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[praetorianguard]

I have so enjoyed everyone else's end-of-year book lists that I wanted to play!

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[anamirza]

Ooh, a gap list is a good idea. (If nothing else, I've always wanted to put Cymbeline on a list.) Of course, my gap list would probably have about as much success as Emma Woodhouse's - you seem a lot more disciplined in your reading.

Actually, I've read very little of your 2010 list, so I guess I have a YA fiction gap. Hmmm. Not the direction I was planning to go in 2011 - I've been feeling very non-fiction-y at this turn of year.

Some of my favorites on your gap list: Willis, Doomsday Book; Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera; Shakespeare, King Lear; Christie, Murder on the Orient Express. Less favored: I don't foresee re-reading Call of the Wild; once was enough. Ditto most all of Hemingway; The Sun Also Rises I would re-read for the perfect ending alone.

Vanity Fair, on the other hand, I've an urge to reread soon - I absolutely detested it the last time I read it but I have a feeling I'd give it a more sympathetic read just now.

Why The Girl Who Played With FIre rather than The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? Unless you've already read the latter but not the former, I guess. Or is the former supposed to be better?

So little poetry on your list ... but again, maybe that's not a gap for you. And I guess even if one has such a gap, it's an easier one to partially fill, given poetry anthologies etc. (Ditto short stories.)

[praetorianguard]

Ha. I just like lists. Despite the appearance that my house and my office would give, I really like uber-organized things like spreadsheets and lists.

Or you have a 2010 YA fiction gap. I don't know how much of that is actually worth reading, but I was cleaning my shelf of a bunch of ARCs from past ALAs and that's what came up. If you want YA recs, I'm happy to oblige. :)

Oops. I got the Larsson books confused. It's meant to be the first one. *fixes* Thanks!

*hides* So little poetry not because it's a gap, but because I can't do it. Some really accessible stuff (Angelou, Whitman) is okay, but most of it I really, really hate. So I just skipped it. Like Faulkner. (Hey, I've tried!)