ver since my failure to complete a couple of challenges last year, I gather I’m too much of a random reader to commit to and abide by any challenges. As such this page will consist of a reading list for 2008 (that is subject to changes whenever) and a list of books I have read in 2008, as some form of record.
Reading List
- Mosaic, Soheir Khashoggi
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Reading Challenges
- Color: My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
- Animal: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
- First name: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- Place: China Lake, Meg Gardiner
- Weather Event: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- Plant: Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens (overlap with WIAN)
- Prince Caspian, C.S.Lewis (overlap with Royalty Rules)
- Queen of the Damned, Ann Rice (overlap with Royalty Rules)
- (undecided)
Books I read in 2008
- Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
- South of Border, West of Sun, Haruki Murakami
- Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
- The Pilo Family Circus, Will Elliott
- The Tent, Margaret Atwood
- Twilight Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- The ABC Murder, Agatha Christie
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
- Michaelangelo’s Notebook, Paul Christopher
- Murder in the Mews, Agatha Christie
- The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly
- PS, I Love You, Cecelia Ahern
- With Love and Irony, Lin Yutang
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
- Dark Fire, C.J. Sansom
- Splintered Icon, Bill Napier
- China Lake, Meg Gardiner
- Bones to Ashes, Kathy Reichs
- Grotesque, Natsuo Kirino
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- American Gods, Neil Gaiman
- The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure, Adam Williams
- The Expected One, Kathleen McGowan
- The Alexandria Link, Steve Berry
- Fatal Voyage, Kathy Reichs
- The Templar Legacy, Steve Berry
- The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
- The Story of a Nobody, Anton Chekhov
- Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
- Seven Ancient Wonders, Matthew Reilly
- My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
- The 6 Sacred Stones, Matthew Reilly
- Poison in Athens, Margaret Doody
- The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
- Ward No. 6 and other stories, Anton Chekhov
- The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett (THIS FUCKING ROCKS.)
- The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold
- Don’t Read This Book If You Are Stupid, Tibor Fischer
- How I Became Stupid, Martin Page
- Voyage to the End of the Room, Tibor Fischer
ah, i can’t compete! i only read 12 so far this year, damn.
(hehe, excuse the kiasu moment. i thought i read a lot!)
Don’t worry, kiasu-ism is encouraged in your (and my) country!
do you like the douglas adams’s books? i can’t stand the hitchhiker one, i don’t get it at all!
and where do you get all these books to read? buy or borrow from the library?
Some I’d buy, some I’d borrow from the library. Hm, I quite like the first book of the Hitchhiker’s series, because I watched the movie first.
ooh, have you got your copy of flowers for algernon? my favourite science fiction book. every time read sure cry one!! very sad…
Nope, planning to steal a copy from a friend or something. Ha!