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Currently Reading (or Listening):
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Books Finished 2013 (r=reread)
Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts. Season One by Julian Fellowes
In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1, Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (r)
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
Suite Française by Irene Némirovsky
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas (2013 Read-Along)
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
The Black Box by Michael Connelly
Books Finished 2012 (r=reread)
Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Read-Along)
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger (Audio book)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (revisit thru audiobook)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (audiobook)
Pride and Prejudice (Revisit thru audiobook)
The Hundred-foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Read-Along)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Audiobook)
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway (Audiobook)
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
The Graduate (Screenplay by Buck Henry)
Everything in This Country Must by Colum McCann
A Heart for Freedom by Chai Ling
Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott (audiobook)
Half A Life by V. S. Naipaul
Life Itself by Roger Ebert (audiobook)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (audiobook)
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
Death Comes To Pemberley by P. D. James
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
A Version of the Truth (audiobook) by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
Books Read 2011 (r=Reread)
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Walking On Water by Madeleine L’Engle
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (r)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
In Praise of Doubt by Peter Berger and Anton Zijderveld
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Up At the Villa by Wm. S. Maugham (r)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
.The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch
A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz
Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Archivist by Martha Cooley
Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos (r)
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle, Part 1 & Part 2.
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
‘Adjustment Team’ (short story) by Philip K. Dick
Room by Emma Donoghue
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved The British Monarchy by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (Chinese translation)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Books Read 2010 (r = reread)
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (r)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
A Very Private Gentleman (The American) by Martin Booth
Goldengrove by Francine Prose
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! by Kenzaburo Oe
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Somewhere Inside by Laura Ling & Lisa Ling
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark Noll
The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Transcendental style in film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Paul Schrader
Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
Reframing Theology and Film edited by Robert K. Johnston
But is it art? by Cynthia Freeland
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Living By Fiction by Annie Dillard
Art for God’s Sake by Philip Graham Ryken
Invisible by Paul Auster
What Is Stephen Harper Reading? By Yann Martel
Up At The Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
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Arti’s TBR Beast:
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson
The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema by David Bordwell (Online)
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison
As If By Accident by Julie Johnston
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Day of Empire by Amy Chua
The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
Self by Yann Martel
Humble Apologetics by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Plus all the titles found here and here and here.
Books read 2009:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (iPhone Stanza)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Irrational Season by Madeleine L’Engle
A Third Testament by Malcolm Muggeridge
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (iPhone Stanza)
The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings by Amy Tan
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy by Maya Slater
Running In The Family by Michael Ondaatje
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Reel Spirituality: theology and film in dialogue by Robert K. Johnston
Poets’ Corner compiled by John Lithgow
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Associate by John Grisham
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Away by Amy Bloom
Indignation by Philip Roth
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Books read 2008:
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
The Bible and The New York Times by Fleming Rutledge
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Two Guys Read Jane Austen by Steve Chandler and Terrence N. Hill
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen, A Penguin Life by Carol Shields
Cassandra & Jane: A Jane Austen Novel by Jill Pitkeathley
Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
The Savior by Eugene Drucker
Up Till Now by William Shatner
Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
A Walk With Jane Austen by Lori Smith
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Please write your thoughts when you read Tomalin’s biography of Austen. I’ve read her bios of Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft and found her to have a pretty strong bias, so I’ve hestitated reading her bio of Austen.
Robin: It’ll probably be a while before I can get to it…but it’s on my list and I do intend to plough through it one of these days. Thanks for stopping by.
Hi, Arti, I enjoyed your review of Mamma Mia! The audience did clap especially loudly when Streep jumped on the mattress, appreciating the limberness it required. I’ve started a blog for my book club (which is almost 30 years old….although I haven’t been in it since the beginning), so your list of books is very much appreciated. The address is http://www.blatherblog.wordpress.com I’m going to slooooooooowly list the books from each year on that blog. I got to your blog when I saw you stopped in mine to see More Mama Mia! I love the automatically generated feature.
Catherine: From your description of your blog on your “About” page, sounds like this is one swell group… I’m honored to be on your “reference” list. I’ll check back to see more of your reviews in the days ahead. Yes, this auto generated feature sure is helpful in linking us strangers on the blogosphere. Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comment!
Arti
Reading Like a Writer by Prose is really good, Arti. Don’t put that off much longer.
I’m glad you worked out the piracy issue, scary stuff for us bloggers.
I put many hours at time into my posts also.
Jennifer
Jennifer, I’ll definitely move it up on my TBR list!
Arti
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I have recently been captured by Anita Diamant’s _The Red Tent_, which brings considerable anthropological insight into the sort of society capable of the beastliness shown in Genesis 34. I have long suspected that the male chauvinism of the Old Testament was probably in response to the power of female deities, and this book flatters my suspicions. May I recommend it to your attention?
Don,
Thanks for your recommendation. From what you said about it, it certainly sounds interesting.
Arti
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Can’t wait to read your review of Saffran Foer’s book.
By the way, this list is quite impressive. You’re inspiring me to read more.
Welcome Andi! Since I’m a slow reader, I don’t have many titles here, but I choose my reads carefully since I can’t finish that fast. I’m not sure whether I’ll write a post on Foer’s book, but, maybe when the film comes out, I just might, comparing the two. If you’re interested… I’ve compiled a list of “Books Into Films”, movie adaptations of literary works that will come out this year or next. Here’s the link: http://rippleeffects.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/upcoming-books-into-films/
Thanks for stopping by!
Arti,
I love your choice in books and am really pleased to have discovered your blog – look forward to visiting often, You wrote a fantastic review of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, I have just finished it but want to read it again straight away, so much to savour it needs a second reading I think..
Tracey,
Welcome! I’d love to hear your opinion of any book you find on my blog. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is one excellent read… you’re welcome to share your view. You’ve a wonderful book blog there yourself at A Book Sanctuary. As you can see I’ve linked your site on my Blogroll. Hope this is the beginning of some regular mutual visiting!