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January 03, 20062005 Book List
Here's what I read in 2005:
The Intelligent Businessman’s Guide to Japan, by Jon P. Alston
Imaginary Homelands, by Salman Rushdie
When the Sleeper Wakes, by H.G. Wells *
Japanese Short Stories, by Ryunoskue Akutagawa
The Armada, by Garrett Mattingly
The Image and other stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Izu Dancer and Other Stories, by Yasunari Kawabata & Yasushi Inoue
The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount, by Italo Calvino
Why Call Them Back From Heaven?, by Clifford D. Simak
A Dry White Season, by André Brink
Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki *
Five Women Who Loved Love, by Ihara Saikaku *
Vita Sexualis, by Mori Ogai *
Rashomon and other stories, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa *
Naomi, by Junichiro Tanizaki *
Confessions of a Mask, by Yukio Mishima *
The Waiting Years, by Fumiko Enchi *
Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima
Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov
The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Open Marriage, by O’Neill
The Floating Opera, by John Barth
The End of the Road, by John Barth
The Choirboys, by Joseph Wambaugh
Dictionary of the Khazars (female), by Milorad Pavic
Japan: An Interpretation, by Lafacadio Hearn
Too Late the Phalarope, by Alan Paton
Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto
No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier, by Diana & William Preston
The Kite Runner, by Kaled Hosseini
Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
The Box Man, by Kobo Abe
Myths to Live By, by Joseph Campbell
Anything with an asterisk after it was something I had to read for class. Looking back, I didn't read quite as much as I would have liked. I'll chalk it up partially to juggling work and school for the first half of the year. Let's see if I can't do better in 2006...
Posted by patrick at January 3, 2006 02:13 AM
CommentsHey, neighbor-from-the-past! I have to confess, I've been checking in with your blog now and then when Pecos Way nostalgia strikes... I love hearing about what you've been up to. My three screaming meemies keep me running all day, so it's nice to step out of the chaos into someone else's life for a minute or two.
Oh, and is 36 books a year all you can do? Try 4359 on for size- never mind they had 7 pages each with 4 words to a page and I read each one 63 times. Babar, anyone?
Jay
Posted by: Juliet Salbato at January 3, 2006 09:51 PM
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