Feb 11, 2007 18:01
I've already compiled all the left-over books from my collection plus new books I've bought and have come up with this year's list. Hopefully I can stick with it by the end of the year. Here they are :
Japanese Fiction:
- Kafka On The Shore ( Haruki Murakami )
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ( Haruki Murakami )
- Across The Nightingale Floor ( Lian Hearn )
- Grass On His Pillow ( Lian Hearn )
- The Buddha tree ( Fumio Niwa )
- I Am A Cat ( Natsume Soseki )
- The World Of The Shining Prince ( Ivan Morris )
- The Book Of Loss ( Judith Jedamus )
- Shinju ( Laura Loh Rowlamd )
- Fudoki ( Kij Johnson )
- Nihongi ( W.G Aston )
Fiction:
- Twilight ( Stephenie Meyer )
- Ballet Shoes ( Noel Streatfield )
- The Morning Post ( A. Samad Said )
- Ramses ( Christian Jacq )
- Lovely Bones ( Alice Sebold )
- Da Vince Code ( Dan Brown )
- Angels & Demons ( Dan Brown )
- The Red Queen ( Margaret Drabble )
- Chang & Eng ( Darin Strauss )
- Bridges On Madison County ( Robert James Waller )
- Snow Falling On Cedar ( David Guterson )
- Five Days In Paris ( Danielle Steel )
- Shadow Of The Wind ( Carlos Ruiz Zafon )
- The Flanders Panel ( Arturo Perez-Reverte )
- The Book Thief ( Markus Zusak )
- The Collectors ( David Baldacci )
Classics:
- To Kill A Mocking Bird ( Harper Lee )
- Jane Eyre ( Charlotte Bronte )
- The Secret Garden ( Frances Hodgson Burnett )
- Heidi ( Johanna Spyri )
- Light In August ( William Faulkner )
- Dead Souls ( Nikolai Gogol )
- Arabian Nights ( Sir Richard Burton )
- Mark Twain Selected Works
- Persuasion ( Jane Austen )
- Possession ( A.S Byatt )
The ones that I love most from last year's list : The Thirteenth Tale ( Diane Setterfield ), The Historian ( Elizabeth Kostova ), Bronte's Project ( Jennifer Vandever ), Dumas Club ( Arturo Perez-Reverte ) & Time Traveller's Wife ( Audrey Niffenegger ). Still sick, can't get out of bed yet. Which means I can get through two books at least. Currently reading Possession. Love it !!
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