updated book list; november 2009

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January
001. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
002. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
003. Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare*
004. Richard III by William Shakespeare
005. Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
006. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
007. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
008. King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
009. All’s Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare
010. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse*
011. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
012. Death: Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman
013. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy*
014. CymbelineThe Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
016. Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
017. A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess*
018. Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky & Ammon Shea
019. Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess*
020. Poems of Robert Herrick selected by Winfield Scott
021. The Verneys by Adrian Tinniswood

February
022. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy*
023. The Myth of Deliverance by Northrop Frye
024. Shakespeare’s Bawdy by Eric Partridge
025. The Foundling by Charlotte Brontë
026. The Malcontent by John Marston
027. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
028. The Revenger’s Tragedy by Anonymous
029. Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
030. The Maid’s Tragedy by Beaumont & Fletcher*
031. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*
032. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
033. Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosifal por JK Rowling
034. Endymion by John Lyly*

March
035. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse*
036. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse*
037. All for Love by John Dryden
038. Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
039. Gorboduc by Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville
040. The Searching Satyrs by Sophocles
041. The Cyclops by Euripides
042. The Persians by Aeschylus

April
043. Ode to the West Wind & Other Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley*
044. Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke*
045. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton*
046. Studies in Shakespeare ed. by Arthur Matthews
047. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
048. The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
049. The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe*
050. Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
051. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
052. Adirondack Ghosts by Lynda Lee Macken
053. The Puritan Way of Death by David Stannard*

May
054. The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
055. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
056. Sacred Origins of Profound Things by Charles Panati
057. The Elizabethan Tragic Hero by Levin Ludwig Shucking
058. Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Garry Wills

June
060. The White Devil by John Webster
061. The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark
062. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys*
063. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
064. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
065. The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred Kolatch
066. The Second Jewish Book of Why by Alfred Kolatch

July
067. Demian by Hermann Hesse*
068. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë*
069. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
070. Fallen Angels by Tracy Chevalier

August
071. Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne
072. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
073. Animal Farm by George Orwell
074. Living a Jewish Life by Anita Diamant
075. The Crocodile Hunter by Steve and Terri Irwin
076. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
077. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot*
078. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë*
079. House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
080. Tough Questions Jews Ask by Rabbi Edward Feinstein
081. Their Yesterdays by Harold Bell Wright*
082. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
083. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy*
084. Death at the Priory by James Ruddick
085. Emma by Jane Austen

September
086. Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Fiction by Pamela Gilbert
087. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class, and Women’s Reading, 1835-1880 by Sally Mitchell*
088. Mighty Opposites: Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety by Robert Grudin
089. Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy by Michael Neill
090. Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
091. Over Her Dead Body by Elizabeth Bronfen*
092. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf*
093. Howards End by E.M. Forster
094. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
095. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
096. Emblems by L.H. Grindon*
097. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn*

October
098. Matter of Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare ed. by Valerie Wayne
099. Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama by Valerie Traub
100. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women by Juliet Dunsinberre
101. The Shakespearean Marriage by Lisa Hopkins
102. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
103. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco*
104. The Complete Poems by Catullus
105. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
106. The Broken Heart by John Ford*
107. A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
108. The Gita Govinda by Jayadeva
109. Sapho and Phao by John Lyly
110. Mother Bombie by John Lyly
111. Campaspe by John Lyly
112. Midas by John Lyly

And some trash that isn’t literature, but will be counted anyway because I should be rewarded for the pain I suffered whilst reading it. Besides, I did count trash like sappy devotionals for mums back in 2007.
113. Pleasured in the Playboy’s Penthouse by Natalie Anderson
114. The Spanish Billionaire’s Pregnant Wife by Lynne Graham
115. Claimed for the Italian’s Revenge by Natalie Rivers
116. Pirate Tycoon, Forbidden Baby by Janette Kenny
117. The Timber Baron’s Virgin Bride by Daphne Clair
118. Crazy about Her Spanish Boss by Rebecca Winters
119. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
120. Your Bed or Mine? by Kate Hoffman

LOL.

November
121. Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Marquez
122. El Diario de Anne Frank (en español) by Anne Frank
123. The Science of Middle Earth by Henry Gee
124. Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
125. The Demanding Dead by Edith Wharton*
126. Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Marquez
127. Ancrene Wisse by some mediaeval person*
128. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
129. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
130. Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy ed. by Tom Paulin*
131. Metaphysical Poetry ed. by Colin Burrow*
132. Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
133. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
134. Adam Bede by George Eliot
135. Vathek by William Beckford
136. The Missionary by Sydney Owenson*
137. The Corsair by Lord Byron

December
138. The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
139. Sins of Desire by someone I can't remember
140. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn*
141. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
142. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence*
143. Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate
144. The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
145. Power of the Praying Parent by Stormie Omartian
146. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole*
147. Women in Love by DH Lawrence*
148. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith*
149. Mankind by some anonymous morality play author
150. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Anything with an asterisk is something that I enjoyed and would love to reread.

I'm going to reach 150 this year and that's it. It's lazy, I know, to stop at such a low number, but I'll need a little bit of reprieve before I attempt 2010's goal: one book for every day of the year. In 2011 I'll do 500, in 2012 I'll do 750, and if the world hasn't ended by 2013, I want to go for 1000. And next year, if I don't get around to it this year, I have to read Middlemarch and Vanity Fair because I keep putting both of them off.

...Although I may run out of stuff to read that's of actual literary merit by 2011. If I have to read Philippa Gregory and Dan Brown novels to meet the requirement, I might have to jump in front of a train. That stuff is PAINFUL, I tell you. So, if you have any favourites you've not mentioned to me and/or want to let me know what you're reading right now (whether or not you think I'd like it), do share! I'll read in English, Spanish, and French.