Here’s my list of books and parts of books read so far. I welcome recommedations for all the missing years! Oh, I have so far to go, but I’ve set no deadline, and if I die at the age of 100 I still have over 68 years left to read. Maybe I should break this down into decades…
2001 – V.S. Naipaul : Half a Life
2000 – Gao Xingjian : One Man’s Bible
1999 – Gunter Grass : 10 pages of My Century and I couldn’t read any further.
1998 – Jose Saramago: Baltasar and Blimunda (It took me 2 years to get past the middle, but finally getting to the end was a great reward.)
1995 – Seamus Heaney : I loved the poem about Blackberries but haven’t found an anthology for sale!
1994 – Kenzaburo Oe : I’m currently reading The Silent Cry
1993 – Toni Morrison : Beloved, Jazz
1983 – William Golding : Lord of the Flies (my highschool reading counts, too!)
1982 – Gabriel Garcia Marquez : One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Of Love and Other Demons
1969 – Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot
1956 – Juan Ramon Jimenez : Platero and I (I bought a 50 cent paperback of this book long before I started this project and have read about a quarter of it. The reason I haven’t finished it isn’t because the book is bad. On the contrary, it is so pretty that it makes me stop and dream after only a couple pages. It also makes me want to learn Spanish)
1957 – Albert Camus : The Stranger
1954 – Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell To Arms, and some of The Sun Also Rises
1946 – Hermann Hesse : Demian, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, The Journey to the East, some of Gertrude, and a small book of poems.
1930 – Sinclair Lewis : a couple chapters of The Jungle
