Directors* by whom I've seen 1 movie or 0 movies
Las Américas:
Canada:
- Atom Egoyan
- Norman McLaren
USA:
- Robert Altman
- Budd Boetticher
- Frank Borzage
- Stan Brakhage
- William Castle
- Roger Corman
- Allan Dwan
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Samuel Fuller
- Jon Jost
- Henry King
- Michael Mann
- Sydney Pollack
- Edwin S. Porter
- Paul Schrader
- Douglas Sirk
- Todd Solondz
- King Vidor
- Raoul Walsh
- Frederick Wiseman
México:
- Emilio Fernández
Chile:
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Raoul Ruiz
Europe:
UK:
- Michael Anderson
- Richard Lester
- Ken Loach (not counting his segment in Tickets)
- Alan Parker
- Carol Reed
- Karel Reisz
- Tony Richardson
Portugal:
- Pedro Costa (not counting that music doc)
- Manoel de Oliveira
- João César Monteiro
Spain:
- Segundo de Chomón
France:
- Olivier Assayas
- Claude Chabrol
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Jacques Demy
- Claire Denis
- Bruno Dumont
- Marguerite Duras
- Jean Epstein
- Philippe Garrel
- Jean Grémillon
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Mia Hansen-Løve
- Claude Lelouch
- Louis Malle
- François Ozon
- Maurice Pialat
- Jacques Rivette
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Jean Rollin
- Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet
- Agnès Varda (not counting one short doc)
Belgium:
- Chantal Akerman
Germany:
- Harun Farocki
- Max Ophüls
- Leni Riefenstahl
Austria:
- Michael Haneke
- G.W. Pabst
Italy:
- Sergio Corbucci
- Lucio Fulci
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Roberto Rossellini
- Luchino Visconti
Greece:
- Theo Angelopoulos
Hungary:
- Béla Tarr
Poland:
- Walerian Borowczyk
- Agnieszka Holland
- Andrzej Żuławski
Norway:
- Joachim Trier
Finland:
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Mika Kaurismäki
Lithuania:
- Šarūnas Bartas
- Jonas Mekas
Russia:
- Lewis Milestone
- Larisa Shepitko
- Aleksandr Sokurov
Asia:
Turkey:
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
China:
- Chen Kaige
Hong Kong:
- Ringo Lam
- Johnnie To
Taiwan:
- Edward Yang
Philippines:
- Lav Diaz
South Korea:
- Im Kwon-taek
Japan:
- Shinji Aoyama
- Shōhei Imamura
- Yasuzō Masumura
- Masahiro Shinoda
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Yoshishige Yoshida
Oceania:
Australia:
- Baz Luhrmann
New Zealand:
- Jane Campion
* only ones with whom I'm at least vaguely familiar and whose name I would recognise if I heard it... for example, Jacques Becker may be a prolific director dude, but if I heard his name in a conversation I would not be sure in the slightest if he's a real director or not!
And h/t to MrCarmady for the good idea of course!
King of Movies
Re: King of Movies
2023
December 2023
December 24th - How Do You Live? (Genzaburo Yoshino, 1937) - 3/5
December 21st - The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie, 1922) - 1.5/5
December 16th - The Unteachables (Gordon Korman, 2019) - 4/5
December 15th - Under the Jaguar Sun (Italo Calvino, 1986) - 2/5
December 14th - The Brute & Other Farces (Anton Chekhov, ~1888) - 3.5/5
December 14th - Earwig and the Witch (Diana Wynne Jones, 2011) - 3/5
December 13th - Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (James Finn Garner, 1994) - 2/5
December 8th - Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse, 1922) - 5/5 (2nd reading)
November 2023 (3)
November 30th - The Periodic Table (Primo Levi, 1975) - 5/5
November 13th - To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee, 1960) - 3/5
November 2nd - Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Blaine Harden, 2012) - 3.5/5
October 2023 (2)
October 27th - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, 1990) - 0/5
October 6th - White (Bret Easton Ellis, 2019) - 2.5/5
September 2023 (3)
September 30th - Holes (Louis Sachar, 1998) - 2.5/5 (3rd reading?)
