Just a quick post to mark my 30th book read this year (yay!). *Finally* got round to finishing ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ and I am feeling positively elated, if not a tad bit tired. What a feeling. Here is the run down of the books I’ve read so far for the ’50 Books A Year Challenge’ on goodreads.com:
1. The Twits by Roald Dahl
2. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
3. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
4. A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
5. The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
6. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
7. A Man’s Head by Georges Simenon
8. The Lost Estate by Alain Fournier
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
10. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
11.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Crazy by Bejamin Lebert
13. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
14. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
15. The Calligrapher’s Night by Yasmine Ghata
16. Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
17. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
18. Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney
19. The Electric Church by Jeff Somers
20. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
21. Disquiet by Julia Leigh
22. Push by Sapphire
23. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24. Esther’s Inheritance by Sandor Marai
25. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
26. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
27. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
28. The Book about Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
29. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
That’s the grand total so far… All reviews of these books will be up, I promise, I just have to carry them over from my old blog over at live.com.
Thirty down, twenty more to go! If you have any book recommendations I’d love to hear from you – or if you have any personal reading challenges or book lists.
I put out a challenge at the beginning of the year, 50 books for 2010. I have read just under 30 (23, I think)
I loved ‘The book Thief’ by Marcus Zusack
Hi Tabitha!
You’re doing really well, that’s half way to your target! I wish I could say the same for ‘The Book Thief’. I thought death as a narrator was really good, but Liesel’s story was a bit too detached for me. I’m going to give it another go when I’ve got more time. I’ve also signed up to the 1001 Books To Read Before You Die Challenge. What other challenges are you attempting at the moment?
btw, you’re the first person to comment on my blog. Thanks for dropping by!
My favourites at the moment are Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Safran Foer, Steinbeck, and Catch-22 by Joe Heller. So, I’d recommend those authors, if you’ve not already read their things. (:
And congrats on reaching thirty! Whoa. That is a whole lotta books. A+
Yeah, I’m feeling all smug right about now! The only one from your list I’m familiar with is Steinbeck (obviously!) and Heller’s ‘Catch-22′. What a read!
Salman Rushdie I’ve never had a chance to read, which is strange. Never heard of Foer. Which books do you recommend I begin with?
I’ve only recently gotten into Rushdie myself, upon the recommendation of a very correct friend who said he ‘writes like fireworks.’ So. My first was Midnight’s Children, but I’m really excited to read Fury and The Moor’s Last Sigh (which is her favourite), so I recommend those as well.
For Foer: My favourite is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I love love love it. One of the most beautifully true, beautifully human books I’ve ever read.
I read Summer Crossing by Capote last week. Have you read that already? I guess I’ll recommend it along with the others since it was my most recent enjoyable thing. (I like his other stuff, too. In Cold Blood is incredible if you haven’t already read it. But Summer Crossing is my favourite.)
‘Writes like fireworks’.. I like that! ‘Fury’ was on the library shelf not so long ago, might pick that up after I finish my little pile of ‘TBR’.
I read ‘Summer Crossing’ two years ago. It was beautiful. After that I went onto ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’. Yes, ‘In Cold Blood’ is probably the best too. I’ve become a firm fan of his ever since. I love his gritty style. Thanks to Capote, I also went onto Raymond Chandler. I can’t seem to get enough of crime fiction of late!