I just finished my first semester of library school and I’d like to think that this is the only reason I haven’t written. Like I always say: I haven’t stopped reading! Since I have my Christmas reading lined up (literally on a shelf), I would like to take some time to look over what I’ve read this year. It is important to remember that I have had a lot of changes in my life this year, and I think my erratic reading behavior reflects these changes. In the course of one year: I have graduated from college, moved to New Jersey, and started library school. I have had 3 jobs this year also, which should make taxes fun!
As always, I have had many plans for reading and not always the time or resources to complete these plans. It’s fun to look back and see what I was planning and what I actually accomplished.
1) The New Life by: Orhan Pamuk.
2) Other Colors by: Orhan Pamuk.
3) And Now You Can Go by: Vendela Vida
4) Varieties of Disturbances by: Lydia Davis
5) Sleepless Nights by: Elizabeth Hardwick
6) Case Histories by: Kate Atkinson
7) Swann in Love by: Marcel Proust
The World to Come by: Dara Horn
9) Petropolis by: Anya Ulinich
10) How Proust can Change Your Life by: Alain de Botton
11) Gilgamesh
12) The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by: Michael Chabon
13) Persepolis by: Marjane Satrapi
14) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by: Milan Kundera
15) In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by: Marcel Proust
16) The White Castle by: Orhan Pamuk
17) The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao by: Junot Diaz
18) The Odyssey by: Homer
19) Everything Passes by: Gabriel Josipovici
20) The Guermantes Way by: Marcel Proust
21) Indian Killer by: Sherman Alexie
22) Mrs. Dalloway by: Virginia Woolf
23) A Defense of Ardor by: Adam Zagajewski
24) Goldberg: Variations by: Gabriel Josipovici
25) Signed, Mata Hari by: Yannick Murphy
26) Eat, Pray, Love by: Elizabeth Gilbert
27) Mysteries of Pittsburgh by: Michael Chabon
28) The Lusiads by: Vaz de Cameos
29) Omeros by: Derek Walcott
30) Possession by: A.S. Byatt
31) Free Food for Millionaires by: Min Jin Lee
32) Drown by: Junot Diaz
33) The Din in the Head by: Cynthia Ozick
34) Persepolis 2 by: Marjane Sartapi
35) The Captive and the Fugitive by: Marcel Proust
36) Wonder Boys by: Michael Chabon
37) A Model World and Other Stories by: Michael Chabon
38) Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by: Lydia Millet
39) Ignorance by: Milan Kundera
40) Werewolves in their Youth by: Michael Chabon
41) Here is New York by: E.B. White
42) Slowness by: Milan Kundera
43) No One Belongs Here More than You by: Miranda July
44) The Last Window Giraffe by: Peter Zilahy
45) Riding Toward Everywhere by: William T. Vollmann
46) The Confessions of Max Tivoli by: Andrew Sean Greer
47) The Invention of Everything Else by: Samantha Hunt
48) The Butterfly Stories by: William T. Vollmann
49) Heir to the Glimmering World by: Cynthia Ozick
50) Finding Time Again by: Marcel Proust
51) The Book of Revelation by: Rupert Thomson
52) Europe Central by: William T. Vollmann
53) The Savage Detectives by: Roberto Bolano
54) The Master Butcher’s Singing Club by: Louise Erdrich
55) The Castle by: Franz Kakfa
56) One Good Turn by: Kate Atkinson
57) Beloved by: Toni Morrison
58) Netherland by: Joseph O’Neill
59) Last Evenings on Earth by: Roberto Bolano
60) Of Love and Other Demons by: Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
61) Fiskadoro by: Denis Johnson
62) Rings of Saturn by: W.G. Sebald
63) Dance, dance, dance by: Haruki Murakami
64) The Tipping Point by: Malcolm Gladwell
65) Gilead by: Marilynn Robinson
66) The Library at Night by: Alberto Manguel
67) The Best American Non-Required Reading edited by: Dave Eggers
68) Behind the Scenes at the Museum by: Kate Atkinson
69) Jorge Luis Borges: the Complete Fictions translated by: Andrew Huxley
70) What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by: Haruki Murakami
