While Browsing
I came across a litblog this evening and was actually impressed. The author is presently in Vietnam on holiday and took Proust, Turgenev and Robertson Davies along for reading. A week ago a prospective 100 book to read list for 2008 was posted. I hacked it for here.
Such may inspire me to consider what I want to read next year.
The Histories • Herodotus
[24/04/2007 ~
Kristin Lavransdatter • Sigrid Undset
[Translated by Tiina Nunnally]
[27/08/2007 ~
The Three Musketeers• Alexandre Dumas
[Translated by Richard Pevear]
[16/12/2006 ~
The Book of Disquiet • Fernando Pessoa
The Awakening • Kate Chopin
Good Morning, Midnight • Jean Rhys
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie • Jean Rhys
Mrs. Dalloway • Virginia Woolf
The Napoleon of Notting Hill • G.K. Chesterton
Rebecca • Daphne Du Maurier
Jane Eyre • Charlotte Bronte
The Masterpiece • Emile Zola
The Plague • Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus • Albert Camus
Cheri and The Last of Cheri • Colette
Earthly Paradise • Colette
Temptation of Saint Antony • Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert In Egypt • Gustave Flaubert
Bel-Ami • Guy de Maupassant
Gargantua and Pantagruel • François Rabelais [translated by M. A. Screech]
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes
Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s • Malcolm Cowley
Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book I) • Robin Hobb
Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy, Book II) • Robin Hobb
Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book III) • Robin Hobb
The Stress of Her Regard • Tim Powers
A Canticle for Liebowitz • Walter M. Miller Jr.
Riddlemaster Series • Patricia McKillip
Cyteen • C. J. Cherryh
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever • James Tiptree, Jr.
Chronicles of Amber • Roger Zelzany
The Once and Future King • T.H. White
The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain, Book I) • Lloyd Alexander
The Black Cauldron (Chronicles of Prydain, Book II) • Lloyd Alexander
The Castle of Llyr (Chronicles of Prydain, Book III) • Lloyd Alexander
Taran Wanderer (Chronicles of Prydain, Book IV) • Lloyd Alexander
The High King (Chronicles of Prydain, Book V) • Lloyd Alexander
Bloodchild and Other Stories • Octavia E. Butler
Slow River • Nicola Griffith
Grass • Sheri S. Tepper
The Art of Peace • Morihei Ueshiba
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers • Leonard Koren
In Praise of Shadows • Junichiro Tanizaki
The Book of Tea • Kakuzo Okakura
Vermeer In Bosnia: Selected Writings • Lawrence Weschler
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence • Geoff Dyer
The Last Temptation of Christ • Nikos Kazantzakis
Pashazade [Arabesk Trilogy Book I] • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Effendi [Arabesk Trilogy Book II] • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Felaheen [Arabesk Trilogy Book III] • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Fledgling • Octavia E. Butler
Bloodchild and Other Stories • Octavia E. Butler
The Fortune of War • Patrick O'Brian
The Surgeon's Mate • Patrick O'Brian
The Ionian Mission • Patrick O'Brian
Treason's Harbour • Patrick O'Brian
The Far Side of the World • Patrick O'Brian
The Reverse of the Medal • Patrick O'Brian
Under the Volcano • Malcolm Lowry
Love Medicine • Louise Erdrich
Molloy • Samuel Beckett
Love • Stendhal
The Red and the Black • Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma • Stendhal
Walden and Other Writings • Henry David Thoreau
Essential Writings • Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Twelve Caesars • Suetonius
Candide • Voltaire
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape • Barry Lopez
The Little Prince • Antoine de Saint-Exupery
An Unexpected Light • Jason Elliot
The Carpet Wars • Christopher Kremmer
The Shadow of the Sun • Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Worst Journey in the World • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Places in Between • Rory Stewart
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube • Patrick Leigh Fermor
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates • Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time to Keep Silence • Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Power and the Glory • Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter • Graham Greene
The Solace of Open Spaces • Gretel Ehrlich
A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning • Gretel Ehrlich
Bleak House • Charles Dickens
With Billie • Julia Blackburn
The Looking Glass Wars • Frank Beddor
The Iliad • Homer
The Prisoner & The Fugitive • Marcel Proust
[Translated by Carol Clark & Peter Collier]
Finding Time Again • Marcel Proust
[Translated by Ian Paterson]
Three Bags Full • Leonie Swann
Praeterita • John Ruskin
The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed • Mary McCarthy
Venice • Jan Morris
Darkmans • Nicola Barker
The Married Man • Edmund White
The Salterton Trilogy • Robertson Davies
The Leopard • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
River of Gods • Ian McDonald
• Rebecca Solnit
• Jorge Luis Borges
• W. Somerset Maugham
Posted by Dark Orpheus on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3 comments
For those counting i have finished 20 percent of this list while regarding a good quarter as being sci-fi bullshit.
Such may inspire me to consider what I want to read next year.
