Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
First, Happy New Year, everyone! 2004 sucked. I hope to God 2005 is better.
Second, will you allow me to brag for just a minute? Last January, I joined 50bookchallenge not sure if I'd be able to meet the goal of reading 50 books in a year. Well, guess how many books I ended up reading?
Books 2004
1. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
2. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
3. Holes by Louis Sachar
4. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
5. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
6. Death: At Death's Door by Jill Thompson
7. Richard the Second by William Shakespeare
8. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
9. Remake by Connie Willis
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
11. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
12. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
13. Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
14. In Youth Is Pleasure by Denton Welch
15. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
16. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
17. Othello by William Shakespeare
18. Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
19. King Lear by William Shakespeare
20. Queens' Play by Dorothy Dunnett
21. I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
22. Close Range by Annie Proulx
23. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
24. River of Shadows by Rebecca Solnit
25. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
26. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
27. Sympathy for the Devil by Holly Lisle
28. All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
29. The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
30. Like the Red Panda by Andrea Seigel
31. Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett
32. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
33. Dante in Love by Harriet Rubin
34. The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett
35. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
36. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
37. Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett
38. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. Faraway So Close by BP Fallon
40. The Stand by Stephen King
41. Into the Heart by Niall Stokes
42. Ranma 1/2: Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
43. Adventures in the Dream Trade by Neil Gaiman
44. Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
45. At the End of the World by Bill Flanagan
46. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
47. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
48. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
49. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
50. Exegesis by Astro Teller
51. Arkansas by David Leavitt
52. Childproof by Roz Chast
53. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
54. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
55. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
56. Family Dancing by David Leavitt
57. Niccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
58. The Four Elements by Roz Chast
59. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
60. Naked by David Sedaris
61. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
62. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
63. While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
64. Song of Susannah by Stephen King
65. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
66. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
67. Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
68. H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
69. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
70. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
71. Ulysses by James Joyce
72. The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
73. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
74. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. & E.W. White
75. Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian
76. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
77. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
78. The Boy Next Door by Meggin Cabot
79. Shadowland by Jenny Carroll
80. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
81. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
82. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
83. Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
84. Book of Bad Songs by Dave Barry
85. The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian
86. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
87. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
88. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
89. Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
90. The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
91. Idlewild by Nick Sagan
92. Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans Ed. Dave Eggers, et. al.
93. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
94. The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian
95. Maurice by E.M. Forster
96. Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian
97. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
98. The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian
99. The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian
100. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
101. The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
102. The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson
103. America (The Book) by Jon Stewart, et. al.
104. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
105. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
106. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
107. McTeague by Frank Norris
108. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
109. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
110. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
111. Watchmen by Alan Moore
112. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
113. Regeneration by Pat Barker
114. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
115. The Thirteen Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
116. Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella
117. The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
118. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
119. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
120. The Truelove by Patrick O'Brian
121. Ireland Past and Present Ed. Brendan Kennelly
122. Literary England by David E. Scherman & Richard Wilcox
123. The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
124. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
125. Paradise Lost by John Milton
126. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
127. So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane
128. The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian
129. I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
130. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
131. Lamb by Christopher Moore
132. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
133. Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
134. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
135. Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell
136. Fraud by David Rakoff
137. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
138. Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
139. Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
140. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
141. Toast by Nigel Slater
142. The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian
143. London: The Lives of the City Ed. Ian Jack
144. The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian
145. Paradise Regained by John Milton
146. The London Nobody Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher
147. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
148. The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
149. The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
150. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
151. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
152. Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
153. Returning by Edna O'Brien
154. Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
155. 1602 by Neil Gaiman
156. Blankets by Craig Thompson
157. Perfume by Patrick Süskind
158. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
I have no life, but damn, do I read a lot.
STATS:
Books by female authors: 45 - 28.5%
Books by male authors: 111 - 70.3%
Books by American authors: 54 - 34.2%
Books by British Isles authors (English, Irish, Scottish): 91 - 57.6%
Other (includ. Canadian, French, German, Indian, Japanese, Russian): 13 - 8.2%
Novels: 109 - 69.0%
Other (includ. Biographies, Graphic Novels, Memoirs, Plays, Short Stories): 49 - 31.0%
So now, the first day of a new year of reading, is the perfect time to ask: Please, rec me books to read in 2005!
