1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

From m00se:

This is a list compiled by Dr. Peter Boxall. Not sure I entirely agree with the list as I think these tend to favor certain authors and are often totally subjective and generally tend to ignore non-Western materials but I've put the ones I've read in bold, all 40 of them. Also, yes, I do realize that this means to admitting to the world that I've never read Jane Austen. Don't shoot me and I refuse to give up my librarian credentials. My friend Selena and I are starting a little club where we are planning on reading all of Jane's novels and then watching the adaptations. I know I am excited about it.


1. 2000s
2. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Saturday – Ian McEwan
4. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
5. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
6. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
7. The Sea – John Banville
8. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
9. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
10. The Master – Colm Tóibín
11. Vanishing Point – David Markson
12. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
13. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
14. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
15. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
16. The Colour – Rose Tremain
17. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
18. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
19. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
20. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
21. Islands – Dan Sleigh
22. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
23. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
24. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
25. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
26. The Double – José Saramago
27. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
28. Unless – Carol Shields
29. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
30. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
31. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
32. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
33. Shroud – John Banville
34. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
35. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
36. Dead Air – Iain Banks
37. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
38. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
39. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
40. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
41. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
42. Schooling – Heather McGowan
43. Atonement – Ian McEwan
44. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
45. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
46. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
47. Fury – Salman Rushdie
48. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
49. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
50. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
51. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
52. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
53. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
54. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
55. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
56. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
57. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
58. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
59. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
60. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
61. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
62. How the Dead Live – Will Self
63. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
64. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
65. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
66. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
67. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
68. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
69. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
70. Pastoralia – George Saunders
71.
72. 1900s
73. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
74. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
75. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson (have gotten part-way through this like 3 times)
76. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
77. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
78. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
79. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
80. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
81. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
82. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
83. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
84. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
85. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
86. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
87. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
88. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
89. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
90. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
91. Another World – Pat Barker
92. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
93. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
94. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
95. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
96. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
97. Great Apes – Will Self
98. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
99. Underworld – Don DeLillo
100. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
101. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
102. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
103. The Untouchable – John Banville
104. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
105. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
106. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
107. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
108. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
109. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
110. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
111. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
112. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
113. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
114. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
115. The Information – Martin Amis
116. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
117. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
118. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
119. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
120. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
121. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
122. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
123. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
124. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
125. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
126. Land – Park Kyong-ni
127. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
128. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
129. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
130. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
131. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
132. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
133. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
134. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
135. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
136. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
137. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
138. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
139. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
140. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
141. Complicity – Iain Banks
142. On Love – Alain de Botton
143. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
144. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
145. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
146. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
147. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
148. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
149. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
150. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
151. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
152. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
153. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
154. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
155. Indigo – Marina Warner
156. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
157. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
158. Jazz – Toni Morrison
159. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
160. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
161. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
162. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
163. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
164. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
165. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
166. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
167. Arcadia – Jim Crace
168. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
169. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
170. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
171. Mao II – Don DeLillo
172. Typical – Padgett Powell
173. Regeneration – Pat Barker
174. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
175. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
176. Wise Children – Angela Carter
177. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
178. Amongst Women – John McGahern
179. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
180. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
181. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
182. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
183. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
184. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
185. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
186. Possession – A.S. Byatt
187. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
188. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
189. A Disaffection – James Kelman
190. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
191. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
192. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
193. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
194. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
195. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
196. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
197. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
198. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
199. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
200. London Fields – Martin Amis
201. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
202. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
203. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
204. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
205. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
206. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
207. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
208. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
209. Libra – Don DeLillo
210. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
211. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
212. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
213. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
214. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
215. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
216. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
217. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
218. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
219. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
220. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
221. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
222. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
223. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
224. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
225. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
226. Beloved – Toni Morrison
227. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
228. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
229. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
230. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
231. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
232. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
233. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
234. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
235. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
236. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
237. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
238. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
239. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
240. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
241. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
242. A Maggot – John Fowles
243. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
244. Contact – Carl Sagan
245. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
246. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
247. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
248. White Noise – Don DeLillo
249. Queer – William Burroughs
250. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
251. Legend – David Gemmell
252. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
253. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
254. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
255. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
256. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
257. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
258. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
259. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
260. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
261. Neuromancer – William Gibson
262. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
263. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
264. Shame – Salman Rushdie
265. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
266. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
267. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
268. Waterland – Graham Swift
269. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
270. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
271. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
272. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
273. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
274. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
275. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
276. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
277. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
278. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
279. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
280. The Newton Letter – John Banville
281. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
282. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
283. The Names – Don DeLillo
284. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
285. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
286. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
287. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
288. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
289. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
290. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
291. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
292. Rites of Passage – William Golding
293. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
294. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
295. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
296. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
297. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
298. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
299. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
300. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
301. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
302. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
303. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
304. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
305. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
306. The World According to Garp – John Irving
307. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
308. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
309. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
310. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
311. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
312. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
313. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
314. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
315. The Shining – Stephen King
316. Dispatches – Michael Herr
317. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
318. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
319. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
320. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
321. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
322. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
323. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
324. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
325. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
326. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
327. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
328. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
329. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
330. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
331. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
332. Fateless – Imre Kertész
333. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
334. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
335. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
336. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
337. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
338. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
339. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
340. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
341. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
342. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
343. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
344. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
345. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
346. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
347. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
348. Crash – J.G. Ballard
349. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
350. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
351. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
352. Sula – Toni Morrison
353. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
354. The Breast – Philip Roth
355. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
356. G – John Berger
357. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
358. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
359. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
360. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
361. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
362. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
363. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
364. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
365. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
366. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
367. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
368. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
369. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
370. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
371. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
372. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
373. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
374. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
375. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
376. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
377. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
378. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
379. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
380. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
381. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
382. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
383. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
384. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
385. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
386. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
387. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
388. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
389. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
390. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
391. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
392. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
393. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
394. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
395. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
396. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
397. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
398. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
399. Chocky – John Wyndham
400. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
401. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
402. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
403. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
404. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
405. The Joke – Milan Kundera
406. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
407. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
408. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
409. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
410. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
411. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
412. The Magus – John Fowles
413. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
414. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
415. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
416. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
417. Things – Georges Perec
418. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
419. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
420. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
421. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
422. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
423. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
424. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
425. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
426. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
427. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
428. Herzog – Saul Bellow
429. V. – Thomas Pynchon
430. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
431. The Graduate – Charles Webb
432. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
433. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
434. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
435. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
436. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
437. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
438. The Collector – John Fowles
439. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
440. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
441. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
442. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
443. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
444. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
445. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
446. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
447. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
448. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
449. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
450. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
451. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
452. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
453. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
454. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
455. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
456. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
457. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
458. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
459. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
460. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
461. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
462. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
463. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
464. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
465. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
466. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
467. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
468. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
469. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
470. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
471. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
472. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
473. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
474. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
475. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
476. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
477. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
478. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
479. The End of the Road – John Barth
480. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
481. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
482. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
483. Voss – Patrick White
484. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
485. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
486. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
487. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
488. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
489. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
490. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
491. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
492. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
493. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
494. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
495. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
496. The Floating Opera – John Barth
497. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
498. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
499. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
500. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
501. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
502. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
503. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
504. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
505. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
506. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
507. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
508. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
509. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
510. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
511. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
512. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
513. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
514. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
515. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
516. Watt – Samuel Beckett
517. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
518. Junkie – William Burroughs
519. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
520. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
521. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
522. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
523. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
524. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
525. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
526. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
527. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
528. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
529. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
530. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
531. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
532. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
533. The Rebel – Albert Camus
534. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
535. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
536. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
537. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
538. The Third Man – Graham Greene
539. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
540. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
541. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
542. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
543. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
544. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
545. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
546. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
547. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
548. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
549. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
550. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
551. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
552. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
553. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
554. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
555. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
556. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
557. The Victim – Saul Bellow
558. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
559. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
560. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
561. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
562. The Plague – Albert Camus
563. Back – Henry Green
564. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
565. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
566. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
567. Animal Farm – George Orwell
568. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
569. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
570. Loving – Henry Green
571. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
572. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
573. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
574. Transit – Anna Seghers
575. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
576. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
577. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
578. Caught – Henry Green
579. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
580. Embers – Sandor Marai
581. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
582. The Outsider – Albert Camus
583. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
584. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
585. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
586. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
587. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
588. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
589. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
590. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
591. Native Son – Richard Wright
592. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
593. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
594. Party Going – Henry Green
595. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
596. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
597. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
598. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
599. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
600. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
601. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
602. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
603. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
604. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
605. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
606. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
607. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
608. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
609. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
610. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
611. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
612. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
613. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
614. The Years – Virginia Woolf
615. In Parenthesis – David Jones
616. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
617. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
618. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
619. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
620. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
621. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
622. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
623. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
624. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
625. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
626. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
627. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
628. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
629. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
630. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
631. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
632. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
633. England Made Me – Graham Greene
634. Burmese Days – George Orwell
635. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
636. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
637. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
638. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
639. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
640. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
641. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
642. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
643. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
644. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
645. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
646. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
647. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
648. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
649. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
650. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
651. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
652. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
653. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
654. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
655. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
656. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
657. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
658. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
659. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
660. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
661. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
662. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
663. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
664. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
665. Passing – Nella Larsen
666. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
667. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
668. Living – Henry Green
669. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
670. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
671. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
672. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
673. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
674. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
675. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
676. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
677. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
678. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
679. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
680. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
681. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
682. Quartet – Jean Rhys
683. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
684. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
685. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
686. Nadja – André Breton
687. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
688. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
689. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
690. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
691. Amerika – Franz Kafka
692. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
693. Blindness – Henry Green
694. The Castle – Franz Kafka
695. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
696. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
697. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
698. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
699. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
700. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
701. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
702. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
703. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
704. The Trial – Franz Kafka
705. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
706. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
707. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
708. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
709. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
710. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
711. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
712. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
713. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
714. Cane – Jean Toomer
715. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
716. Amok – Stefan Zweig
717. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
718. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
719. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
720. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
721. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
722. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
723. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
724. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
725. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
726. Ulysses – James Joyce
727. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
728. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
729. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
730. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
731. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
732. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
733. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
734. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
735. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
736. Summer – Edith Wharton
737. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
738. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
739. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
740. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
741. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
742. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
743. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
744. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
745. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
746. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
747. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
748. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
749. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
750. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
751. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
752. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
753. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
754. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
755. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
756. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
757. Howards End – E.M. Forster
758. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
759. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
760. Martin Eden – Jack London
761. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
762. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
763. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
764. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
765. The Iron Heel – Jack London
766. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
767. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
768. Mother – Maxim Gorky
769. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
770. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
771. Young Törless – Robert Musil
772. The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
773. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
774. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
775. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
776. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
777. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
778. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
779. The Ambassadors – Henry James
780. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
781. The Immoralist – André Gide
782. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
783. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
784. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
785. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
786. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
787. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
788. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
789.
790. 1800s
791. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
792. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
793. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
794. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
795. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
796. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
797. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
798. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
799. Dracula – Bram Stoker
800. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
801. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
802. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
803. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
804. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
805. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
806. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
807. Born in Exile – George Gissing
808. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
809. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
810. News from Nowhere – William Morris
811. New Grub Street – George Gissing
812. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
813. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
814. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
815. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
816. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
817. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
818. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
819. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
820. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
821. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
822. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
823. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
824. She – H. Rider Haggard
825. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
826. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
827. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
828. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
829. Germinal – Émile Zola
830. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
831. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
832. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
833. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
834. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
835. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
836. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
837. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
838. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
839. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
840. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
841. Nana – Émile Zola
842. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
843. The Red Room – August Strindberg
844. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
845. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
846. Drunkard – Émile Zola
847. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
848. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
849. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
850. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
851. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
852. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
853. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
854. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
855. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
856. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
857. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
858. Middlemarch – George Eliot
859. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
860. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
861. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
862. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
863. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
864. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
865. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
866. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
867. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
868. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
869. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
870. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
871. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
872. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
873. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
874. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
875. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
876. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
877. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
878. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
879. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
880. Silas Marner – George Eliot
881. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
882. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
883. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
884. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
885. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
886. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
887. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
888. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
889. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
890. Adam Bede – George Eliot
891. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
892. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
893. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
894. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
895. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
896. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
897. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
898. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
899. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
900. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
901. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
902. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
903. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
904. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
905. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
906. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
907. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
908. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
909. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
910. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
911. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
912. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
913. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
914. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
915. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
916. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
917. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
918. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
919. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
920. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
921. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
922. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
923. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
924. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
925. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
926. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
927. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
928. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
929. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
930. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
931. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
932. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
933. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
934. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
935. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
936. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
937. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
938. Persuasion – Jane Austen
939. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
940. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
941. Emma – Jane Austen
942. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
943. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
944. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
945. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
946. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
947. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
948.
949. 1700s
950. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
951. The Nun – Denis Diderot
952. Camilla – Fanny Burney
953. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
954. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
955. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
956. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
957. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
958. Justine – Marquis de Sade
959. Vathek – William Beckford
960. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
961. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
962. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
963. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
964. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
965. Evelina – Fanny Burney
966. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
967. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
968. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
969. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
970. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
971. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
972. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
973. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
974. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
975. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
976. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
977. Candide – Voltaire
978. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
979. Amelia – Henry Fielding
980. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
981. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
982. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
983. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
984. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
985. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
986. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
987. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
988. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
989. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
990. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
991. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
992. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
993. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
994. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
995. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
996.
997. Pre-1700
998. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
999. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
1000. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
1001. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1002. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
1003. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
1004. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
1005. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
1006. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
1007. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
1008. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
1009. Metamorphoses – Ovid
1010. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Friday Night Lights

