2005 in books, movies and music
I've kept a list over everything I read since the beginning of 2004, and a year ago I posted my list for that first year. Now I've alphabetised the list (before that it was in chronological order), and this year I've added the books as I read them. It's been a somewhat crap year for books, though, as there were many long periods when I didn't read at all, for different (but mostly pathetic) reasons. So I read less this year than last year. (I guess you could say quality over quantity, etc, but I'd like both please thank you.) Since I have a thing for lists (really. I'm like that guy in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.), I started listing CDs and movies too - though I'm far less a movie person than a music and book person, so I don't watch that many movies, really.
Finally, I just want to say: dear library. Thank you.
BOOKS 2004, 2005
* = Required reading for courses I've taken
(I've only included a few textbooks)
The underlined books are the ones I read this year.
A.
Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
Amis, Martin - Experience: A Memoir
Amis, Martin - The Information
Amis, Martin - The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Atwood, Margaret - Surfacing
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
B.
Baugh, Albert C, and Thomas Cable - A History of the English Language *
Banville, John - Shroud
Banville, John - The Sea
Beckett, Samuel - Endgame *
Beckett, Samuel - En attendant Godot *
Begag, Azouz - Le gone du Chaâba *
Bellow, Saul - The Actual
Bjørneboe, Jens - Norge, mitt Norge
Borger, Julian - England, England
Boucher, David - Dylan and Cohen: Poets of Rock and Roll
Bradbury, Malcolm, and Richard Ruland - From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
Bradbury, Malcolm - History Man
Bradbury, Malcolm - No, Not Bloomsbury
Bradbury, Malcolm - The Modern British Novel
Brettell, Richard R - Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation
Brøgger, Susanne - Crème Fraiche
Brink, André - Language and Narrative From Cervantes to Calvino
Bukowski, Charles - What Matters the Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
C.
Calvino, Italo - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Carey, John - Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books
Carlsen, Jørn (ed.) - O Canada: Essays on Canadian Literature and Culture
Cavaney, Graham - Screaming With Joy: the Life of Allen Ginsberg
Coetzee, J.M. - Waiting for the Barbarians *
Coetzee, J.M - The Lives of Animals
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
D.
Dawsey, Darrel - Living to Tell About it: Young Black Men in America Speak Their Piece
De Beauvoir, Simone - Det annet kjønn [Le deuxième sexe]
DeLillo, Don - White Noise
Dickens, Charles - Hard Times *
Duras, Marguerite - Moderato Cantabile *
E.
Eagleton, Terry - Literary Theory: An Introduction
Eagleton, Terry - After Theory
Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land and Other Poems
F.
Faludi, Susan - Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Faludi, Susan - Stiffed: The Betrayal of the Modern Man
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Foer, Jonathan Safran - Everything is Illuminated
French, Marilyn - The Women's Room
G.
Garner, Robert (ed.) - Animal Rights: The changing debate
Golding, William - Pincher Martin
Gordon, Martin - Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections on Raising Chickens
Green, Hannah - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Greene, Graham - The Quiet American
Greer, Germaine - The Whole Woman
Groult, Benoîte - Les trois quarts du temps
H.
Hertz, Marianne M. - Sultens paradoks - viden og tendenser om anoreksi og bulimi
Hollinghurst, Alan - The Line of Beauty
Hornby, Nick - A Long Way Down
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Wathing God
Hustvedt, Siri - What I loved
I.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Unconsoled
Ishiguro, Kazuo - When We Were Orphans
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day
J.
James, Edward - Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
Jameson, Fredric - A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present
Jones, Peter (ed.) - Imagist Poetry *
Jourde, Pierre - La littérature sans estomac
Joyce, James - The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man *
K.
Kaysen, Susanna - Girl, Interrupted
Kennedy, A.L - Everything you Need
Kennedy, A.L - Paradise
Kövecses, Zoltan - Metaphor. An Introduction *
Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable lightness of Being
L.
Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake
Laye, Camara - L'enfant noir *
Leader, Zachary (ed.) - On Modern British Fiction
Levenson, Michael - A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 (*)
Lodge, David - The Art of Fiction
Lubbock, Peter - The Craft of Fiction (*)
Lorentsen, Jørgen - Maskulinitet
M.
Madox Ford, Ford - The Good Soldier *
McCarthy, Cormac - No Country For Old Men
McEwan, Ian - Saturday
McEwan, Ian - Atonement
Murdoch, Iris - The Bell
Moi, Toril - Sexual/Textual Politics
N.
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pnin
Niemi, Mikael - Populærmusikk fra Vittula
Nugent, Benjamin - Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing
O.
O' Casey, Sean- The Silver Tassie *
O' Hagan, Andrew - Personality
Owens, Bill - Suburbia [photos]
P.
Pierre, DB - Vernon God Little
Postman, Neil - Vi morer oss til døde
Poulin, Jacques - Volkswagen Blues *
Proulx, Annie - That Old Ace in the Hole
Q.
R.
Racine, Jean - Phèdre *
Raban, Jonathan - Waxwings
Rhys, Jean - Wide Saragasso Sea
Richler, Emma - Feed my Dear Dogs
Rowe, John Carlos (ed.) - Post-Nationalist American Studies
S.
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Sansom, Ian - Ring Road
Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis II: The Story of a Return
Sartre, Jean-Paul - Eksistensialisme er humanisme *
Shakespeare, William - Twelfth Night *
Bernard Shaw, George - Pygmalion *
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein*
Shields, Carol - Unless
Shipler, David K. - The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Skårderud, Finn - Sterk/Svak: Håndbok i spiseforstyrrelser
Smith, Murray - Trainspotting [BFI modern classics]
Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Stevenson, Nick - Understanding Media Cultures: Social Theory and Mass Communication
T.
Thompson, Craig - Blankets: an Illustrated Novel
Toews, Miriam - A Complicated Kindness
Truss, Lynne - Eats Shoots & Leaves - The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
U.
Updike, John - Rabbit Run
V.
Vidal, Gore - The City and the Pillar
Voltaire - Candide
Vågnes, Øyvind - Ingen skal sove i natt
W.
Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One
Wells, H.G. - War of the Worlds
Wells, H.G. - The Invisible Man
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse *
Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway *
Wurtzel, Elizabeth - Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
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