Members' Reading Lists 2009

[saliotthomas]

Thanks a million Stewart

2009

Janvier

1-Richard Yates-Revolutionary road http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
2-Le cleziot-Deserthttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
3-Richard stark-The damsel http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
4-Honor? de Balzac-Cousine Bettehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif ++
5-Marguerite Yourcenar-Alexis http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
6-Le coup de gracehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
7-Paul Auster-the man in the dark http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
8-Brian moore-Dark robehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
9_Guy Gavriel Kay-Tiganahttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
10-Nancy Mitford-The Sun Kinghttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
11-Chester Himes-Real cool killerhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
12-Jeanette Winterson - Weight -Myth of Atlas and Heracleshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_onestar.gif
13-Henry james-the siege of Londonhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif

Fevrier

14 Andrei Makine-The crime of Olga Arbelinahttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
15 Gabriel garcias Marquez-Of love and other demonshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
16 Knut Hamsun-In country of Taleshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
17 Robert van Gulik - The Phantom of the Temple http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
18 Steven Millhauser - Martin Dressler Tale of an American dreamerhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
19 Jacques spitz-the eye of purgatoryhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
20 Mohamed Nedali-Morceaux de choixhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
21 Geaorge sand-the devil's poolhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif --
22 Evelyn Waugh-Brideshead Revisited read by Jeremy Ironshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
23 Rainer Maria Rilke-Journal of Malte laurids Brigge http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif (i think?)
24 Patrick Rambaud-The exilehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
25 Richard Stark - The Green Eagle Scorehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
26 Honore de balzac-The country doctorhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
27 Yasunari Kawabata-Les servantes de l'aubergehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
28 Graham Green-Stambul trainhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif ++
29 Driss Craibi-The world besidehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
30 Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Riderhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
31 Ted Chiang - The Merchant and the Alchemists Gatehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif

March

32 Mika Watari-Nuori Johanneshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
33 Edward P Jones - The Known Worldhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif --
34 Jonathan Coe-Closed circlehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif ----
35 Julien Green-le voyageur sur terrehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif +
36 Richard Stark-the black ice scorehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
37 Cees Nooteboom-Lost paradisehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
38 Penelop Fitzgerald-The Blue flowerhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
39 Charif Majdalani-The history of the big househttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
40 Tim Severin-corsairhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif +
41 Ngugi-The river Betweenhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif -
42 Emile Zola-The dreamhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif
43 Arto Paasilinna-The year of the harehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
44 E L Doctorow-The marchhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
45 Andrei Makine-A temps du fleuve amourhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif

April

46 Amin Maalouf-the century before beatricehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
47 Franz Kafka-The trialhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
48 Le Cleziot-Ouraniahttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
49 Kevin Brockmeier - Brief History of the Deadhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif +
50 Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Slavehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
51 Milan Kundera-The Book of Laughter and Forgettinghttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
Mars by Jean pierre Bibring(lecture audio)
52 Richard Stark -Slaygroundhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
53 Torgny Lindgren-The way of the snakehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
54 J.M. Coetzee - Life & Times of Michael Khttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
55 Marguerite Yourcenar-Souvenirs pieux I Both biographies about
56 Sandor Marai-Les confessions d'un bourgeois http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
57 bernard Cornwell-Agincourthttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif +
58 JG Ballard -The Drowned worldhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif ++
59 Colm Toibin-The masterhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
60 Yann Martel - The Facts Behind Helsinki Roccamatioshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_turd.gif

Mai

61-Joane Didion-The year of magical thinkinghttp://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
62-Norman Mailer--The castel in the foresthttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
63-Andrei makine-Confessiion of a fallen standard bearerhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
64-Ricahrd Stark-the sour lemonhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
65 Menis Koumandareas-La verreriehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
66-Alberto Moravia-Two-a phallic novelhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
67 Eric emmanuel Schmitt-Ulysse from Bagdadhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_turd.gifhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_turd.gif
68-Nina Berberova-the accompanisthttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif +
69-Jean Echenoz-Je m'en vais(i'm gone)http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
70-Richard Stark-deadly edgehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
71-David Mitchel-Cloud atlashttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
72-Marguerite Yourcenar-A coin in nine handhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
73-Evgueni Zamiatine-The floodhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif

June

74-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn-One day in the life of Ivan..http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
75-Andrei Makine-The life of an Unknown manhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
76-Boualem Sansal-Le village de l'Allemandhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
77-Conn Iggulden-Genghishttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
78-Frank cullottahttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
79-Thomas Bernhard -The Looser http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_onestar.gif and http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
80-Barjavel-le voyageur imprudent-at rest
81-Dan Simmons-Children of the nighthttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif-
82-Amin Maalouf-Samarkanfhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
82-Manil Suri-The death of Vishnuhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif--
83-Thomas Pynchon-Cry of the lot 49http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
84-Malika Oufkir-Stolen Liveshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
85-Donald Westlake-Somebody owes me moneyhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
86-Miklos Banffy-They were found wantinghttp://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gifhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_onestar.gif
87-Yasmina Khadra-the sirens of Baghdadhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
88-Patricia Highsmith-The blundererhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
89-Per Petterson-Out stealing Horseshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif+

Jully

90-Milan Kundera-The joke
91-Richard Stark-Comebackhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif bravo!
92-Gilbert Adair-The Act of Roger Murgatroyd ,gave up,like bloody Cluedo
93-Umberto Eco-The name of the rosehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
94-Seth Graham smith/jane Austen-Pride and prejudice and zombieshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
95-Donald E Westlake-Get realhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
96-Alessandro Baricco-Chateau de la col?rehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
97-Larry Brown-Father and sonhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
98-Jim Crace-Being deadhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif
99-Robert McCammon-Night boathttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif
100-Irene Nemirovsky-David Golderhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
101-Simon Mawer-Gospel of Judas
102-Jean Teule-Verlainehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif

August

103 Knut Hamsun-Hungerhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
104 Driss Chraibi-Inspector Alihttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
105 Giorgio Bassani-Behind the doorhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif

Septembre

106 Alexandro Baricco-Novecentohttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
107 Stendhal-The red and the blackhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
108 Donald E Westlake-Money for nothinghttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
109 Alan Weisman-The World Without Ushttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
110 Joseph O'neil-Netherlandhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
111 China Mieville-City&cityhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
112 Will Knot - The devil flowerhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif+
113 Guy de Maupassant-Boule de suifhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
114 Marilynne Robinson-Homehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif+
115 Jane Bolwes-Two serious Ladieshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
116 Donald Westlake-The Damehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
117 lawrence Durrell-Justinehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
118 Antonio Tabucchi-Dream of dreamshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif


Octobre

119 Lawrence Durrell-Balthazar http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
120 Alice Munro-The view from castel rockhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
121 Yannis Xanthoulis-A Turk in the garden-abandonned
122 Jim harrison-A good day to diehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
123 Per Petterson-To Siberiahttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif+
124 Turgenev-House of the gentry http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
125 Gerald Durrell-My familly and other animals.http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
126 Bruce Chatwin-In Patagoniahttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
127 Jim Ronson-The men who stare at goathttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif+
128 Giullermo del Toro/Chuck Hogan-The strainhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
129 Wole Soyinka-The interpreters. gave up
130 Sjomall/Wahloo-the man who went up in smokehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif

Novembre

131 Peter Cameron-Someday this pain will be useful to you http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
132 Paul Theroux-The Great railway Bazardhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
133 John Wyndham-The trouble with the Lichenhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif
134 Donald Westlake-bank shothttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
135 Boris Vian -Un automne a Pekin abandonned
136 Romain Gary-La vie devant soi(Momo)http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
137 Yu Hua-Brothers-Adam Haberberghttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
139 Rowan Somerville-The end of sleephttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_turd.gif
140 Stendhal- chronique Italienne(trop de faveur tue)http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
141 Elmore Leonard- City primevalhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
142 Flann O'brien-The third policemanhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
143 James Frey-a million little pieces
144 Kate Grenville-The lieutenant
145 Robert graves-Goodbye to all that.


