Monday, September 19, 2005

Books I read in 2005

So far I have read 77 books.
I shall update this post regularly to keep track on my reading.

Here goes the list:

"Blue Suburbia" by Laurie Lico Albanese(good
"Ladies` Detective Agency NO.1" by Alexander M.Smith(good light reading) "My Brother, for example" by Uwe Timm(very good)
"A Gathering Light" by Jennifer Donnelly (good).
"The Curious Incident with A Dog at Night-Time" by Mark Haddon (very good!)
"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend (good)
"Simon Rattle-The Making of A Conductor"(non-fiction,very interesting for musicians)
"The Time Traveller`s Wife"by Audrey Niffenegger (excellent!)
"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker (very good)
"84 Charing Cross Road" by Helene Hanff (good)
"Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson (good)
"Notes On A Scandal" by Zoe Heller (very good)
"Fruit of the Lemon" by Andrea Levi (not bad)
"Dance Dance Dance" by Haruki Murakami (excellent!)
"The Light of The Day" by Graham Swift (average)
"Zelda`s Cut" by Philippa Gregory (excellent)
"Perfectly Correct" by Philippa Gregory (very good)
"If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things" by Jon Mcgregor (very good)
"True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman (very good!)
"All the Finest Girls" by Alexandra Sexton (average)
"Fallen Angels" by Tracey Chevalier (very good)
"Mission London" by Alek Popov
"The Storyteller`s Daughter" by Saira Shah
"Around the World in 80 days" by Michael Palin
"English Correspondence" by Janet Davey
"The Amateur Marriage" by Anne Tyler
"The "Good-luck" Shop" by Goran Petrovich
"Sputnik Sweetheart" by Haruki Murakami(wonderful)
Bill Bryson`s African Diary
"Lighthousekeeping" by Jeanette Winterson (good)
"Not a Word from Gurb" by Eduardos Mendessa (good)
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn (good)
"The Pilot`s Wife" by Anita Shreve (good)
"Post Office" by Charles Bukowski
"The Heirs"(Kikundji) by Yukio Mishima
"Italian Education" by Tim Parks
"Happenstance" by Carol Shields
"The Pianist`s Daughter" by Timothy Findli
"The Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields
"Spilling Clarence" by Anne Ursu (good)
"Losing Julia" by Johnattan Hull (good)
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris (very good)
"Thinking in Pictures" by Temple Grandin (very good)
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (good)
"The Virgin`s Lover" by Philippa Gregory (very good)
"The Namesake' by Jhumpa Lahiri (very good)
"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (excellent)
The Piano Teacher by Jelfriede Jelinek (didn`t like it)
A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham (good)
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (very good)
"The Book of Proper Names" by Amelie Nothomb (good)
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (good)
"Any Human Heart" by William Boyd
"Not On The Label" by Felicity Lawrence
"The Third Secret" by Steve Barry
"The Star of The Sea" by Joseph O` Connor (good)
"Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir" by Abbas Milani
"Cry The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton (very good)
"Running With Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs (average)
"Where or When" by Anita Shreve
"Sezon za lov na divi kuchki" ot Rodger Dojh
"The Distinguished Guest" by Sue Miller
"The Way The Crow Flies" by Anne Marie McDonald (very good)

"Scrumbler" by William Warthon (good)
"Twelve seconds of Silence" by Silvio Blatter (very good)
"Mary Called Magdalene" by Margaret George (excellent)
"Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress" by Dai Sijie (excellent)
"This Way To The Gas,Ladies and Gentleman" by Tadeusz Borowski (good)
"Without Blood" by Alessandro Baricco (good)

"Coffee, Tea, Or Me?"- Trudy Baker/Rachel Jones (average, not bad)
"South of the Border,West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami
"Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of The World" by Haruki Murakami
"Natural Novel" by Georgi Gospodinov

"Street in Marrakech: A Personal Encounter with the Lives of Moroccan Women" by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (very good)
"Unless" by Carol Shields (good)
"The Historian" by Elisabeth Kostova (very good)
"The Spiral Staircase" by Karen Armstrong (very good )

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