Books I've read this year
Books I've read this year:
1. Carmen and Other Stories - Prosper Merrimee
2. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
3. Paper Towns - John Green
4. Faust - Johann Goethe
5. The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
7. The Horse and His Boy - CS Lewis
8. Prince Caspian - CS Lewis
9. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis
10. The Silver Chair - CS Lewis
11. The Last Battle - CS Lewis
12. Merlin 1: L'ecole des druides - Laurence Carriere
13. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
14. The Electric Church - Jeff Somers
15. She - H Rider Haggard
16. Watership Down - Richard Adams
17. The Italian - Ann Radcliffe
18. Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
19. Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
20. Coeur d'encre - Cornelia Funke
21. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
22. Genesis - Bernard Beckett
23. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
24. At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
25. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
26. Three Tales of My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett
27. The Serial Killers Club - Jeff Povey
28. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
29. Operation: Storm City - Joshua Mowll
30. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
31. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
32. Blindness - Jose Saramago
33. What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson
34. Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
35. The Magician and the Fool - Barth Anderson
36. The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gatiss
37. Peter Pan and Wendy - JM Barrie
38. Paradise Lost - John Milton
39. Hesitation (Eclipse) - Stephenie Meyer
40. The Apprentice's Masterpiece - Melanie Little
41. Deep Storm - Lincoln Child
42. Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
43. Yellow Blue Tibia - Adam Roberts
44. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stephenson
45. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss et al.
46. The Maze Runner - James Dashner
47. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
48. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
49. The Bullet Trick - Louise Welsh
50. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
51. For Better, For Worse - Carole Matthews
52. Lazy Bird - Andree Michaud
53. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
At last! I've done it! I broke 52 books in 52 weeks! Not that I was really striving for that, specifically, but it seems like an accomplishment. Helps that I read quite a few kids/teen books this year, which tend to fly by super fast. On the other hand, I also read a few French books, which don't go as fast, due to being my second language, and two epic poems, which I always find major slogs, so maybe it actually evens out in the end. I have a fairly significant bus ride to and from work to help me out with all the reading. It's kind of funny, actually. Don & I were just talking last night about all the books I read, but how he pretty much never actually sees me read anything. So thank you OC Transpo, for all my reading time.
Anyway. Best book I read this year would probably have to be Watership Down. I thought it was excellent. Worst book, probably a tie between the middle two Twilight books and the entire Narnia series. All of that was dreadful, and I'd be hard-pressed to pick the actual worst of the lot. Oh, unless it's Swiss Family Robinson. That one was also laughably terrible. And now I feel I should name at least a few other top picks for the year, just to even things out. In that case, I'd also have to put forth The Maze Runner and Oryx & Crake. Honourable mentions should also go to Labyrinth, The Time-Traveller's Wife, The Italian, and Moby-Dick, much to my surprise.
And now to begin another year of books. Happy reading!
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1. Carmen and Other Stories - Prosper Merrimee
2. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
3. Paper Towns - John Green
4. Faust - Johann Goethe
5. The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
7. The Horse and His Boy - CS Lewis
8. Prince Caspian - CS Lewis
9. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis
10. The Silver Chair - CS Lewis
11. The Last Battle - CS Lewis
12. Merlin 1: L'ecole des druides - Laurence Carriere
13. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
14. The Electric Church - Jeff Somers
15. She - H Rider Haggard
16. Watership Down - Richard Adams
17. The Italian - Ann Radcliffe
18. Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
19. Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
20. Coeur d'encre - Cornelia Funke
21. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
22. Genesis - Bernard Beckett
23. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
24. At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
25. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
26. Three Tales of My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett
27. The Serial Killers Club - Jeff Povey
28. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
29. Operation: Storm City - Joshua Mowll
30. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
31. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
32. Blindness - Jose Saramago
33. What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson
34. Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
35. The Magician and the Fool - Barth Anderson
36. The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gatiss
37. Peter Pan and Wendy - JM Barrie
38. Paradise Lost - John Milton
39. Hesitation (Eclipse) - Stephenie Meyer
40. The Apprentice's Masterpiece - Melanie Little
41. Deep Storm - Lincoln Child
42. Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
43. Yellow Blue Tibia - Adam Roberts
44. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stephenson
45. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss et al.
46. The Maze Runner - James Dashner
47. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
48. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
49. The Bullet Trick - Louise Welsh
50. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
51. For Better, For Worse - Carole Matthews
52. Lazy Bird - Andree Michaud
53. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
At last! I've done it! I broke 52 books in 52 weeks! Not that I was really striving for that, specifically, but it seems like an accomplishment. Helps that I read quite a few kids/teen books this year, which tend to fly by super fast. On the other hand, I also read a few French books, which don't go as fast, due to being my second language, and two epic poems, which I always find major slogs, so maybe it actually evens out in the end. I have a fairly significant bus ride to and from work to help me out with all the reading. It's kind of funny, actually. Don & I were just talking last night about all the books I read, but how he pretty much never actually sees me read anything. So thank you OC Transpo, for all my reading time.
Anyway. Best book I read this year would probably have to be Watership Down. I thought it was excellent. Worst book, probably a tie between the middle two Twilight books and the entire Narnia series. All of that was dreadful, and I'd be hard-pressed to pick the actual worst of the lot. Oh, unless it's Swiss Family Robinson. That one was also laughably terrible. And now I feel I should name at least a few other top picks for the year, just to even things out. In that case, I'd also have to put forth The Maze Runner and Oryx & Crake. Honourable mentions should also go to Labyrinth, The Time-Traveller's Wife, The Italian, and Moby-Dick, much to my surprise.
And now to begin another year of books. Happy reading!
For more: http://kingsreading/livejournal.com