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Read 1000 Books

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Added: May 10, 2011
Status: Not completed
Tagged: Books, read, books, Read
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I'll start posting up a list of books I read starting last year. Hopefully in 15 years I'll be done, but at the rate I'm going, probably not...

 

2009

1. The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara

2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

3. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

4. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels

5. One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest by Ken Kelsley

6. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

7. Dracula by Bram Stoker

8. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

9. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway

10. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

11. Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

12. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegout

13. Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami

14. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

15. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

2010

16. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

17. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

18. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky

19. Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger

20. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

21. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemminway

22. Through Muslim Eyes: M. Rashid Rida and the West by Emad Eldin Shahin

2011

23. The Autobiography of Malcolm X told by Alex Haley

24. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper E. Lee

25. Frankenstein by Mary B. Shelley

26. What is the What by Dave Eggers

27. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegout

28.Exile and Kingdom by Albert Camus

29. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

30. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

31. Five Years of my life An Innocent Man in Guantanemo: by Murat Kurnaz

32. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

33. Fields Notes From A Catastrophe Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert

34. Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee

35. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway

36. The Clash of Civilizations: The Invention of China in Modern Warmaking by Lydia H. Liu

37. Theories of Imperialism by Wolfgang J. Mommsen

38. The New American Militarism How America are seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich

39. Theory of The Partisan by Carl Schmitt

40. Presidential War Power by Louis Fisher

41. River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh

42. The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

2012

43. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

44. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

45.Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the ancient Incense Trade

46.Seasons of Migration by Tayeb Salih

47.Dark Princess by W.E.B. Dubois

48.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

49.Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

50.Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

51.An Illuminated Life: Belle Da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Priviledge by Heidi Ardizzone

52. The Trial by Franz Kafka

53. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

54. Burning Bright by John Steinbeck

55.The Hermeneutics of the Subject by Michel Fouault

56. So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman

57. The Government of Self and Others by Michel Foucault

58. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

59. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

60. Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz

61.Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegout

62. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano

63. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

64.Freakanomics by Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

65. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

66. Wild Swans by Jung Chang

This year I'm looking to pick up the pace and read at least 45 books... let's see how that turns out

2013

67. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

68. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

69. It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to be by Paul Arden

70. A Tiger in The Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

71. Sea Of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

72. China in Ten Words by Yu Hua

73. Atonement by Ian McEwan

74. Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

75. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

76. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler

77. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

78.Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 79.Three Cups Of Tea : One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Comments

Khongorzul Ma on Jun 14, 2011

Just started, a book picked by the library summer reading: Shanghai Shadows

Angela Northness on Nov 05, 2011

I have a billion recommendations if you ever need any ideas!

Evie2012 on Dec 29, 2011

You've inspired me with this one- one day to go till 2012 so will start now and see how far I get in a year! Thanks and good luck too :) xx

Scishkabob on Dec 30, 2011

How was Shanghai Shadows?

I would love any recommendations you can give, thanks :)

Evie: 1000 books is no joke, good luck to you as well :D

Elizabeth Adair on Jun 01, 2012

Done! x)

Scishkabob on Aug 15, 2012

Wow you finished 1000? You are amazing!

Shannon bresnahan on Aug 15, 2012

it makes me happy to see that you are reading some really good quality books here :)

InĂªs Tavares on Aug 15, 2012

i read alot too , so if you need any recommendation just let me know (:

Scishkabob on Jan 03, 2013

Ines- Any suggestions are always welcome, what are your favorites?

Shannon- Thanks for the compliment that the books I read are good quality ^_^ Do you have any suggestions?

Diana Chai on Mar 23, 2013

Awesome!

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