September 17th - Pet Sematary (Stephen King, 1983) - 2/5
September 1st - Going to Meet the Man (James Baldwin, 1965) - 3.5/5
August 2023 (4)
August 31st - One Story, One Song (Richard Wagamese, 2011) - 2/5
August 11th - Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and the Future of Hockey (Ken Dryden, 2017) - 3.5/5
August 3rd - The Death of Bagrat Zakharych and Other Stories (Vazha-Pshavela, 1913) - 3/5
August 1st - The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley, 1954) - 3.5/5
July 2023 (3)
July 26th - Deenie (Judy Blume, 1973) - 2/5
July 20th - Sidney Crosby: The Rookie Year (Neely Lohmann, 2022) - 1.5/5
July 1st - The Coming of Bill (P.G. Wodehouse, 1919) - 4/5
June 2023 (3)
June 28th - Indiscretions of Archie (P.G. Wodehouse, 1921) - 4.5/5
June 22nd - Hard Times (Charles Dickens, 1854) - 2.5/5
June 16th - Igi (Jemal Karchkhadze, 1977) - 3.5/5
May 2023 (7)
May 30th - The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas, 2017) - 1/5
May 18th - 20 Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Pablo Neruda, 1924)
May 16th - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (Judy Blume, 1970) - 2/5
May 14th - Then Again, Maybe I Won't (Judy Blume, 1971) - 3/5
May 13th - George and the Ship of Time (Lucy Hawking, 2019) - 3/5
May 8th - Adibas (Zaza Burchuladze, 2010) - 1/5
May 6th - Kvachi Kvachantiradze (Mikheil Javakhishvili, 1925) - 4.5/5
April 2023 (12)
April 29th - George and the Blue Moon (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2017) - 3/5
April 24th - Shot by Both Sides (Meisei Goto, 1973) - 2/5
April 24th - George and the Unbreakable Code (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2016) - 3/5
April 17th - The Tale of Kiều (Nguyễn Du, 1820) - 3/5
April 16th - Ali and Nino (Kurban Said, 1937) - 1/5
April 14th - The Mandarin and Other Stories (Eça de Queirós, 1880) - 2.5/5
April 14th - George and the Big Bang (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2012) - 3.5/5
April 7th - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne, 1864) - 4/5
April 6th - Old Christmas (Washington Irving, 1820) - 3/5
April 4th - The Devil and Tom Walker (Irving Washington, 1824) - 2.5/5
April 3rd - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Ann Jacobs, 1861) - 3.5/5
April 1st - The Maias (Eça de Queirós, 1888) - 4.5/5
March 2023 (8)
March 30th - The Tales of Max Carrados (Ernest Bramah, 1927) - 3/5
March 22nd - The Innocence of Father Brown (G.K. Chesterton, 1911) - 1/5
March 18th - To Sir, with Love (E.R. Braithwaite, 1959) - 4/5
March 16th - Oroonoko (Aphra Behn, 1688) - 2/5
March 12th - The Adventures of Sally (P.G. Wodehouse, 1922) - 2.5/5
March 7th - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922) - 2/5
March 7th - The Inimitable Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse, 1923) - 3/5
March 4th - The Girl on the Boat (P.G. Wodehouse, 1922) - 3.5/5
February 2023 (6)
February 20th - The Haunted Hotel (Wilkie Collins, 1879) - 2/5
February 15th - Matilda (Mary Shelley, 1820) - 4/5
February 13th - Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain, 1896) - 3/5
February 6th - What Diantha Did (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1910) - 2.5/5
February 4th - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving, 1820) - 4/5
February 2nd - The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955) - 5/5
January 2023 (2)
January 20th - The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
January 7th - The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
2022 (31)
December 2022 (2)
December 20th - The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
December 12th - To-morrow (Joseph Conrad, 1902) - 3/5
November 2022 (2)
November 24th - We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story (Simu Liu, 2022) - 3/5
November 12th - The Chrysalids (John Wyndham, 1955) - 4/5
October 2022 (2)
October 25th - High-Risk Homosexual (Edgar Gomez, 2022) - 1.5/5
October 11th - Ghost Boys (Jewell Parker Rhodes, 2018) - 3/5
September 2022 (1)
September 21st - All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business (Mel Brooks, 2021) - 3/5
July 2022 (2)
July 21st - Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir (Mark Critch, 2018) - 3.5/5
July 7th - A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars (Hakeem Oluseyi, 2021) - 3.5/5
June 2022 (7)
June 30th - I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir (Brian Wilson, 2016) - 4/5
June 27th - Punch Me Up to the Gods (Brian Broome, 2021) - 3/5
June 22nd - Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began (Guido Tonelli, 2020) - 4/5
