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updated book list; august 2009

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January
01. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
02. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
03. Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare*
04. Richard III by William Shakespeare
05. Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
06. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
07. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
08. King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
09. All’s Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse*
11. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
12. Death: Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman
13. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy*
14. Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
15. The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
16. Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
17. A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess*
18. Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky & Ammon Shea
19. Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess*
20. Poems of Robert Herrick selected by Winfield Scott
21. The Verneys by Adrian Tinniswood

February
22. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy*
23. The Myth of Deliverance by Northrop Frye
24. Shakespeare’s Bawdy by Eric Partridge
25. The Foundling by Charlotte Brontë
26. The Malcontent by John Marston
27. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
28. The Revenger’s Tragedy by Anonymous
29. Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
30. The Maid’s Tragedy by Beaumont & Fletcher*
31. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*
32. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
33. Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosifal por JK Rowling*
34. Endymion by John Lyly*

March
35. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse*
36. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse*
37. All for Love by John Dryden
38. Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
39. Gorboduc by Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville
40. The Searching Satyrs by Sophocles
41. The Cyclops by Euripides
42. The Persians by Aeschylus

April
43. Ode to the West Wind & Other Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley*
44. Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke*
45. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton*
46. Studies in Shakespeare ed. by Arthur Matthews
47. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
48. The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
49. The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe*
50. Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
51. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
52. Adirondack Ghosts by Lynda Lee Macken
53. The Puritan Way of Death by David Stannard*

May
54. The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
55. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
56. Sacred Origins of Profound Things by Charles Panati
57. The Elizabethan Tragic Hero by Levin Ludwig Shucking
58. Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Garry Wills

June
60. The White Devil by John Webster
61. The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark
62. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
63. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
64. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
65. The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred Kolatch
66. The Second Jewish Book of Why by Alfred Kolatch

July
67. Demian by Hermann Hesse*
68. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë*
69. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
70. Fallen Angels by Tracy Chevalier

August
71. Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne
72. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
73. Animal Farm by George Orwell
74. Living a Jewish Life by Anita Diamant
75. The Crocodile Hunter by Steve and Terri Irwin
76. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
77. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot*
78. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë*
79. House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
80. Tough Questions Jews Ask by Rabbi Edward Feinstein
81. Their Yesterdays by Harold Bell Wright
82. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
83. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy*
84. Death at the Priory by James Ruddick
85. Emma by Jane Austen

Anything with an asterisk was something I particularly enjoyed... although I'm finding it rather hard to remember some of the things I read this winter. Next year I'll be doing 200 books per year because reading only 100 is too easy a goal to reach.

Fifteen more to go! Hurrah!

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  • yellow blue bus gold member
    August 31, 2009
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    wooh goodluck!
    yea 100 doesn't sound so tough.
    I wanna do this too, starting next year. I probably won't be able to read much though.. I rarely get the chance anymore with all my school work and being distracted by ap.
    this summer I read a shitload though.. like on average 3 books a day :\
    my work is quite boring lol
    anywho I'll stop rambling now lol

  • monster.
    August 31, 2009
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    you are officially my reading inspiration, okay?

    i love to read and i do it all the time, just not as many as you, haha! xD
    congrats! you know your going to make the goal.


  • trekkergirl
    August 31, 2009
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    hmmmm.... do you read more than one book at a time? When I was reading a lot I would read several books at a time... and finished them roughly at the same time.

    I also took reading classes in high school... where we did nothing but read. I loved to read.

    I would read oh 5-10 books a week. Course I didn't have all the things that I do now.

    what seems to be your favorite reading material.


    • machiavel
      August 31, 2009
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      wow, classes like that exist? if i had had those available, i would have taken ALL of them

      personally i'm a fan of anything "classic," and i love thomas hardy. what do you prefer to read?


  • divakara
    August 31, 2009
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    Charlotte Bronte related to Emily Bronte?

    • machiavel
      August 31, 2009
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      and anne, yes


      • divakara
        August 31, 2009
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        I see. Wuthering Heights put me to sleep. I have yet to read past the 4th chapter, I believe.


        • machiavel
          August 31, 2009
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          amen. i practically fell asleep when i read wuthering heights four years ago. "the tenant of wildfell hall," by anne, isn't so bad.


  • new born
    August 31, 2009
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    how in the world did you read fourteen books this month? and twenty-one in january?! they've got to be at least, what, two hundred pages? probably more...

    well...you're officially a reading-superhero. ^^"


    • machiavel
      August 31, 2009
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      most of the books, not the plays, were like 300-400 pages? maybe? but i'm a super-fast reader so something like, say, the great gatsby, is done in about an hour or so, if i'm not distracted

      lol haha, i am. want to sew me a reading superhero cape?


      • new born
        August 31, 2009
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        -is in awe-
        I consider myself a fast reader, and a three-hundred page book would probably take me about a week. or at least five days if I don't stop except for bathroom breaks and sleep.

        I would, but I can't sew. >:[
        -draws you one- viola!

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