Decembre

146 Pierre Michom- The origine of the world http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
147 Scott Lynch-The gentlemen Bastard-Lies of Locke Lamorahttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
148 Amin Maalouf-Identit?s Meurti?reshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif+
149 Pierre Michon-L'empereur d'occidenthttp://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
150 Dino buzatti-Le desert des tartareshttp://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
151 Richard Stark-FlashFirehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
152 Philipe Roth-Americain Pastoralhttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
153 Simenon -The strangers in the househttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
154 Romain Gary-Les promesse de l'aubehttp://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
155 Roberto Saviano-Gomorrah http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif+
156 Thomas Savage- The power of the dog
157 Arto Paasilinna-La douce empoisonneuse

[Stewart]

This year has been a bit of a letdown as far as my reading is concerned, but here's what I've read:

NOVEMBER
025. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif (reading) The Snowball: Warren Buffett And The Business Of Life, Alice Schroeder

OCTOBER
024. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif ****0 Legend Of A Suicide, David Vann
023. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif ****0 The Man Who Fell To Earth, Walter Tevis
022. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif ****0 Briar Rose, Robert Coover

AUGUST - SEPTEMBER
(nothing)

JULY
021. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif ***00 The Art Of Sinking In Poetry, Alexander Pope
020. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif ****0 The Breast, Philip Roth
019. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/sq.gif ***00 Singin I'm No A Billy He's A Tim, Des Dillon
018. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif ****0 By Night In Chile, Roberto Bolano

JUNE
017. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/sq.gif ****0 What Becomes, A.L. Kennedy
016. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/il.gif ***00 Kneller's Happy Campers, Etgar Keret
015. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif ****0 Bonsai, Alejandro Zambra

MAY
014. http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/fr.gif ****0 The Flight Of Icarus, Raymond Queneau
013. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif ***00 Uncommon Danger, Eric Ambler
012. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif **000 The Selected Works Of TS Spivet, Reif Larsen

APRIL
(nothing)

MARCH
011. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif ***00 No Word From Gurb, Eduardo Mendoza
010. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/is.gif ****0 The Blue Fox, Sjon
009. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/dk.gif ****0 Machine, Peter Adolphsen

FEBRUARY
008. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif **000 The Bird Room, Chris Killen
007. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/is.gif ***00 The Pets, Bragi ?laffson
006. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif ****0 Dangling Man, Saul Bellow

JANUARY
005. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif ***00 To A God Unknown, John Steinbeck
004. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cz.gif ***00 R.U.R., Karel Čapek
003. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif ***00 Carmen?s Rust, Ana Mar?a del R?o
002. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif ****0 Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In Its Downfall, Luke Haines
001. http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif ***00 They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Horace McCoy

[Jayaprakash]

I don't maintain a monthly list, but here's this year's list so far:

1. Madam Crowl's Ghost And Other Ghost Stories: J. Sheridan Le Fanu 5/5
2. The Collected Ghost Stories Of M.R. James 5/5
3. Meet Mr. Mulliner: PG Wodehouse 5/5
4. Words From The Myths: Isaac Asimov 4/5
5. Camp Concentration: Thomas M. Disch 3/5
6. The World Of Odysseus: MI Finley 5/5
7. The Virgin In The Ice: Ellis Peters 3/5
8. The Island Of The Colourblind And Cycad Island: Oliver Sacks 3/5
9. Turtle Diary: Russell Hoban 4/5
10. The Savage Detectives: Roberto Bolano 1/5
11. The Stories Of Tobias Wolff 5/5
12. Terra Amata: JMG Le Clezio 3/5
13. The Witches Of Chiswick: Robert Rankin 4/5
14. The Pledge: Friedrich Durrenmatt 5/5
15. In A Glass Darkly: J Sheridan Le Fanu 3/5
16. The Land Of The Headless: Adam Roberts 4/5
17. Plain Pleasures: Jane Bowles 5/5
18. Fata Morgana: William Kotzwinkle 4/5
19. The Sound Of The Mountain: Yasunari Kawabata 5/5
20. William The Outlaw: Richmal Crompton 3/5
21. William Does His Bit: Richmal Crompton 3/5
22. Beauty And Sadness: Yasunari Kawabata 4/5
23. Gradisil: Adam Roberts: 4/5
24. Rubicon: Steven Saylor 3/5
25. Rumpole And The Age Of Miracles: John Mortimer 3/5
26. The Medusa Frequency: Russell Hoban 2/5
27. Brief Candles: Aldous Huxley: 3/5
28. The Beast: Sharman Macdonald 3/5
29. The Thieves Of Ostia: Caroline Lawrence 3/5
30. The Dream Of Scipio: Iain Pears 3.5/5
31. The Carhullan Army: Sarah Hall 4/5
32. The Last Camel Died At Noon: Elizabeth Peters 3/5
33. The Portrait: Iain Pears: 4/5
34. The Moth Diaries: Rachel Klein 5/5
35. The Spider's Web: Joseph Roth 5/5
36. The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood 5/5
37. Rings Of Saturn: W.G. Sebald 5/5
38. The Invention Of Morel: Adolfo Bioy Casares 5/5
39. Love: Angela Carter 5/5
40. The Book Of Lost Things: John Connolly 3/5
41. The Master And Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov 5/5
42. Requiem For A Lost Empire: Andrei Makine 5/5
43. The Affirmation: Christopher Priest 4/5
44. Cosmopolis: Don Delillo 3.5/5
45. After Nature: W.G. Sebald 5/5
46. The Time-Traveller's Wife: Audrey Niffenegger 1/5
47. The Graveyard Book: Neil Gaiman 4/5
48. The City And The City: China Mieville 4/5
49. Half Of A Yellow Sun: Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie 3/5
50. The Collector Collector: Tibor Fischer 4/5
51. 3 Days To Never: Tim Powers 4/5
52. The Tooth Fairy: Graham Joyce 5/5
53. Electric Michelangelo: Sarah Hall 4/5
54. Frankenstein Unbound: Brian Aldiss 2/5
55. The Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein: Peter Ackroyd 4/5
56. The Flanders Panel: Arturo Perez-Reverte 5/5
57. A Case Of Exploding Mangoes: Mohamed Hanif 4/5
58. A Dead Man In Deptford: Anthony Burgess 5/5
59. On The Natural History Of Destruction: WG Sebald 3/5
60. Ghosts and other friends: Malavika Kapur 3/5
61. A Drifting Life: Yoshihiro Tatsumi 5/5
62. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler: Italo Calvino 5/5
63. The Maltese Falcon: Dashiell Hammett 5/5
64. The Squares Of The City: John Brunner 4/5
65. Kissing The Beehive: Jonathan Carroll 5/5
66. Myth and Meaning: Claude Levi-Strauss 3/5
67. The Lazarus Project: Aleksandar Hemon 3/5
68. Royal Highness: Thomas Mann 3/5
69. The Stain In The Snow: Georges Simenon 5/5
70. The Si-Fan Mysteries: Sax Rohmer 3/5
71. The Transposed Heads: Thomas Mann 4/5
72. Stamboul Train: Graham Greene 3/5
73. Mulliner Nights: PG Wodehouse 5/5
74. The Raphael Affair: Iain Pears 3/5
75. The Dain Curse: Dashiell Hammett 3/5
76. Camier and Mercier: Samuel Beckett 4/5
77. Sleeping Murder: Agatha Christie 3/5
78. The Wrong Box: Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne 4/5
79. Pale Fire: Vladimir Nabokov 5/5
80. John Silence: Algernon Blackwood 5/5
81. A Tangled Skein: David Stuart Davies 2.5/5

[Jayaprakash]

I'm glad to see Stewart's rating of THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. It's an excellent novel, not just the book that Bowie film was made from. You should put together a review of it, if you haven't already.

A great, eclectic list, Saliotthomas. I didn't realise Ted Chiang had a new book out.

[Colette Jones]

December
71. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif The Elephant Keeper - Christopher Nicholson
72. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Border Crossing - Pat Barker
73. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif The Girl at the Lion d'Or - Sebastian Faulks
74. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Number9Dream - David Mitchell
75. http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/za.gif The Native Commissioner - Shaun Johnson
76. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
77. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/nl.gif The House of the Mosque - Kader Abdolah
78. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald

November
65. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/se.gif The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
66. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_question.gif The White Castle - Orhan Pamuk
67. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif Carol - Patricia Highsmith
68. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
69. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif Justine - Alice Thompson
70. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif They Came Like Swallows - William Maxwell

October
60. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ca.gif Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
61. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
62. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Any Human Heart - William Boyd
63. http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif The Hours - Michael Cunningham
64. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/za.gif Slow Man - JM Coetzee

September
53. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif May Contain Nuts - John O'Farrell
54. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/sq.gif The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
55. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Rape: A Love Story - Joyce Carol Oates
56. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/sq.gif Aiding and Abettig - Muriel Spark
57. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
58. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/za.gif Youth - JM Coetzee
59. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ru.gif Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

August
46. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
47. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Me Cheeta - James Lever
48. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Heliopolis - James Scudamore
49. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ie.gif Love and Summer - William Trevor
50. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/za.gif Boyhood - JM Coetzee
51. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Pilcrow - Adam Mars-Jones
52. http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/za.gif Summertime - JM Coetzee

July
41. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
42. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif How to Paint a Dead Man - Sarah Hall
43. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/au.gif This is How - MJ Hyland
44. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif An Equal Stillness - Francesca Kay
45. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Beasts - Joyce Carol Oates

