75 Books...More or Less! discussion

I read 65 books last year (http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...), so maybe it's time to raise the bar and give it a taste of a real challenge :) Or simply see where it takes me - it's still more about reading than about results, although competing with yourself is always tempting.

Last year was extremely fruitful for me: I discovered several great authors and read a few books that made it to my favorites list. Even more importantly, I generally I enjoyed the majority of my reads. The only thing I've missed over the last few months was good academic nonfiction, mostly ethnographies and anthro/social sciences theory, so I'm going to try and read more of those now, even though I'm not in college anymore.

Oh wait, I actually am in college - it's just that I work there this time :)

Choo-choo!

1) January 4 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
2) January 7 - Квест. Роман-компьютерная игра by Boris Akunin (Rus)
3) January 8 - Slaughterhouse 5: Or, the Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
4) January 29 - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
5) January 31 - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee*
6) February 12 - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter*
7) February 18 - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Rus translation)
8) February 19 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
9) February 26 - The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk (Rus translation)
10) March 5 - Emma by Jane Austin
11) March 7 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Rus translation)
12) March 11 - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Rus translation)*
13) March 13 - Polyglot: How I Learn Languages by Kato Lomb (nonfiction; language learning, interpreting)
14) March 20 - The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Rus translation)
15) March 21 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Rus translation)
16) March 30 - Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader (nonfiction; anthro, sexuality)
17) April 3 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
18) April 7 - Emily the Strange: The Lost Days by Rob Reger
19) April 13 - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf*
20) April 23 - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
21) May 08 - The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
22) May 15 - Beloved by Toni Morrison*
23) June 06 - White Teeth by Zadie Smith
24) June 30 - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg (Rus translation)*
25) July 17 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Rus translation)*
26) July 24 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman/S.Morgenstern
27) July 27 - Radio Murakami by Haruki Murakami (Rus translation)
28) August 21 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
29) August 24 - 1Q84, #1 by Haruki Murakami (Rus translation)
30) August 28 - 1Q84, #2 by Haruki Murakami (Rus translation)
31) September 5 - Дом, в котором... by Mariam Petrosyan (Rus)
32) September 18 - 1984 by George Orwell*
33) September 24 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
34) September 30 - G. by John Berger
35) October 1 - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote*
36) October 5 - Kitchen by Banana Yosimoto (Rus translation)
37) October 20 - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Rus translaton; non-fiction, running and memoirs)
38) October 30 - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (Rus translation; reread from long time ago)*
39) November 9 - Snow by Orhan Pamuk
40) November 12 - Amsterdam by Ian McEwan*
41) November 22 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Joan Rowling
42) December 14 - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Rus translation)
43) December 17 - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes*
44) December 19 - Дар Шаванахолы by Max Frei*

What a great start to the year! Some great reading on the list so far. I can't wait to see what's next.

Christy wrote: "What a great start to the year! Some great reading on the list so far. I can't wait to see what's next."

Christy, yes, I am curious myself :)

Summary: 44 books, 15 of them in Russian, 3 of them non-fiction.
Discoveries of the year: Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Milan Kundera, J.M. Coetzee.
Re-discovery of the year: Haruki Murakami.

Darya, I had fun looking through your list!

Andrea, yes, it was a good reading year even though I haven't even approached my goal.