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Okay, so here's what I read in 2010--54 books in total. Ones from my initial list are bolded. My overall goal was to
Mickey wrote:
Goal: Finish at least 30 novels, including all of my christmas presents before next year, to read a substantial amount of Bolaño, and to be more well-versed in 20th century world literature.
Ghosts—César Aira Regeneration—Pat Barker Tongue of War—Tony Barnstone Endgame—Samuel Beckett And—Michael Blumenthal 2666—Roberto Bolaño By Night in Chile—Roberto Bolaño Distant Star—Roberto Bolaño Last Evenings On Earth—Roberto Bolaño Nazi Literature in the Americas—Roberto Bolaño Una Novelita Lumpen—Roberto Bolaño The Return—Roberto Bolaño The Last Interview & Other Conversations—Roberto Bolaño The Skating Rink—Roberto Bolaño Intercourse—Robert Olen Butler If On A Winter's Night a Traveler—Italo Calvino Invisible Cities—Italo Calvino Drown—Junot Diáz All-American Poem—Matthew Dickman The Sound and the Fury—William Faulkner Tongue—Rachel Contreni Flynn Dearest Creature—Amy Gerstler Begin Anywhere—Frank Giampietro Mariette in Ecstasy—Ron Hansen Animal Soul—Bob Hicok This Clumsy Living—Bob Hicok Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty—Tony Hoagland The Remains of the Day—Kazuo Ishiguro Emporium—Adam Johnson The Gatehouse Heaven—James Kimbrell Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico—Javier Marías Dance With Snakes—Horacio Castellanos Moya Senselessness—Horacio Castellanos Moya She-Devil In The Mirror—Horacio Castellanos Moya Joan of Arc: By Herself and her Witnesses—Reginé Pernoud The Crying of Lot 49—Thomas Pynchon Executive Director of the Fallen World—Liam Rector Civilwarland in Bad Decline—George Saunders Pastoralia—George Saunders The Lesser Fields—Rob Schlegel Austerlitz—W.G. Sebald The Taming of the Shrew—William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice—William Shakespeare The First Part of Henry VI—William Shakespeare Twelfth Night—William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida—William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream—William Shakespeare Saint Joan—George Bernard Shaw White Teeth—Zadie Smith Arcadia—Tom Stoppard Bartleby & Co.—Enrique Vila-Matas A Room of One’s Own—Virginia Woolf Elegy on Toy Piano—Dean Young Skid—Dean Young
Check.
My goals for 2011 are -To read at least 50 books -Develop a better critical understanding -Delve deeper into hispanic fiction and poetry -Become more versed in American short stories and European post-war fiction.
Here's my list for 2011. I've included 75 books but I'm well aware I won't get to most of these. This is just a guide of what I want to be reading this year:
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life—Giorgio Agamben How I Became a Nun—César Aira An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter—César Aira The Literary Conferences—César Aira My Life in Heavy Metal—Steve Almond Mythologies—Roland Barthes Malone Dies—Samuel Beckett Molloy—Samuel Beckett The Unnamable—Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot—Samuel Beckett Illuminations: Essays and Reflections—Walter Benjamin St. Petersburg—Andrey Biely Monsieur Pain—Roberto Bolaño Antwerp—Roberto Bolaño El Tercer Reich—Roberto Bolaño The Insufferable Gaucho—Roberto Bolaño Collected Fictions—Jorge Luis Borges A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain—Robert Olen Butler Cosmicomics—Italo Calvino The Plague—Albert Camus The Stranger—Albert Camus The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay—Michael Chabon Hopscotch—Julio Cortázar House of Leaves—Mark Danielewski The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao—Junot Diáz Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison Light in August—William Faulkner Sanctuary—William Faulkner The Museum of Eterna’s Novel—Macedonio Fernandez The Broom of the System—David Foster Wallace Discipline and Punish—Michel Foucault Crabwak—Gunter Grass Tinkers—Paul Harding Words for Empty and Words for Full—Bob Hicok Jesus’ Son—Dennis Johnson The Castle—Franz Kafka The