read 30 books in 2009

“Three Sisters” by Anton Chekov
“The Transformation” by Franz Kafka
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera

Is it ironic that school is actually giving me less time to read books?

“Candide” by Voltaire

in

FRENCH!

When I first read this, I liked it, but I didn’t really understand it. I really enjoyed reading it a second time around and learning more about Voltaire’s involvement in Liebnizian optimism. It was cool.

I did this for French Lit class.

24. “Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen

20. “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
21. “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner” by Bich Nguyen
22. “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman
23. “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein

19. “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides

EXCELLENT

18. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

17. “Black Hole” by Charles Burns

Fricking.
WEIRD.

16. “Jeeves in the Morning” by P.G. Wodehouse

15. “When You Are Engulfed in Flames” by David Sedaris

11. “1984” by George Orwell
12. “Jurassic Park” by Micheal Crichton
13. “The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime” by Mark Haddon
14. “Sphere” by Micheal Crichton