Book List 2016

[bearshorty]

Books I've Read (with date finished)
1. The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein (Jan 1)
2. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (started in 2015. Jan 11)
3.Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (started in 2015. Jan 20)
4. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel (Jan 22)
5. Tomek in the Country of the Pharaohs by Alfred Szklarski (Jan 30) (Russian)
6. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) (Feb 13)
7. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Feb 24)
8. Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman (March 11)
9. Kosmopsycholukhi Part 1 and Part 2 by Olga Gromyko (March 14) (Russian)
10. Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch (April 3)
11. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (April 24)
12. Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, The First Crusades and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem by Sharan Newman (May 2)
13. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks (May 12)
14. Paradise by Dante Alighieri (May 21)
15. Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter (June 6)
16. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (July 5)
17. Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (July 23) (Russian)
18.Hothouse by Brian Aldiss (July 26)
19. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Aug 4)
20. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and John Thorne (Aug 9)
21. A View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman (Aug 20)
22. The She-Wolf by Maurice Druon (Aug 22)
23. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (Aug 28)
24. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Sept 5)
25. Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Sept 13)
26.Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (Sept 20) [Vorkosigan Saga]
27. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (Sept 26)
28.His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (Oct 3) [Book 1 Temeraire]
29.Earwig and the Witch by Diana Wynne Jones (Oct 6)
30. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik (Oct 17) [Book 2 Temeraire]
31. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Nov 3)
32. U Voiny ne zhenskoye litso [War's Unwomanly Face] by Svetlana Alexievich (Nov 19) (Russian)
33. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Dec 8)
34. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik [Book 3 Temeraire] (Dec 18)
35. The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport (Dec 29)


Books I Aim to Read
1. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (about 230 pages left)
2. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
4. Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman
5. Kosmopsycholukhi Part 1 and Part 2 by Olga Gromyko
6. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (800 out of 1200 pages complete in 2013)
7. Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
8. Tomek in the Country of the Pharaohs by Alfred Szklarski
9. The She-Wolf by Maurice Druon
10. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
11. Edward III by W. Mark Ormrod
12. A King's Ransom: A Novel by Sharon Kay Penman
13 A novel by Thomas Hardy
14. The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
15. The Dark Design (3rd Riverboat book) by Philip Jose Farmer
16. Paradise Lost by John Milton
17. Metamorphoses by Ovid
18. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
19. Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, The First Crusades and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem by Sharan Newman
20. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol 1: 1929-1964 ed. by Robert Silverberg (started in 2014)
21. The Rest of Dante: Purgatory Canto 28-33, Paradise.
22. The Lily and the Lion by Maurice Druon

Comments

[pax_athena]

Oooh, I loved "Master and Margarita". And "Paradise Lost" is my favorite book ever :) Excited to hear what you think once you get around to read to reading them!

[bearshorty]

I read 8 or 9 Books out of 12 of Paradise Lost before many years ago and loved it. I somehow didn't finish it and I don't remember why. But I'm determined to start over and read the whole thing this year. Right after I finish with Dante.

[pax_athena]

The last few parts are much weaker, imho - topic-wise. But still worth reading :)

[maeve_of_winter]

I think Angel Clare of Tess of the d'Urbervilles has to be one of the most loathed book villains in writing history. Villains typically have fans or defenders, but this guy? None. The most he'll ever from anyone is a swan in a box. ;)

[bearshorty]

He is just so spineless and not that interesting. And full of himself. I did like the book though - I like Hardy a lot.