Friday, October 31, 2008

Pre-blog reading

I wish I'd started this blog well before 2008.

A few years ago I made a rule to never re-read books, since there is just too much interesting stuff out there. In that vein I've decided to give away a bunch of books that I've dragged through four international moves, but was really only keeping for show. I figured I'd start out by recording those books here and then update this post to record other pre-blog reading if I ever get the inclination.

  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre by Jane Austen
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
  • Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
  • Papillon by Henri Charriere
  • The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher
  • The Miracle Strain by Michael Cordy
  • Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Airframe by Michael Crichton
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
  • Dayworld Breakup by Philip Jose Farmer
  • The diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
  • The Riftwar Saga: Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist
  • The Beach by Alex Garland
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  • Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
  • I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  • Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
  • Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
  • Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
  • The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
  • The English Patiet by Michael Ondaatje
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
  • The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon and Edward Burns
  • Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
  • River God, The Seventh Scroll, Warlock, The Quest by Wilbur Smith
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • War and Peace, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Cloudstreet by Time Winton