June
34. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
35. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
36. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ie.gif Brooklyn - Colm T?ib?n
37. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - Geoff Dyer
38. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Lighthousekeeping - Jeanette Winterson
39. http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ca.gif Red Dog, Red Dog - Patrick Lane
40. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ca.gif Through Black Spruce - Joseph Boyden

May
29. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ie.gif Molly Fox's Birthday - Dierdre Madden
30. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Scottsboro - Ellen Feldman
31. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey
32. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/in.gif Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
33. http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

April
24. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Strangers - Anita Brookner
25. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif A Mercy - Toni Morrison
26. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt
27. http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ie.gif Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
28. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald

March
19. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/tt.gif Moses Ascending - Sam Selvon
20. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
21. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Nineteen Seventy Four - David Peace
22. http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Home - Marilynne Robinson
23. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif The Shawl - Cynthia Ozick

February
09. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ca.gif Three Day Road - Joseph Boyden
10. http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ie.gif The Doctor's Wife - Brian Moore
11. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/tt.gif The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
12. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
13. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ru.gif A Life's Music - Andre? Makine
14. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ie.gif The Holy City - Patrick McCabe
15. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif The Great Lover - Jill Dawson
16. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
17. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Harriet Said - Beryl Bainbridge
18. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif A Good School - Richard Yates

January
01. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
02. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/nl.gif The Hundred and Ninety-nine Steps - Michel Faber
03. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/fr.gif The Year is '42 - Nella Bielski
04. http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
05. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
06. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/ca.gif The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
07. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_onestar.gif http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/en.gif Land of Marvels - Barry Unsworth
08. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/fr.gif The Book of Proper Names - Am?lie Nothomb


Abandoned:
Crossroads - Niccolo Ammaniti January, at 86 pages
Loving Sabatoge - Amelie Nothomb January, at 18 pages
The Lieutenant - Kate Grenville March, at 30 pages
The Household Guide to Dying - Debra Adelaide March, at 99 pages
Guernica - Dave Boling June, not my cup of tea, so skimming for book club
Turbulence - Giles Foden July, at 60 pages.
Not Untrue and Not Unkind - Ed O'Loughlin August, at 86 pages
The Children's Book - AS Byatt August, at 104 pages
The Two Pound Tram - William Newton October, at 58 pages
The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood October, at 13 pages
Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving November, at 122 pages
American Adulterer - Jed Mercurio December, at 16 pages

[LRiley]

January:

1. Lust-Elfriede Jelinek***00
2.Netherland-Joseph O'Neill****0
3. Khirbet Khizeh-S. Yizhar****0
4. The Romantic dogs-Roberto Bolano****0
5. With the stroke of a pen-A. Louise Staman*****
6. Infinite Jest-David Foster Wallace*****
7. The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz****0
8. Gomorrah-Roberto Saviano***00
9. The unfortunates-B. S. Johnson****0
10. A werewolf problem in Central Russia-Victor Pelevin****0
11. A grain of wheat-Ngugi wa Thiong'O****0

February:

12. 2666-Roberto Bolano*****
13. Crash-J. G. Ballard***00
14. A leap-Anna Enquist***00
15. Last Rituals-Yrsa Sigurdardottir**000
16. The stone carvers-Jane Urquhart*****
17. The lavender way-Papalaz****0
18. The Redbreast-Jo Nesbo****0
19. Indignation-Philip Roth****0
20. Water blue eyes-Domingo Villar**000
21. American Rust-Philipp Meyer*****
22. Fireworks: Nine profane pieces-Angela Carter**000

March:

23. Shyness and dignity-Dag Solstad***00
24. Bonsai-Alejandor Zambra***00
25. The great weaver of Kashmir-Halldor Laxness*****
26. Song of Napalm (a reread)-Bruce Weigl*****
27. Fantasia: An Algerian cavalcade-Assia Djebar*****
28. Do not touch-Eric Laurrent***00
29. The lizard cage-Karen Connelly****0
30. The sea-John Banville***00
31. The shock doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism-Naomi Klein*****
32. The scheme for full employment-Magnus Mills**000
33. Purple Hibiscus-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie****0

April:

34. One step behind-Henning Mankell****0
35. The snail on the slope-The Strugatski brothers**000
36. De Niro's game-Rawi Hage****0
37. Voice Over-Celine Curiol***00
38. Nikolski-Nicolas Dickner***00
39. After dinner declarations-Nicanor Parra****0
40. Mean woman-Alicia Borinsky***00
41. The murder farm-Andrea Maria Schenkel****0
42. Sardinian brigade-Emilio Lussu***00
43. Little man, what now?-Hans Fallada****0
44. Ghosts-Cesar Aira**000
45. Jar City-Arnaldur Indridason***00

May:

46. The round and other cold hard facts (a reread)-J. M. G. Le Clezio*****
47. Faces and masks-Eduardo Galeano****0
48. An echo of heaven-Kenzaburo Oe**000--the first time I actually didn't like something of his.
49. The god of small things-Arundhati Roy*****
50. Borkmann's point-Hakan Nesser**000
51. The Ice Palace-Tarjei Vesaas**000
52. The fat man and Infinity-Antonio Lobo Antunes****0
53. Into the beautiful north-Luis Alberto Urrea***00
54. In Bruges-Martin McDonagh****0
55. The news from Paraguay-Lily Tuck***00
56. Everyman-Philip Roth****0

June:

57. Red April-Santiago Roncagliolo****0
58. The tunnel-William H. Gass***00
59. Kennedy's brain-Henning Mankell***00
60. 12:23 Paris 31st August 1997-Eoin McNamee*****
61. The Kite Runner-Khaled Hossein***00
62. The spiders of Allah-James Hider****0
63. The god of carnage-Yasmina Reza****0
64. The killing of yesterday's children-M. S. Power***00
65. Coronado-Dennis Lehane***00
66. Normance-Louis Ferdinand Celine***00
67. The pickup-Nadine Gordimer****0

July:

68. The Psalm killer-Christopher Petit*****
69. The outsiders-Alexander Trocchi**000
70. Let the great world spin-Colum McCann*****
71. Memory-Philippe Grimbert***00
72. The big sleep-Raymond Chandler****0
73. No Logo-Naomi Klein****0
74. Oblivion-David Foster Wallace****0
75. The journey of Little Ghandi-Elias Khoury***00
76. The collaborator of Bethlehem-Matt Beynon Rees**000
77. Sozaboy-Ken Saro-Wiwa****0

August:

78. Hoppla 1,2,3-Gerard Gavarry***00
79. Desert-J. M. G. Le Clezio*****
80. Havana Black-Leonardo Padura***00
81. Fugitive pieces-Anne Michaels****0
82. Foe (a reread)-J. M. Coetzee***00
83. A rage in Harlem-Chester Himes*****
84. Rebellion is the circle of a lover's hands-Martin Espada****0
85. The book thief-Martin Zusak****0
86. Rage-Sergio Bizzio***00
87. The vampire of Ropraz-Jacques Chessez***00
88. Cultural Amnesia-Clive James*****
89. Slumberland-Paul Beatty***00
90. Honeymoon suite-Richard Bean***00

September:

91. Blackout-Gianluca Morozzi**000
92. The real cool killers-Chester Himes*****
93. Mygale (a reread)-Thierry Jonquet****0
94. Europe Central-William Vollmann****0
95. Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter-Mario Vargas Llosa****0
96. Breath-Tim Winton***00
97. The August sleepwalker-Bei Dao****0
98. This side of brightness-Colum McCann****0
99. Report to Greco-Nikos Kazantzakis***00
100. Alphabet-Inger Christensen*****
101. True Stories-Margaret Atwood****0
102. I think, therefore who am I?-Peter Weissman****0

October:

103. The skating rink-Roberto Bolano****0
104. Vermeer's milkmaid-Manuel Rivas***00
105. Joe's word-Elizabeth Stromme**000

And currently working on Shimon Ballas's 'Outcast' which is going to be at least a 4 and Jaan Kross's The Czar's madman which will probably be a 4.

