Jul 26 2007
Reading Schedule
This list is very much in progress.
By July 31:
- Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote (Dangerously)
- White Mary by Kira Salak
- What Was Lost
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (What’s in a Name)
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder (Themed, booksintranslation)
- Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak (Russian
By August 15:
- Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
- Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Gilmore
By August 31:
- Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa (booksintranslation)
- The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy (Dangerously)
By September 30:
Dracula (RIP3)
Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories (RIP3)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Dangerously)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Graphic Novel, Non-Fiction 5)
Persepolis II by Marjane Satrapi (Graphic Novel, Non-Fiction 5)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Non-Fiction 5)
Biblioholism by Tom Raabe (Non-Fiction 5)
By October 31:
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen, RIP3)
RIP3 selection
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By November 30:
By December 31:
Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis
Perelandra by CS Lewis
Anne of Avonlea (Canadian )
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russian)
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (Pub)
Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Vol. 2 (Russian)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (888, TBR)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (888, Decades)
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (Russian)
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (888)
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (888)
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (888, Around the World, TBR)
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (888, Around the World, TBR)
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (888, Around the World)
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino (888, Around the World, Decades)
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith (888)
The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith (888)
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron (TBR)
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Booker)
The Sandman Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman (Graphic Novel)
Secrets of a Fire King (Short Story)
Washington Square (Decades)
I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak (YA, A-Z)
Sky Burial by Xinran (A-Z)
Remains of the Day by Ishiguro (Booker)
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa As Aswany
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Ideas for 2009:
Loving Sabotage by Amélie Nothomb (136 pages, OL French)
The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch (758 pages, OL German)
Mr Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert (62 pages, OL Polish)
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari (219 pages, OL Japanese)
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (156 pages, OL Spanish)
Stories of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht (109 pages, OL German)
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati (198 pages, OL Italian)
Piano by Jean Echenoz (179 pages, OL French)
The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo (182 pages, OL Spanish)
The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump by Aharon Megged (325 pages, OL Hebrew)
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom (115 pages, OL Dutch)
In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom (128 pages, OL Dutch)
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom (147 pages, OL Dutch)
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau (192 pages, OL French)
Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad (150 pages, OL Norwegian)
The Legends of Khasak by O.V.Vijayan (208 pages, Malayalam)
In the Flesh by Christa Wolf (126 pages, OL German)
Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol (122 pages OL Korean)
Centuria by Giorgio Manganelli (210 pages, OL Italian)
Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso (152 pages, OL Spanish)
The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura by Irmtraud Morgner (515 pages, OL German)
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick (236 pages)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (206 pages)
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain (125 pages)
A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family by Peter Dimock (113 pages)
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (97 pages)
Three Uneasy Pieces by Patrick White (59 pages)
Mischief by Chris Wilson (198 pages)
The Death of the Author by Gilbert Adair (135 pages)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Voss by Patrick White (448 pages)
The Brothers K - Duncan
Cold Mountain
My Name is Asher Lev - Potok
River Rising - Dickson
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, by Donna Partow
The Secret History - Tartt
The Possessed - Dostoevsky
Jean de Florette - Pagnol
Manon of the Spring - Pagnol
Fall on Your Knees - MacDonald
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Albom
Miss Garnet’s Angel - Vickers
The Last Town on Earth - Mullen
The Meaning of Night - Cox
Peter Pan in Scarlet - McCaughrean
Alice Adams - Tarkington
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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August 2nd, 2007 at 4:59 am
I’m reading “Sophie’s World” listed in the Top Prior Books above. Very easy to read and to get an “insight” of Philosophy. Fascinating, enriching.
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:03 am
I also read Mark Haddons “Curious incident” from the medium priority list and loved it.
I’d like to know about Donna Dartt’s “Secret History”. It’s on my pile to read.
August 26th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Read the 5 People ; it’s quick and easy.
I took Things Fall Apart home for hte summer, but didnt’ get it read. It should be in the high school library any time I want it.
I enjoyed the Calvino I read earlier this year and am intrigued by another one
And do I see you haven’t read Anne of GG yet!? Get to it, missy. At least it is in the high priority list. I’ll throw some red dirt in your direction.
December 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I like the way you lay out your book plans for the year. Very fun. I also have the curious incident of the dog in the night-time on my 2008 reading list. It’s gonna be a fun year!
Thanks for the comment you left on my blog!
March 24th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I’m really impressed by your reading schedule - and even more so that you stick to it! I’m taking notes for my own TBR list.
April 5th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Wow, you are so organized!