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1poplin
Hello everyone,
I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring! Here's my list of 2008 reads; I actually started the first one on March 1st (I had some issues before then that made personal reading impossible), but I'm still attempting to reach at least 50 by December 31st.
In case you couldn't tell, I'm also working on 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. All of these books I would have wanted to read anyway, so it's a win-win.
1. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (My review)
2. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (My review)
3. Cormac McCarthy, The Road (My review)
4. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (My review)
5. Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (My review)
6. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (My review)
7. Franz Kafka, The Trial (My review)
8. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (My review)
9. Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum
10. John Banville, The Book of Evidence (My review)
11. Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
12. Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (My review)
13. Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
14. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (My review)
15. W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale (My review)
16. J.M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K (My review)
17. Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
18. Nadine Gordimer, July's People (My review)
19. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
20. Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (My review)
21. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
22. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
23. Samuel Beckett, Molloy
I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring! Here's my list of 2008 reads; I actually started the first one on March 1st (I had some issues before then that made personal reading impossible), but I'm still attempting to reach at least 50 by December 31st.
In case you couldn't tell, I'm also working on 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. All of these books I would have wanted to read anyway, so it's a win-win.
1. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (My review)
2. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (My review)
3. Cormac McCarthy, The Road (My review)
4. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (My review)
5. Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (My review)
6. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (My review)
7. Franz Kafka, The Trial (My review)
8. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (My review)
9. Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum
10. John Banville, The Book of Evidence (My review)
11. Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
12. Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (My review)
13. Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
14. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (My review)
15. W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale (My review)
16. J.M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K (My review)
17. Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
18. Nadine Gordimer, July's People (My review)
19. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
20. Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (My review)
21. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
22. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
23. Samuel Beckett, Molloy
2Kirconnell
Hey, nice list. Glad you threw in your hat. The more the merrier. (smile)
3poplin
Finished #21: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (May 3 - May 6)
I also added links to all the books I've reviewed so far; I plan on reviewing them all in time.
If anyone has any recommendations on what to read next (out of my extensive "to read" list), I'm all ears!
I also added links to all the books I've reviewed so far; I plan on reviewing them all in time.
If anyone has any recommendations on what to read next (out of my extensive "to read" list), I'm all ears!
4marvas
You have to read All quiet on the western front, it's brilliant and devastating. Death in venice is beautiful. And The curious incident of the dog in the night-time unlike anything i'd read before, very moving.
5poplin
Thank you for your suggestions, marvas! I grabbed Molloy to take with me to work this morning, so I guess I'm reading this one for right now, but I going to prioritize the three you recommended. It's so easy to get bogged down in your TBR pile when all of them seem appealing to you, you know?
