almigwin's 2008 reading

Below is a list of my reading in 2008, partially copied from the 50 book challenge. I have omitted the translators and the original languages, but I will include them in the future. Some are in the order remembered, not in the order read. The classics and the cookbooks are rereadings.

1. Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage by Tom Stoppard
2. The Dower House by Annabel Davis-Goff
3. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd
4. The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
5. Into the Wilderness by Rosina Lippi
6. The age of fallibility : the consequences of the war on terror by George Soros (Corrections follow)
6.1 The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
6.2. Guns germs and steel by Jared diamond
6.3. The Struggle for africa by Thomas Packenham
7. Goodbye Piccadilly by Patricia Burns
8. The Mordecai Trilogy by Kyril Bonfiglioli
9. The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
10. The Moonlight Bride by Buchi Emecheta
11. The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
12. Leonardo's Judas by Leo Perutz
13. Turlupin. by Leo Perutz
14. The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
15. Lost tribe : Jewish fiction from the edge by Paul Zakrzewski
16. Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
17. Another marvelous thing by Laurie Colwin
18. Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie
19. The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith
20. The din in the head : essays by Cynthia Ozick
21. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
22. Last call by Tim Powers
23. The Republic, Apology, Crito by Plato
24. Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
25. Dancing to Almendra by Mayra Montero
26. The Aaronsohn Saga by Shmuel Katz
27. Stranger Shores: Literary Essays by J. M. Coetzee
28. The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
29. Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
30. A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
31. Splitting by Fay Weldon
32. Original Bliss by A. L. Kennedy
33. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
34. Paradise by A. L. Kennedy
34.1 Night Geometry and the Garskadden Trains by A. L. Kennedy
35. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
36.1-36.4 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, also
Morality for Beautiful Girls, the Tears of the Giraffe
The kalahari Typing School for Men
37. Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
38. Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
39. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
40. A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble
41. The romantics : a novel by Pankaj Mishra
42. Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom
43. The art of the Story and The art of the Tale edited by Daniel Halpern
44. The Death of Achilles: A Novel by Boris Akunin
45. Vivian Grey by Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
46.The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
47. The Road to Samarcand: An Adventure by Patrick O'Brian
48. Matters of Honor by Louis Begley
49. Wartime lies by Louis Begley
50. About Schmidt by Louis Begley
51. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
52. Household Words: A Novel by Joan Silber
53. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Nathan Englander
54. The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
55. The Yacoubian Building: A Novel by Alaa Al Aswany
56. The Oxford Book of Short Stories by V.S. Pritchett
57. The Renaissance of Italian cooking by Lorenza De'Medici
58. The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth… by Hayden Carruth
59. (previous error)
The Homecoming by by Harold Pinter
60. Independent People by Halldór Laxness
61. Fire in the Blood Irene Nemirovsky
62. A Family and a Fortune by Ivy Compton-Burnett
63. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
64. Homestead by Rosina Lippi
65. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
66. The Flight from the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch
67. The fading smile : poets in Boston, 1955-1960 from Robert Frost to… by Peter Davison
68. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
69. Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
70. Craig Claiborne's A feast made for laughter by Craig Claiborne
71. The flowering thorn by Margery Sharp
72. Great Soviet Short Stories by F. D. Reeve
73. The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
74. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
75. The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture by Ruth Wisse
76. Where or when : a novel by Anita Shreve
77. The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
78. Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford - A Portrait of a Contradictory… by Laura Thompson
79. The motorcycle betrayal poems by Diane Wakoski
80. Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987 by Diane Wakoski
81. Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
82. Regeneration by Pat Barker
83. Birdsong Charlotte gray and Three Englishmen by Sebastian Faulks,
84. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
85. Life class by Pat Barker
86. Diary of a bad year by J. M. Coetzee
87. Joshua and Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust by Michael Benanav
88. The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
89. The way I found her by Rose Tremain
90. The stone of chastity by Margery Sharp
91. The Colour by Rose Tremain
92. Poetry by Gertrud Kolmar
93. Sämtliche Erzählungen by Ingeborg Bachmann
94. Mother Tongue: Selected Poems by Rose Auslander
95. O the chimneys by Nelly Sachs
96. Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
97. The sun in Scorpio by Margery Sharp
98. Consequences by Penelope Lively
99. Lise Lillywhite by Margery Sharp
100. Essential Talmud by Adin Steinsaltz
101. The thirteen petalled rose by Adin Steinsaltz
102. Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
103. Once in Europa by John Berger
104. Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates
105. When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
106. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
107. Pig Earth by John Berger
108. Keeping a Rendezvous by John Berger
109. Lilac and flag : an old wives' tale of a city by John Berger
110. Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
111. The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan
112. Lord Hornblower by C. S. Forester
113. Flying Colours by C. S. Forester
114. Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester
115. Mario Batali Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages by Mario Batali
116. Hornblower : Beat to Quarters by C. S. Forester
117. A fortunate man by John Berger
118. The garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
119. Mr. Stacey Rumford's hounds by R. S. Surtees (corrected)
120. My friend Monica. by Jane Duncan
121. Hornblower and the Atropos by C. S. Forester
122. The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
123. Hornblower and the Hotspur and
123.1 Lieutenant Hornblower by C. S. Forester Corrected)
124. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester
125. Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester
126. Otherwise: New & Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon
127. To the Boathouse: A Memoir by Mary Ann Caws
128. Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
129. 20th Century French Poetry by Mary Ann Caws
130. Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing by Mary Ann Caws
131. The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
132. The Collected Stories of Arno Schmidt
133. The Novels of Jean Rhys
134. My friends the Miss Boyds. A novel. by Jane Duncan
135. There a Nutmeg in the House? by Elizabeth David
136. An omelette and a glass of wine by Elizabeth David
137. Writing at the kitchen table : the authorized biography of Elizabeth… by Artemis Cooper
138. This cold country by Annabel Davis-Goff
139. Liquidation by Imre Kertész
140. Europe at war : 1939-1945 : no simple victory by Norman Davies
141. Paper Chase by James Bridges
142. The piano teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
143. The fatal Englishman : three short lives by Sebastian Faulks
144. Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha C. Nussbaum
145. The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešic
146. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
147. Cambridge Companion to james joyce
148. A writer at war : Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
149. Martha Gellhorn : a life by Caroline Moorehead
150.-150.3 Three volumes of the diaries: I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941, 1941-1945, 1945-1949 by Victor Klemperer
151. The shadow catcher : a novel by Szczypiorski, Andrzej (corrected)
152. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
153. The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn by Martha Gellhorn
154. Colcorton by Edith Pope
155. Ask mamma by R.S. Surtees
156. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by David M. Glantz
157. Russia at War: 1941-1945 by Alexander Werth
158. That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
159. The road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively
160. Dr. Norton's Wife by Mildred Walker
161. Winter wheat by Mildred Walker
162. The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time by Phyllis Rose
**Lots of Cookbooks: Giuliani bugialli, anna del conte, Ken Hom, Elizabeth Schuler, Artusi, Jean Anderson, Joyce Goldstein, Nancy Silverton, Diana Kennedy, Penelope Casas, Elizabeth David, Fuchsia Dunlop, etc.
163. Martha and George by Margery Sharp
164. Martha in Paris
165. Collected Novellas by Arno Schmidt
166. Bosnian Chronicles by ivo Andric
167. kaddish for a child unborn by imre kertesz
168. The Assault by Harry Mulisch
169. Julie and Julia by julie Powell
170. The granta book of the short story ed. by Richard Ford
171-173 Several books by Jane Duncan (Cameron)
174. In Another Country by John Bayley
175. khodasevich biography by Bethea
176. herman Broch biography by Duslewitz
177. The Accompanist by Nina Berberova
179. The Russian Jews under the Tsars and the Soviets by Salo Wittmayer Baron
180. The Woman of Sarajevo by Ivo Andric
181. At Night under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz
182. Swimming in the sea of Death by david Rieff
183. Twilight of Love by Robert Dessaix
184. Last Call by Harry Mulisch
185. Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
186. The Unofficial rose by Iris Murdoch
187. Iris Murdoch by Peter Conradi
188. Existentialists and Mystics by Iris Murdoch
189. Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
190. The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
191. Keeping a Rendezvous by John Berger
192. Kissinger by Walter Isaacson
193. Consequences by Penelope Lively
194. Something Light by Margery Sharp
195. The Sun in Scorpio by Margery Sharp
195.1 Sacred country by Rose Tremain
196. After Every War edited by Eavan Boland
197. The Stone of Chastity by Margery Sharp
198. Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
199. Fiction from Esquire edited by Gordon Lish
200. Collected Stories by Noel Coward
201. Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
202. Collected Poems by Adelaide Crapsey
203. Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
204. The Best day and the Worst Day by Donald Hall
205. Women of Bloomsbury by Mary Ann Caws
206. World Literature Vols I and II ed by Mary Ann Caws
207. My Friends the Miss Boyds by Jane Duncan
208-210. The Nymph and the Nobleman, Sophie Cassamajor and Tigress Of the hearth by Margery Sharp (In one volume called three companion pieces)
211. No Simple Victory by Norman Davies
212. The Tattered Cloak and other stories by Nina Berberova

Edited to replace author of Paradise: A.L. Kennedy not Toni Morrison,
and to add more of the alexander McCall Smith series among other corrections

Hallo almigwin and thanks so much for posting that list - it's very impressive indeed!

