tbr for 2008


These are the books I'd like to get read and off the mighty tbr shelf.

I actually picked them off the tbr shelves (one big shelf stacked with books three high) except for The Brothers Karamazov which I have in audible but used to own in paper copy until Delta airlines (I'll name them!) lost my luggage! I have it on my iPod, too, though. Same with War and Peace although I still have the hard copy of that one.

I'll try for one a month but if I get behind I can catch up over Spring Break (March) and in the summer (June, July and August). Alternatives are also listed. I actually picked them off the tbr shelves (one big shelf stacked with books three high) except for The Brothers Karamazov which I have in audible but used to own in paper copy until Delta airlines (I'll name them!) lost my luggage. I have about 150 tbr books - not a lot to some folks but way more than I'm comfortable with. Picking 24 made a significant dent.

The Brothers Karamazov by Theodore Dostoevsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Swan's Way by Marcel Proust
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pnin by Vladimir Nabakov
The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
Therapy by David Lodge
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Galatea 2.02 by Richard Powers
Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo

*****
Alternates
Madam Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
Old New York by Edith Wharton
A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick Voss
The Hudson by Tom Lewis
Dreamland by Kevin Baker
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
A Summons To Memphis by Peter Taylor
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori

Bekah

Posted: Thu - January 3, 2008 at 03:01 PM        

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