Unbearable Lightness of Being—Milan Kundera The Fortress of Solitude—Jonathan Lentham Corazon Tan Blanco—Javier Marias Tomorrow In The Battle, Think on Me—Javier Mariás Blood Meridian—Cormac McCarthy C—Tom McCarthy In Other Rooms, Other Wonders—Daniyal Mueenuddin The Man Without Qualities—Robert Musil The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll—Álvaro Mutis Lolita—Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire—Vladimir Nabokov The Things They Carried—Tim O’Brien A Void—George Perec Life: A User’s Manual—George Perec Swann’s Way—Marcel Proust In The Shadow of the Young Girls In Flower—Marcel Proust Gravity's Rainbow—Thomas Pynchon V—Thomas Pynchon Letters to a Young Poet—Rainer Marie Rilke The Erasers—Alain Robbe-Grillet For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction—Alain Robbe-Grillet The Armies—Evelio Rosero Pedro Paramo—Juan Rulfo Empire Falls—Richard Russo Almost Never—Daniel Sada In Persuasion Nation—George Saunders Rings of Saturn—W.G. Sebald Vertigo—W.G. Sebald Rabbit, Run—John Updike Montano's Malady—Enrique Vila-Matas Explorers of the Abyss¬—Enrique Vila-Matas The Tanners—Robert Walser Bonsai—Alejandro Zambra The Private Lives of Trees—Alejandro Zambra
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I've started to compile a list, a pretty modest one, but I won't post it until I'm done with my 2010th reading. I'm hoping to squeeze out at least 2 books in the next 5 days.
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I've never compiled a reading list. Seriously, there are hundreds and hundreds of books I want to read and I'll never have the time or money to read them all.
I've never compiled a reading list. Seriously, there are hundreds and hundreds of books I want to read and I'll never have the time or money to read them all.
Okay, so here's what I read in 2010--54 books in total. Ones from my initial list are bolded. My overall goal was to
Mickey wrote:
Goal: Finish at least 30 novels, including all of my christmas presents before next year, to read a substantial amount of Bolaño, and to be more well-versed in 20th century world literature.
Ghosts—César Aira Regeneration—Pat Barker Tongue of War—Tony Barnstone Endgame—Samuel Beckett And—Michael Blumenthal 2666—Roberto Bolaño By Night in Chile—Roberto Bolaño Distant Star—Roberto Bolaño Last Evenings On Earth—Roberto Bolaño Nazi Literature in the Americas—Roberto Bolaño Una Novelita Lumpen—Roberto Bolaño The Return—Roberto Bolaño The Last Interview & Other Conversations—Roberto Bolaño The Skating Rink—Roberto Bolaño Intercourse—Robert Olen Butler If On A Winter's Night a Traveler—Italo Calvino Invisible Cities—Italo Calvino Drown—Junot Diáz All-American Poem—Matthew Dickman The Sound and the Fury—William Faulkner Tongue—Rachel Contreni Flynn Dearest Creature—Amy Gerstler Begin Anywhere—Frank Giampietro Mariette in Ecstasy—Ron Hansen Animal Soul—Bob Hicok This Clumsy Living—Bob Hicok Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty—Tony Hoagland The Remains of the Day—Kazuo Ishiguro Emporium—Adam Johnson The Gatehouse Heaven—James Kimbrell Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico—Javier Marías Dance With Snakes—Horacio Castellanos Moya Senselessness—Horacio Castellanos Moya She-Devil In The Mirror—Horacio Castellanos Moya Joan of Arc: By Herself and her Witnesses—Reginé Pernoud The Crying of Lot 49—Thomas Pynchon Executive Director of the Fallen World—Liam Rector Civilwarland in Bad Decline—George Saunders Pastoralia—George Saunders The Lesser Fields—Rob Schlegel Austerlitz—W.G. Sebald The Taming of the Shrew—William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice—William Shakespeare The First Part of Henry VI—William Shakespeare Twelfth Night—William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida—William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream—William Shakespeare Saint Joan—George Bernard Shaw White Teeth—Zadie Smith Arcadia—Tom Stoppard Bartleby & Co.—Enrique Vila-Matas A Room of One’s Own—Virginia Woolf Elegy on Toy Piano—Dean Young Skid—Dean Young
Check.