[Bjorn]

JANUARY

http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/za.gif The Restless Supermarket - Vladislavic, Ivan http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif The Abstinence Teacher - Perrotta, Tom http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ru.gif Novel With Cocaine - Ageyev, M. http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif First Among Sequels - Fforde, Jasper http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Shakespeare - Bryson, Bill http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ng.gif Half A Yellow Sun - Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif The Raw Shark Texts - Hall, Steven http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Kvinnohuset - Isaksson, Ulla http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif

FEBRUARY
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/in.gif Fire in the Heart - Devi, Mahasweta http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif The Man Who Was Thursday - Chesterton, GK http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif V?rldens sista roman - Sj?lin, Daniel http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif The Sorrows Of An American - Hustvedt, Siri http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Pride And Prejudice - Austen, Jane http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ru.gif We - Zamyatin, Yevgeny http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif

MARCH
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ci.gif Reine Pokou - Tadjo, V?ronique http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ma.gif Leaving Tangier - ben Jelloun, Tahar http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/cl.gif 2666 - Bola?o, Roberto http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/in.gif Q&A - Swarup, Vikas http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Commonplace Book - Lovecraft, HP http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif

APRIL
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/cz.gif Der Prozess - Kafka, Franz http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In Its Downfall - Haines, Luke http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Man In The Dark - Auster, Paul http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Winterson, Jeanette http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif/http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Austen/Grahame-Smith http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/dk.gif Bavian - Aidt, Naja Marie http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/in.gif An Atlas Of Impossible Longing - Roy, Anuradha (probably abandoned)
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Gentlemen of the Road - Chabon, Michael http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ir.gif Persepolis I-IV - Satrapi, Marjane http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif

MAY
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Autobiography - Darwin, Charles http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro, Kazuo http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/de.gif The Man Outside - Borchert, Wolfgang http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif The Difference Engine - Gibson/Sterling http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Barndomstolen - Nilsson, Ulf Karl Olov http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Apokalypsens gosiga m?rker - Bolling, Anders http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ir.gif The Blind Owl - Hedayat, Sadeq http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif

JUNE
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif The World Without Us - Weisman, Alan http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/cz.gif Closely Observed Trains - Hrabal, Bohumil http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif The Graveyard Book - Gaiman, Neil http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif The Crying Of Lot 49 - Pynchon, Thomas http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif The Cloven Viscount - Calvino, Italo http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Toffs bok - Dixelius, Kalle http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ir.gif Iran Awakening - Ebadi, Shirin http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/es.gif The Shadow of the Wind - Ruiz Zaf?n, Carlos http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif

JULY
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif The Long Ships - Bengtsson, Frans G http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Jerusalem - Lagerl?f, Selma http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Solange - Kyrklund, Willy http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif If, About, Around - Ahlin, Lars http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Dagbok fr?n Berlinolympiaden 1936 - Alving, Barbro http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Ride This Night! - Moberg, Vilhelm http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif

AUGUST
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/at.gif The Golem - Meyrink, Gustav http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Inherent Vice - Pynchon, Thomas http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif We Have Always Lived In The Castle - Jackson, Shirley http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fivestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/fr.gif Un Roman Russe - Carrere, Emmanuel http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/zw.gif Nervous Conditions - Dangarembga, Tsitsi http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Men And Cartoons - Lethem, Jonathan http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif

SEPTEMBER
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Musicophilia - Sacks, Oliver http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Left Behind - LaHaye/Jenkins http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_turd.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/no.gif I Curse The River Of Time - Pettersson, Per http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Grammatica Obscura - Nanok http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_onestar.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Tredje flykthastigheten - Lotass, Lotta http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/sv.gif Senselessness - Castellanos Moya, Horacio http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Perdido Street Station - Mieville, China http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif

OCTOBER
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Att hata allt m?nskligt liv - Teratologen, Nikanor http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ng.gif Graceland - Abani, Chris http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Kontroll: Rapport fr?n Vitryssland - Ljungvall, Tobias http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_twostars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Fingersmith - Waters, Sarah http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/af.gif The Stone of Patience - Rahimi, Atiq http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Invisible Republic - Marcus, Greil http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/lb.gif School Of War (http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/asian-oceanic-literature/22752-alexandre-najjar-school-war.html) - Najjar, Alexandre http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif

NOVEMBER
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif 54 - Wu Ming http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/eg.gif Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery - Taher, Bahaa http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/de.gif Atemschaukel - M?ller, Herta
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif The Atrocity Archives - Stross, Charles (abandoned)
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Maus - Spiegelman, Art http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/redstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/us.gif Fun Home - Bechdel, Alison http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_fourstars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/au.gif The Death Of Bunny Munro - Cave, Nick http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_threestars.gif
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Messias med tr?benet - Nilson, Peter
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/no.gif Doppler - Loe, Erlend
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/lb.gif Leo Africanus - Maalouf, Amin
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/se.gif Det g?r an - Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love

[kpjayan]

JANUARY

01. Hard Boiled & Hard Luck - Banana Yoshimoto **000
02 Esther's Inheritance - Sandor Marai ****0
03 The Crossroads - Niccolo Ammaniti ***00
04 Death Etc. - Harold Pinter ****0
05 Balthasar's Odyssey - Amin Maalouf ****0

FEBRUARY

06 Illicit - Moises Naim ***** ( non fiction)
07 Land of Five Rivers - Khushwanth Singh ( Edited) ***00
08 Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates ***00
09 Allah is not Obliged - Ahmadou Kourouma ****0

MARCH

10 General Chathans - VKN ****0 ( regional language)
11 Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi ****0
12 The Soccerwar - Ryszard Kapucinski ***** ( non fiction)
13 The Sound of Butterflies -Rachael King ***00
14 The courtesan's keeper - A N D Haksar (sanskrit)****0

APRIL

15 The Road - Carmac McCarthy ****0
16 Prof.Vazhakunnam - Njayath Balan ( Biography) **000
17 African Psycho - Alan Mabanckou ***00
18 Victoria - Knut Hamsun ***00
19 A Life's Music - Andrei Makine *****

MAY

20 Punya Himalaya - Chitran Namboodiripad ( travel )**000
21 The World is What it is - Patrick French ( Biography )****0
22 Walking in Zen , Sitting in Zen - Osho Rajnish ****0
23 Life&Time of Michael K - J M Coetze ****0
24 First Break all the Rules - Marcus Buckingham**000 (non fiction)

JUNE

25 The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano **000
26 Death at Intervals - Jose Saramago ****0
27 The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford *****
28 The Story Teller's Tale - Omair Ahmed ***00
29 On Beauty - Umberto Eco ****0

JULY

30 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders -Danial Muinudeen ***00
31 The Living Room - Graham Greene ****0
32 Gould's Book on Fish - Richard Flanagan ****0
33 Rishi Moolam - D Jayakanthan ***00
34 The Same Sea - Amoz Oz ***00

AUGUST

35 Mahatma Gandhi : Life&Ideas - Charles Andrews****0
36 The Spare Room - Helen Garner ***00
37 Snakepit - Moses Isegawa ****0
38 If on a winters night a traveller - Italo Calvino *****
39 Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee ****0

SEPTEMBER

40 A Golden Age - Tahmima Anam ***00
41 Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys***00
42 The Rape of Sita - Lindsey Collen ****0
43 The Year of Miracle & Grief - Leonid Borodin ***00
44 Firmin - Sam Savage **000

OCTOBER

45 At heaven's Gate - Sunil Gangopadhyay***00
46 Diary of a Djinn - Gini Alhadeff **000
47 The File on H - Ismael Kadare ****0
48 I, The Supreme - Augusto Roa Bastos *****+
49 The immoralist - Andre Gide ****0

NOVEMBER

50 The Professional - Subrato Bagchi ( Non-fiction) ***00
51 Four Plays - Gunter Grass ***00
52 Ape in the Corner Office - Richard Coniff ( non-fiction) ****0
53 The House Gun - Nadine Gordimer ***00
54 When the clocks halt ( short stories in regional language) - Subhash Chandran **000

DECEMBER

55 In the name of Salome - Julia Alvarez ****0
56 The land of Green Plums - Herta Muller ****0
57 By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolano
58 By ine - VKN
59 The year of the Hare - Arto Paalisinna

[Igu Soni]

In the Heart of the Country J M Coetzee *****
Disgrace J M Coetzee *****
Life and Times of MIchael K J M Coetzee *****
The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins *****
The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins ****0
The God Delusion Richard Dawkins ***00
The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb *****
Conjectures and Refutations Karl Popper *****
Chaos James Gleick ***00
Red Earth and Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra *****
Love and Longing in Bombay Vikram Chandra (didn't read it well enough to judge)
A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth*****
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway*****
The Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger *****
The Alchemy of Desire Tarun J Tejpal ****0
Amsterdam Ian McEwan ***00
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers *****
The Outsider Albert Camus **000
The Sorrow of War Bao Ninh *****
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard *****
Macbeth Shakespeare *****
The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh ****0
Pagan Babies Elmore Leonard *****
The Double Jose Saramago ****0
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck (fourth time)
Hover Car Racer Matthew Riley ****0 (rating is genre-wise, and this one is bloody inventive)
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen (don't know, will have to read it again)
Animal's People Indra Sinha *****
American Gods Neil Gaiman ***00
Moth Smoke Mohsin Hamid ***00
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold John LeCarre *****
A Universal History of Infamy Jorge Luis Borges ****0
Labyrinths Borges *****
Kalki Gore Vidal ****0
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre **000
Complete ten-volume Sandman series parts 2 and 3 Neil Gaiman *****
These cool little Manga adaptations of Shakepeare (Romeo and Juliet *****, A Midsummer's Night's dream ***00, Richard III ****0)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach *****
The Tales of Beedle the Bard J K Rowling ***00(massive improvement from Harry Potter)
The four Winnie-the-Pooh books A A Milne *****
The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet Benjamin Hoff ***00


There may have been more, but since I don't remember them, they probably don't deserve a place here anyway.

[promtbr]

January
1. Pere Goriot? Balzac ****0
2. The Charterhouse of Parma? Stendhal *****
3. Onitsha? J.M.G. LeClezio ****0
4. Madame Bovary? Flaubert ****0+

February
5. Marcel Proust, A Life? W. C. Carter
6. Swann?s Way? Marcel Proust reread*
7. Guermante?s Way - Marcel Proust reread*
8. Within a Budding Grove? Marcel Proust reread*
(*no star rating, since I don't consider these stand alone novels it would be above category anyway)

March
9. The Divine Comedy? Dante
10. The Following Story? Cees Nooteboom ****0
11. Blood Meridian? Cormac McCarthy *****+
12. The Orestia Cycle? Aeschylus
13. The Oedipus Cycle- Sophocles
14. Four Tragedies? Euripedes
15. Essays? Montaigne
16. King Lear? Bill reread
17. Macbeth? Bill reread
18. History of Western Philosophy- Bertand Russell reread
19. The Maias? Eca De Queiroz ****0
20. Mysteries- Knut Hamsun *****

April
21. Sketches From A Hunter?s Album? Ivan Turgenev *****
22. Out Stealing Horses? Per Petterson ****0
23. Gargantua and Pantagruel? Rabelais
24. Othello? Bill reread
25. Much Ado About Nothing? Bill reread
26. Don Quixote? Miguel Cervantes reread
27. The Miser, Misanthrope, School for Wives? Moliere

May
28. Iphegenia, Phaedre? Jean Racine
29. Tristram Shandy? Lawrence Sterne *****
30. Jacques the Fatalist- Denis Diderot ***00+
31. Jane Eyre- Emile Bronte *****
32. Wide Sargasso Sea? Jean Rhys ****0
33. Twilight/ Moonbeam Alley? Stefan Zweig ****0+
34. The Invention of Morel? Adolfo Bouy Cesares ***00
35. The Immoralist? Andre Gide ****0
36. The Music of a Life- Andrei Makine *****
37. The Living End? Stanley Elkin *****
38. Things Fall Apart? Chinua Achebe****0
39. Ghosts- Cesare Aira ****0
40. Indian Nocturne? Antonio Tabucchi *0000 bad translation
41. Goodbye Columbus? Philip Roth ****0
42. Barabbas ? Par Lagerkvist **000
43. The Beetle Leg? John Hawkes *****
44. By Night in Chile- Roberto Bolano ****0+

June
45. Doctor Glas- Hjalmar Soderburg *****
46. Jakob Von Gunten? Robert Walser **000 reader failure will revisit
47. The Marquis of O and Other Stories? Heinrich Von Kleist *****
48. Tales?E.T.A. Hoffmann ****0+
49. Closely Watched Trains- Bohumil Hrabal ****0
50. To Know A Woman? Amos Oz ****0
51. Miss Lonelyhearts/ The Day of the Locusts- Nathanael West ****0+
52. The Guide? R. K. Narrayan ****0
53. Too Loud a Solitude? Bohumil Hrabal *****
54. Vipers Tangle? Francois Mauriac ****0+
55. Piano? Jean Echenoz ***00
56. Embers? Sandor Marai *****
57. The Blue Flower? Raymond Queneau ***00

July
58. Wilhelm Meister?s Apprenticeship? Goethe **000+
59. Remainder? Tom McCarthy *****
58. A Heart So White? Javier Marias *****
60. Fantasia, An Algerian Cavalcade? Assia Djebar ****0
62. The Procedure? Harry Mulisch ****0
63. The Slynx? Tatayana Tolstaya ****0+

August
64. In the Skin of a Lion? Michael Ondaatje ****0
65. Aura? Carlos Fuentes **000
66. A Wild Sheep Chase? Haruki Murakami ****0+
67. No Longer At Ease? Chinua Achebe ****0+
68. The Ghost Writer? Philip Roth ****0+
69. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting? Milan Kundera **000

September
70. The Green House- Mario Vargas Llosa ***00+
71. Rituals? Cees Nooteboom *****
72. The Missing Head of Damasceno..?Antonio Tabucchi ***00
73. The Marx Family Saga? Juan Goytisolo ****0+
74. Chronicle of Stone- Ismael Kadare ****0
75. A Grain of Wheat? Ngugi Wa Thiong?o ***00

October
76. The Handmaid?s Tale? Margaret Atwood ****0
77. The Land of Green Plums? Herta Muller *****
78. Dead Souls-- Nikolai Gogol *****
79. Rudin- Ivan Turgenev ***00
80. Death of Ivan Illych & Other Stories-- Leo Tolstoy *****
81. On the Eve-- Ivan Turgenev ****0
82. Eugene Grandet-- Balzac ****0
83. Great Expectations-- Charles Dickens *****

November
84. Eugene Onegin- Alexander Pushkin ***00
85. A Day in The Country, Stories- Guy de Maupassant ****0+
86. Selected Stories-- Balzac ****0
87. Collected Tales-- Nikolai Gogol *****
88. The Road-- Cormac McCarthy ****0
89. Guy Mannering-- Walter Scott ****0
90. History of the Thirteen-- Balzac ***00

December
91. Robinson Crusoe-- William Defoe ****0
92. Foe-- JM Coetzee ****0
93. Brigitta & Other Stories-- Adalbert Stifter ****0+
94. Hans and Heinz Kirch-- Theodor Storm *****
95. Four Novels-- Marguerite Duras ****0+
96. Glass Bees-- Ernst Junger ****0
97. Rock Crystal-- Adalbert Stifter ****0

[e joseph]

(Bold print titles are ones that I particularly enjoyed)

January
1. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
2. Indignation - Philip Roth
3. The Pursuer - Julio Cortazar

February
4. Native Son - Richard Wright
5. The Souls of Black Folk - WEB DuBois

March
6. Blindness - Jose Saramago
7. Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
8. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
9. The Forever War - Dexter Filkins
10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
11. The Key - Junichiro Tanizaki

April
12. Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
13. Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
14. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

May
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
17. The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
18. By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolano
19. Tranquility - Attila Bartis
20. Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon

June
21. Ghosts - Cesar Aira
22. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
23. Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
24. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
25. The Castle - Franz Kafka

July
26. Fateless - Imre Kertesz
27. Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
28. The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato
29. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
30. Dispatches - Michael Herr
31. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino

August
32. Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
33. The Death of Ivan Illyich - Leo Tolstoy
34. The Beetle Leg - John Hawkes
35. Senselessness - Horacio Castellanos Moya
36. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
37. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

September
38. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
39. The Sorrow of War - Bao Nihn
40. Nobody Move - Denis Johnson
41. The Skating Rink - Roberto Bolano
42. The She-Devil in the Mirror - Horacio Castellanos Moya
43. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

October
44. Frost - Thomas Bernhard
45. A Hearbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
46. Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth
47. Death in Spring - Merce Rodoreda

November
48. Lark and Termite - Jayne Anne Phillips
49. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea - Yukio Mishima
50. Demons - Dostoevsky
51. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

December
52. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
53. Waiting for Godot - Beckett
54. There Once Was a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby - Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
55. The Open Curtain - Brian Evenson

[Stiffelio]

December


50. The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no Onna) - Kobo Abe ****0
49. La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi (The Solitude of Prime Numbers) - Paolo Giordano ****0
48. Cheating at Canasta - William Trevor ****0

November

47. El ?ltimo Encuentro (A Gyerty?k Csonkig ?gnek - Embers) - S?ndor M?rai ****0
46. El Campito (The Field) - Juan Diego Incardona ***00+
45. La Bestia del Coraz?n (Herztier - The Land of Green Plums) - Herta M?ller ****0
44. Un Dulce Olor a Muerte (A Sweet Scent of Death) - Guillermo Arriaga ****0
43. Retorno 201 - Guillermo Arriaga ***00+


October

42. The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer *****
41. The Emigrants (Die Ausgewanderten) - W.G. Sebald ****0
40. Travesuras de la Ni?a Mala (The Bad Girl) - Mario Vargas Llosa ***00+

September

39. La Confesi?n (The Confession) - C?sar Aira ***00
38. R?o Fugitivo (Fugitive River) - Edmundo Paz sold?n ****0
37. La Testa Perduta di Damasceno Monteiro (The Lost Head of Damasceno Monteiro) - Antonio Tabucchi ****0
36. Piccoli Equivoci Senza Importanza (Little Misunderstadings of No Importance) - Antonio Tabucchi ****0+

