50 Book Challenge for 2011

[rox_yr_sox]

1. Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
2. Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours by Princess Michael of Kent
3. Haiku: Poetry Ancient and Modern: An Anthology by Jackie Hardy [Ed]
4. Art of the Soviets: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in a One-Party State, 1917-1992 by Bown & Taylor [Eds]
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
6. Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two by Vladimir Paperny
7. The Edifice Complex: how the rich and powerful shape the world by Deyan Sudjic
8. God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
9. Plans, pragmatism and People: The legacy of Soviet planning for today's cities by R. Antony French
10. Quicksilver (Vol.1 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
11. The Confusion (Vol.2 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
12. The System of the World (Vol.3 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
13. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
14. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
15. Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
16. Tete-a-Tete: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley
17. Pandora by Anne Rice
18. The Executioner by Joseph de Maistre
19. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
20. Conversations With Students by Rem Koolhaas
21. Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
22. Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
23. Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
24. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
25. Utopics: Spatial Play by Louis Marin
26. The Politics of Utopia: A Study in Theory and Practice by Barbara Goodwin & Keith Taylor
27. The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles by Michael Wood
28. Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
29. The Gentle Art of Persuasion: How to Argue Effectively by Chester Porter QC
30. Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love by Andrew Schaffer
31. 100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists Selected by Alex Danchev
32. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 33. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
34. Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey
35. Darkness Rising by Frank Tallis
36. Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt 37. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
38. The Cat Inside by William S. Burrroughs
39. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
40. Selected Poems by Bertolt Brecht
41. The Poems by Catullus
42. Imagist Poetry by assorted poets (edited by Peter Jones)
43. The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney
44. Wait For Me: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire (currently reading)

 

[Annu]

43. The fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
44. Breaking away by Anna Gavalda

It took so long to finish The fall of Hyperion but I finally did it. I hope I can finish my other long term project book too, it really don't help to read others in same time though. The book was actually much better than I remembered and now, I can move better parts of the serie. And Anna, I just love her writing and this is one of my favorite books of hers. I really like how she writes so amazing families, I loved the family in Consolation too. I can't wait to her next book!

 

[tigerrouge]

45: Freakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen J Dubner

An amusing meander through a lot of dumbed-down thought, thanks to the book's need to present the subject matter as something accessible. I liked the narrative tone, but I saw the content as entertainment, rather than a new set of truths.

 

[Belowen]

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

15: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton​

16: The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

17: Bossypants by Tina Fey​

18: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

19: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins​

20: Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

21: Cell by Stephen King​

22: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
23: The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch by Emma Magenta
24: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
25: Divergent by Veronica Roth
26: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
27: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
28: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

29: Prism by Faye & Aliza Kellerman
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30: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
31: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
32: Innocents by Cathy Coote
33: Spear of Destiny by Daniel Easterman

 

[ChrissyM]

1: This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2: Just Kids by Patti Smith
3: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
4: Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5: The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
6: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
9: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
10: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
11: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
12: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
13: The Last Titan by Rick Riordan
14: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
15: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
16: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
17: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
18: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
19: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
20: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
21: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
23: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
24: A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
25: Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
26: Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
27: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
28: Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
29: Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
30: Room by Emma Donoghue
31: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
32: All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
33: From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
34: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
35: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
36: Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
37: Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
38: Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
39: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
40: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
41: I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

 

[tigerrouge]

46: Answered Prayers by Truman Capote

His last book, which contains the material that ruined his career - some parts were excerpted as a short story in Esquire, and social acquaintances recognised themselves in thinly-disguised descriptions and characters, and shunned him thereafter. He never properly finished the novel.

I'm balancing that up with a hefty Dickens novel of around 700 pgs.... only another 300 pages to go.

