Read more

So I started this goal almost two years ago, and since then I’ve read a lot more then I did before. I can’t believe I read so many books! And it’s so much fun!
Since januari 2007 I read:

Memoirs of a geisha – Arthur Golden (2008)
Captain Corelli’s Mandoline – Louis de Bernieres (2008)
First among sequels – Jasper Fforde (2008)
I capture the castle – Dodie Smith (2008)
The boys from Brazil – Ira Levin (2008)
The big over easy- Japser Fforde (2008)
To kill a mockingbird – Harper Lee (2008)
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (2008)
Something rotten – Jasper Fforde (2008)
A great and terrible beauty – Libba Bray (2008)
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (2008)
Meisje met negen pruiken (girl with nine wigs) – Sophie van der Stap (2008)
The well of lost plots – Jasper Fforde (2008)
My tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom (2008)
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte (2008)
Shopaholic and baby – Sophie Kinsella (2008)
Anne of green gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery (2008)
Lost in a good book – Jasper Fforde (2008)
Atonement – Ian McEwan (2008)
The pillars of the earth – Ken Follet (2008)
Harry Potter and the deathly hollows – J K Rowling (2007)
Labyrinth – Kate Mosse (2007)
PS: I love you – Cecilia Ahern (2007)
A prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving (2007
The shipping news – E. Annie Proulx (2007)
Episodes – Kees van Kooten (2007)
The boy in the striped pyjamas – John Boyne (2007)
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (2007)
Slaughterhouse five – Kurt Vonnegut (2007)
About a boy – Nick Hornby (2007)
Night – Elie Wiesel (2007)
The book thief – Markus Zusak (2007)
The wizard of Oz – Frank L. Baum (2007)
The thirteenth tale – Diane Setterfield (2007)
One hundred years of solitude – Gabriel García Márquez (2007)
So many books so little time – Sara Nelson (2007)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (2007)
The secret garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (2007)
The historian – Elisabeth Kostova (2007)
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde (2007)
The five people you meet in heaven – Mitch Albom (2007)
The timetraveller’s wife– Audrey Niffenegger (2007)
The kiterunner –Khaled Hosseini (2007)
Special topics in calamity physics – Marisha Pessl (2007)
Mathilda – Roald Dahl (2007)

Currently reading Eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams and little women by Louisa May Alcott.

This year I put my reading on a higher place in my priority list. And it worked! I finished 15 books since january 2007. That’s more than I would read in year. I am trying to read a couple of classics now and then because my education on literature has failed totally in my opinion. In English class in highschool we were only taught the language itself and not its literature. We had to read a few English books ourselves, but we could choose anything we liked. So I will try to continue to fill my gap in knowledge of literature.

Since january I have read the following books:

The time travellers wife – Audrey Niffenegger
The kiteruner – Khaled Hosseini
Special topics in calamity physics – Marisha Pessl
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The five people you meet in heaven – Mitch Albom
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
The secret garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
So many books so little time – Sara Nelson
The historian – Elisabeth Kostova
One hundred years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The thirteenth tale – Diane Setterfield
The wizard of Oz – Frank L. Baum
The book thief – Markus Zusak
Night – Elie Wiesel
About a boy – Nick Hornby

Currently reading: A prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving,
Slaughterhouse five – Kurt Vonnegut and Wicked – Gregory Maguire.