Books for 2010

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In progress:
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coatzee
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak



1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
3. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
6. Othello by William Shakespeare
7. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
8. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
9. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
10. The Misanthrope by Molière
11. Phaedra by Jean Racine
12. King Lear by William Shakespeare
13. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
14. The Country Wife by William Wycherley
15. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
16. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
17. The Rover by Aphra Behn
18. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
19. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
20. The Man of Mode by George Etherege
21. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
22. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
23. The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni
24. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
25. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
26. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
27. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
28. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
29. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvis
30. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
31. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
32. Legacy by Susan Kay
33. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
34. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (for the second time this year, but whatever)
35. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
36. Herzog by Saul Bellow


(in no particular order; often revised or added to; some rereads)
North by Seamus Heaney
Portrait with Keys by Ivan Vladislavic
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

Goal for November & December: The entirety of Shakespeare's comedies, not including the two I have already read (The Winter's Tale and The Tempest).
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Taming of the Shrew
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Troilus and Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Pericles of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text
Cymbeline King of Britain
Cardenio: A Brief Account
The Two Noble Kinsmen
That's seventeen plays over the course of roughly eight weeks, or about two plays per week. I BELIEVE I CAN DO THIS.