August

35. Sostiene Pereira (Declares Pereira) - Antonio Tabucchi ****0
34. Notturno Indiano (Indian Nocturne) - Antonio Tabucchi *****
33. L’Africain (The African) - L.M.G. Le Cl?zio ***00+
32. Onitsha - J.M.G. Le Cl?zio ****0
31. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Cronica za Borisa Davidovica) - Danilo Kis ***00+

July

30. Jerusal?n (Jerusal?m) - Gonzalo Tavares ****0
29. Agua, Perro, Caballo, Cabeza (?gua, Cao, Cavalo, Cabe?a - Water, Dog, Horse, head) - Gon?alo Tavares ***00
28. Historias Falsas (Hist?rias Faisas - False Stories) - Gon?alo Tavares ***00+
27. Kafka on the Shore (Umibe no Kafuka) - Haruki Murakami *****

June

26. A Wild Sheep Chase (Hitsuji o meguru b?ken) - Haruki Murakami ****0
25. El Grito Silencioso (Man'en Gannen no Futt?b?ru - The Silent Cry) - Kenzaburo O? *****++
24. El D?a Que ?l Se Digne Enjugar Mis L?grimas (Mizukara Waga Namida o Nug?i Tamau Hi - The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away) - Kenzaburo O? *****+
23. Dinos C?mo Sobrevivir a Nuestra Locura (Warera no Kyoki o Iki-Nobiru Michi o Oshieyo - Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness) - Kenzaburo O? ****0+
22. Ag??, el Monstruo del Cielo (Sorano Kaibutso Ag?? - Aghwee the Sky Monster) - Kenzaburo O? ****0+

May

21. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Mekurayanagi to, nemuru onna) - Haruki Murakami ****0
20. Kusamakura - Natsume Soseki ***00

April

19. Pa?s de Nieve (Yukiguni - Snow country) - Yasunari Kawabata ***00
18. Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no mori) - Haruki Murakami ****0
17. En Construcci?n (Fushinch? - Under Construction) - Mori Ogai ***00
16. El Congreso de Literatura (The Literature Congress) - C?sar Aira **000
15. Una Novela China (A Chinese Novel) - C?sar Aira ****0

March

14. La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins) - Fernando Vallejo ****0+
13. Si sta facendo sempre pi? tardi (It’s getting later each time) - Antonio Tabucchi ****0
12. La Extra?a (A sziget - The Island) - S?ndor M?rai ***00+
11. Dirt Music - Tim Winton ****0+

February

10. Amores Imperfectos (Imperfect Loves) - Edmundo Paz Sold?n ***00
9. El Desbarrancadero (The Precipice) - Fernando Vallejo ***00+
8. Elephant & Other Stories - Raymond Carver ****0
7. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan ****0+

January

6. Bartleby y Compa??a - Enrique Vila-Matas **000
5. Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis) - Javier Cercas ****0
4. El Arma en el Hombre (The Armed Man) - Horacio Castellnos Moya ***00
3. Insensatez (Senselessness) - Horacio Casrellanos Moya ****0+
2. El Asco (Revulsion) - Horacio Castellanos Moya ****0+
1. The Sea - John Banville ****0

Notes:
- My ratings are partial and may be revised with the hindsight of the whole year
- Titles are stated in the language in which I read the book; I wrote the name of the English translation of the title in brackets, and in italics when there is no published English translation and therefore I wrote an hypothetical translated title.
- Titles 22, 23 & 24 are three nouvelles bound in one book, but I decided to rate them separately because of their individual importance and because the author published them separately in the Japanese original.

[Daniel del Real]

1.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ca.gif Margaret Atwood - Surfacing *****
2.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Jos? Bianco - Sombras Suele Vestir/Las Ratas ***00
3.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Giuseppe Tomassi di Lampedusa - Il Gatopardi *****
4.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Italo Calvino - The Baron in Trees *****
5.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/pt.gif Jos? Saramago - A Viagem do Elefante ***00
6.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif Sealtiel Alatriste - Besos Pintados de Carm?n ***00
7.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/in.gif Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss ***00
8.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif Mar?a de Jes?s Barrera - Vetas de la Memoria ***00
9.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/kr.gif Hwang Sok Yong - The Guest *****
10.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Julio Cort?zar - Las Armas Secretas ****0
11.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Julio Cort?zar - Final de Juego *****
12.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Julio Cort?zar - La Otra Orilla *****
13.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/fr.gif Emile Zola - Germinal *****
14.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Borges/Bioy/Ocampo - Anthology of Fantastic Literature ***00
15.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ci.gif Ahmadou Kourouma - Allah is not Obliged ****0
16.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Juan Mars? - La Muchacha de las Bragas de Oro ****0
17.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Miguel Delibes - El Camino *****
18.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Italo Calvino - The Invisible Cities *****
19.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Vicente Blasco Iba?ez - Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis ***00
20.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/rs.gif Goran Petrovic - The Hand of Good Fortune *****
21.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Cesare Pavese - The Beach ***00
22.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/fr.gif Andrei Makine - A Music's Life ****0
23.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/lb.gif Amin Malouf - Leo the African *****
24.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Cesare Pavese - August's Fair **000
25.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Juan Gelman - Pesar Todo *****
26.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif Carlos Fuentes - La Regi?n m?s Transparente *****
27.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/pt.gif Jose Maria Eca do Queiros - The Mandarin ***00
28.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/fr.gif J.M.G. le Clezio - The Flood **000
29.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ni.gif Gioconda Belli - El Infinito en la Palma de la Mano ***00
30.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Paul Auster - In the Country of Last Things *****
31.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Juan Mars? - Si te Dicen que Ca? **000
32.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Miguel Delibes - Los Santos Inocentes ****0
33.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/jp.gif Natsume Soseki - Kokoro *****
34.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/uy.gif Mario Benedetti - El Amor, Las Mujeres y la Vida *****
35.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/jp.gif Yukio Mishima - After the Banquet ***00
36.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/br.gif Jorge Amado - Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon ****0
37.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby ***00
38.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Cesar Aira - Los Fantasmas ***00
39.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/fr.gif Georges Perec - Life, a User's Manual *****
40.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach ****0
41.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Italo Calvino - Difficult Loves ***00
42.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Javier Mar?as - Coraz?n tan Blanco *****
43.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif Jos? Emilio Pacheco - Las Batallas en el Desierto ****0
44.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Luis Sep?lveda - Un Viejo que Le?a Novelas de Amor *****
45.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Enrique Jardiel Poncela - Elo?sa est? debajo de un Almendro ***00
46.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Paul Auster - The Red Notebook ***00
47.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Ian McEwan - Amsterdam ***00
48.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Roberto Bola?o - Estrella Distante *****
49.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Carlos Ru?z Zaf?n - La Sombra del Viento ***00
50.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Jorge Luis Borges - La Memoria de Shakespeare *****
51.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif Carlos Fuentes - La Silla del ?guila ***00
52.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Eugenio Montale - Huesos de Sepia ****0
53.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ro.gif Eugene Ionesco - The Rhinoceros ***00
54.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Cesar Aira - C?mo me Hice Monja ***00
55.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Antonio Tabucchi - The Black Angel *****
56.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ie.gif George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion ***00
57.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/de.gif Ilija Trojanow - The World is Wide and Salvation lurks Everywhere **000
58.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Javier Mar?as - Los Dominios del Lobo *****
59.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Roberto Bola?o - Amuleto *****
60.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Joseph Conrad - The Heart of Darkness *****
61.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Enrique Vila-Matas - Una Casa para Siempre *****
62.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Luis Sep?lveda - El Mundo del Fin del Mundo ****0
63.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Antonio Tabucchi - El Juego del Rev?s ***00
64.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Aleksandar Hemon - The Lazarus Project *****
65.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/it.gif Italo Calvino - The Watcher ****0
66.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Paul Auster - Man in the Dark ****0
67.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ca.gif Steven Galloway - The Cellist of Sarajevo ****0
68.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif Mario Bellat?n - Sal?n de Belleza *****
69.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Javier Mar?as - El Hombre Sentimental ****0
70.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/jp.gif Kenzaburo Oe - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids *****
71.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Arthur Miller - The Death of a Salesman *****
72.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/sv.gif Horacio Castellanos Moya - El Arma en el Hombre ***00
73.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Enrique Vila-Matas - Bartleby y Compa??a *****
74.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/gb.gif Various - The Best of English Humour ***00
75.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/rs.gif Danilo Kis - A Tomb for Boris Davidovich ****0
76.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Roberto Bola?o - La Literatura Nazi en Am?rica *****
77.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/jp.gif Haruki Murakami - After the Quake ****0
78.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/hu.gif Imre K?rtesz - Fiasko ***00
79.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Enrique Lihn - Diario de Muerte *****
80.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/us.gif Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 *****
81.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ar.gif Roberto Arlt - Juguete Rabioso ****0
82.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif David Toscana - El ?ltimo Lector ****0
83.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Enrique Vila-Matas - La Asesina Ilustrada *****
84.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/fr.gif J.M.G. le Clezio - The Quarantine **000
85.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Roberto Bola?o - Llamadas Telef?nicas *****
86.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/jp.gif Banana Yoshimoto - Asleep *****
87.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/jp.gif Kobo Abe - The Face of Another ***00
88.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif Daniel Sada - Almost Never ***00
89.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/at.gif Thomas Bernhard - Verst?rung *****
90.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/uy.gif Felisberto Hern?ndez - Nadie Encend?a las L?mparas ****0
91.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/uy.gif Felisberto Hern?ndez - Casa Inundada, Las Hortensias, Caballo Perdido ****0
92.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/be.gif Amelie Nothomb - The Book of Proper Names http://palimpsest.org.uk/images/smilies/icon_turd.gif
93.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Roberto Bola?o - The Romantic Dogs ****0
94.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ru.gif Mihail Bulgakov - Master and Margarita *****
95.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif Jos? Emilio Pacheco - No me Preguntes c?mo Pasa el Tiempo ****0+
96.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/mx.gif Guadalupe Nettel - P?talos ****0+
97.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/al.gif Ismail Kadar? - Broken April ****0+
98.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Alejandro Zambra - Bons?i ****0
99.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/ve.gif Rafael Cadenas - Falsas Maniobras ***00
100.-http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/de.gif Herta M?ller - Der Mensch ist ein gro?er Fasan auf der Welt ****0
101.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/tt.gif V.S. Naipaul - Miguel Street ****0+
102.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/cl.gif Roberto Bola?o - 2666 *****+
103.- http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/images/flags/pt.gif Jos? Saramago - Ca?n **000+
104.- http://www.booklit.com/blog/wp-content/themes/limau-orange-01/images/flags/es.gif Luis Leante - La Luna Roja ***00

