read 100 books in 2007

I’ve read The Chosen and didn’t really enjoy it, so I was a little reluctant to read this. I found Asher’s story to be more engaging and finished in two days. It’s a good book, especially if you make or have an appreciation for art.

35. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
36. The Tao of Pooh by I Have No Idea
37. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
38. Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare
39. Atonement by Ian McEwan
40. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
41. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
42. Emma by Jane Austen (finally! Audio books are exhausting, but I love them)
43. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Next up, My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. Hm, I really should start my summer reading, though…

33. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
34. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

I liked both. I’m in love with Evelyn Waugh, so that might have something to do with it. Both were rather action-packed (relatively…) so it was a fun change of pace. What next, what next? :)

31. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (thank God that’s over with)
32. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (interesting change of pace)

I read The Invisible Man earlier and didn’t like it much, but I found this more enjoyable. And it’s short, so can’t complain much. It was a nice break from Anna Karenina (160 pages left…so close).

23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
24. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
25. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
26. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
27. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (dear God, that’s hard to spell)
28. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
29. The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

Ha, my books just keep getting shorter and shorter…I will catch up!

1. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
3. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
4. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
5. Sula by Toni Morrison
6. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
7. Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous
8. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood
9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
10. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
11. To Live by Yu Hua
12. 1984 by George Orwell
13. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
14. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
15. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
16. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
19. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
20. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
21. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
22. Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov

I’m a little behind, but that’s what summer is for.