2009
Books read (*= read for class)
1. Cormac McCarthy- The Road *
2. Neil Gaiman- Fragile Things
3. John Guare- Six Degrees of Separation *
4. Tom Stoppard- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
5. Jan Bondeson- A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
6. Douglas Coupland- Generation X: tales for an accelerated culture
7. Kurt Vonnegut- Cat's Cradle
8. Richard Roeper- 10 Sure Signs a Movie Character Is Doomed
9. David Galton- In Our Own Image : eugenics and the genetic modification of people
10. Vladmir Voinovich- Monumental Propaganda
11. Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse-Five
12. Jonathan Kirsch- A History of the End of the World
13. Bill Ayers- Fugitive Days
14. Michael Chabon- the Mysteries of Pittsburgh
15. Mary Lou Findlay- the As it Happens Files
16. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons- Watchmen
17. John Ajvide Lindqvist- Let Me In
18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Notes from Underground
19. Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
20. Sylvia Plath- the Bell Jar
21. Jonathan Goldstein- Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!
22. WP Kinsella- Dance Me Outside
23. Bill Bryson- The Mother Tongue
24. Douglas Adams- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
25. Alice Walker- The Color Purple
26. John Tyerm Williams- Pooh and the Psychologists
27. Anthony Burgess- Byrne
28. Thomas Pynchon- The Crying of Lot 49
29. Jim Munroe, Salgood Sam- Therefore Repent!
30. Anthony Burgess- Abba abba
31. Douglas Farrago- The Placebo Chronicles
32. Mary Roach - Spook
33. Steven Johnson- The Ghost Map
34. Tom Stoppard- Arcadia
35. Philip K Dick- Dr Bloodmoney
36. Pagan Kennedy- The First Man-Made Man
37. Sebastien Japrisot- A Very Long Engagement
38. Tony Kushner- Angels in America
39. Richard Preston- Panic in Level 4
40. Diane Law- Great Dictators
41. Giles Milton- Edward Trencom's Nose
42. Mary Roach- Stiff
43. Euripides- Medea*
44. Neil Gaimen- Anansi Boys
45. William Shakespeare- Macbeth *
46. Pat Barker- Regeneration
47. Naomi Wallace- One Flea Spare
48. (ed) James Morrison- The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All that Heaven Allows
49. Pat Barker- The Eye in the Door
50. Bram Stoker- Dracula*
51. Jay Ingram- Talk Talk Talk
52. Pat Barker- The Ghost Road
GOAL: 50
12/05/09
NOTE: I'm counting plays!!!! And graphic novels. I'm using the criteria that if it's bound like a book and I cannot read the entire thing in my spare, then it's a book.
I have poor time management skills!
1. Cormac McCarthy- The Road *
2. Neil Gaiman- Fragile Things
3. John Guare- Six Degrees of Separation *
4. Tom Stoppard- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
5. Jan Bondeson- A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
6. Douglas Coupland- Generation X: tales for an accelerated culture
7. Kurt Vonnegut- Cat's Cradle
8. Richard Roeper- 10 Sure Signs a Movie Character Is Doomed
9. David Galton- In Our Own Image : eugenics and the genetic modification of people
10. Vladmir Voinovich- Monumental Propaganda
11. Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse-Five
12. Jonathan Kirsch- A History of the End of the World
13. Bill Ayers- Fugitive Days
14. Michael Chabon- the Mysteries of Pittsburgh
15. Mary Lou Findlay- the As it Happens Files
16. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons- Watchmen
17. John Ajvide Lindqvist- Let Me In
18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Notes from Underground
19. Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
20. Sylvia Plath- the Bell Jar
21. Jonathan Goldstein- Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!
22. WP Kinsella- Dance Me Outside
23. Bill Bryson- The Mother Tongue
24. Douglas Adams- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
25. Alice Walker- The Color Purple
26. John Tyerm Williams- Pooh and the Psychologists
27. Anthony Burgess- Byrne
28. Thomas Pynchon- The Crying of Lot 49
29. Jim Munroe, Salgood Sam- Therefore Repent!
30. Anthony Burgess- Abba abba
31. Douglas Farrago- The Placebo Chronicles
32. Mary Roach - Spook
33. Steven Johnson- The Ghost Map
34. Tom Stoppard- Arcadia
35. Philip K Dick- Dr Bloodmoney
36. Pagan Kennedy- The First Man-Made Man
37. Sebastien Japrisot- A Very Long Engagement
38. Tony Kushner- Angels in America
39. Richard Preston- Panic in Level 4
40. Diane Law- Great Dictators
41. Giles Milton- Edward Trencom's Nose
42. Mary Roach- Stiff
43. Euripides- Medea*
44. Neil Gaimen- Anansi Boys
45. William Shakespeare- Macbeth *
46. Pat Barker- Regeneration
47. Naomi Wallace- One Flea Spare
48. (ed) James Morrison- The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All that Heaven Allows
49. Pat Barker- The Eye in the Door
50. Bram Stoker- Dracula*
51. Jay Ingram- Talk Talk Talk
52. Pat Barker- The Ghost Road
GOAL: 50
12/05/09
NOTE: I'm counting plays!!!! And graphic novels. I'm using the criteria that if it's bound like a book and I cannot read the entire thing in my spare, then it's a book.
I have poor time management skills!