Books Completed in 2005:
Books of 2005
01. Please Don't Kill the Freshman
02. Lord of the Flies
03. Swann's Way
04. Picture of Dorian Gray
05. The Unbearable Lightness of Being*
06. a book of plays by Anton Chekhov
07. Fermata
08. The Confessions of Max Tivoli,
09. Half in Love (Maile Meloy) + the good parts of Oscar Wilde (biography by Richard Ellman) = a book
10. Heart of Darkness
11. How we are Hungry
12. Fifth Business
13. The Corrections
14. The Miserable Mill
15. Dubliners
16. McSweeneys #14
17. Oedipus the King
18. Welcome to the Monkey House
19. Within a Budding Grove
20. The Metaphysical Club
21. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
22. Medea
23. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader*
24. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
25. Gulliver's Travels
26. Mrs. Dalloway*
27. Things Fall Apart
28. Mrs. Dalloway* (re-read)
29. Under Milk Wood
30. Good Intentions
31. The Importance of Being Earnest
32. The End of Alice
33. Under the Volcano
34. The Great Gatsby (re-read)
35. Case Histories
36. Fording the Stream of Consciousness
37. In Search of My Beloved
38. Theory of the Leisure Class (chs. 1-6)
39. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
40. Essays, Montaigne
41. Brave New World
42. Crime and Punishment
43. Immortality
44. Pride and Prejudice (re-read)
45. In the Lake of the Woods
46. White Noise
47. Hamlet
48. The Years
49. The Europeans
50. The Little Prince*
51. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
52. (most of) Walden & "Civil Disobedience"
53. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
54. The Crucible
55. To the Lighthouse* (re-read)
56. The Guermantes Way
57. The New York Trilogy
58. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
59. The Waves
60. Macbeth
61. Rousseau's First Discourse
62. Athena
63. Hamlet (re-read)
64. Rites of Spring*
65. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
66. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (except for the last 5 pages -- yes it was that bad)
67. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
68. Consider the Lobster
*I finished reading this book with a sense of the vastness of the universe.
Unfinished Books of 2006 (~% completed)
01. Sodom & Gomorrah (75%)
02. Anna Karenina (50%)
03. Garner's Modern American Usage (30%)
04. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville (10%)
05. The Irresponsible Self, James Wood (20%)