30 December 2008

Books I've Read This Year

For class:
  • The Art of Fiction - John Gardner
  • The Night in Question - Tobias Wolf
  • Notes of a Red Guard - Eduard Dune (in translation)
  • The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (in translation)
  • The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (in translation)
  • Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov (in translation)
  • The Exchange and Other Stories - Ivan Tirfonov (in translation)
  • Stories from a Siberian Village - Vasily Shukshin (in translation)
  • Hurramabad - Andrei Volos (in translation)
  • Night of Denial - Ivan Bunin (in translation)
  • Constructions of Devience - Patricia Adler, ed.
  • Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold

For fun:
  • Firefly Rain - Richard Dansky
  • Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
  • Grow Up, America! - Michael J. Hurd
  • I am Legend - Richard Matheson
  • Wit's End - Karen Joy Fowler
  • A Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin
  • Sin in the Second City - Karen Abbott (nonfiction)
  • The Baum Plan for Financial Independence - John Kessel
  • The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  • The Fairy Rebel - Lynn Reid Banks
  • The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
  • The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
  • The Spirit Line - David and Aimee Thurlo
  • Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
  • Lincoln's Dreams - Connie Willis
  • Neuromancer - William Gibson
  • Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z - Debra Weinstein
  • The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch and Jeff Zaslow (nonfiction)
  • Redwall - Brian Jacques
  • Chess for Dummies - James Eade
  • Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
  • The Mind Has No Sex?: the Origins of Women in Modern Science - Londa Schiebinger (nonfiction)
  • The Ethical Slut - Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt
  • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Descent of Woman - Ealine Morgan
  • Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer
  • Uglies, Pretties, and Specials - Scott Westerfield
  • The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  • Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
  • Pagan Christmas: an Ethnobotany - Christian Ratsch and Claudia Muller-Ebeling (nonfiction in translation)

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