 

[iperlchen]

01) Victor Pelevin - The Life of Insects
02) Albert Camus - The Stranger
03) Valerio Evangelisti - Magus, Il Presagio
04) Alain de Botton - Kiss & Tell
05) Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
06) Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life
07) Joost Zwagerman - Duel
08) Alain de Botton - The Romantic Movement
09) Alain de Botton - The Art of Travel
10) Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
11) John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
12) Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
13) Simon van Booy - The Secret Lives of People In Love
14) Alain de Botton - Essays on Love
15) J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace (one of my favorite books I read this year)
16) Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
17) Joris Luyendijk - Hello Everybody: One Journalist's Search for Truth in the Middle East
18) Dick Swaab - We Are Our Brain: from ovary to Alzheimer
19) Charles Darwin - The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
20) Ines de la Fressange - The Parisian Guide to Chic
21) Martin Bril - Girls
22) Hein van Dolen - Greek Mythology
23) Pol Craeynest - Social Psychology
24) Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)Airhead by Meg Cabot
2)Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar
3)Gossip Girl: All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
4)Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar
5)Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)Gossip Girl: You're the One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar
7)Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar
8)Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Ziegesar
9)Gossip Girl: Only in Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar
10)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling
11)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
12)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
13)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling
14)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
15)The Tales of Beedle The Bard by J.K Rowling
16)Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
17)Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
18)Vampire Academy: Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
19)The Wolves of Mercy Falls: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
20)The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
21)Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
22)Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
23)Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
24)The Immortals: Evermore by Alyson Noel
25)The Immortals: Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
26)The Immortals: Shadowland by Alyson Noel
27)Lady: My life is a b*tch by Melvin Burgess
28)Emma by Sophie Tasma
29)Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
30)Just as long as we're together by Judy Blume
31)The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
32)Festival au Chateau by Betty Cavana
33)Ο Θησαθρος της Βαγίας by Ζωρζ Σαρή
34)Το συμβόλαιο του πύργου by Κίρα Σίνου
35)Ψίθυροι αγοριών by Βούλα Μαστόρη
36)Herr Der Diebe by Cornelia Funke
37)The Immortals: Dark Flame by Alyson Noel
38)Fallen: Torment by Lauren Kate
39)Blue Bloods: Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz
40)J'ai hate de vieillir by Brigitte Smadja

 

[tigerrouge]

47: The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

It seemed to start off in an uncertain way, but once the tale was up and running, it was a delight, full of characters that have adventures and meet with happy endings. We tend to imagine Dickens novels as being grim soap operas, but this was a comedy, unmistakably so. And it was a long book, but I didn't want it to end.

 

[Karen0193]

12. Hush Hush- Becca Fitzpatrick
13. Crescendo-Becca Fitzpatrick

 

[kate_is_goddess]

1 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
2 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
3 // Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
4 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 // Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6 // Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
7 // The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8 // The Collector by John Fowles
9 // The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
10 // Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
11 // Slapstick! or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut
12 // Bei Einbruch der Nacht (L'Homme à l'envers) by Fred Vargas
13 // A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
14 // To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
15 // The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
16 // Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
17 // Written in Bone by Simon Beckett
18 // Whispers of the Dead by Simon Beckett
19 // My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
20 // The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
21 // Der Meister und Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
22 // All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
23 // Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
24 // Deadly Décisions by Kathy Reichs
25 // Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
26 // Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
27 // Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
28 // A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer
29 // Der Brenner und der liebe Gott by Wolf Haas
30 // Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
31 // Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
32 // Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
33 // The Road by Cormac McCarthey
34 // Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
35 // Palo Alto by James Franco
36 // Moulin Rouge by Pierre La Mure

I didn't like Palo Alto at all to be honest, it tries way too hard... Most of the short stories revolve around a couple of high school kids that do crazy sh*t because they're bored/spoiled/stupid etc. It's really depressing actually. And then the last story is totally different (or I didn't get the connection) and has some potential (it reminded me of 'The Road' a little bit) but then he ruins it by a short father-son 'where babies come from' talk... All in all, a disappointing book.
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[tigerrouge]

48: A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

In comparison to his other works, I found this novel to be very simplistic and overly contrived - but I can see that's how the book achieved such commercial success. However, while reading it, I spent more time noticing the techniques by which the storyline was being played out and my emotions manipulated, than actually feeling anything for the characters.

 

[ChrissyM]

1: This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2: Just Kids by Patti Smith
3: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K.Rowling
4: Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5: The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
6: Cat's Cradle by KurtVonnegut
7: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
9: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
10: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
11: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
12: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
13: The Last Titan by Rick Riordan
14: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
15: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
16: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
17: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
18: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
19: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
20: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
21: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
23: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
24: A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
25: Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
26: Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
27: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
28: Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
29: Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
30: Room by Emma Donoghue
31: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
32: All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
33: From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
34: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
35: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
36: Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
37: Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
38: Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
39: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
40: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
41: I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
42: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

i bought the other two books in the hunger games series, so i'm really excited to start on the second one now that i've finished the other book i was reading

