2021 in Books.
~Every link leads to an entry with basic information about the book, my favourite quotes and my review.
~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥ Russian Black Magic: The Beliefs and Practices of Heretics and Blasphemers by Natasha Helvin. (4/10)
♥♥♥ The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception by Robin Gaby Fisher and Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr.. (8/10)
♥♥♥ 101 Famous Poems by Various (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Letter to Mrs. Bixby by Abraham Lincoln. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Ten Commandments from The Holy Bible. (n/a)✚
♡♡♡ Magna Carta. (n/a)
♡♡♡ The War Inevitable by Patrick Henry. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Declaration of Independence. (8.5)
♥♥♥ The Spirit of Terrorism and Other Essays by Jean Baudrillard (translated by Chris Turner). (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Spirit of Terrorism. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Requiem for the Twin Towers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Hypotheses on Terrorism. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Violence of the Global(7.5/10)
♥♥♥ On Tyranny: Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. (8/10)
♥ Judge This by Chip Kidd. (6/10)
♥ Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire (translated by Joan Pinkham). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ On Forgiveness by Richard Holloway. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart Thích Nhất Hạnh (trans. by Sherab Chödzin Kohn). (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation Thích Nhất Hạnh (trans. by Sherab Mobi Ho). (8/10)
☼ --> Not only non-fiction included in the compendium, but only non-fiction listed here.
✚ --> I list Holy Books (and their derivatives) in the non-fiction because that is the way they are intended by the authors, and not to reflect any personal belief.
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss. (10/10)
♥♥♥ You should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann (translated by Ross Benjamin). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Pride and Prejudice ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Jane Austen. (9/10)
♥ Little Children by Tom Perrotta. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Hobbit, or There and Back Again ( PART 1--- PART 2), by J.R.R. Tolkien. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Foe by Iain Reid. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois (translated by Rhonda Mullins). (9/10)
♥ Worst Case, We Get Married by Sophie Bienvenu (translated by JC Sutcliffe). (7/10)
♥♥♥ House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata (translated by Edward Seidensticker). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews. (8/10)♧
♥ District by Tony Duvert (translated by S.C. Delaney and Agnès Potier). (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz (translated by Adrian Nathan West). (7.5/10)
♥ Does Not Love by James Tadd Adcox. (7/10)
♥ The Blue Fox by Sjón (translated by Victoria Cribb). (7/10)
♥ The Suspect by Fiona Barton. (7/10)♧
♥♥♥ The Other by Thomas Tryon. (8/10)
♥ Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Nemesis by Philip Roth. (8/10)
♥ The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. (8.5/10)
♥ An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress by Thomas Hardy. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Kaddish for an Unborn Child ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Imre Kertész (translated by Tim Wilkinson). (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle (translated by Xan Fielding). (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Body by Stephen King. (8/10)
♥ So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano (translated by Euan Cameron). (6.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. (8/10)
♥ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. (8.5/10)
♥ The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis. (8.5/10)
♥ Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis. (8.5/10)
♥ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis. (8.5/10)
♥ The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis. (7.5/10)
♥ The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. (8/10)☁
♥ Greenmantle by John Buchan. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Ring ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Koji Suzuki (translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley). (8.5/10)☁
♥ Spiral by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley). (8/10)
♥ Loop by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley). (8.5/10)
♥ Birthday by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley) (7.5/10)**
♥♥♥ Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (illustrated by Garth Williams). (9/10)☁
♥ Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder (illustrated by Garth Williams). (8/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
** --> Short stories/plays chronicled here for the purpose of listing series continuity. (Refer to the Short Stories header below for break-down of individual stories.)
