my books list for 2010
My goal was fifty and I got to forty-six. Such is life.
loved
re-read
did not enjoy
1. youth in revolt: the journals of nick twisp by c.d payne.
2. the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald.
3. as i lay dying by william faulkner.
4. the drowned and the saved by primo levi.
5. like the red panda by andrea seigel.
6. sellevision by augusten burroughs.
7. how to be good by nick hornby.
8. bridget jones dairy by helen fielding.
9. gilead by marilynne robinson.
10. rules of attraction by bret easton ellis.
11. ash wednesday by ethan hawke.
12. howl by allen ginsberg.
13. the beautiful & the damned by f. scott fitzgerald.
14. a density of souls by christopher rice.
15. slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut.
16. franny & zooey by j.d salinger.
17. a wolf at the table by augusten burroughs.
18. brokeback mountain by annie proulx.
19. the girl with the dragon tattoo by stieg larsson.
20. kurt cobain by christopher sandford.
21. catcher in the rye by j.d salinger.
22. good omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of agnes nutter, witch by terry pratchett & neil gaiman.
23. sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way by charles bukowski.
24. tender is the night by f. scott fitzgerald.
25. harry potter and the chamber of secrets by j.k rowling.
26. "poems" by c.s lewis.
27. slam by nick hornby.
29. the captain's verses by pablo neruda.
30. i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou.
31. that old ace in the hole by annie proulx.
32. life's that way by jim beaver.
33. the namesake by jhumpa lahiri.
34. WAR by sebastian junger.
35. an inquiry into human understanding by david hume.
36. jarhead by anthony swofford.
37. candide by voltaire.
38. extremely loud & incredibly close by jonathan safran foer.
39. gravity's rainbow by thomas pynchon.
40. teacher man by frank mccourt.
41. the odyssey by homer.
42. mrs. dalloway by virgina woolf.
43. sonny's blues by james baldwin.
44. it's kind of a funny story by ned vizzini.
45. middlesex by jeffrey eugenides.
46. zeitoun by dave eggers.
loved
re-read
did not enjoy
1. youth in revolt: the journals of nick twisp by c.d payne.
2. the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald.
3. as i lay dying by william faulkner.
4. the drowned and the saved by primo levi.
5. like the red panda by andrea seigel.
6. sellevision by augusten burroughs.
7. how to be good by nick hornby.
8. bridget jones dairy by helen fielding.
9. gilead by marilynne robinson.
10. rules of attraction by bret easton ellis.
11. ash wednesday by ethan hawke.
12. howl by allen ginsberg.
13. the beautiful & the damned by f. scott fitzgerald.
14. a density of souls by christopher rice.
15. slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut.
16. franny & zooey by j.d salinger.
17. a wolf at the table by augusten burroughs.
18. brokeback mountain by annie proulx.
19. the girl with the dragon tattoo by stieg larsson.
20. kurt cobain by christopher sandford.
21. catcher in the rye by j.d salinger.
22. good omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of agnes nutter, witch by terry pratchett & neil gaiman.
23. sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way by charles bukowski.
24. tender is the night by f. scott fitzgerald.
25. harry potter and the chamber of secrets by j.k rowling.
26. "poems" by c.s lewis.
27. slam by nick hornby.
29. the captain's verses by pablo neruda.
30. i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou.
31. that old ace in the hole by annie proulx.
32. life's that way by jim beaver.
33. the namesake by jhumpa lahiri.
34. WAR by sebastian junger.
35. an inquiry into human understanding by david hume.
36. jarhead by anthony swofford.
37. candide by voltaire.
38. extremely loud & incredibly close by jonathan safran foer.
39. gravity's rainbow by thomas pynchon.
40. teacher man by frank mccourt.
41. the odyssey by homer.
42. mrs. dalloway by virgina woolf.
43. sonny's blues by james baldwin.
44. it's kind of a funny story by ned vizzini.
45. middlesex by jeffrey eugenides.
46. zeitoun by dave eggers.