You know, I sometimes come to shows later that I should. Shows that are now my favorites; my must sees like The Office, How I Met Your Mother, Alias, Everwood, B-frakkin-SG. And now I must add Friday Night Lights to that list. Over the weekend I had a marathon session of watching season one via Netflix. This show is amazing. It's part compelling family drama, part teen angst, and part football all rolled into a fabulous show.

Oh have I forgotten to mention the hotness? Well, take your pick ladies and gents. For the women we have Coach Taylor, (if you like your boys a little greasy and bad) Tim Riggins, or (if you don't mind a guy who can't walk) Jason Street. The guys have some lovely ladies to look at too.

Honestly, I imagine that this show is a pretty accurate (if a little on the nice side) version of life in a small but big high-school football town in Texas. And I love every frakkin minute of it. This from a girl who doesn't even really like football all that much.

Anyway, you can watch seasons one and two online for free here. So, what is stopping you? I know I am going to be watching season two tonight.

Book of a Thousand Days

This week I have been doing a lot of knitting and a lot of reading. Bless you, commuter train. Anyway, I finished Shannon Hale's Book of a Thousand Days. Hale tells the story of Dashti, a lady's maid, and Saren, the lady, who are to be locked away in a tower for seven years because Saren refuses to marry an evil Lord. When the Khan that Saren wants to marry arrives is when the adventure really begins.

I enjoyed this book very much and it's another book to tell my niece about. I think she will enjoy it. Hale really tells a fairy tale very well.



Books Read in 2008:

Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
River Secrets by Shannon Hale
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot
Dramarama by E. Lockhart
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Princess Mia by Meg Cabot
Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart
Stowaway by Karen Hesse
The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart.
Spike: Asylum by Brian Lynch and Franco Urru

Once

Last night I finally watched Once. I will admit that I am glad I waited so long for my initial desire to see this movie to pass. I found the film to be a little slow for the first 20 minutes and I was sort of wondering what exactly the plot was. But when I decided to go with the flow of the movie I really enjoyed it. I think I would have been a bit more disappointed had I watched this during its fever-pitch OMG stage because really, it's a quiet, little film.

I watched a couple of the special features which confirmed for me that the two stars were good friends before the filming began. You could see that they had some real chemistry and really knew one another. And, it seems that they are now a real life couple, which I can totally believe.

But really the star of the movie is the music. Written almost entirely by the "Guy" character, the soundtrack is heartbreakingly good. I went to the Zune marketplace and downloaded it immediately. I want to listen to it over and over again today. In fact, I think I will start doing that now. And, I am back. Anyway, I really liked this movie and I hope to be singing these songs for some time to come.

Books, books, and more books

I read a couple more books in the last week or two. Here they are...

This was my second reading of John Krakauer's Into the Wild. The first time I read this book, for a section I was leading at the old work place (they made all incoming Freshmen do a common reading), I really couldn't stand the main character, Chris McCandless. I thought he was immature, stupid, and, in many ways, selfish. I wouldn't have reread the book at all were it not for my book club picking it for this month's book-into-movie selection.