SHORT STORIES:
♥♥♥ Nine Inches: Stories by Tom Perrotta (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Backrub. (7.5/10)
♡ Grade My Teacher. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Smile on Happy Chang's Face. (8/10)
♡ Kiddie Pool. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Nine Inches. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Senior Season. (7.5/10)
♡ One-Four-Five. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Chosen Girl. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Test-Taker. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The All-Night Party. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ House of the Sleeping Beauties & Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata (tran. by Edward Seidensticker) (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ One Arm. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Of Birds and Beasts. (7.5/10)
♥ Half in Love: Stories by Maile Meloy (7.5/10):
♡ Tome. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Four Lean Hounds, CA. 1976. (8/10)
♡ Native Sandstone. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ranch Girl. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Garrison Junction. (7.5/10)
♡ Red. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Aqua Boulevard. (7.5/10)
♡ The River. (7.5/10)
♡ Kite Whistler Aquamarine. (7/10)
♡ Last of the White Slaves. (7.5/10)
♡ Thirteen & a Half. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Paint. (7.5/10)
♡ The Ice-Harvester. (7.5/10)
♡ A Stakes Horse. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The October Country: Stories ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Ray Bradbury (8/10):☁
♡♡♡ The Lake (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Emissary. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Touched with Fire. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Small Assassin. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Crowd. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jack-in-the-Box. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Scythe. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Uncle Einar. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Wind. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Man Upstairs. (8/10)
♡♡♡ There Was an Old Woman. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cistern. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Homecoming. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ We Can Remember It for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick (7.5/10):☁
♡♡♡ Jon's World. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Cosmic Poachers. (7.5/10)
♡ Progeny. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Some Kinds of Life. (8/10)
♡ Martians Come in Clouds. (7/10)
♡ The Commuter. (7/10)
♡ The World She Wanted. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Surface Raid. (7.5/10)
♡ Project: Earth. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Trouble with Bubbles. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Breakfast at Twilight. (8/10)
♡ A Present for Pat. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Hood Maker. (8/10)
♡ Of Withered Apples. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Human Is. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Adjustment Team. (7.5/10)
♡ The Impossible Planet. (7.5/10)
♡ Imposter. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ James P. Crow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Planet for Transients. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Small Town. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Souvenir. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Survey Team. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Birthday by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley) (7.5/10):
♡ A Coffin in the Sky. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Lemon Heart. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Happy Birthday. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night by R.L. Stine (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Halloween Dance (illustrated by Joe Rivera). (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Baby-Sitter (illustrated by Vince Natale). (7.5/10)
♡ Revenge of the Snowman (illustrated by Art Spiegelman). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How to Bargain with a Dragon (illustrated by Charles Burns). (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Mummy's Dream (illustrated by John Jude Palencar). (7.5/10)
♡ Are We There Yet? (illustrated by Greg Call). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Take Me with You (illustrated by Roz Chast). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ My Imaginary Friend (illustrated by Clay Patrick McBride). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Losers (illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Can You Draw Me? (illustrated by Bleu Turrell). (7.5/10)
☁ --> Not all stories listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ The Fever by Wallace Shawn. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut. (7.5/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ Selected Poems by Oscar Wilde (8/10):
♡♡♡ Hélas. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet to Liberty. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Theoretikos. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Requiescat. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ San Miniato. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet (On hearing the Dier Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel). (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ave Maria Plena Gratia. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Madonna Mia. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Untitled. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tristitiæ. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Desespoir. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Grave of Keats. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Magdalen Walks. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Chanson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Pan: Double Villanelle. (8/10)
♡♡♡ From The Garden of Eros. (8/10)
♡♡♡ La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente . (8/10)
