50 book challenge: year #1
Didn't think I could do it. I haven't been writing about them, but I've been keeping track.
bold = really enjoyed
italics = struggled to enjoy
struck = couldn't finish
+ = recommended
- = wouldn't recommend
Books read in 2006:
-01. Choke [Chuck Palahniuk]
+02. Running With Scissors [Augusten Burroughs]
+03. The Acid House [Irvine Welsh]
04. Thinking With Type: A Critical Guide [Ellen Lupton]
05. The Painted Word [Tom Wolfe]
+06. The Human Stain [Philip Roth]
07. Less Than Zero [Bret Easton Ellis]
08. Filth [Irvine Welsh]
09. The Plot Against America [Philip Roth]
+10. Nine Stories [J.D. Salinger]
+11. Hey Nostradamus! [Douglas Coupland]
12. Enduring Love [Ian McEwan]
13. The Virgin Suicides [Jeffrey Eugenides]
---14. Naked Lunch [William S. Burroughs]
15. The Body Artist [Don DeLillo]
16. Fight Club [Chuck Palahniuk]
17. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [Harriet Jacobs]
++18. The Cheese Monkeys [Chip Kidd]
+19. One Hundred Years of Solitude [Gabriel García Márquez]
20. White Noise [Don DeLillo]
+21. 1984 [George Orwell]
--22. Faggots [Larry Kramer]
-23. The Crying of Lot 49 [Thomas Pynchon]
24. Whoever Finds This: I Love You [Faye Moskowitz]
25. Sellevision [Augusten Burroughs]
26. Nausea [Jean-Paul Sartre]
+27. Marabou Stork Nightmares [Irvine Welsh]
+28. JPod [Douglas Coupland]
29. Diary [Chuck Palahniuk]
+30. The Lost Language of Cranes [David Leavitt]
+31. Barrel Fever [David Sedaris]
32. Sylvia and Ted [Emma Tennant]
33. Franny and Zooey [J.D. Salinger]
+34. The Mayor of Castro Street [Randy Shilts]
++35. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 [Dave Eggers, editor]
36. The Medium is the Massage [Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore]
+37. Gorilla, My Love [Toni Cade Bambara]
38. The Sound and the Fury [William Faulkner]
39. Ariel [Sylvia Plath]
40. The Metamorphosis [Franz Kafka]
++41. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers [Mary Roach]
++42. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 [Dave Eggers, editor]
43. Candide [Voltaire]
44. Without Feathers [Woody Allen]
45. The Colossus [Sylvia Plath]
46. Selected Poems [e.e. cummings]
+47. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim [David Sedaris]
+48. The Little Prince [Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]
49. Lady Sings the Blues [Billie Holiday w/ William Dufty]
50. Maurice [E.M. Forster]
51. Miss Wyoming [Douglas Coupland]
++52. The Botany of Desire [Michael Pollan]
bold = really enjoyed
italics = struggled to enjoy
struck = couldn't finish
+ = recommended
- = wouldn't recommend
Books read in 2006:
-01. Choke [Chuck Palahniuk]
+02. Running With Scissors [Augusten Burroughs]
+03. The Acid House [Irvine Welsh]
04. Thinking With Type: A Critical Guide [Ellen Lupton]
05. The Painted Word [Tom Wolfe]
+06. The Human Stain [Philip Roth]
07. Less Than Zero [Bret Easton Ellis]
08. Filth [Irvine Welsh]
09. The Plot Against America [Philip Roth]
+10. Nine Stories [J.D. Salinger]
+11. Hey Nostradamus! [Douglas Coupland]
12. Enduring Love [Ian McEwan]
13. The Virgin Suicides [Jeffrey Eugenides]
---14. Naked Lunch [William S. Burroughs]
15. The Body Artist [Don DeLillo]
16. Fight Club [Chuck Palahniuk]
17. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [Harriet Jacobs]
++18. The Cheese Monkeys [Chip Kidd]
+19. One Hundred Years of Solitude [Gabriel García Márquez]
20. White Noise [Don DeLillo]
+21. 1984 [George Orwell]
--22. Faggots [Larry Kramer]
-23. The Crying of Lot 49 [Thomas Pynchon]
24. Whoever Finds This: I Love You [Faye Moskowitz]
25. Sellevision [Augusten Burroughs]
26. Nausea [Jean-Paul Sartre]
+27. Marabou Stork Nightmares [Irvine Welsh]
+28. JPod [Douglas Coupland]
29. Diary [Chuck Palahniuk]
+30. The Lost Language of Cranes [David Leavitt]
+31. Barrel Fever [David Sedaris]
32. Sylvia and Ted [Emma Tennant]
33. Franny and Zooey [J.D. Salinger]
+34. The Mayor of Castro Street [Randy Shilts]
++35. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 [Dave Eggers, editor]
36. The Medium is the Massage [Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore]
+37. Gorilla, My Love [Toni Cade Bambara]
38. The Sound and the Fury [William Faulkner]
39. Ariel [Sylvia Plath]
40. The Metamorphosis [Franz Kafka]
++41. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers [Mary Roach]
++42. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 [Dave Eggers, editor]
43. Candide [Voltaire]
44. Without Feathers [Woody Allen]
45. The Colossus [Sylvia Plath]
46. Selected Poems [e.e. cummings]
+47. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim [David Sedaris]
+48. The Little Prince [Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]
49. Lady Sings the Blues [Billie Holiday w/ William Dufty]
50. Maurice [E.M. Forster]
51. Miss Wyoming [Douglas Coupland]
++52. The Botany of Desire [Michael Pollan]