I haven't digested it all of it yet, but I would be interested to hear what you thought of Disobedience and Homecoming - I have read the former but not the latter. Many thanks!

P.S. I generally get close to around 200 a year, but perhaps I'll take on your 250 challenge in 2009! Let's see...

Carolyn, i have strong memories of Disobedience because I have never read anything that combined lesbianism with judaism. coming out is difficult enough, without religions that disapprove. I thought it was well done, but not great literature.

I don't remember Homecoming at all. I will have to see if I can find it to refresh my memory. I haven't filed many piles of books, so finding things is hard.

The reason I couldn't remember Homecoming is because I had the wrong one listed. I never read or even knew about the Cynthia Voigt. I copied it from a touchstone mistake. I hope there are not a lot of those in my list, but I think not. The Homecomings I read were the Pinter play which I love, love, love, and the Bernhard Schlink which I thought was so so but not as good as The Reader.

Continuing the list:
213. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell (The story of cooking thru all of the recipes in vol i of mastering the art of french cooking by Julia Child).
214:
Various uncounted cookbooks:
Bouchon by Thomas keller
Bistro Cooking by Patricia Wells
The Land of Plenty - Sichuan Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop
German Cooking by Jean Anderson
My Cookbook - German cooking by Elizabeth Schuler
Jewish Holiday Baking by Joan Nathan
From Julia's Kitchen by Julia Child
the French Chef by Julia Child
Les Halles by Anthony Bourdain
Fragrant Harbor Taste by Ken Hom
Le Cucina of Le Marche by Fabio Tabocchi
All Along the Danube
Simple Italian Cooking by Mario Batali
Molto Mario by Mario Batali
Red White and Green by Faith Willinger
Food for Friends by Barbara Kafka
The Renaissance of Italian Cooking by Lorenza de Medici
The Art of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis
The Pursuit of Flavor by Edna Lewis
The Food of France by Waverly Root
The Food of Italy by Waverly Root

Continuing the cookbook reading; not counting them:
Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenberg and karen Page
Simple French Food by Richard Olney
Illustrated Escoffier
Culinaria Germany
Culinaria European Specialties
215. My Life in France by Julia Child
216. Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell
217. Iris Murdoch by Peter Conradi
218 Iris (the film) with Jim Broadbent and Judi Dench
219. My House in Umbria by William Trevor (film) with Maggie Smith
220. Scoop by Woody Allen (film) with Scarlet Johansen
221. The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
222. The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
223. Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
224. The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchaster
225. The house of Flying Daggers (chinese film)
226. Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
227. The best day and the worst day by Donald Hall
228. Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates
229. By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Peruttz
230. Troilus and Cressida by shakespeare (film)
231. St. Peter's Snow by Leo Perutz
232. Master of the day of judgement by Leo Perutz
233. The Swedish Cavalier by Leo Perutz

234. The Lone Heretic by margaret Rudd
235. Peace in War by miguel de Unamuno
236. Mist by Miguel de Unamuno
237. the Illustrious House of Ramires by Eca de Queiroz
238. The maias by Eca de queiroz

239. Hallucinations: the ill fated peregrinations of fray servando by Reinaldo Arenas
240. Dora Doralina by Rachel de Queiroz
241. Cousin Bazilio by Eca de Queiroz
242. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
243. The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee
244. The Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tzypkin
245. Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
246. Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux
247. Taras Bulba by Nikolai gogol
248. the life and times of Michael K. by j.M. Coetzee
249. The return of Lieutenant Boruvka by Joseph Svorecky
250. Mating by Norman Rush
251. Mortals by norman Rush
252. Night Must Fall by reinaldo arenas

253. Death of a Past Life by Robert N. Reincke (an ARC). See review.

253. The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov
254. The Terra Cotta Army by john Man

255. The making of a chef by Michael Ruhlman.