♡♡♡ By the Arno. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Charmides. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Athanasia. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Impression du Matin. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Impression: Le Reveillon. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Impressions: Les Silhouettes and La Fuite de la Lune. (8/10)
♡♡♡ In the Gold Room: A Harmony. (7.5/10)
♡ Impressions: Le Jardin and La Mer. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Le Jardin des Tuileries. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Harlot's House. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Fantasies Décoratives: Le Panneau and Les Ballons. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Canzonet. (8/10)
♡ Symphony in Yellow. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ In the Forest. (8.5/10)
♡ La Circassienne. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Sphinx. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Ballad of Reading Gaol. (10/10)
♡♡♡ 101 Famous Poems ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by Various. (8/10)☼
♡♡♡ The Builders by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Opportunity by Edward R. Sill. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Out to Old Aunt Mary's by James Whitcomb Riley. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Rhodora: On Being Asked Whence Is the Flower by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Francis William Bourdillon. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. (9/10)
♡ I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger. (8/10)
♡♡♡ In Flanders Fields by John McCrae. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Moonlight (from The Merchant of Venice) by William Shakespeare. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. (8.5/10)
♡ The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Christmas Everywhere by Phillips Brooks. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Daffodils by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡ June (from The Vision of Sir Launfal) by James Russell Lowell. (7.5/10)
♡ Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Snowstorm by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡ Ann Rutledge by Edgar Lee Masters. (7/10)
♡ Grass by Carl Sandburg. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Not in Vain by Emily Dickinson. (10/10)
♡ Sheridan's Ride by Thomas Buchanan Read. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Present Crisis by James Russell Lowell. (8.5/10)
♡ Be Strong by Maltbie Davenport Babcock. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Columbus by Cincinnatus Hiner Miller. (8.5/10)
♡ Trees by Joyce Kilmer. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Spires at Oxford (As Seen from the Train) by Winifred M. Letts. (7.5/10)
♡ Recessional by Rudyard Kipling. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (8/10)
♡♡♡ How Did You Die? by Edmund Vance Cooke. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness (from Henry VIII) by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (8/10)
♡♡♡ America for Me by Henry Van Dyke. (8.5/10)
♡ Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Mercy (from The Merchant of Venice) by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham. (8/10)
♡ The Duel by Eugene Field. (7.5/10)
♡ Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ode to Intimations of Immortality, From Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet: The World is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Letter to a Young Friend by Robert Burns. (8/10)
♡ The Deacon's Masterpiece or The One-Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Building of the Ship by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (8.5/10)
♡ Knee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Opportunity by John James Ingalls. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Waiting by John Burroughs. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ That Time of Year (Sonnet 73) by William Shakespeare. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Plant a Tree by Lucy Larcom. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Abou Ben Adhem by James Henry Leigh Hunt. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard by Thomas Gray. (8.5/10)
♡ Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet on His Blindness by John Milton. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Invictus by William Ernest Henley. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sea Fever by John Masefield. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Horatius by Thomas Babington Macaulay. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Each in His Own Tongue by William Herbert Carruth. (8.5/10)
♡ The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier. (7/10)
♡ Summum Bonum by Robert Browning. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ If by Rudyard Kipling. (10/10)
♡♡♡ The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Love of Country (from The Lay of the Last Minstrel) by Walter Scott. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Nobility by Alice Cary. (8.5/10)
♡ The Minuet by Mary Mapes Dodge. (7/10)
♡ Childe Harold's Farewell to England (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) by George Gordon Byron. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ God Save the Flag by Oliver Wendell Holmes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8.5/10)
♡ For A' That and A' That by Robert Burns. (6.5/10)
♡ Jest 'Fore Christmas by Eugene Field. (7/10)
♡ Gradatim by Josiah Gilbert Holland. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Polonius' Advice to Laertes (from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare. (9/10)
♡ The Flag Goes By by Henry Holcomb Bennett. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Things That Are More Excellent by William Watson. (9/10)
♡ Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡ Keep a-Goin' by Frank L. Stanton. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Life Sculpture by George Washington Doane. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Choir Invisible by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans). (8/10)
♡ Marmion and Douglas (from Marmion) by Walter Scott. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Heart of the Tree by Henry Cuyler Bunner. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Crossing the Bar by Alfred Tennyson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Hamlet's Soliloquy (from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare. (9/10)
