- The Hunger Games
- Sea of Monsters
- Great Work Great Career
- Archenemy
- The Drug of the New Millennium
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- The Hourglass Door
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues Book 1)
- Right Ho Jeeves
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Soulless
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women
- Catching Fire
- The Four Loves
- Magic Kingdom For Sale | Sold!
- One False Note (The 39 Clues Book 2)
- The Black Unicorn
- The Titan's Curse
- The Great Divorce
- The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimeus Trilogy Book 1)
- The Sword Thief (The 39 Clues Book 3)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Beyond the Grave (The 39 Clues, Book # 4)
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Those Extraordinary Twins
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Mockingjay
- The Holy Man
- The Search for Delicious
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- Chains
- Foucault's Pendulum
- The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch
- A Charmed Life: Growing Up In Macbeth's Castle
- Dracula
- The Turn of the Screw
- Fablehaven
- The Dain Curse
- The Lord of the Flies
- The Maze Runner
- The War of the Worlds
- The Last Olympian
- The Graveyard Book
Here's my "to read" list as it stands now...though I often just grab books as they appeal to me. If you have some suggestions, let me know.
Happy Reading.
11 comments:
oh, a book per week, quite nice number :) I wish I had time to read more, but since I work as a book translator I have time only to read the books I'm working on :(
Yeah, a book a week was/is the goal...but I'm at about 50% success rate (now that we're ~halfway through the year, I should be in the mid 20s instead of 13). I certainly don't read all the times I 'should', but I still love the time I dedicate to reading.
Being a book translator must put some interesting books across your path that might not otherwise come your way. Though there are likely plenty that you'd rather not have to get through as well.
back at college while studying English lg and literature, I had to read at least two or three books per week, which was kinda shocking rhythm.
Well, yes, but I mostly translate books which are at least in the genre I like. Off course, there are always situations when you ask yourself - WHY AM I TRANSLATING THIS RUBBISH :) but you can never know whether a book is horrible or not before you start translating it.
Okie - I can't view your list, but if you haven't read any Colson Whitehead novels, I'd strongly recommend checking them out. His first one, The Intuitionist, is simply incredible and I'm just wrapping up Sag Harbor.
Whitehead has a fantastic narrative, solid characters and top notch humor. IMO, one of the greatest writers out there right now.
As a thought, I had also read Whitehead's Apex (Hides the Hurt), but consider that to be nowhere near as good as those other two.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have to take a look at Whitehead.
Great choices! Now you are in the same boat as the rest of us...waiting for Mockingjay. :)
wow,
bravo,
you read so many books.
what creative mind!
Nice to see some classics here...or are they like the Monty Python 'Bookshop' skit?
You found me out Don...Tale of Two Cities was actually the edition written by Charles Dikkins, that's Dikkins with 2 Ks, the well-known Dutch author. ;)
Actually, apart from Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, all of the classics are the original versions.
omgggggggggshhhhhhhhhhh im so jealous. =/
Wow you read so many! I'm so ashamed to say I read waaaay less than that. I was hoping to read so much more this year, but time just keeps running away from me. Since you're interested in The Hunger Games series and Lord of the Flies you might be interested in reading Battle Royale. The Hunger Games is very much like it but unlike The Hunger Games, Battle Royale is much more gory and violent (super interesting though).
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