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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!

Current Mood: ear-pained
Current Music: assurdo pensare - tiziano ferro

AKA Yet Another Epic Failure

1. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
2. Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
3. City of Masks by Mary Hoffman
4. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
5. Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
7. The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
10. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (re-read)
11. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
12. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
13. The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
14. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison
15. Antigone by Sophocles
16. King Lear by William Shakespeare
17. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
18. Oedipus the King by Sophocles

I didn't take very obsessive records last year, so unfortunately there may be one or two I forgot, and I could've sworn I read The Subtle Knife in February or March when I was home sick for a couple days, but it's the last one on my '07 list so I am thoroughly confused.

Hopefully I'll have a better literary 2009 (maybe I'll actually complete it for once!).

EDIT: Oh mon dieu. It keeps cutting off my last three for no particular reason. So here -
19. Animal Farm by George Orwell
20. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
21. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Massive Attack - Teardrop | Powered by Last.fm

So I didn't quite finish, but here's the last of it...

( Previous 1-35 )

36. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
37. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
38. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge
40. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
41. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

41 / 50 books. 82% done!

15445 / 15000 pages. 103% done!

Beyond the reading, I'm back from Atlanta, am sitting on my last day off and a load of homework, and am thoroughly freaked out to be on this side of the school year heading towards finals and AP shit and the horrors of SAT. I am, however, one step closer to NYC, college, summer, Equus :P, and the return of television. It evens out rather nicely.

And towards 2008's fifty books, I am soso close to being finished with The Sweet Far Thing:

( Spoilers (well, er) to about the 700s... )

That is all. Happy New Year!

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: don't stand so close to me - the police

( Previous 1-22 )

23. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling*
24. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling*
25. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling*
26. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling*
27. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling*
28. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling*
29. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
30. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling*
31. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
32. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
33. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
34. Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
35. A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki

*re-read (some most obviously, yeah)

35 / 50 books. 70% done!

13739 / 15000 pages. 92% done!

In other news, the obsessive brother made a delorean cake to commemorate the last day of the Back to the Future ride at Universal CA. :P

Annnnd - last night of summer over here...to be spent tying up the loose ends of summer homework. Ah, what love. *steals basilisk fangs with which to stab offending books*

Current Mood: listless
Current Music: pendulous threads - incubus

( Past 1-10 )

11. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
12. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
13. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
14. Abarat by Clive Barker
15. Nightmares and Fairytales: 1140 Rue Royale by Serena Valentino
16. Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker
17. Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet by Lola Douglas
18. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
19. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
20. Teacher's Pet by Richie Tankersley Cusick*
21. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams *
22. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams*

* re-read

( Thoughts, possible spoilers, etc. )

22 / 50 books. 44% done!

7067 / 15000 pages. 47% done!

And now folks, it's off to my favorite world in the entire collection of Crazy Awesome Bookverseness Everywhere - the Last Run Before Armageddon -

HARRY POTTER!!!!!!! 23 FUCKING DAYS UNTIL THE. END.

(AKA, you may not see me for a while.)

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Platform 9&3/4
Current Music: gotta have you - the weepies

1. Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
4. Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
5. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
6. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
7. Gunslinger Girl Vol. 1 by Yu Aida
8. The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
9. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
10. Night by Elie Wiesel

The Angel of Darkness: Lazlo Kreizler has my heart. As does Mr. Carr for creating him and these two brilliant novels. That is all.

The Cement Garden: Short and sweet - like one long, languishing summer day with touch of creepy and a bit of incest on the side.

Night: Horrifying and amazing. I kept getting his story mixed up with Gloria's, which throws the reality of it all into stark perspective.

Hopefully my slow-reading self will get something done en France. I was hoping to have A Great and Terrible Beauty done with, but it was not to be.

10 / 50 books. 20% done!

3254 / 15000 pages. 22% done!

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: life for rent - dido

7 / 50 books. 14% done!

2248 / 15000 pages. 15% done!

Next: The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: the sound of silence - simon & garfunkel

1. Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
4. Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause