2014 Book List
Books I've Read
1. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) (Jan 8)
2. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Jan 12)
3. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (Jan 27)
4. Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood (Feb 6)
5. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or, Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano (reread, since I'm teaching it again, Feb 17)
6. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt (Read Part I in 2013) (March 2)
7. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others 2nd edition by Ruth Mazo Karras (March 5)
8. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell (March 7)
9. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (about 2/3 complete in 2013) (March 12)
10. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (March 18)
11. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (March 20)
12. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (April 2) (reread for teaching)
13. The Way the Future Was: a memoir by Frederik Pohl (April 3)
14. The Strangled Queen by Maurice Druon (April 14)
15. Gender Relations in Early Modern England by Laura Gowing (for school) (April 27)
16. Redshirts by John Scalzi (April 29)
17. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa (May 7)
18. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (May 19)
19. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (June 2)
20. Skin Game by Jim Butcher (June 16)
21. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) (July 2)
22. Hild by Nicola Griffith (July 13)
23. Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman (July 24)
24. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (reread Aug 14)
25. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (reread Aug 26)
26. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (reread Sept 15)
27. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Oct 7)
28. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (reread Oct 21)
29. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (reread Nov 11)
30. Happy Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (reread Nov 29)
31. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowing (reread Dec 25)
Graphic Novels, Novellas and short shorties I've Read (with date finished)
1. Maus: A Survivors Tale (in two parts) by Art Spiegelman (a reread for me) (Jan 6)
2. "The Minority Report" by Philip K Dick (May 10)
3. "Rashoumon" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Nov 11)
4. "In the Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Nov 11)
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Books I Aim to Read
1. Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (started reading Dec 2013)
2. The Strangled Queen by Maurice Druon
3. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
4. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (800 out of 1200 pages complete in 2013)
5. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (about 2/3 complete in 2013)
6. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
7. Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman
8. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
9. The Dark Design (3rd Riverboat book) by Philip Jose Farmer
10. Paradise Lost by John Milton
11. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt (Read Part I in 2013)
12. Hild by Nicola Griffith
Graphic Novels I Aim to Read
1. Maus: A Survivors Tale (in two parts) by Art Spiegelman (a reread for me)
2. Sandman: Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman