Important Disclaimer: I only started writing a blog entry for every single book I read in 2008. Before that I only wrote entries for individual books when the spirit moved me. So there won’t necessarily be an entry for every book listed under 2006 and 2007, but I have written a reaction to all the works I read in 2008 onward. It should also be noted that I only started keeping track of the books I was reading since 2006.
Books Read in 2008 (link):
1) Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton (re-read)
2) The Subject of Semiotics by Kaja Silverman
3) The Rhetorics of Feminism by Lynne Pearce
4) The Foucault Reader edited by Paul Rabinow
5) Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
6) Dubliners by James Joyce
7) Race Matters by Cornel West
8 ) Outlaw Culture by Bell Hooks
9) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)
10) Sex on the Couch: What Freud still has to Teach us about Sex and Gender by Richard Boothby
11) JPS Tankah: The Jewish Bible
12) How to Read the Jewish Bible by Marc Zvi Brettler
13) The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
14) Love that Dog by Sharon Creech
15) The Forbidden Schoolhouse: the True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and her Students by Suzanne Jurmain
16) Gorilla Walk by Ted and Betsy Lewin
17) Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
18) The Color of Home by Mary Hoffman
19) Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side by Raymond Bial
20) How to Eat Fried Words by Thomas Rockwell
21) The New Testament
22) The Giver by Lois Lowry (re-read)
23) The Works of Anne Bradstreet edited by Jeannine Hensley
24) The Captivity and Restoration by Mary Rowlandson
25) The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne (re-read)
26) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney (re-read)
27) Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Herbert Mason (re-read)
28) Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer
29) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
30) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
31) Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
32) The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
33) Oedipus the King by Sophocles (re-read)
34) Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
35) Antigone by Sophocles (re-read)
36) Ajax by Sophocles
37) The Women of Trachis by Sophocles
38) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
39) Electra by Sophocles
40) Philoctetes by Sophocles
41) Agamemnon by Aeschylus
42) The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
43) The Eumenides by Aeschylus
44) The Suppliant Maidens by Aeschylus
45) The Persians by Aeschylus
46) Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
47) Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
48) Poetics by Aristotle
49) Theogony by Hesiod
50) Works and Days by Hesiod
51) Greek Lyric Poetry translated by M. L. West
52) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
53) Alcestis by Euripides
54) Medea by Euripides (re-read)
55) Heracleidae by Euripides
56) Hippolytus by Euripides
57) The Cyclops by Euripides
58) Iphegenia in Tauris by Euripides (re-read)
59) Heracles by Euripides
60) Hecuba by Euripides
61) Andromache by Euripides
62) The Trojan Women by Euripides
63) Electra by Euripides
64) Ion by Euripides
65) The Bacchae by Euripides
66) The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
67) Euthyphro by Plato (re-read)
68) Apology by Plato (re-read)
69) Crito by Plato (re-read)
70) Acharnians by Aristophanes
71) Phaedo by Plato
72) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
73) Knights by Aristophanes
Books Read in 2007 (link):
1. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
2. South Park and Philosophy edited by Robert Arp
3. The Sacred Monstrous: A Reflection on Violence in human communities by Wendy C. Hamblet
4. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
5. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
6. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (re-read)
7. The Home Place by Wright Morris
8. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
9. Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
10. Batman: Knightfall Part II: Who Rules the Night
11. Beserk 14 by Kentaro Miura
12. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
13. Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology by Foucault, edited by Paul Rabinow
14. Power by Foucault, edited by Paul Rabinow
15. Ethics by Foucault, edited by Paul Rabinow
16. Legs by William Kennedy
17. Discipline and Punish by Foucault
18. Jazz by Toni Morrison
19. Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link (re-read)
20. Beserk 15 by Kentaro Miura
21. History of Sexuality: An Introduction Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
22. The Hermeneutics of the Subject by Michel Foucault
23. Son of the Circus by John Irving
24. History of Sexuality V.2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
25. Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
26. Fearless Speech by Michel Foucault
27. The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone De Beauvoir
28. Beserk 16 by Kentaro Miura
29. Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
30. Ficciones by Jorge Lois Borges
31. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
32. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
33. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (re-read)
34. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
35. Persuasion by Jane Austen
36. The Odyssey by Homer trans. Robert Fagles
37. Euthyphro by Plato trans. G.M.A. Grube
38. Apology by Plato trans. G.M.A. Grube
39. Crito by Plato trans. G.M.A. Grube
40. The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
41. Monster by Walter Dean Myers
42. The Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
43. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
44. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
45. Maus I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
46. A Step from Heaven by An Na
47. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
48. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
49. Beserk 17 by Kentaro Miura
50. Are you There God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Bloom
51. The Republic by Plato Trans Desmond Lee (re-read)
52. Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
53. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle trans. W. D. Ross
54. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
55. Poems and Fragments by Sappho trans. Guy Davenport
56. Who Stole Feminism? How Women have Betrayed Women by Christina Hoff Sommers
57. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
58. Daisy Miller by Henry James (re-read)
59. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
60. Madame De Treymes by Edith Wharton
61. Summer by Edith Wharton
62. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
63. The Ambassadors by Henry James
64. The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kantor
65. The Five Books of Moses: The Torah translated by JPS
66. The Meiji Restoration by W. G. Beasley
Books Read in 2006 (link):
1. Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Looking for Jake by China Mieville
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
6. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
7. Watchmen by David Gibbons
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. The Stranger by Albert Cadmus
10. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
11. The Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
12. The Alchemist by Paulo Caehlo
13. The Iliad by Homer (trans. Robert Fagles)
14. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
15. The Instruments of Torture
16. Beserk Manga Book 11 by Kenturo Miura
17. Beserk Manga Book 12 by Kenturo Miura
18. Beserk Manga Book 13 by Kenturo Miura
19. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
20. The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
22. 1984 by George Orwell
23. Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
24. Letters from an American Farmer by Crèvecoeur
25. The Praire by James Fenimore Cooper
26. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
28. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas
29. White Slaves, African Masters
30. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
31. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
32. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
33. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
34. Hook House and Other Stories by Sherry Decker
35. The Giver by Louis Lowry
36. Candide by Voltaire