The Histories • Herodotus
[24/04/2007 ~
Kristin Lavransdatter • Sigrid Undset
[Translated by Tiina Nunnally]
[27/08/2007 ~
The Three Musketeers• Alexandre Dumas
[Translated by Richard Pevear]
[16/12/2006 ~
The Book of Disquiet • Fernando Pessoa
The Awakening • Kate Chopin
Good Morning, Midnight • Jean Rhys
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie • Jean Rhys
Mrs. Dalloway • Virginia Woolf
The Napoleon of Notting Hill • G.K. Chesterton
Rebecca • Daphne Du Maurier
Jane Eyre • Charlotte Bronte
The Masterpiece • Emile Zola
The Plague • Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus • Albert Camus
Cheri and The Last of Cheri • Colette
Earthly Paradise • Colette
Temptation of Saint Antony • Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert In Egypt • Gustave Flaubert
Bel-Ami • Guy de Maupassant
Gargantua and Pantagruel • François Rabelais [translated by M. A. Screech]
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes
Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s • Malcolm Cowley
Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book I) • Robin Hobb
Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy, Book II) • Robin Hobb
Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book III) • Robin Hobb
The Stress of Her Regard • Tim Powers
A Canticle for Liebowitz • Walter M. Miller Jr.
Riddlemaster Series • Patricia McKillip
Cyteen • C. J. Cherryh
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever • James Tiptree, Jr.
Chronicles of Amber • Roger Zelzany
The Once and Future King • T.H. White
The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain, Book I) • Lloyd Alexander
The Black Cauldron (Chronicles of Prydain, Book II) • Lloyd Alexander
The Castle of Llyr (Chronicles of Prydain, Book III) • Lloyd Alexander
Taran Wanderer (Chronicles of Prydain, Book IV) • Lloyd Alexander
The High King (Chronicles of Prydain, Book V) • Lloyd Alexander
Bloodchild and Other Stories • Octavia E. Butler
Slow River • Nicola Griffith
Grass • Sheri S. Tepper
The Art of Peace • Morihei Ueshiba
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers • Leonard Koren
In Praise of Shadows • Junichiro Tanizaki
The Book of Tea • Kakuzo Okakura
Vermeer In Bosnia: Selected Writings • Lawrence Weschler
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence • Geoff Dyer
The Last Temptation of Christ • Nikos Kazantzakis
Pashazade [Arabesk Trilogy Book I] • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Effendi [Arabesk Trilogy Book II] • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Felaheen [Arabesk Trilogy Book III] • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Fledgling • Octavia E. Butler
Bloodchild and Other Stories • Octavia E. Butler
The Fortune of War • Patrick O'Brian
The Surgeon's Mate • Patrick O'Brian
The Ionian Mission • Patrick O'Brian
Treason's Harbour • Patrick O'Brian
The Far Side of the World • Patrick O'Brian
The Reverse of the Medal • Patrick O'Brian
Under the Volcano • Malcolm Lowry
Love Medicine • Louise Erdrich
Molloy • Samuel Beckett
Love • Stendhal
The Red and the Black • Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma • Stendhal
Walden and Other Writings • Henry David Thoreau
Essential Writings • Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Twelve Caesars • Suetonius
Candide • Voltaire
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape • Barry Lopez
The Little Prince • Antoine de Saint-Exupery
An Unexpected Light • Jason Elliot
The Carpet Wars • Christopher Kremmer
The Shadow of the Sun • Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Worst Journey in the World • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Places in Between • Rory Stewart
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube • Patrick Leigh Fermor
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates • Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time to Keep Silence • Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Power and the Glory • Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter • Graham Greene
The Solace of Open Spaces • Gretel Ehrlich
A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning • Gretel Ehrlich
Bleak House • Charles Dickens
With Billie • Julia Blackburn
The Looking Glass Wars • Frank Beddor
The Iliad • Homer
The Prisoner & The Fugitive • Marcel Proust
[Translated by Carol Clark & Peter Collier]
Finding Time Again • Marcel Proust
[Translated by Ian Paterson]
Three Bags Full • Leonie Swann
Praeterita • John Ruskin
The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed • Mary McCarthy
Venice • Jan Morris
Darkmans • Nicola Barker
The Married Man • Edmund White
The Salterton Trilogy • Robertson Davies
The Leopard • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
River of Gods • Ian McDonald
• Rebecca Solnit
• Jorge Luis Borges
• W. Somerset Maugham
Posted by Dark Orpheus on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3 comments
For those counting i have finished 20 percent of this list while regarding a good quarter as being sci-fi bullshit.
posted by jon faith at
5:09 PM
2 Comments:
On the highest note, I'd love to finish Moby Dick, read Toynbee and the Hitler books (Kershaw and Fest)
I may bite the big and become hooked on the Patrick O'Brien books so maybe Hitchens will respect me for that. As to rereading I have thought of following my conlusion of Name of the Rose with a careful rereading of Foucault's Pendulum, Island of the Day Before and Baulodino.
Patrick O'Brian? Hmm. My opinion is that he would not fit with the rest of the list, but, everyone, I repeat everyone has an author they turn to for true escape and easy reads. O'Brian must be said authors buttonpusher for true page turning retreat from h'core lit.
I truly love these kinds of list because of the expansion of reading territories for ones love of finding new things to read.
THX....
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