read all the books on my reading list

Eragon is done, Five plus one left.

I purchased a few books all at once. I did this partly because I had to purchase the one trilogy as a set, and partly because the others were on sale and I am a sucker for a bargain, so I would like to read all of them and not procrastenate, like I am doing since I am still on book one. The books I have are Eragon (currently reading), Eldest, The Whitby trilogy and the boy in the striped pyjamas. And there is the self help book a friend leant me, If I am so wonderful why am I still single? So I really want to read all of those

Book list:
1. Cormac McCarthy: “The Road”
2. Ernest Hemingway “The Sun Also Rises”
3. Haruki Murakami “Kafka on the Shore”
4. Eric Weiner “Geography of Bliss”
5. Richard Florida “The Rise of the Creative Class” (in progress)
6. Paul Bowles “Sheltering Sky”
7. Henry Miller “Tropic of Cancer”
9. Jhumpa Lahiri “The Namesake”
10.Jhumpa Lahiri “Interpreter of Maladies”
11. Junot Diaz “The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao” (read)
12. Jesse Ball “Samedi the Deafness”
13. Ishmael Beah “A Long Way Gone” (read)
14. Anonymous “Diary of an Oxygen Thief”
15. Don Delillo “Falling Man”
16. Salaman Rushdie “The Satanic Verses”
17. Phillip Roth “American Pastoral”
18. Mark Haddon “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
19. Martin Amis “Einstein’s Monsters”
20. Mario Livio “The Golden Ratio”
21. Jean-Paul Sartre “Nausea”
22. Thomas Pynchon “The Crying of Lot 49”
23. Phillip K. Dick “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
24. Aldous Huxley “Brave New World”
25. Jeffrey Eugenides “Middlesex”
26. Kiran Desai “Inheritance of Loss”
27. Orhan Pamuk “Snow”
28. Ayn Rand “Atlas Shrugged”
29. James Joyce “A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man”
30. Robert Pirsig “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
31. Jonathan Lethem “Motherless Brooklyn”
32. Jose Saramago “Blindness”
33. Kazuo Ishiguro “Never Let Me Go”
34. Nick Hornby “High Fidelity”
35. Denis Johnson “Jesus’ Son”
36. Richard Florida “Who’s Your City?”
37. Daniel Pink “A Whole New Mind”

I don’t get around to it enough! I’m currently reading Secret History, the Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Infinite Jest, and two 33 1/3 books.

I did read most of them, last year, but there were some I just didn’t want to finish or didn’t have time to read. This year I have been doing really well but I don’t think I need to keep this as a goal anymore.

Right now there are 245 books on my list and I’ve read 101 of them. It seems I’ve added more books to the list then I’ve read. A wonderful thing for my progress on completing the goal ;)

Hmm…realistic and depressing play about a household of people and their lives over several years as they become two households and lose and gain members.

I read this long poem of several parts and I wasn’t too impressed, I didn’t have any immediate thoughts upon it. I think I’ll have to Google it before the lecture so that I can get some ideas on it to think about.

Part One:

James Joyce, Ulysses
Eliot, ‘The Waste Land’ (Selected Poems)
Yeats, Selected Poems
Proust, Swann’s Way
Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Breton, Nadja
Auden, Poems
Beckett, Murphy
Nabokov, Speak, Memory
Brecht, Collected Plays, vol.3
Beckett, Endgame
Pinter, The Caretaker
Ionesco, Rhinoceros

Part Two:

Noel Coward, Cavalcade and Still Life
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
H. G. Wells, Ann Veronica
Thomas Hardy, Selected Poems
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That

Both the parts are for courses I’m taking simultaneously so I have to work through them in a equal speed. I’m currently on the second part of Ulysses, which is pretty hard and is taking forever to read. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get all these books from the library and maybe charity shops so I won’t have to spend masses of money on books that will inevitably take up loads of space. I don’t have enough bookshelves!

Three years ago I started writing down titles of books I’d like to read. As for today there are 224 books on it (and it’s still growing) and I’ve read 89 of them. I don’t know if it is even possible to accomplish this goal, but I’ll try.