Second, will you allow me to brag for just a minute? Last January, I joined 50bookchallenge not sure if I'd be able to meet the goal of reading 50 books in a year. Well, guess how many books I ended up reading?
Books 2004
1. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
2. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
3. Holes by Louis Sachar
4. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
5. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
6. Death: At Death's Door by Jill Thompson
7. Richard the Second by William Shakespeare
8. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
9. Remake by Connie Willis
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
11. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
12. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
13. Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
14. In Youth Is Pleasure by Denton Welch
15. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
16. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
17. Othello by William Shakespeare
18. Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
19. King Lear by William Shakespeare
20. Queens' Play by Dorothy Dunnett
21. I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
22. Close Range by Annie Proulx
23. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
24. River of Shadows by Rebecca Solnit
25. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
26. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
27. Sympathy for the Devil by Holly Lisle
28. All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
29. The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
30. Like the Red Panda by Andrea Seigel
31. Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett
32. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
33. Dante in Love by Harriet Rubin
34. The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett
35. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
36. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
37. Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett
38. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. Faraway So Close by BP Fallon
40. The Stand by Stephen King
41. Into the Heart by Niall Stokes
42. Ranma 1/2: Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
43. Adventures in the Dream Trade by Neil Gaiman
44. Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
45. At the End of the World by Bill Flanagan
46. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
47. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
48. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
49. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
50. Exegesis by Astro Teller
51. Arkansas by David Leavitt
52. Childproof by Roz Chast
53. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
54. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
55. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
56. Family Dancing by David Leavitt
57. Niccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
58. The Four Elements by Roz Chast
59. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
60. Naked by David Sedaris
61. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
62. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
63. While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
64. Song of Susannah by Stephen King
65. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
66. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
67. Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
68. H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
69. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
70. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
71. Ulysses by James Joyce
72. The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
73. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
74. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. & E.W. White
75. Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian
76. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
77. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
78. The Boy Next Door by Meggin Cabot
79. Shadowland by Jenny Carroll
80. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
81. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
82. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
83. Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
84. Book of Bad Songs by Dave Barry
85. The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian
86. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
87. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
88. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
89. Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
90. The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
91. Idlewild by Nick Sagan
92. Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans Ed. Dave Eggers, et. al.
93. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
94. The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian
95. Maurice by E.M. Forster
96. Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian
97. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
98. The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian
99. The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian
100. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
101. The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
102. The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson
103. America (The Book) by Jon Stewart, et. al.
104. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
105. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
106. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
107. McTeague by Frank Norris
108. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
109. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
110. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
111. Watchmen by Alan Moore
112. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
113. Regeneration by Pat Barker
114. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
115. The Thirteen Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
116. Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella
117. The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
118. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
119. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
120. The Truelove by Patrick O'Brian
121. Ireland Past and Present Ed. Brendan Kennelly
122. Literary England by David E. Scherman & Richard Wilcox
123. The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
124. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
125. Paradise Lost by John Milton
126. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
127. So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane
128. The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian
129. I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
130. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
131. Lamb by Christopher Moore
132. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
133. Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
134. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
135. Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell
136. Fraud by David Rakoff
137. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
138. Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
139. Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
140. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
141. Toast by Nigel Slater
142. The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian
143. London: The Lives of the City Ed. Ian Jack
144. The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian
145. Paradise Regained by John Milton
146. The London Nobody Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher
147. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
148. The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
149. The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
150. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
151. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
152. Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
153. Returning by Edna O'Brien
154. Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
155. 1602 by Neil Gaiman
156. Blankets by Craig Thompson
157. Perfume by Patrick Süskind
158. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
I have no life, but damn, do I read a lot.
STATS:
Books by female authors: 45 - 28.5%
Books by male authors: 111 - 70.3%
Books by American authors: 54 - 34.2%
Books by British Isles authors (English, Irish, Scottish): 91 - 57.6%
Other (includ. Canadian, French, German, Indian, Japanese, Russian): 13 - 8.2%
Novels: 109 - 69.0%
Other (includ. Biographies, Graphic Novels, Memoirs, Plays, Short Stories): 49 - 31.0%
So now, the first day of a new year of reading, is the perfect time to ask: Please, rec me books to read in 2005!