Saturday, October 02, 2004

Words Absorbed

Here's my very incomplete reading list, meaning books I have read. Though I think I might get it together from 2005 on everything before is destined to be incomplete and not in the right chronological order.

Read in 2005

Stephen King: The Waste Lands (Dark Tower III)
Jane Austen: Emma
Stephen King: The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower II)
Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Stephen King: The Gunslinger (Dark Tower I)
Tanuja Desai Hidier: Born Confused
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
Laurell K. Hamilton: Guilty Pleasures
Christopher Paolini: Eragon
Christopher Brookmyre: Quite Ugly One Morning
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Gregory Maguire: Wicked: The Times and Life of the Wicked Witch of the West
Frank Schätzing: Der Schwarm
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
Carolyn Parkhurst: The Dogs of Babel
David Guterson: Our Lady of the Forest
Judith Hermann: Summerhouse, Later (in German)


Read in 2004

Marlen Haushofer: Die Wand
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time-Traveler's Wife
Augusten Burroughs: Running With Scissors
Matt Ruff: Set This House in Order
J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan
Russ Rymer: Genie. A Scientific Tragedy
Angela Carter: The Magic Toyshop
Kate Chopin: Awakening
J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Louis Sachar: Holes
Dan Brown: Digital Fortress
Donald A. Norman: The Design of Everyday Things
Tracy Chevalier: Girl With a Pearl Earring
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code


Read in 2003 according to my amazon orders and vague memories

Brenda Maddox: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Val McDermid: A Place of Execution (in German)
Luther Blissett: Q (in German)
Ian McEvan: Atonement
Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
Simon Winchester: The Map That Changed the World
James D. Watson: The Double Helix
Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones
Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Thisbe Nissen: The Good People of New York
Carol Shields: Unless