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1. "The Nanny Diaries" by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin

Ok, and now I'm going to my bed and start to read "The Nanny Diaries" before going to sleep (it's almost a midnight here ;))

Posted by Agnieszka Tatera at 8/14/2008 04:29:00 PM 1 comments  

Labels: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 888, already owned, Around the World, Books in English, books in Polish, Classics, Exchanged books, Popular Reads

Books to be read by Aga
Monday, July 28, 2008

1. "Elephants can remember" by Agatha Christie
2. "The clocks" by Agatha Christie
3. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
4. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
5. "Uśmiech Dalidy" by Dominika Cosic
6. "Panther in the Basement" by Amos Oz

II. Around the World:

1. "Snow Flower and the secret fan" by Lisa See (02.08.08) - review here
2. "Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin (13.08.08) - review here
3. "Forbidden City" by William Bell
4. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
5. "Porte De LA Paix Celeste" by Shan Sa (14.08.08) - review here
6. "Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood" by Fatima Mernissi

III. Books in Polish:

1. "Tata, one i ja" by Manula Laicka ("Dad, them and me")
2. "Zniewolony umysł" by Czesław Miłosz ("Subdued mind")
3. "Trzepot skrzydeł" by Katarzyna Grochola
4. "Jadąc do Babadag" by Andrzej Stasiuk

IV. Books in English:

1. "Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)" by Jerome K. Jerome (11.08.08) - review here
2. "Bollywood Nights" by Shobhaa De (09.08.08) - review here
3. "Bergdorf Blondes" by Plum Sykes
4. "Notting Hell" by Rachel Johnson
5. "South of the Border, West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami
6. "The fifth woman" by Henning Mankel

V. Exchanged books (via www.podaj.net or www.bookmooch.com):

1. "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore (in PL)
2. "Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (in PL)
3. "Winter's Tales" by Karen Blixen (in PL)
4. "The last promise" by Richard Paul Evans (in PL)
5. "L'Anneau du pêcheur" by Jean Raspail (in PL)

VI. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (my proposals for today only!):

1. "Jacques the Fatalist" by Denis Diderot
2. "The Monk" by M.G. Lewis
3. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
4. "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

VII. Classics:

1. "Crime and punishment" by Fiodor Dostoyevski (31.07.08) - review here
2. "Plague" by Albert Camus

VIII. Popular Reads:

1. "The Nanny Diaries" by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin

So, now just need to read 64 books and write reviews, easy :D

Posted by Agnieszka Tatera at 7/28/2008 10:20:00 AM 4 comments  

Labels: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, already owned, Around the World, Books in English, books in Polish, Classics, Exchanged books, Popular Reads

Ashleigh's List
Monday, February 25, 2008

I'm reposting my list because I have a new blog :

I'm using this opportunity to mark some books off the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die as well as take the time to check out some books that I've been meaning to read for awhile.

completed books written in red

1 :: Books by Charles Dickens
: Our Mutual Friend
: A Tale of Two Cities (review)
: Hard Times
: Bleak House
: David Copperfield
: Martin Chuzzlewit
: Nicholas Nickleby
: Oliver Twist

2 :: Written in the 1700s
: Robinson Crusoe . Daniel Defoe
: Gulliver's Travels . Jonathan Swift
: The Female Quixote . Charlotte Lennox (review)
: Dangerous Liasons . Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
: The 120 Days of Sodom . Marquis de Sade
: Hyperion . Friedrich Holderlin
: Fanny Hill . John Cleland
: The Vicar of Wakefield . Oliver Goldsmith

5 :: Written in the 1800s
: She . H. Rider Haggard
: Fruits of the Earth. Andre Gide
: Kidnapped . Robert Louis Stevenson
: By the Open Sea . August Strindberg
: Far From the Maddening Crowd . Thomas Hardy
: In A Glass Darkly . Sheridan le Fanu
: The Moonstone . Wilkie Collins
: Madame Bovary . Gustave Flaubert