For those of you who don't know the story of Into the Wild, it's the story of Chris McCandless; who after graduating college sets out on a Jack London type quest and ends up in Alaska. He dies there. It's on the cover of the book so I am not giving anything away here. After reading this book again, I feel a little more for McCandless. I still thought he was immature, stupid, and selfish but I felt compassion for him this time around. I guess what bothers me so much is the apparent careless attitude he takes with his own life. But I think the true sign that I have become an adult is that I feel so horrible for his family. I mean, his parents have no idea where he even until his body is found. It's just tragic. Anyway, I am not sure I recommend this book because I wouldn't say I exactly liked it. But it might be something you want to check out. I am interested to see what my book club folks think of it.

I also read Maureen Johnson's Girl at Sea. This is without a doubt my favorite book by Johnson. I just adored it. Adored it! So, the story is this: Clio has her summer planned out. She's going to work in an art store and she's going to get hot college boy Ollie to be her boyfriend. Only plans go awry. Clio is forced to go to Italy with her dad to live on a yacht with said dad and her dad's new girlfriend and the girlfriend's daughter. And for some reason Clio isn't being told the whole story about why they are on this ship. Are they looking for treasure? Or is something more dangerous going on? Oh, and also, how come her dad's girlfriend's grad assistant is making her forget all about Ollie?

Books Read in 2008:

Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
River Secrets by Shannon Hale
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot
Dramarama by E. Lockhart
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Princess Mia by Meg Cabot
Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart
Stowaway by Karen Hesse
The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart.
Spike: Asylum by Brian Lynch and Franco Urru

Twilight Trailer

I am totally stealing this from Marissa and I don't care. I hope this movie is going to be as awesome as the trailer makes it look.

A lot of folks were peeved over the actor chosen to play Edward but I never was and I think this trailer backs up my agreement. Yum!

Happy Birthday to You

Everyone should go wish B-Mart the happiest of happy birthdays today. Beth, I hope you have a great day!

Even more books that I recently read

I am sure you are all wondering why I am posting so much in one day after I practically abandoned my blog. Well, the answer is this: Arabic is over until August. WOOHOO! I am very excited to be done even though I will need to stay fresh by listening to BBC Arabic news and quizzing myself on vocab. Now, onto the books...

Like Beth, I finally read River Secrets by Shannon Hale. I thought it was a fitting end to the Goose Girl series. I also liked that Razzo got his own story. A definite recommendation for my niece Kaitlyn.








I also finished the Gemma Doyle trilogy. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray is the last installment for Gemma, Ann, and Fee. I must say that I really was annoyed with Gemma for a good portion of the book. I kept thinking will she never learn and when will she tell Fee to shove it. Ahh! But ultimately I was happy with the ending. I am glad there was no epilogue telling me how it all ends up for Gemma. I rather like the ending I made up for her in my head. Also, Kartik only gets hotter in this book, for those of you who care about that sort of thing.

Finally, I read Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (who is writing a book with John Green!! SQUEE!!). So, what do you do when you are a girl who is in love with her gay boy bestie and then your boyfriend ends up kissing said gay boy? Well, your life implodes is what. This story is told in the first person from a variety of point of views. Naomi and Ely and their cadre of friends all narrate how life goes crazy when life-long friends hit a bump.


Books Read in 2008:

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
River Secrets by Shannon Hale
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot
Dramarama by E. Lockhart
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Princess Mia by Meg Cabot
Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart
Stowaway by Karen Hesse
The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart.
Spike: Asylum by Brian Lynch and Franco Urru

A to Z cds: Day 68

337. Bootleg Detroit ~ Morphine (last listen: 3-6 months)

338. B-Sides and Otherwise ~ Morphine (last listen: 1-3 years)

339. The Night ~ Morphine (last listen: 1-3 years)

340. Waiting For My Rocket to Come ~ Jason Mraz (last listen: 1-3 years): I really like Jason Mraz. I think he's got a great voice. This disc just puts me in a good mood and makes me want to dance.