My goals for 2011 are -To read at least 50 books -Develop a better critical understanding -Delve deeper into hispanic fiction and poetry -Become more versed in American short stories and European post-war fiction.
Here's my list for 2011. I've included 75 books but I'm well aware I won't get to most of these. This is just a guide of what I want to be reading this year:
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life—Giorgio Agamben How I Became a Nun—César Aira An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter—César Aira The Literary Conferences—César Aira My Life in Heavy Metal—Steve Almond Mythologies—Roland Barthes Malone Dies—Samuel Beckett Molloy—Samuel Beckett The Unnamable—Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot—Samuel Beckett Illuminations: Essays and Reflections—Walter Benjamin St. Petersburg—Andrey Biely Monsieur Pain—Roberto Bolaño Antwerp—Roberto Bolaño El Tercer Reich—Roberto Bolaño The Insufferable Gaucho—Roberto Bolaño Collected Fictions—Jorge Luis Borges A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain—Robert Olen Butler Cosmicomics—Italo Calvino The Plague—Albert Camus The Stranger—Albert Camus The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay—Michael Chabon Hopscotch—Julio Cortázar House of Leaves—Mark Danielewski The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao—Junot Diáz Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison Light in August—William Faulkner Sanctuary—William Faulkner The Museum of Eterna’s Novel—Macedonio Fernandez The Broom of the System—David Foster Wallace Discipline and Punish—Michel Foucault Crabwak—Gunter Grass Tinkers—Paul Harding Words for Empty and Words for Full—Bob Hicok Jesus’ Son—Dennis Johnson The Castle—Franz Kafka The Unbearable Lightness of Being—Milan Kundera The Fortress of Solitude—Jonathan Lentham Corazon Tan Blanco—Javier Marias Tomorrow In The Battle, Think on Me—Javier Mariás Blood Meridian—Cormac McCarthy C—Tom McCarthy In Other Rooms, Other Wonders—Daniyal Mueenuddin The Man Without Qualities—Robert Musil The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll—Álvaro Mutis Lolita—Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire—Vladimir Nabokov The Things They Carried—Tim O’Brien A Void—George Perec Life: A User’s Manual—George Perec Swann’s Way—Marcel Proust In The Shadow of the Young Girls In Flower—Marcel Proust Gravity's Rainbow—Thomas Pynchon V—Thomas Pynchon Letters to a Young Poet—Rainer Marie Rilke The Erasers—Alain Robbe-Grillet For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction—Alain Robbe-Grillet The Armies—Evelio Rosero Pedro Paramo—Juan Rulfo Empire Falls—Richard Russo Almost Never—Daniel Sada In Persuasion Nation—George Saunders Rings of Saturn—W.G. Sebald Vertigo—W.G. Sebald Rabbit, Run—John Updike Montano's Malady—Enrique Vila-Matas Explorers of the Abyss¬—Enrique Vila-Matas The Tanners—Robert Walser Bonsai—Alejandro Zambra The Private Lives of Trees—Alejandro Zambra
I've never compiled a reading list. Seriously, there are hundreds and hundreds of books I want to read and I'll never have the time or money to read them all.
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:41 pm Posts: 23014 Location: NOT FLO-RIDIN Gender: Male
Harmless wrote:
I've never compiled a reading list. Seriously, there are hundreds and hundreds of books I want to read and I'll never have the time or money to read them all.
Last year was the first year I did it and of the 54 books I read, only about 10 were on my original list. It's not like a syllabus, it's more of a motivator and a director. For me, it's like, I want to read 50 books a year, and while some of those will be for school and some books I'll pick up halfway through the year based on reccs or references in other books, this is a list of books for me to go back to when I have nothing to read. It also means my reading isn't as haphazard. I found that making a list and keeping track of my reading made me read more last year--there's more a sense of "I should read this now" than "I should get to this eventually." It makes you tackle books you might otherwise put off, too.
Also I'm preparing for grad school so I have some semi-professional reading goals.
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Oh, you think I'm being douchey? Well I shall have to re-examine everything then. Thanks brah.
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