4 :: Written in the 1900s
: Underworld . Don DeLillo
: Empire of the Sun . J.G. Ballard
: Cold Comfort Farm : Stella Gibbons (review)
: 2001: A Space Odyssey . Arthur C. Clarke
: The Last Temptation of Christ . Nikos Kazantzakis
: Les Enfants Terribles . Jean Cocteau
: Tarzan of the Apes . Edgar Rice Burroughs
: Where Angels Fear to Tread . E.M. Forster (review)

5 :: Over 500 pages
: The Three Musketeers . Alexandre Dumas
: Pamela . Samuel Richardson
: Les Misérables . Victor Hugo
: Middlemarch . George Eliot (review)
: The Brothers Karamazov . Fyodor Dostoevsky
: Ben-Hur . Lew Wallace
: Germinal . Emile Zola
: Remembrance of Things Past . Marcel Proust

6 :: Books Written by Last Names Beginning with - M
: One Hundred Years of Solitude . Gabriel Garcia Marquez
: A Woman's Life . Guy de Maupassant
: Saturday . Ian McEwan
: Kafka on the Shore . Haruki Murakami
: Don't Move . Margaret Mazzantini
: Wittgenstein's Mistress . David Markson
: The Black Prince . Iris Murdoch
: The Man of Feeling . Henry Mackenzie

7 :: The Last 8 on the List (unless listed above or previously read)
: Never Let Me Go . Kazuo Ishiguro
: On Beauty . Zadie Smith (review)
: Adjunct: An Undigest . Peter Manson
: The Sea . John Banville
: The Red Queen . Margaret Drabble
: The Plot Against America . Philip Roth
: The Master . Colm Toibin
: Vanishing Point . David Markson

8 :: Popular Books I've Been Meaning to Read
: Water for Elephants . Sara Gruen (review)
: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell . Susanna Clarke
: The Namesake . Jhumpa Lahiri (review)
: The Book Thief . Markus Zusak
: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan . Lisa See
: The Memory Keeper's Daughter . Kim Edwards
: Bee Season . Myla Goldberg (review)
: The Thirteenth Tale . Diane Setterfield

:: Ashleigh :: random field notes ::

Posted by Ashleigh at 2/25/2008 02:05:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Ashleigh

888 List for Tressa/An Infinitude of Books
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Hi all! This is my first reading challenge, and I’m thrilled to be here.

Here’s my list for the 888 Challenge without overlaps. I’ll only do overlaps if I’m in trouble around November of 2008. Who knows what the year will bring, right? But I’m going to try to do the full 64.


I. Non-Fiction:

1. Ghosts of Vesuvius by Charles Pellegrino
2. The Female Thing by Laura Kipnis
3. Body Brokers : Inside America's Underground Trade In Human Remains by Annie Cheney
4. Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
5. Dumbing Us Down : the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling by John Taylor Gatto
6. Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves
7. Working by Studs Terkel
8. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

II. Young Adult Fiction:

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
2. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
3. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
4. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
5. Deerskin by Robin McKinley
6. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
7. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1 by Diana Wynne Jones
8. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 2 by Diana Wynne Jones

III. Books from the 1001 books To Read Before You Die List:

1. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
2. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
3. Saturday by Ian McEwan
4. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
5. In A Glass Darkly by Sheridan le Fanu
6. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
7. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill

IV. Books About Books:

1. Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
2. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
3. So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson
4. Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama. and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore- Susan Shea
5. Sixpence House by Paul Collins
6. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
7. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
8. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

V. Women Writers:

1. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
4. The Children of Men by P.D. James
5. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
6. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
7. Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
8. Topdog/Underdog by Suzan Lori-Parks

VI. Not-Yet-Read Classics:

1. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
2. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
3. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
4. Jazz by Toni Morrison
5. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
6. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
7. A Maggot by John Fowles
8. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

VII. The 1700s and 1800s:

1. She by Rider Haggard
2. A Woman’s Life by de Maupassant
3. Silas Marner by George Eliot
4. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
5. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
6. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe
7. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
8. The Marble Faun by Hawthorne