 

[iperlchen]

01) Victor Pelevin - The Life of Insects
02) Albert Camus - The Stranger
03) Valerio Evangelisti - Magus, Il Presagio
04) Alain de Botton - Kiss & Tell
05) Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
06) Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life
07) Joost Zwagerman - Duel
08) Alain de Botton - The Romantic Movement
09) Alain de Botton - The Art of Travel
10) Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
11) John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
12) Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
13) Simon van Booy - The Secret Lives of People In Love
14) Alain de Botton - Essays on Love
15) J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace (one of my favorite books I read this year)
16) Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
17) Joris Luyendijk - Hello Everybody: One Journalist's Search for Truth in the Middle East
18) Dick Swaab - We Are Our Brain: from ovary to Alzheimer
19) Charles Darwin - The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
20) Ines de la Fressange - The Parisian Guide to Chic
21) Martin Bril - Girls
22) Hein van Dolen - Greek Mythology
23) Pol Craeynest - Social Psychology
24) Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist
25) Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad

 

[blueorchid]

I completely forgot that I wanted to do this. I will prepare for the 2012 one now.

 

[Belowen]

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

15: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton​

16: The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

17: Bossypants by Tina Fey​

18: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

19: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins​

20: Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

21: Cell by Stephen King​

22: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
23: The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch by Emma Magenta
24: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
25: Divergent by Veronica Roth
26: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
27: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
28: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

29: Prism by Faye & Aliza Kellerman
​

30: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
31: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
32: Innocents by Cathy Coote 33: Spear of Destiny by Daniel Easterman
34: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
35: Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts

 

[tigerrouge]

49: My Booky-Wook - Russell Brand

He's very self-aware about his destructive tendencies, and is willing to talk about them with as much honesty as a showman can muster, but you don't really get the full picture of how his selfishness affected others, because - naturally - it's all about him. The true scale of the pain and the distress that any of his behaviour caused to others is painted out of the picture, because everything in life exists to serve as another anecdote. But he'd be the first person to admit to that... especially if it gets him attention.

He's a fantastic mix of contradictions and truths, creating a manufactured persona to cover insecurities that he's happy to expose, and always in search of something that he already knows won't ever satisfy him.​

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)Airhead by Meg Cabot
2)Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar
3)Gossip Girl: All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
4)Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar
5)Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)Gossip Girl: You're the One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar
7)Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar
8)Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Ziegesar
9)Gossip Girl: Only in Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar
10)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling
11)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
12)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
13)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling
14)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
15)The Tales of Beedle The Bard by J.K Rowling
16)Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
17)Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
18)Vampire Academy: Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
19)The Wolves of Mercy Falls: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
20)The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
21)Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
22)Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
23)Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
24)The Immortals: Evermore by Alyson Noel
25)The Immortals: Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
26)The Immortals: Shadowland by Alyson Noel
27)Lady: My life is a b*tch by Melvin Burgess
28)Emma by Sophie Tasma
29)Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
30)Just as long as we're together by Judy Blume
31)The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
32)Festival au Chateau by Betty Cavana
33)Ο Θησαθρος της Βαγίας by Ζωρζ Σαρή
34)Το συμβόλαιο του πύργου by Κίρα Σίνου
35)Ψίθυροι αγοριών by Βούλα Μαστόρη
36)Herr Der Diebe by Cornelia Funke
37)The Immortals: Dark Flame by Alyson Noel
38)Fallen: Torment by Lauren Kate
39)Blue Bloods: Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz
40)J'ai hate de vieillir by Brigitte Smadja
41)Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

 

[tigerrouge]

50: My Booky-Wook 2 - Russell Brand

He's now reached the stage where he can't really say anything bad about other people in his own industries, because while he might want to be outrageous, he's also ambitious, and despite his supposedly devil-may-care lifestyle, that calculating side of him wins out more than he admits, when it comes to the decisions he makes.

 

[YoninahAliza]

1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2. The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
3. Persepolis:The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
4. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
5. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
6. Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine
7. Maus by Art Spiegelman
8. Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
9. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
11. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
12. The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew by Ranya Idliby, Priscilla Warner, and Suzanne Oliver
13. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
14. Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
15. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
16. We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill
17. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee


Currently Reading: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
(which if you noticed I'm reading in succession a Harper Lee and a Truman Capote novel. They were best friends and they inspired each other's writings.)