♡♡♡ She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Spider and the Fly: A Fable by Mary Howitt. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. (10/10)
♡♡♡ Home by Edgar A. Guest. (8/10)
♡♡♡ My Kate by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Lincoln, the Man of the People by Edwin Markham. (8/10)
♡♡♡ On the Building of Springfield by Vachel Lindsay. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mending Wall by Robert Frost. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Fool's Prayer by Edward R. Sill. (9/10)
♡♡♡ To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ I Shall Not Pass This Way Again: A Symphony by Eva Rose York. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Apostrophe to the Ocean (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) by George Gordon Byron. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (8/10)
♡ Epilogue to Asolando by Robert Browning. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ L'Envoi by Rudyard Kipling. (7.5/10)
☁ --> Not all poems in the compendium listed, as some have been read in previous years or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
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~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥ Russian Black Magic: The Beliefs and Practices of Heretics and Blasphemers by Natasha Helvin. (4/10)
♥♥♥ The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception by Robin Gaby Fisher and Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr.. (8/10)
♥♥♥ 101 Famous Poems by Various (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Letter to Mrs. Bixby by Abraham Lincoln. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Ten Commandments from The Holy Bible. (n/a)✚
♡♡♡ Magna Carta. (n/a)
♡♡♡ The War Inevitable by Patrick Henry. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Declaration of Independence. (8.5)
♥♥♥ The Spirit of Terrorism and Other Essays by Jean Baudrillard (translated by Chris Turner). (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Spirit of Terrorism. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Requiem for the Twin Towers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Hypotheses on Terrorism. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Violence of the Global(7.5/10)
♥♥♥ On Tyranny: Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. (8/10)
♥ Judge This by Chip Kidd. (6/10)
♥ Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire (translated by Joan Pinkham). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ On Forgiveness by Richard Holloway. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart Thích Nhất Hạnh (trans. by Sherab Chödzin Kohn). (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation Thích Nhất Hạnh (trans. by Sherab Mobi Ho). (8/10)
☼ --> Not only non-fiction included in the compendium, but only non-fiction listed here.
✚ --> I list Holy Books (and their derivatives) in the non-fiction because that is the way they are intended by the authors, and not to reflect any personal belief.
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss. (10/10)
♥♥♥ You should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann (translated by Ross Benjamin). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Pride and Prejudice ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Jane Austen. (9/10)
♥ Little Children by Tom Perrotta. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Hobbit, or There and Back Again ( PART 1--- PART 2), by J.R.R. Tolkien. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Foe by Iain Reid. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois (translated by Rhonda Mullins). (9/10)
♥ Worst Case, We Get Married by Sophie Bienvenu (translated by JC Sutcliffe). (7/10)
♥♥♥ House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata (translated by Edward Seidensticker). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews. (8/10)♧
♥ District by Tony Duvert (translated by S.C. Delaney and Agnès Potier). (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz (translated by Adrian Nathan West). (7.5/10)
♥ Does Not Love by James Tadd Adcox. (7/10)
♥ The Blue Fox by Sjón (translated by Victoria Cribb). (7/10)
♥ The Suspect by Fiona Barton. (7/10)♧
♥♥♥ The Other by Thomas Tryon. (8/10)
♥ Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Nemesis by Philip Roth. (8/10)
♥ The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. (8.5/10)
♥ An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress by Thomas Hardy. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Kaddish for an Unborn Child ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Imre Kertész (translated by Tim Wilkinson). (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle (translated by Xan Fielding). (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Body by Stephen King. (8/10)
♥ So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano (translated by Euan Cameron). (6.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. (8/10)
♥ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. (8.5/10)
♥ The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis. (8.5/10)
♥ Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis. (8.5/10)
♥ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis. (8.5/10)
♥ The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis. (7.5/10)
♥ The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. (8/10)☁
♥ Greenmantle by John Buchan. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Ring ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Koji Suzuki (translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley). (8.5/10)☁
♥ Spiral by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley). (8/10)
♥ Loop by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley). (8.5/10)
♥ Birthday by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley) (7.5/10)**
♥♥♥ Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (illustrated by Garth Williams). (9/10)☁
♥ Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder (illustrated by Garth Williams). (8/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
** --> Short stories/plays chronicled here for the purpose of listing series continuity. (Refer to the Short Stories header below for break-down of individual stories.)
