Progress, or something...

A list for 2009:

This is list of books I drew up, which I definitely want to read this year - as part of letusread. I keep reading lots of other stuff in between though. Distractions!

In bold, are the ones I have started reading but then stopped for whatever reason. (I tend to read many books at the same time, as you can see…)
The struck out are those I have finished. At the bottom are other, non-list books which I’ve finished reading.

A list of books I plan to read in 2009:

  1. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
  2. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
  3. Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton
  4. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  5. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus (About a quarter of the way through this. It’s taking me ages to read because I am finding it hard to understand parts and therefore having to re-read. Plus I get too frustrated with reading it so slowly that I start / finish reading other books instead. I’ll finish one day though…)
  6. The Plague - Albert Camus
  7. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
  8. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  10. The Collector - John Fowles
  11. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
  12. Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin
  13. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
  14. Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  15. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  16. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  17. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  18. Ascent - Jed Mercurio
  19. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
  20. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  21. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  22. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  23. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  24. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  25. Old School - Tobias Wolff
  26. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates

Random other books (not on the list) which I have finished reading:

  1. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
  2. Slumberland - Paul Beatty
  3. Metropole - Ferenc Karinthy
  4. Fup - Jim Dodge
  5. Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie
  6. Pastoralia - George Saunders
  7. The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin
  8. Why Are You Doing This? - Jason
  9. Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White
  10. The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie
  11. After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
  12. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  13. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

As you can see, I am quite rubbish at reading what is actually on the list. Working in a bookshop is kinda distracting though… too many books!