because the only thing better than doing it is crossing it off
Filling in the gaps in my education. Or: I have too much free time.
prose read in 2009:
Coetzee, Disgrace
Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Lahiri, The Namesake
Lowell & Bishop, Words in Air
Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Lawrence, Women in Love
Karr, The Liars' Club
D'Erasmo, The Sky Below
Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
du Maurier, Rebecca
Collins, The Woman in White
Hempel, Reasons to Live
McCarthy, The Road
Danielewski, House of Leaves
Chabon, Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Austen, Persuasion
Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Hunt, The Seas
Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
Hamilton, Robert Lowell
Glass, I See You Everywhere
Lennon, Pieces for the Left Hand
Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Wallace, Consider the Lobster
Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry
to read:
Byatt, The Children's Book
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Suskind, Perfume
Smith, White Teeth
Tolstoy, War & Peace
Saramango, Blindness
Collins, The Moonstone
Mann, The Magic Mountain
James, The Golden Bowl
Graves, I, Claudius
Barthelme, Forty Stories
Johnson, Jesus' Son
Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemna
Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Cohen, Amateur Barbarians
Greene, The Heart of the Matter
Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Wright, Native Son
Ellison, Invisible Man
Malamud, The Assistant
Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
Robinson, Housekeeping
Rhys, The Wide Sargasso Sea
Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Murdoch, Under the Net
Yates, Revolutionary Road
Hammett, Red Harvest
Updike, Rabbit, Run
Didion, Play It As It Lays
Melville, Moby-Dick
Steinbeck, East of Eden
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Marquez, 100 Years of Solitude
O'Connor, Wise Blood
Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
Flaubert, A Sentimental Education
Eliot, Middlemarch
Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Borges, Labyrinths
Eco, The Name of the Rose
Némirovsky, Suite Francaise
Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
Tevis, The Wet Collection
Zusak, The Book Thief
Davis, The End of the Story
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
St Augustine, Confessions
Morrison, Beloved
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Capote, In Cold Blood
prose read in 2009:
Coetzee, Disgrace
Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Lahiri, The Namesake
Lowell & Bishop, Words in Air
Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Lawrence, Women in Love
Karr, The Liars' Club
D'Erasmo, The Sky Below
Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
du Maurier, Rebecca
Collins, The Woman in White
Hempel, Reasons to Live
McCarthy, The Road
Danielewski, House of Leaves
Chabon, Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Austen, Persuasion
Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Hunt, The Seas
Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
Hamilton, Robert Lowell
Glass, I See You Everywhere
Lennon, Pieces for the Left Hand
Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Wallace, Consider the Lobster
Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry
to read:
Byatt, The Children's Book
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Suskind, Perfume
Smith, White Teeth
Tolstoy, War & Peace
Saramango, Blindness
Collins, The Moonstone
Mann, The Magic Mountain
James, The Golden Bowl
Graves, I, Claudius
Barthelme, Forty Stories
Johnson, Jesus' Son
Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemna
Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Cohen, Amateur Barbarians
Greene, The Heart of the Matter
Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Wright, Native Son
Ellison, Invisible Man
Malamud, The Assistant
Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
Robinson, Housekeeping
Rhys, The Wide Sargasso Sea
Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Murdoch, Under the Net
Yates, Revolutionary Road
Hammett, Red Harvest
Updike, Rabbit, Run
Didion, Play It As It Lays
Melville, Moby-Dick
Steinbeck, East of Eden
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Marquez, 100 Years of Solitude
O'Connor, Wise Blood
Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
Flaubert, A Sentimental Education
Eliot, Middlemarch
Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Borges, Labyrinths
Eco, The Name of the Rose
Némirovsky, Suite Francaise
Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
Tevis, The Wet Collection
Zusak, The Book Thief
Davis, The End of the Story
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
St Augustine, Confessions
Morrison, Beloved
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Capote, In Cold Blood