VIII. Selections From My TBR Pile:

1. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
2. Black Jack by Leon Garfield
3. A Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis
4. The Complete Sandman: Volume Two by Neil Gaiman
5. I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
6. The Curse of Chalion by Lois M. Bujoid
7. A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
8. Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Posted by An Infinitude of Books at 12/04/2007 05:30:00 PM 1 comments  

Labels: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 1700s and 1800s, Books about Books, Classics, Non-fiction, TBR stacks, Tressa, Women Writers, Young Adult

Ashleigh's 888 List
Sunday, October 28, 2007

I'm using this opportunity to mark some books off the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die as well as take the time to check out some books that I've been meaning to read for awhile.

1 :: Books by Charles Dickens
: Our Mutual Friend
: The Tale of Two Cities
: Hard Times
: Bleak House
: David Copperfield
: Martin Chuzzlewit
: Nicholas Nickleby
: Oliver Twist

2 :: Written in the 1700s
: A Tale of a Tub . Jonathan Swift
: Roxana . Daniel Defoe
: The Female Quixote . Charlote Lennox
: Dangerous Liasons . Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
: The 120 Days of Sodom . Marquis de Sade
: Hyperion . Friedrich Holderlin
: Fanny Hill . John Cleland
: The Vicar of Wakefield . Oliver Goldsmith

3 :: Written in the 1800s
: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. . Somerville and Ross
: Fruits of the Earth. Andre Gide
: Kidnapped . Robert Louis Stevenson
: By the Open Sea . August Strindberg
: Far From the Maddening Crowd . Thomas Hardy
: In A Glass Darkly . Sheridan le Fanu
: The Moonstone . Wilkie Collins
: Madame Bovary . Gustave Flaubert

4 :: Written in the 1900s
: Underworld . Don DeLillo
: High Rise . J.G. Ballard
: Cold Comfort Farm . Stella Gibbons
: 2001: A Space Odyssey . Arthur C. Clarke
: The Last Temptation of Christ . Nikos Kazantzakis
: Les Enfants Terribles . Jean Cocteau
: Tarzan of the Apes . Edgar Rice Burroughs
: Where Angels Fear to Tread . E.M. Forster

5 :: Over 500 pages
: The Three Musketeers . Alexandre Dumas
: North and South . Elizabeth Gaskell
: Les Miserables . Victor Hugo
: Middlemarch . George Elliot
: The Brothers Karamazov . Fyodor Dostoevsky
: Ben-Hur . Lew Wallace
: Germinal . Emile Zola
: Remembrance of Things Past . Marcel Proust

6 :: Books Written by Last Names Beginning with - M
: One Hundred Years of Solitude . Gabriel Garcia Marquez
: A Woman's Life . Guy de Maupassant
: Saturday . Ian McEwan
: Kafka on the Shore . Haruki Murakami
: Don't Move . Margaret Mazzantini
: Wittgenstein's Mistress . David Markson
: The Black Prince . Iris Murdoch
: The Man of Feeling . Henry Mackenzie

7 :: The Last 8 on the List (unless listed above or previously read)
: Never Let Me Go . Kazuo Ishiguro
: On Beauty . Zadie Smith
: Adjunct: An Undigest . Peter Manson
: The Sea . John Banville
: The Red Queen . Margaret Drabble
: The Plot Against America . Philip Roth
: The Master . Colm Toibin
: Vanishing Point . David Markson

8 :: Popular Books I've Been Meaning to Read
: Water for Elephants . Sara Gruen
: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell . Susanna Clarke
: The Namesake . Jhumpa Lahiri
: The Book Thief . Markus Zusak
: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan . Lisa See
: The Memory Keeper's Daughter . Kim Edwards
: Bee Season . Myla Goldberg
: The Thirteenth Tale . Diane Summerfield

:: Ashleigh :: girl+dirt ::

Posted by Anonymous at 10/28/2007 11:07:00 AM 1 comments  

Labels: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Ashleigh, Popular Reads