341. Ruby Blue ~ Roisin Murphy (last listen: 6-9 months): Angie sent me this cd because I loved the title track so much. The rest of the disc isn't really like Ruby Blue but I definitely like the piano pop/trip hop feel on this disc. You all should listen to Ruby Blue and Ramalama.

342. The Weight Is A Gift ~ Nada Surf (last listen; never): I downloaded this after hearing a song on Bill's mixwit mix. I thought this disc was very good and I can't wait until I can listen to it again.

343. God's Son ~ Nas (last listen: 3-5 years): This disc isn't bad but if I have to choose between Nas and Jay-Z; I will pick Jay-Z.

344. Made of Bricks ~ Kate Nash (last listen: 1-3 months): I love this disc. No, I lurve it. I just want to play it over and over and over. And then go have a pint with Ms. Nash and make fun of all the people around us.

345. The Downward Spiral ~ Nine Inch Nails (last listen: 5+ years): I know Marissa will be disappointed but I was never able to get into this band as much as the rest of the world. The disc still holds up and the music is sound but I have no desire to keep this on the Zune.

346. Nevermind ~ Nirvana (last listen: 6-9 months): Wow. I still love me some Nirvana. This disc is still amazing. Amazing. This disc defined my generation. I still remember when Kurt Cobain died and my then boyfriend wore black for a week because he was in mourning. Plus, it's one of the best cds to clean to that I have ever come across.

347. In Utero ~ Nirvana (last listen: 1-3 years): A disc either about the cost of fame or Courtney Love. Either way I dig the anger behind it.

348. Tragic Kingdom ~ No Doubt (last listen: 3-5 years): I am still mad that some assholes I am not even friends with made me late to Pointfest 5 thereby missing No Doubt's performance. I didn't like those jerks in high school and had we not had one friend in common I would have left those fools in Illinois. Anyway, I still like this cd even though I still think of my old supervisor from Target every time I hear Spiderwebs (it was her outgoing message for a long time).

349. Rock Steady ~ No Doubt (last listen: 1-3 years): I love how this disc is a bit of a departure for them. Plus, there are several songs that I love to work out to.

350. Shake Hands With Shorty ~ North Mississippi AllStars (last listen: 3-5 years): Jam-band meets blues equals this fun disc. I forgot about this disc but I will be listening to it again very soon.

351. O, Brother, Where Art Thou? ~ Various Artists (last listen: 6-9 months): I can only have love and gratitude for this cd because it was my introduction into the awesome world of Alison Krauss. Plus, it's just got some great bluegrass gems on it.

352. The O.C. Mix Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists (last listen 1-3 years): I listened to this a lot when B-Mart first gave this to me but then I forgot about it. Now that I am an O.C. convert I can appreciate this disc even more than I did before. Oh, and thanks O.C. for introducing me to Rooney.

353. Ok Go ~ Ok Go (last listen: 1-3 months): I only recently downloaded this so I can't really make any decent musing about it.

354. Oh No ~ Ok Go (last listen: 1-3 months): I first heard these guys when they opened for Death Cab. I was hooked. I love this cd and it makes me want to dance. Please tell me you all have seen the treadmill video. If not, here it is:



355. Trailer Park ~ Beth Orton (last listen: never)

356. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik ~ Outkast (last listen: 1-3 years)

357. ATLiens ~ Outkast (last listen: 1-3 years)

358. Aquemini ~ Outkast (last listen: 1-3 years)

359. Stankonia ~ Outkast (last listen: 6-9 months): I came to Outkast late. This was the first disc of theirs that I had ever bought. It's still my favorite of theirs even if it might not be their best disc. I love to dance to B.O.B. and of course Ms. Jackson.

360. Big Boi and Dre Presents,,, ~ Outkast (last listen: 1-3 years): A very good greatest hits album.

361. Speakerboxx/The Love Below ~ Outkast (last listen: 1-3 years): The double disc that broke and also solidified Outkast as one of the best rap groups in the biz. I am not sure I know a person who doesn't own this and if I do, please don't burst my bubble. Go buy the disc yourself and listen.

362. Beware ~ Panjabi MC (last listen: 1-3 months): I own this disc thanks to Bill. And I truly do thank him for this gem. I love it. I love the mix of Panjabi music and rap. I used this cd to prove that the subaltern can speak. And my students loved it. I just wish this guy would make another cd because I want more of what he's got.