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)