In 2011, I read 39 books. 2 were by women. 11 were written in the 21st century, 11 in the 20th, 14 in the 19th, and 3 before that. Original languages are English, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, French, Danish, Japanese, and Arabic. 21 were fiction. Goodreads calculates the total as 17,941 pages. I'll write more on this later but, for now, here's the list:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccacio
Capital vol. 1 -Karl Marx
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Human, All Too Human - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen J. Gould
Off the Books - Sudhir Venkatesh
Inez - Carlos Fuentes
The Challenge of Jesus - N.T. Wright
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincey
Redburn - Herman Melville
The Seven Pillars of Creation - William P Brown
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Sons of the Profits - William Speidel
Scarlet and Black - Stendhal
Reaper's Gale - Steven Erikson
Orient Express - Graham Greene
The Sublime Object of Ideology - Slavoj Zizek
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad
In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien
The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
An Education - Lynn Barber
Nobody Move - Denis Johnson
A Feast for Crows - George Martin
Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze & Guattari
An Autobiography - Anthony Trollope
Repetition / Philosophical Crumbs - Soren Kierkegaard
The Malay Archipelago - Alfred Russel Wallace
A Dance with Dragons - George Martin
Jonathan Wild - Henry Fielding
The Birth of the Clinic - Michel Foucault
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Reflections - Walter Benjamin
Arabian Nights vol. 1
6 comments:
only 39? is the list in the order that you read them?
Hey! There's a lot of big books in there!
That's the order I finished them in. I include books in the year that I finish them, no matter when I started them.
This is relevant to my interests. I only wish my reading list was as high brow. I did read all the George R.R. Martin stuff though!
damn, i only own 2 of those, and i have read neither. unconsoled and in the lake of the woods.
and i may have ask you this already, but have you read slaughterhouse 5 alex?
also, i've started savage detectives, into the second book, does it get savage or is it one constant erection from the protagonist?
Mostly just the first book is full of erections. There is definitely more savageness is in book two (the one with all the short accounts,) but nothing compared to his other big book, 2666.
I have yet to read Slaughterhouse!
cool, i'll push on then. not that i particularly have a problem with all the erections, it's just i have enough of my own (haha).
isn't 2666 longer than savage?
slaughterhouse is maybe my favourite book. i'd be curious to see what you think of it. put it on the list for 2012 yeah. a quick and easy read compared to most of what's on your list for '11. at worst it'll be nice padding for your '12 list.
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