cátia (akhmatoval) wrote in bookish,
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With an hour left (here in this part of the world, at least) in 2009 I thought I'd share the books I read throughout this past year. I tried to read a lot more contemporary literature this year, be less of a "book snob" and try different things. Anyone disappointed by some novels that got a lot of hype? I think Water For Elephants was one of the biggest disappointments for me - I encountered a lot of people who praise it and I, personally, thought it was nothing special.



001. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1
002. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2
003. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3
004. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4
005. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5
006. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6
007. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7
008. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
009. The Joke - Milan Kundera
010. Quiet Days in Clichy - Henry Miller
011. Miłosz's ABC's - Czesław Miłosz
012. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
013. Blue Angel - Francine Prose
014. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
015. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
016. Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
017. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
018. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
019. Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
020. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
021. Tipping The Velvet - Sarah Waters
022. The Russian Debutante's Handbook - Gary Shteyngart
023. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
024. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
025. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
026. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
021. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
022. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
023. The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
024. Lighthousekeeping - Jeanette Winterson
025. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders - Vítězslav Nezval
026. The Trial - Franz Kafka
027. The Castle - Franz Kafka
028. L'immortalité - Milan Kundera
029. L'Identite - Milan Kundera
030. Nadja - André Breton
031. Le Mur - Jean-Paul Sartre
032. Trois Contes - Gustave Flaubert
033. La Chatte - Colette
034. Les Fleurs Du Mal - Charles Baudelaire
035. Poésies Complètes - Arthur Rimbaud
036. Voyage au bout de la nuit - Louis Ferdinand Céline
037. The Garden of Eden - Ernest Hemingway
038. Little Birds - Anaïs Nin
039. A Spy In The House Of Love - Anaïs Nin
040. Ladders to Fire - Anaïs Nin
041. Children of the Albatross - Anaïs Nin
042. Seduction of the Minotaur - Anaïs Nin
043. The Four Chambered Heart - Anaïs Nin
044. Under A Glass Bell - Anaïs Nin
045. Winter of Artifice - Anaïs Nin
046. House of Incest - Anaïs Nin
047. Animal Farm - George Orwell
048. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
049. Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life - Ian Gibson
050. La Casa de Bernarda Alba - Federico Garcia Lorca
051. Bodas de Sangre - Federico Garcia Lorca
052. Yerma - Federico Garcia Lorca
053. El Publico - Federico Garcia Lorca
054. The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition - Federico Garcia Lorca
055. Nada - Carmen Laforet
056. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
057. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
055. Ariel - Sylvia Plath
056. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams - Sylvia Plath
057. The Unabridged Journals - Sylvia Plath
058. And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov
059. The Italics Are Mine - Nina Berberova
060. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
061. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
062. Equus - Peter Shaffer
063. Girl, Interrupted - Sisanna Kaysen
064. Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
065. Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
066. The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
067. Water For Elephants - Sarah Gruen
068. Dirty Blonde and Half Cuban - Lisa Wixon
069. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
070. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
071. Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra
072. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
073. Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
074. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
075. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
076. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
077. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
078. The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
079. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
080. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
081. Phèdre - Jean Racine
082. Claudine à l'école - Colette
083. Claudine à Paris - Colette
084. Claudine en ménage - Colette
085. Claudine s'en va - Colette
086. La Maison de Claudine - Colette


This is not a lot, for me. I plan on reading a lot more next year. Here's to a literature-filled 2010 for everyone!
(&ps. new friends are always welcome)
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