Thursday, January 20, 2011

Read in 11

So, a thread on a forum (LSG on Ravelry) got me thinking about how many books I read each year, and I'm not sure. I decided to try to keep track this year. I have a lot of reading to do for school, and some that I started last year but will finish this year but think I shall include anyway, with a note. I will edit this as I read more--and remember.

Books Read in 2011
  • The Golden Compass--Philip Pullman (10, k)
  • King Solomon's Mine--H. Rider Haggard (t/lit, k)
  • Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad (t/lit, k)
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself--Harriet Jacobs (aaw, k)
  • Things Fall Apart--Chinua Achebe (t/lit, k)
  • Passing--Nella Larsen (aaw, k)
  • Translations--Brian Friel (t/lit)
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God--Zora Neale Hurston (aaw)
  • Kim--Rudyard Kipling (t/lit, k)
  • The Color Purple--Alice Walker (aaw)
  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name--Audre Lourde (aaw)
  • Sula--Toni Morrison (aaw, k)
  • Second Class Citizen--Buchi Emecheta (t/lit)
  • Beloved--Toni Morrison (aaw, k)
  • Cambridge--Caryl Phillips (t/lit)
  • A Mercy--Toni Morrison (aaw)
  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit--Jeanette Winterson (gs)
  • The Blind Assassin--Margaret Atwood (gs)
  • The Enchantress of Florence--Salman Rushdie (gs)
  • The Hotel New Hampshire--John Irving (10)
  • Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen (ja, k)

10=started in 2010
k=read on Kindle
t/lit=transnational literature
aaw=African American women writer's
gs=gender and sexuality lit
ja=Jane Austen class (self-explanatory)

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