This is final now. So long 2009!

[Patrick_Bateman]

I'm mesmerised that a lot of you are able to document what you've read like that.

I can't be that specific


The Battle For Spain - Antony Beevor
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Idiot (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=The%20Idiot&init=pr) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=The%20Brothers%20Karamazov%20-%20Fyodor%20Dostoevsky&init=pr)
Panzer Commander: Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=Panzer%20Commander%3A%20Memoirs%20of%20Colonel% 20Hans%20Von%20Luck&init=pr)
Panzer Leader - Heinz Guderian (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=Panzer%20Leader%20-%20Heinz%20Guderian&init=pr)
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=The%20Spanish%20Civil%20War%3A%20Reaction&init=pr), Revolution (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=Revolution&init=pr), Revenge (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=Revenge&init=pr)
Knights Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=Knights%20Cross%3A%20Life%20of%20Field%20Marsha l%20Erwin%20Rommel&init=pr)
If This Is a Man - Primo Levi (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=If%20This%20Is%20a%20Man%20-%20Primo%20Levi&init=pr)
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=American%20Psycho%20-%20Bret%20Easton%20Ellis&init=pr)
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=A%20Farewell%20To%20Arms%20-%20Ernest%20Hemingway&init=pr)
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=For%20Whom%20The%20Bell%20Tolls%20-%20Ernest%20Hemingway&init=pr)
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=The%20Old%20Man%20and%20The%20Sea%20-%20Ernest%20Hemingway&init=pr)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=The%20Road%20-%20Cormac%20McCarthy&init=pr)
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=The%20Bell%20Jar%20-%20Sylvia%20Plath&init=pr)
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=Fahrenheit%20451%20-%20Ray%20Bradbury&init=pr)
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Che Guevara and The Cuban Revolution - Mike Gonzalez
John - Cynthia Lennon
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years - David Talbot
Empire - Niall Ferguson
Autobiography of Martin Luther King jnr
Biography of Nelson Mandela
Profiles In Courage - John F Kennedy
Auschwitz: The Nazis and The Final Solution
The Russian Revolution - Leon Trotsky
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks


More might come to me later

[miercuri]

Yet another slow year it seems

1. Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin ****0+
2. Vladimir Nabokov - The Eye ****0-
3. D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers ****0+
4. Patricia Highsmith -The Talented Mr. Ripley ****0+
5. Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ***00 +
6. Jeanette Winterson - The Passion ****0
7. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity ****0
8. Bernhard Schlink - The Reader ****0
9. Vladimit Nabokov - Pale Fire *****++
10. Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead *****
11. A.S Griboyedov - Woe from Wit ***00
12. John Banville - The Sea ***00+
13. Henry James - The Turn of the Screw ****0+
14. Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle ****0
15. Anne Enright - The Gathering ***00+
16. Charlaine Harris - Living Dead in Dallas **000+
17. Charlaine Harris - Club Dead **000+
18. Charlaine Harris - Dead to the World ***00
19. Charlaine Harris - Dead as Doornail *0000+
20. Charilaine Harris - Definitely Dead ***00
21. Charlaine Harris - All Together Dead ***00+
22. Charlaine Harris - From Dead to Worse **000+
23. Hjalmar Soderberg - Doctor Glas ****0
24. Charlaine Harris - Dead and Gone* **000
25. Alan Moore - Watchmen *****
26. Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls ****0+
27. Graham Swift - Waterland *****++
28. Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl ***00
29. Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher ****0
30. Anne Proulx - Brokeback Mountain ****0
31. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray *****
32. Truman Capote - Summer Crossing ****0+
33. J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace ****0+
34. Colette - Cheri ***00+
35. Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha *****
36. Romain Gary - La Vie devant soi *****
37. Jean-Dominique Bauby - Le scaphandre et le papillon ****0
38. Ben Okri - The Famished Road ***00-
39. Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife ****0-
40. Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club ****0+
41. Alexandr Pushkin - Eugene Onegin ****0+
42. Frank McCourt - Angela's Ahses ****0+
43. A.N Ostrovsky - The Storm ****0
44. Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ****0+
45. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights ****0+
46. Charles Dickens - Bleak House
47. Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov
48. Josh Kilmer-Purcell - I Am Not Myself These Days

*:p I read them during spring break after watching the True Blood series on HBO, which is based on these books. The show is a lot better, but I was still dying to know what was going to happen next.

edit: how do you put flags next to the names?

[Jayaprakash]

Some additions:

82. The Big Sleep: Raymond Chandler 4/5
83. Mrs. Henderson and other stories: Francis Wyndham 5/5
84. Two Serious Ladies: Jane Bowles 4/5 (http://aaahfooey.blogspot.com/2009/10/recently-read.html)
84. The Other Garden: Francis Wyndham 5/5
85. Dancing Lessons For The Advanced In Age: Bohumil Hrabal 4/5
86. The Rider On The White Horse: Theodor Storm 4/5
87. A Caribbean Mystery: Agatha Christie 3/5
88. Out Of The War: Francis Wyndham 4/5
89. Dagon: Fred Chappell 4/5
90. Mr. Gaunt and other uneasy encounters: John Langan 3/5
91. The Casebook of Carnacki the ghost-finder: William Hope Hodgson 4/5
92. The Haunter in the Ring and other stories: Robert E Howard 3/5
93. The Terror Of Fu Manchu: William Patrick Maynard 4/5
94. Foxfire: Joyce Carol Oates 5/5

[Flower]

I have decided not be intimidated by the very long readinglists here, as Im a slow reader:

dk Preben Gr?nkj?r "C.G. Jungs analystiske psykologi"
dk Knud Romer "Den som blinker er bange for d?den"
us Paul Auster "Man in the dark"
no Per Petterson "I k?lvandet"
no Lars Saabye Christensen "Den misundelige fris?r"
se P.O. Enquist "Et andet liv"
se Hjalmar S?derberg "Dr. Glas"
no Dag Solstad "Novel 11, book 18"
dk Anna Grue "Det taler vi ikke om"
se Bengt Ohlsson "Gregorius"
gb Virginia Woolf "Kew Garden"
us Carson McCullers "The heart is a lonely hunter"
no Per Petterson "I curse the river of time"
se P.O. Enquist "Captain Nemo's library"
gb Monica Ali "In the kitchen"
dk Kim Leine "Kalak"
gb Hanif Kureishi "Midnight all day"
es Carlos Ruiz Zaf?n "The Angels game"
es Carlos Ruiz Zaf?n "The shadow of the wind"
gb Jeanette Winterson "Oranges are not the only fruit"


I have abandoned:
John Banville "The sea"
Italio Calvino "If on a winters night a traveller"

At the moment Im reading:
dk Merete Pryds Helle "Hej menneske"
gb Salman Rushdie "The enchantress of Florence"
dk Otto Gelsted "Guder og helte" (about greek mytologi)
de Marie-Louise von Franz "Alchemy: An introduction to symbolism and psychology"

[obooki]

This is my final selection of books read in 2009 (everything that I rated 4 stars and above).

