a look back at 2005 in book form
a star after the title means i read it for school
1)The Awakening by Kate Chopin
2)Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
3)"How I Learned to Drive" by Paula Vogel [re-read]
4)"The Mineola Twins" by Paula Vogel
5)Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding
6)Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
7)The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
8)"The Importance of Being Earnest" * by Oscar Wilde [re-read]
9)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
10)Shopgirl by Steve Martin
11)"Cathleen Hi Hoolihan" * by W.B. Yeats
12)"Spreading the News" * by Lady Gregory
13)"The Gaol Gate" * by Lady Gregory
14)"An Ideal Husband" * by Oscar Wilde
15)The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
16)Frankenstien * by Mary Wolstencraft Shelley
17)Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man * by James Joyce
18)Porno by Irvine Welsh
19)Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
20)Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
21)Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly Donofrio
22)You Cannot Be Serious by John McEnroe
23)Doing It by Melvin Burgess
24)The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
25)Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
26)The Poor Mouth * by Flann O'Brien
27)"Mrs. Warren's Profession" * by George Bernard Shaw
28)"The Children's Hour" by Lillian Hellman [i was in the show as Agatha]
29)"WASP" by Steve Martin [i was in this show as Sis]
30)The Country Girls * by Edna O'Brien
31)The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
32)Joe College by Tom Perrotta
33)Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides [re-read]
34)Haunted by Chuck Palahunik
35)"The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler
36)Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
37)A Confederacy of Dunces * by John Kennedy Toole [re-read]
38)Truck by Katherine Dunn
39)Holy Smoke by Anna and Jane Campion
40)Dry by Augusten Burroughs
41)Women Who Kill edited by Richard Glyn Jones
42)How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
43)The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
44)Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
45)High Fidelity by Nick Hornby [re-read]
46)Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
47)Little Children by Tom Perrotta
48)Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
49)The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
50)Bleak House * by Charles Dickens
51)To Have and to Hold by Jane Green
52)The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta
53)The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
54)Trading Up by Candace Bushnell
55)The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
56)Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
57)Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
58)To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
59)Everything and More by Geoff Nicholson
currently reading: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
started to read but didn't finish:
Middlemarch * by George Eliot
Vanity Fair * by William Mackpeace Thackery [re-read]
so i read a lot this year. the only reason i remember them all is because i kept a list. it's the first year i've ever done that and i think i'll try to keep it up. it's interesting to go back and see what books i've read. i found a lot of new authors i dig this year like Jasper Fforde, Augusten Burroughs, and Tom Perrotta. looking back on the books i read makes 2005 was a much better year than it actually was. i hope to finish The Jungle soon and then off to start my new three books i got for christmas and then off to find more.