even when they are novellas like the Ferragus trilogy. My reviews (often more like summaries so that I can remember the content) are only on GoodReads:

1. The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138352770
2. Z Marcas http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/147693507
3. Ferragus http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/151076652
4. The Duchess of Langeais http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/151278548
5. The Girl with the Golden Eyes http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/151282004

March
Books
25. Mr Shakespeare's Bastard by Richard B. Wright http://wp.me/phTIP-2zF
26. The Help by Kathryn Stockett http://tinyurl.com/4rz4d73
27. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray http://tinyurl.com/4zoznsp
28. The Girl from the Coast, by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
http://tinyurl.com/4jjdwv6
29. An Imaginary Life by David Malouf http://tinyurl.com/4lp38cj

Non Fiction
30. The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker http://tinyurl.com/4arkgwv
31.Alva’s Boy, by Alan Collins http://tinyurl.com/4eg99xo
32. Ochre and Rust by Philip Jones http://tinyurl.com/4o4vayz

Audio Books
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert, read by Humphrey Bower http://tinyurl.com/4onjez6
The Years by Virginia Woolf (no review, I couldn't follow it properly and will read it instead)

Short stories and novellas

The Patience Stone, by Atiq Rahimi, translated by Polly McLean http://tinyurl.com/4jusg6l

From The Complete Stories by David Malouf
Child's Play: Eustace

From The Best Australian Stories, A Ten Year Collection
Still Here by Anna Krien

From La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac
A Passion in the Desert http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/154189126
The Message http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/138353698
The Muse of the Department http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/154243986

April
Books
33. Little People by Jane Sullivan http://tinyurl.com/4xcqkr3
34. Night Street by Kristel Thornell http://tinyurl.com/3kter7u
35. The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold http://tinyurl.com/3ngzu35
36. Wulf by Hamish Clayton http://tinyurl.com/3l3pqx4
37. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser http://tinyurl.com/3q79awr
38 The English Class by Ouyang Yu http://tinyurl.com/3boas7v
39. When Colts Ran, by Roger McDonald http://tinyurl.com/3fl4cwj
40. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft http://tinyurl.com/3c8xkkb
41. Time's Long Ruin by Stephen Orr http://tinyurl.com/3rjrsfj
42. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews http://tinyurl.com/3ftgfuu

Non Fiction
43. Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit by Gerard Windsor http://tinyurl.com/3fwzbjw
44. Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M Norman http://tinyurl.com/3zh288a
45. The Best Australian Essays, a Ten Year Collection http://tinyurl.com/3qzqc7m

Short stories and novellas
Touch by Adania Shibli http://tinyurl.com/3sjnq69
Snake by Kate Jennings http://tinyurl.com/3pam8dy

From La Comedie Humaine by Balzac
Colonel Chabert http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/96211846

May 2011
Fiction
47. Child's Play by David Malouf http://tinyurl.com/3dxud2t
48. Solo by Rana Dasgupta http://tinyurl.com/3prqq5a
49. The Poet by Alex Skovron
50. If on a Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino translated by William Weaver http://tinyurl.com/3ukrglh
51. In Pursuit by Joanna Fitzpatrick http://tinyurl.com/3l5xt5n
52. After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, by Evie Wyld http://tinyurl.com/3vyoonc

Non-fiction
53. The Corpse Walker and Other True Tales from China by Liao Yiwu http://tinyurl.com/3muxelx
54. Peggy Guggenheim by Laurence Tacou-Rumney http://tinyurl.com/3qcj8vn
55. Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, by Alasdair McGregor http://tinyurl.com/3ck39qd

Audio Books
The Northern Clemency by Phillip Hensher, narrated by Carole Boyd http://tinyurl.com/3t594jy
Owls Do Cry, by Janet Frame, read by Heather Bolton http://tinyurl.com/3hnmbzg

Abandoned:
From a Cornish Window by Arthur Quiller-Couch http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9290212-from-a-cornish-window
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/164539825

#20: Nice reading list for May, Lisa. I have Solo at home to read. Maybe some time this year I will actually get to it!