SHORT STORIES:
♥♥♥ Nine Inches: Stories by Tom Perrotta (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Backrub. (7.5/10)
♡ Grade My Teacher. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Smile on Happy Chang's Face. (8/10)
♡ Kiddie Pool. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Nine Inches. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Senior Season. (7.5/10)
♡ One-Four-Five. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Chosen Girl. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Test-Taker. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The All-Night Party. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ House of the Sleeping Beauties & Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata (tran. by Edward Seidensticker) (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ One Arm. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Of Birds and Beasts. (7.5/10)
♥ Half in Love: Stories by Maile Meloy (7.5/10):
♡ Tome. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Four Lean Hounds, CA. 1976. (8/10)
♡ Native Sandstone. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ranch Girl. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Garrison Junction. (7.5/10)
♡ Red. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Aqua Boulevard. (7.5/10)
♡ The River. (7.5/10)
♡ Kite Whistler Aquamarine. (7/10)
♡ Last of the White Slaves. (7.5/10)
♡ Thirteen & a Half. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Paint. (7.5/10)
♡ The Ice-Harvester. (7.5/10)
♡ A Stakes Horse. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The October Country: Stories ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Ray Bradbury (8/10):☁
♡♡♡ The Lake (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Emissary. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Touched with Fire. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Small Assassin. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Crowd. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jack-in-the-Box. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Scythe. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Uncle Einar. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Wind. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Man Upstairs. (8/10)
♡♡♡ There Was an Old Woman. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cistern. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Homecoming. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ We Can Remember It for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick (7.5/10):☁
♡♡♡ Jon's World. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Cosmic Poachers. (7.5/10)
♡ Progeny. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Some Kinds of Life. (8/10)
♡ Martians Come in Clouds. (7/10)
♡ The Commuter. (7/10)
♡ The World She Wanted. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Surface Raid. (7.5/10)
♡ Project: Earth. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Trouble with Bubbles. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Breakfast at Twilight. (8/10)
♡ A Present for Pat. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Hood Maker. (8/10)
♡ Of Withered Apples. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Human Is. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Adjustment Team. (7.5/10)
♡ The Impossible Planet. (7.5/10)
♡ Imposter. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ James P. Crow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Planet for Transients. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Small Town. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Souvenir. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Survey Team. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Birthday by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley) (7.5/10):
♡ A Coffin in the Sky. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Lemon Heart. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Happy Birthday. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night by R.L. Stine (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Halloween Dance (illustrated by Joe Rivera). (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Baby-Sitter (illustrated by Vince Natale). (7.5/10)
♡ Revenge of the Snowman (illustrated by Art Spiegelman). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How to Bargain with a Dragon (illustrated by Charles Burns). (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Mummy's Dream (illustrated by John Jude Palencar). (7.5/10)
♡ Are We There Yet? (illustrated by Greg Call). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Take Me with You (illustrated by Roz Chast). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ My Imaginary Friend (illustrated by Clay Patrick McBride). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Losers (illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Can You Draw Me? (illustrated by Bleu Turrell). (7.5/10)
☁ --> Not all stories listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ The Fever by Wallace Shawn. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut. (7.5/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ Selected Poems by Oscar Wilde (8/10):
♡♡♡ Hélas. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet to Liberty. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Theoretikos. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Requiescat. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ San Miniato. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet (On hearing the Dier Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel). (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ave Maria Plena Gratia. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Madonna Mia. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Untitled. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tristitiæ. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Desespoir. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Grave of Keats. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Magdalen Walks. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Chanson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Pan: Double Villanelle. (8/10)
♡♡♡ From The Garden of Eros. (8/10)
♡♡♡ La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente . (8/10)
♡♡♡ By the Arno. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Charmides. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Athanasia. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Impression du Matin. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Impression: Le Reveillon. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Impressions: Les Silhouettes and La Fuite de la Lune. (8/10)
♡♡♡ In the Gold Room: A Harmony. (7.5/10)
♡ Impressions: Le Jardin and La Mer. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Le Jardin des Tuileries. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Harlot's House. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Fantasies Décoratives: Le Panneau and Les Ballons. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Canzonet. (8/10)
