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Books, AGAIN
2005-07-04 - 1:32 p.m.


Here is this year's booklist. I'm going to read at least 120 books! So that I might become an ubergeek, because, well, that's my calling in life.

1) The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper (244 pages)

2) Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach (93 pages)

3) Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper (243 pages)

4) Greenwitch - Susan Cooper (131 pages)

5) The Grey King - Susan Cooper (165 pages)

6) Silver on the Tree - Susan Cooper (274 pages)

7) Seaward - Susan Cooper (167 pages)

8) A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin (205 pages)

9) The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. LeGuin (163 pages)

10) The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. LeGuin (223 pages)

11) Tehanu - Ursula K. LeGuin (226 pages)

12) Collected Poems - Dylan Thomas (199 pages)

13) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (441 pages)

14) The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (502 pages)

15) An Outline of Georgian History- S. Meshkia (52 pages)

16) Native American Animal Stories - Joseph Bruchac (135 pages)

17) Centres of Ancient Georgian Culture - L. Menabde (63 pages)

18) The Singing Mountaineers: Songs and Tales of the Quechua People - Jose Maria Arguedas (edited by Ruth Stephan) (194 pages)

19) The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles (366 pages)

20) Indian Music Makers - Robert Hofsinde (Gray-Wolf) (95 pages)

21) The French Flute School: 1860-1950 - Claude Dorgeuille (138 pages)

22) Da Vinci Code Decoded - Martin Lunn (173 pages)

23) The Flute - Raymond Meylan (translated by Alfred Clayton) (135 pages)

24) A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn (688 pages)

25) A Salty Piece of Land - Jimmy Buffett (365 pages)

26) Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone - Michael Moore (218 pages)

27) The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (519 pages)

28) The Beggar's Opera (and Companion Pieces - John Gay (edited by C.F. Burgess) (109 pages)

29) Amadeus - Peter Shaffer (152 pages)

30) Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ - Friedrich Nietzsche (208 pages)

31) Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America - James Webb (343 pages)

32) The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (372 pages)

33) That's Not in my American History Book: A Compilation of Little-Known Events and Forgotten Heroes - Thomas Ayres (234 pages)

34) Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende (304 pages)

35) Music of the Romantic Period - Johannes Riedel (123 pages)

36) Mozart and Constanze - Francis Carr (180 pages)

37) The Gospel of Mary Magdalene - translated by Jean-Yves Leloup (176 pages)

38) Genealogy 101: How to Trace Your Family's History and Heritage - Barbara Renick (229 pages)

39) Restoration - Rose Tremain (371 pages)

40) Siddhartha - Herman Hesse (123 pages)

41) Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (197 pages)

42) The Hours - Michael Cunningham (230 pages)

43) Tales from Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett (238 pages)

44) Paths of the Past: Tennessee, 1770-1970 - Paul H. Bergeron (120 pages)

45) Saint Joan - George Bernard Shaw (159 pages)

46) Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason- Nancy Pearl (256 pages)

47) Walking Across Egypt - Clyde Edgerton (225 pages)

48) Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (475 pages)

49) The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough (692 pages)

50) Othello, The Moor of Venice - William Shakespeare (256 pages)

51) Sarah - Marek Halter (294 pages)

52) The Kreutzer Sonata - Margriet de Moor (156 pages)

53) The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd (302 pages)

54) The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier (250 pages)

55) Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk (260 pages)

56) Disturbance of the Inner Ear - Joyce Hackett (277 pages)

57) Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire (406 pages)

58) Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown (420 pages)

59) The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers (132 pages)

60) The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (374 pages)

61) Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (314 pages)

62) Fair and Tender Ladies - Lee Smith (316 pages)

63) Music and Silence - Rose Tremain (485 pages)

64) A Death in the Family - James Agee (339 pages)

65) Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (198 pages)

66) Ukrainian Musical Elements in Classical Music - Yakov Soroker (135 pages)

67) The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore (275 pages)

68) A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt (95 pages)

69) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling (870 pages)

70) Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (246 pages)

71) The Piano Man's Daughter - Timothy Findley (461 pages)

72) A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare (129 pages)

73) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling (652 pages)

74) Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi (343 pages)

75) A Brief History of Time - Stephen W. Hawking (187 pages)

76) The Cello Player - Michael Kruger (200 pages)

77) Islam: A Short History - Karen Armstrong (204 pages)

78) Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder (427 pages)

79) Shadows on the Wall - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (165 pages)

80) Faces in the Water - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (167 pages)

81) Footprints at the Window - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (167 pages)

82) The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller (171 pages)

83) Outlander - Diana Gabaldon (627 pages)

84) The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans - Paul Robert Magocsi (105 pages)

85) Jazz - R.P. Jones (92 pages)

86) Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk (289 pages)

87) The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera (314 pages)

88) The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (394 pages)

89) Beethoven: The Composer as Hero - Philippe A. Autexier (132 pages)

90) Every Day Geography of the United States - Barbara Fifer (162 pages)

91) Poems - Taras Shevchenko (116 pages)

92) Spirit of Ukraine: Ukrainian Contributions to World's Culture - D. Snowyd (144 pages)

93) Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk (404 pages)

94) Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (276 pages)

95) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (458 pages)

96) The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Rediscovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier - Thad Carhart (271 pages)

97) Life of Pi - Yann Martel (319 pages)

98) Eragon - Christopher Paolini (497 pages)

99) The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (291 pages)

100) The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen (227 pages)

101) America (the book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (236 pages)

102) The Music of the Jews: An Historical Appreciation - Aron Marko Rothmuller (242 pages)

103) Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy - Sarah Bradford (367 pages)

104) Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (297 pages)

105) Zipporah, Wife of Moses - Marek Halter (270 pages)

106) Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History - Edward A. Berlin (200 pages)

107) Legends of the Sufis: Selections from Menaqibu' L'Arifin - Shemsu-'d-din Ahmed, El Eflaki (translated by James W. Redhouse) (125 pages)

108) Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake (506 pages)

109) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (326 pages)

110) Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake (511 pages)

111) Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake (263 pages)

112) Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang (508 pages)

113) Eldest - Christopher Paolini (677 pages)

114) The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail - Margaret Starbird (184 pages)

115) Prose Poems - Kahlil Gibran (translated by Andrew Ghareeb) (77 pages)

116) Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents - Bruno Nettl (206 pages)

117) Bee Season - Myla Goldberg (274 pages)

118) The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (642 pages)

119) Stravinsky - Robert Siohan (translated by Eric Walker White) (176 pages)

120) Ethan Frome and Summer - Edith Wharton (229 pages)

121) The Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope

122) The Melungeons - Bonnie Ball (106 pages)

123) What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America - Thomas Frank (296 pages)

124) The Virgin of Bennington - Kathleen Norris (250 pages)

125) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (190 pages)

126) It Happened in Tennessee - James Ewing (142 pages)

127) Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit - Laura Penny (236 pages)

128) Maurice Ravel - Roland-Manuel (138 pages)

129) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (428 pages)

130) Truth and Fiction in the DaVinci Code - Bart D. Ehrman (190 pages)

131) Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich (221 pages)

And now, to take a cue from dfirefly:

Favorite new reads

-The Time Traveler's Wife

-The Master and Margarita

-Titus Groan

-Wicked

-Sophie's World

-Poems of Taras Shevchenko

Books that will change your life

-Everything is Illuminated

-America (the Book)

-A People's History of the United States

-Holy Blood, Holy Grail

-Nineteen Eighty-Four

Cool. NextThis year: 150 books. It shall be done.

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