Tevye the Dairyman,Sholom Aleichem
The Pale of Settlement, Published: 1916, 131 pages, Short Stories, Schocken Books
Possibly the most famous production in all modern Yiddish literature. Tevye recounts the chronicle of his life (and his daughters' weddings) to the author. Humour constantly belies the heart-rending misery that lies at the heart of most of the stories.
Rating: ****0

Bliss and Other Stories,Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand, Published: 1920, 202 pages, Short Stories, Penguin Modern Classics
Mansfield's fascinating stories of the every day, written with consummate style. The only disappointing tale I thought was the first and longest, Prelude.
Rating: ****0

The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence,ed. Kirsten Lodge
Russia, Published: Various, 343 pages, Short Stories, Dedalus
A brilliant collection of short stories from Russia's Silver Age, full of fin de siecle doom and decadence. Bryusov's futuristic Republic of the Southern Cross and the pitch-dark stories by Andreev particularly stand out. Also includes good stories by Fyodor Sologub and Zinaida Gippius.
Rating: ****0

The Voice of the Moon,Ermanno Cavazzoni
Italy, Published: 1987, 319 pages, Fiction, Serpent's Tail
Cavazzoni's account of a perhaps insane vagrant's investigations into the borderlands between the worlds of appearance and reality. Endlessly inventive and fascinating.
Rating: ****0

On the Edge of Reason,Miroslav Krleža
Croatia, Published: 1938, 182 pages, Fiction, Quartet Encounters
The traditional European novel of a man who hates his country and its entire bourgeois establishment, with a nice sideline on the possible insanity of the narrator.
Rating: ****0

The Sebastopol Sketches,Leo Tolstoy
Russia, Published: 1856, 184 pages, Fiction, Penguin Classics
Tolstoy fictionalises his own experiences at Sebastopol, vividly recreating the siege.
Rating: ****0

My Friends,Emmanuel Bove
France, Published: 1924, 150 pages, Fiction, Paladin
Bove's wonderful account of a lonely ex-solider's life in Paris, written as a series of affecting sketches. His "friends" are the occasional people whose lives happen to entangle with his own.
Rating: *****

Artemisia,Anna Banti
Italy, Published: 1953, 214 pages, Fiction, Serpent's Tail
A fictionalised account of the Renaissance painter, Artemisia Gentileschi's life, and her struggle to find herself a place in a man's world, all written with extraordinary skill.
Rating: ****0

The KGB's Literary Archive,Vitaly Shentalinsky
Russia, Published: 1993, 285 pages, Non-Fiction, Harvill
Shentalinsky's intention (this was before the fall of the USSR) was to try to open up and search the KGB archives for lost (i.e. confiscated) manuscripts of arrested writers (for instance, Babel was known to have almost a complete novel he had been writing). Perhaps he didn't have so much success with the manuscripts, but the writers' files themselves make nonetheless compelling reading.
Rating: ****0

The Shadow of the Sun,Ryszard Kapuscinski
Poland, Published: 1998, 325 pages, Reportage, Penguin
Marvellous selection of reportage from Kapuscinski's years in Africa, starting out in Ghanaian independence, and reaching down to today's troubled wars in the north-east. Particularly interesting on the differences between African and European ways of thinking about the world. The best work of his I've read.
Rating: *****

Adolphe,Benjamin Constant
France, Published: 1816, 125 pages, Fiction, Penguin Classics
Another strongly psychological novel from the early c19th. Man falls in love with woman, tires of her but finds it difficult to break off their relationship.
Rating: ****0

The Heart of a Dog,Mikhail Bulgakov
Russia, Published: 1925, 128 pages, Fiction, Harvill
Bulgakov's mad sort of Soviet Frankenstein extravaganza, thoroughly enjoyable.
Rating: ****0

The Novels of...,Friedrich Durrenmatt
Switzerland, Published: 1958, 413 pages, Novellas, Picador
Five of them at least - though, despite the title, apparently not all of them. My favourites were the two crazy detective stories at the beginning. I was thinking it was remarkable no-one had ever made a film of them, but then the last story, called The Pledge, of course they had.
Rating: ****0

Twentieth-Century Chinese Stories,ed. C T Hsia
China, Published: 1921-1965, 239 pages, Short Stories, Columbia University Press
A marvellous collections of Chinese short stories. Hsia wilfully avoids the obvious names (Lu Hsun, Lao She, Mao Tun, whom, of course, we've all read). In particular I enjoyed Yu Ta-Fu (I've read quite a few of his short stories before), Shen Ts'ung Wen, and especially Eileen Chang's marvellous story of class-induced insanity, The Golden Cangue.
Rating: ****0

Three Exemplary Novels,Miguel de Unamuno
Spain, Published: 1920, 228 pages, Novellas, Grove Press
Three tales of a somewhat romantic, gothic character. Completely mad and wonderful.
Rating: ****0

La Madre,Grazia Deledda
Italy, Published: 1920, 224 pages, Fiction, Dedalus European Classics
Priest torn apart by love for one of his parishoners, his lack of belief in god, his mother etc. - I do have a fondness for novels about people in emotional torment.
Rating: *****

The Nun,Denis Diderot
France, Published: 1760, 189 pages, Fiction, Penguin Classics
Account of the life of an illegitimate child forced into a nunnery. Splendid kind of agitprop, full of religiously inspired sadism and homosexuality. Feels quite modern in its psychological realism.
Rating: ****0

The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories,Anton Chekhov
Russia, Published: Various, 310 pages, Short Stories, Chatto & Windus
Volume 12 of his complete tales. Mostly these are told from the point of view of children or animals. A few real classics, but even lesser Chekhov is better than most.
Rating: ****0

The Event,Juan Jos? Saer
Argentina, Published: 1988, 196 pages, Fiction, Serpent's Tail
The usual long rich sentences, this time dealing with the frustrations of a nineteenth-century psychic towards both his increasingly positivist times and the unfathomable mind of his wife.
Rating: ****0

The Law,Roger Vailland
France, Published: 1958, 248 pages, Fiction, Jonathan Cape
Fascinating vision of a few days in the life of a small Italian coastal town, on the cusp between an archaic feudalism and a modern liberalism.
Rating: ****0

Life's Handicap,Rudyard Kipling
England, Published: 1891, 307 pages, Short Stories, Penguin Classics
The English master of the "story-telling" short story. As with other early stories, mostly based in India. Contains Without Benefit of Clergy, one of my favourite stories of all.
Rating: ****0

Pornografia,Witold Gombrowicz
Poland, Published: 1960, 160 pages, Fiction, Calder & Boyars
Marvellously written account of something or other occurring in Poland in 1943. The action was clear enough; but I was a bit lost on what Gombrowicz's point was exactly.
Rating: *****

The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germany, Published: 1774, 249 pages, Short Stories, Signet Classic
In which Goethe makes a compelling case for suicide. Also greatly enjoyed Goethe in Sesenheim, an excerpt from Dichtung and Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth), so will be tracking down more Goethe.
Rating: *****

Undine,Friedrich Fouqu?
Germany, Published: 1811, 203 pages, Fiction, Dedalus
Marvellous slice of German Romanticism, involving knights and water sprites.
Rating: ****0

Garibaldi and the Thousand,G M Trevelyan
England, Published: 1909, 293 pages, Non-Fiction, Pelican
Account of Garibaldi's crazy invasion of Sicily, and what preceded.
Rating: ****0

The New York Trilogy,Paul Auster
USA, Published: 1987, 314 pages, Fiction, Faber & Faber
One of those occasional masterpieces of metafiction.
Rating: ****0

Jacob's Room,Virginia Woolf
England, Published: 1922, 168 pages, Fiction, Penguin Modern Classics
Woolf's first foray into stream of consciousness, traces a man's life from childhood to death of WW1. Long time since I've read any Woolf - marvellously written.
Rating: ****0

Nikolai Negorev,Ivan Kushchevsky
Russia, Published: 1871, 368 pages, Fiction, Calder Books
Much overlooked novel of the long Russian revolutionary period. Very funny, with a strangely modern air to its Dickensianness, perhaps because of its concentration on youth without adults.
Rating: ****0

Season of Migration to the North,Tayeb Salih
Sudan, Published: 1966, 169 pages, Fiction, Penguin Modern Classics
Marvellously readable account of a (perhaps futile and misguided) post-colonial revenge.
Rating: ****0

Marienbad,Sholem Aleichem
The Pale of Settlement, Published: 1917, 222 pages, Fiction, G P Putnam's Sons
A novel of wealthy and largely idle Warsaw Jews, far from the shtetl world of Tevye. Told through a series of letters and written from about twenty different points of view, the plot becomes absurdly complicated until the reader is entirely bemused and uncertain what is going on or who is telling the truth.
Rating: ****0