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"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." --f. kafka
These are the books I have read since 01 January 2007; the goal is to read a hundred by 31 December 2007. I have exchanged friends for novels, and this is what I have been doing with all of my time.
1. The Penultimate Peril (Unfortunate Events #12) by L. Snicket; 05 January 2007
2. On Beauty by Z. Smith; 13 January
3. October by L. Gluck; 14 January
4. The History of Love by N. Krauss; 15 January
5. Water for Elephants by S. Gruen; 20 January
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; 21 January
7. Gossip Girl #9; 22 January
8. The Triumph of Achilles by L. Gluck; 25 January
9. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by G. Gabriel Marquez; 27 January
10. Oranges are not the Only Fruit by J. Winterson; 31 January
11. The Rose & the Beast by F. Lia Block; 10 February
12. Gossip Girl #10; 20 February
13. Alibi School by J. McDaniel; 01 March
14. Forms of Distance by B. Dao; 03 March
15. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence; 10 March
16. Messy Thrilling Life by S. Ward Harrison; 10 March
17. Love from B&N; 20 March
18. Averno by L. Gluck, 24 March
19. Running in the Family by M. Ondaatje; 24 March
20. Of Love and Other Demons by G. Gabriel Marquez; 25 March
21. Shopaholic & Sister by S. Kinsella; 31 March
22. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by J. Safran Foer; 05 April
23. The End (Unfornuate Events #13) by L. Snicket; 07 April
24. High in the Clouds by P. McCartney; 23 April
25. The Grapes of Wrath by J. Steinbeck; 26 April
26. Blindness by J. Saramago; 27 April
27. The Powerbook by J. Winterson; 28 April
28. Paint it Black by J. Fitch; 04 May
29. Crush by R. Siken; 09 May
30. Lolita by V. Nabokov; 12 May
31. The Penelopiad by M. Atwood; 13 May
32. The World and Other Places by J. Winterson; 20 May
33. The Opal Deception by E. Colfer; 21 May
34. The Little Prince by A. Saint-Exupery; 21 May
35. The Hours by M. Cunningham; 23 May
36. Seeing by J. Saramago; 11 June
37. Beowulf; 12 June
38. The English Patient by M. Ondaatje; 16 June
39. A Thousand Splendid Suns by K. Hosseini; 17 June
40. The Color Purple by A. Walker; 20 June
41. The Crucible by A. Miller; 21 June
42. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; 24 June
43. Evidence of Things Unseen by M. Wiggins; 28 June
44. Of Mice and Men by J. Steinbeck; 30 June
45. Dream Angus by A. M. Smith; 03 July
46. The It Girl #1; 17 July
47. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by G. Gabriel Marquez; 21 July
48. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling; 23 July
49. The It Girl #2; 28 July
50. Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by D. Sijie; 29 July
51. Daughter of Fortune by I. Allende; 02 August
52. The It Girl #3; 08 August
53. The Canterbury Tales by G. Chaucer; 12 August