♡ Symphony in Yellow. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ In the Forest. (8.5/10)
♡ La Circassienne. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Sphinx. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Ballad of Reading Gaol. (10/10)
♡♡♡ 101 Famous Poems ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by Various. (8/10)☼
♡♡♡ The Builders by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Opportunity by Edward R. Sill. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Out to Old Aunt Mary's by James Whitcomb Riley. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Rhodora: On Being Asked Whence Is the Flower by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Francis William Bourdillon. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. (9/10)
♡ I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger. (8/10)
♡♡♡ In Flanders Fields by John McCrae. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Moonlight (from The Merchant of Venice) by William Shakespeare. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. (8.5/10)
♡ The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Christmas Everywhere by Phillips Brooks. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Daffodils by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡ June (from The Vision of Sir Launfal) by James Russell Lowell. (7.5/10)
♡ Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Snowstorm by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡ Ann Rutledge by Edgar Lee Masters. (7/10)
♡ Grass by Carl Sandburg. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Not in Vain by Emily Dickinson. (10/10)
♡ Sheridan's Ride by Thomas Buchanan Read. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Present Crisis by James Russell Lowell. (8.5/10)
♡ Be Strong by Maltbie Davenport Babcock. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Columbus by Cincinnatus Hiner Miller. (8.5/10)
♡ Trees by Joyce Kilmer. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Spires at Oxford (As Seen from the Train) by Winifred M. Letts. (7.5/10)
♡ Recessional by Rudyard Kipling. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (8/10)
♡♡♡ How Did You Die? by Edmund Vance Cooke. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness (from Henry VIII) by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (8/10)
♡♡♡ America for Me by Henry Van Dyke. (8.5/10)
♡ Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Mercy (from The Merchant of Venice) by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham. (8/10)
♡ The Duel by Eugene Field. (7.5/10)
♡ Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ode to Intimations of Immortality, From Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet: The World is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Letter to a Young Friend by Robert Burns. (8/10)
♡ The Deacon's Masterpiece or The One-Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Building of the Ship by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (8.5/10)
♡ Knee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Opportunity by John James Ingalls. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Waiting by John Burroughs. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ That Time of Year (Sonnet 73) by William Shakespeare. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Plant a Tree by Lucy Larcom. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Abou Ben Adhem by James Henry Leigh Hunt. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard by Thomas Gray. (8.5/10)
♡ Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet on His Blindness by John Milton. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Invictus by William Ernest Henley. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sea Fever by John Masefield. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Horatius by Thomas Babington Macaulay. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Each in His Own Tongue by William Herbert Carruth. (8.5/10)
♡ The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier. (7/10)
♡ Summum Bonum by Robert Browning. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ If by Rudyard Kipling. (10/10)
♡♡♡ The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Love of Country (from The Lay of the Last Minstrel) by Walter Scott. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Nobility by Alice Cary. (8.5/10)
♡ The Minuet by Mary Mapes Dodge. (7/10)
♡ Childe Harold's Farewell to England (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) by George Gordon Byron. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ God Save the Flag by Oliver Wendell Holmes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8.5/10)
♡ For A' That and A' That by Robert Burns. (6.5/10)
♡ Jest 'Fore Christmas by Eugene Field. (7/10)
♡ Gradatim by Josiah Gilbert Holland. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Polonius' Advice to Laertes (from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare. (9/10)
♡ The Flag Goes By by Henry Holcomb Bennett. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Things That Are More Excellent by William Watson. (9/10)
♡ Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡ Keep a-Goin' by Frank L. Stanton. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Life Sculpture by George Washington Doane. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Choir Invisible by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans). (8/10)
♡ Marmion and Douglas (from Marmion) by Walter Scott. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Heart of the Tree by Henry Cuyler Bunner. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Crossing the Bar by Alfred Tennyson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Hamlet's Soliloquy (from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare. (9/10)
♡♡♡ She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Spider and the Fly: A Fable by Mary Howitt. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. (10/10)
♡♡♡ Home by Edgar A. Guest. (8/10)
♡♡♡ My Kate by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Lincoln, the Man of the People by Edwin Markham. (8/10)
♡♡♡ On the Building of Springfield by Vachel Lindsay. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mending Wall by Robert Frost. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Fool's Prayer by Edward R. Sill. (9/10)
♡♡♡ To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ I Shall Not Pass This Way Again: A Symphony by Eva Rose York. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Apostrophe to the Ocean (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) by George Gordon Byron. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (8/10)
♡ Epilogue to Asolando by Robert Browning. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ L'Envoi by Rudyard Kipling. (7.5/10)
☁ --> Not all poems in the compendium listed, as some have been read in previous years or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
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