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Berikut adalah senarai buku-buku yang telah saya baca sepanjang tahun ini (yang disusun mengikut nama penulis). Objektif peribadi saya ialah untuk mencapai nombor 'ajaib' 120. Wish me luck...

1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
2. Jake's Thing - Kingsley Amis
3. The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
4. Yellow Dog - Martin Amis
5. House of Meetings - Martin Amis
6. The Second Plane : 14 Responses to September 11 - Martin Amis
7. A History Of God - Karen Armstrong
8. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
9. The Outsider - Albert Camus
10. True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
11. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
12. The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
13. An Organizer's Tale : Speeches - Cesar Chavez
14. Max Havelaar - Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
15. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
16. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
17. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. The Lover - Marguerite Duras
19. The Good Body - Eve Ensler
20. The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler
21. The History of Tom Jones : A Foundling - Henry Fielding
22. The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Neuromancer - William Gibson
24. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
25. The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
26. Guerrilla Warfare : The Authorized Edition - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
27. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
28. King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
29. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
30. Mythology - Edith Hamilton
31. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
32. Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway
33. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
34. Fiesta : The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
35. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
36. The Butlerian Jihad : Legends of Dune 1 - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
37. The Machine Crusade : Legends of Dune 2 - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
38. The Battle of Corrin : Legends of Dune 3 - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
39. Hunters of Dune - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
40. Sandworms Of Dune - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
41. Paul of Dune - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
42. The Winds of Dune - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
43. The Road to Dune - Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
44. A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
45. The Iliad - Homer
46. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
47. The Islamist : Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left - Ed Husain
48. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
49. Saya Pun Melayu - Zaid Ibrahim
50. Blood+, Volume 1 - First Kiss - Ryo Ikehata (NOT recommended)
51. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
52. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
53. Visions of Gerard - Jack Kerouac
54. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
55. The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam - Omar Khayyam
56. Out - Natsuo Kirino
57. Real World - Natsuo Kirino
58. Body 2 Body : A Malaysian Queer Anthology - Jerome Kugan & Pang Khee Teik (Editors)
59. The Qur'an : A Biography - Bruce B. Lawrence
60. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
61. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
62. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
63. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
64. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
65. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

To be continued...

66. 1421 : The Year China Discovered America - Gavin Menzies
67. 1434 : The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance - Gavin Menzies
68. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
69. Under the Roofs of Paris - Henry Miller
70. Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
71. South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
72. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
73. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
74. A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
75. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
76. After Dark - Haruki Murakami
77. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
78. Dance, Dance, Dance - Haruki Murakami
79. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
80. Piercing - Ryu Murakami
81. World From Islam : A Journey Of Discovery Through The Muslim Heartland - George Negus
82. Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama
83. The Audacity of Hope : Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Barack Obama
84. The Diving Pool : Three Novellas - Yoko Ogawa
85. Julie and Julia : My Year of Cooking Dangerously - Julie Powell
86. Keganasan, Penipuan dan Internet : Hegemoni Media Daulah Pecah - Hishamuddin Rais
87. Confessions of an Old Boy : The Dato' Hamid Adventures - Kam Raslan
88. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
89. Salina - A. Samad Said
90. The Centhini Story : The Javanese Journey of Life - Soewito Santoso
91. Desperately Seeking Paradise : Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim - Ziauddin Sardar
92. The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
93. Kisscut - Karin Slaughter
94. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
95. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
96. Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
97. Exit A - Anthony Swofford
98. This Earth of Mankind - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
99. Child of All Nations - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
100. Footsteps - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
101. House of Glass - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
102. The Fugitive - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
103. All That Is Gone - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
104. The Mute's Soliloquy : A Memoir - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
105. The Siege of Mecca : The Forgotten Uprising - Yaroslav Trofimov
106. Fathers and Sons - Ivan S. Turgenev
107. Slaughterhouse 5 (Or, the Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death) - Kurt Vonnegut
108. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
109. Out of It : A Cultural History of Intoxication - Stuart Walton
110. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
111. Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
112. More, Now, Again - Elizabeth Wurtzel

Thanks a bunch and Happy Reading!

Hoho, lajunya Johnny!

Demm byk giler siut!!

Ada sikit pantun,

Pecah kaca pecah muka,
Kalau dah baca mana review nya??

waaa...***laarrii!!

Now that's what I'd call a real WORM! I hope you do go out sometimes, Johnny.

8 more to go... dah nak capai nombor ajaib 120. ;)

sungguh pantas. ;)

I go out during the day. Like normal people.

Pecah kaca
Pecah muka???

Ganas tu. Hehehe...

Saya tak suka tulis review la. Leceh. Macam buat 'book report' je. Tapi kalau nak bagi recommendation, no problem. Anytime.

Then, what happens at night ....?

At night, I cruise the streets of KL to fight crime and chill out.

Oh...
Sometimes I read a bit.

Update


113. Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
114. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
115. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
116. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
117. Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel García Márquez
118. Summer Crossing - Truman Capote
119. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
120. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
121. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

I got to read some lighter stuff for a change. All this heavy stuff is starting to go to my head.

yeayyyy dah melebihi target 120. congrats.

Wooohooo! Thanks Aidura! Almost forgot about that.

Update


122. The Aeneid - Virgil (Robert Fagles translator)
123. Sajak-Sajak Saleh : Poems Sacred and Profane - Salleh Ben Joned
124. Adam's Dream - Salleh Ben Joned
125. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
126. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
127. Middlemarch - George Eliot
128. Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
129. Lanzarote - Michel Houellebecq
130. Time for the Stars - Robert A. Heinlein
131. Fire in the Blood - Irène Némirovsky
132. Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez
133. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
134. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

Only 15 days till the end of the year. I think 135 is a nice round number.

cool Johnny!!!

masih boleh achieve 150 books target ni.

a book per day, maybe. ;)

Maybe for next year's target. I'm still feeling a bit smug that I managed to meet my 120 target.

:p

Final Update for 2009


135. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
136. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
137. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
138. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
139. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Happy New Year folks! and Happy Reading...