2006-12-31 - 18:05 EST
I tried my hand at the 100 Books Club again this year, and once again I failed, but I did slightly better than last year. Here's the list:
1) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
2) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
3) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
4) Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India by Diana Eck
5) Darkwitch Rising by Sara Douglass
6) Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
7) Not Monsters: Analyzing the Stories of Child Molesters by Pamela D. Schultz
8) The Isle of Glass by Judith Tarr
9) The Country Wife by William Wycherley
10) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
11) Black-Eyed Susans / Midnight Birds (Ed. Mary Helen Washington)
12) Moll Flanders by Daniel Defore
13) The Golden Horn by Judith Tarr
14) Beloved by Toni Morrison
15) The Hounds of God by Judith Tarr
16) Children of the Atom by Wilmar H. Shiraz
17) The Sword and the Flute by David R. Kinsley
18) Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
19) Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer
20) The Old English Baron / The Castle of Otranto (Ed. Laura L. Runge)
21) Palkhi: An Indian Pilgrimage by D.B. Mokashi
22) She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
23) Beyond the Hanging Wall by Sara Douglass
24) After Rain by William Trevor
25) Short Stories by Edith Wharton
26) Cult of the Goddess: Social and religious changes in a Hindu temple by James J. Preston
27) Journey Through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna by David L. Haberman
28) Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
29) Beholder's Eye by Julie E. Czerneda
30) Meetings with the Archangel by Stephen Mitchell
31) Pilgrim by Sara Douglass
32) Year's Best SF 6 (Ed. David G. Hartwell)
33) The Spiritual Quixote, v1 by Richard Graves
34) The Spiritual Quixote, v2 by Richard Graves
35) What Does the Bible Really Teach? (Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society)
36) The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr
37) The Witch of Ravensworth by George Brewer
38) The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
39) Alamut by Judith Tarr
40) Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon by Jane Austen
41) Summer by Edith Wharton
42) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
43) I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
44) The Glances: Songs of Soul-Meeting by Rumi
45) McTeague by Frank Norris
46) The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
47) The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lillian Jackson Braun
48) Blood and Water by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
49) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Stern
50) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
51) The Complete Poems 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
52) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
53) The Professor's House by Willa Cather
54) The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud
55) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
56) Plath (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
57) Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
58) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
59) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
60) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
61) Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
62) Avaryan Rising by Judith Tarr
63) Dreaming Pachinko by Isaac Adamson
64) The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
65) Loved Into Submission: a dark, existential farce by Christopher Baldwin
66) The Crippled Angel by Sara Douglass
Totals: 66 books and 19,757 pages.
Favorite Book: Elmer Gantry
Favorite Author [well, poet]: Elizabeth Bishop
Number of Books Read for Classes: 31
Number of Books Read for my Thesis: 5
Number of Books Read for Me: 30
Book I had to Read Twice in the Same Edition, so I Could In All Honesty Only Count it Once: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Least Favorite Book: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Have a Happy New Year, everyone!
