Booklist '09

[interpretthis]

Started recording a few years back for that 50bookchallenge comm but have mostly given up on actually accomplishing it. 

1. Daisy Miller by Henry James

2. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

3. Watchmen by Alan Moore

4. Looking for Alaska by John Green

5. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

6. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

7. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

8. Paper Towns by John Green

9. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

11. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

12. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

13. Q&A by Vikas Swarup

14. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
15. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown*

16. Cultural Misunderstandings by Raymonde Carroll

17. The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier

18. The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

19. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

20. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

21. Popol Vuh by The Mayan People

22. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

23. Adolphe by Benjamin Constant

24. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow

25. A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke

26. By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
27. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

* = re-read

Pretty sure that's everything.  Got quite a few in-progress/possibly-never-to-finish ones (mostly for school), but they will have to go on next year's list if I make it.

Happy new year!
 

Comments

[nitro26.livejournal.com]

Hope 2010 will be a wonderful year for you. :) <333

[interpretthis.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much and you too! I'm looking forward to being here more. ♥

[orangeokapi13.livejournal.com]

do you still have A Year in Merde? That sounds like a good book and could i borrow it? (unless you hated it and won't recommend it at all...then i would trust your judgement)
also i know you used to have Love, Rosie (I know because I borrowed it before....heh) anyways, could i borrow it again? I really want to reread it.

[interpretthis.livejournal.com]

Yes fosure but it's unfortunately locked away in da Swiss land. I will give it to you in NY. :P It's pretty amusing indeed.
And yeah totally on the Love, Rosie - just have to find it. Remind me though because as you know I fail in that department, lolz.

[kichisama.livejournal.com]

i didn't know Neil Gaiman wrote Coraline. I luv the Sandman series

[interpretthis.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I really want to read those. Love him. ♥

sandman

[kichisama.livejournal.com]

I've read them all and they are excellent. I can't say much for most of the artists though. I own 5 or 6 of the graphic novels, if you can order them from a library, do it. :D

[madmodernlife.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing "A Year in the Merde" at the bookstore and I thought it sounded interesting. Is it any good?

But hey, at least you got a little more than halfway through the 50 books per year challenge, right?

[interpretthis.livejournal.com]

Hellllllllo my dear friend, tis late late Claire! (Sorry, gah!) But yes it is an alright, fairly amusing book, though the narrator can get exceptionally annoying at times. I'll be bringing it home for Katie to read so you may as well if you like.
And yes indeed, it's an improvement on last year!
*iconlove*
♥