June 11th - Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Stephen Hawking, 2018) - 4/5
June 7th - Beyond the Gender Binary (Alok, 2020) - 4/5
June 6th - George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2009) - 3/5
June 2nd - George's Secret Key to the Universe (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2007) - 3/5
May 2022 (1)
May 28th - A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking, 1988) - 4/5
April 2022 (2)
April 29th - The Slender Thread (Stirling Silliphant, 1966) - 1/5
April 9th - MirrorMask (Neil Gaiman, 2005) - 1/5
March 2022 (2)
March 25th - The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman, 2013) - 1/5 (2nd reading)
March 16th - Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman, 2005) - 2/5
February 2022 (3)
February 23rd - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass, 1845) - 4/5
February 16th - American Gods (Neil Gaiman, 2001) - 2/5 (2nd reading)
February 8th - The 50th Law (50 Cent, Robert Greene, 2008) - 2/5
January 2022 (7)
January 23rd - The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (Neil Gaiman, 1997)
January 23rd - Crazy Hair (Neil Gaiman, 2009)
January 23rd - Cinnamon (Neil Gaiman, 1995)
January 23rd - The Sleeper and the Spindle (Neil Gaiman, 2013)
January 17th - The Wolves in the Walls (Neil Gaiman, 2003)
January 10th - How the Marquis Got His Coat Back (Neil Gaiman, 2015) - 2/5
January 9th - Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman, 1996) - 3/5
2021 (44)
December 2021 (2)
December 21st - Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism (Peter Staley, 2021) - 4/5
December 8th - Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter (50 Cent, 2020) - 4/5
November 2021 (2)
November 23rd - Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other (Ken Dryden, 2019) - 3/5
November 8th - The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman, 2008) - 3.5/5
October 2021 (7)
October 30th - Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Mike Love, 2016) - 3/5
October 23rd - Odd and the Frost Giants (Neil Gaiman, 2008) - 3.5/5
October 21st - Coraline (Neil Gaiman, 2002) - 3/5
October 17th - Fortunately, the Milk... (Neil Gaiman, 2013) - 2/5
October 11th - Stardust (Neil Gaiman, 1998) - 3.5/5
October 8th - James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl, 1961) - 3/5
October 3rd - Norse Mythology (Neil Gaiman, 2017) - 4/5
September 2021 (2)
September 28th - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Trevor Noah, 2016) - 2.5/5)
September 20th - The Moon and Sixpence (W. Somerset Maugham, 1919) - 3/5
August 2021 (2)
August 23rd - Son of the Mob (Gordon Korman, 2002) - 2.5/5
August 9th - Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar (Keith Richards, Theodora Richards, 2014) - 4/5
July 2021 (1)
July 25th - Twelve Years a Slave (Solomon Northup, 1853) - 4/5
May 2021 (1)
May 10th - Toast on Toast: Cautionary Tales and Candid Advice (Steven Toast, 2016) - 4/5 (3rd reading?)
April 2021 (3)
April 11th - Burke's Law: A Life in Hockey (Brian Burke, 2020) - 3/5
April 9th - Number Two: More Short Tales from a Very Tall Man (Jay Onrait, 2015) - 3/5
April 6th - How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents (Jimmy O. Yang, 2018) - 3.5/5
March 2021 (6)
March 31st - Teaching: It's Harder Than It Looks (Gerry Dee, 2012) - 4/5
March 26th - The Call of the Wild (Jack London, 1903) - 3.5/5
March 25th - See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody (Bob Mould, 2011) - 3/5
March 17th - Anchorboy (Jay Onrait, 2013) - 3/5
March 8th - A Lost Lady (Willa Cather, 1923) - 3/5
March 5th - The Razor's Edge (W. Somerset Maugham, 1944) - 4/5
February 2021 (3)
February 21st - Prester John (John Buchan, 1910) - 4/5
February 14th - Heidi (Johanna Spyri, 1880) - 4.5/5
February 8th - Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899) - 4/5
January 2021 (15) (BOOK MONTH)
January 30th - Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir (Norm Macdonald, 2016) - 3.5/5
January 28th - Family Lexicon (Natalia Ginzburg, 1963) - 3.5/5
January 26th - The Story of Abelard's Adversities (Pierre Abélard, 1135) - 3/5
January 24th - The Bed Book (Sylvia Plath, 1976)
January 22nd - Houseboy (Ferdinand Oyono, 1956) - 3.5/5
January 20th - The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum, 1900) - 2/5
January 18th - The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays (Primo Levi, 1986) - 3/5
January 16th - Heidi (Johanna Spyri, 1880) - 4/5
January 14th - The Monkey's Wrench (Primo Levi, 1978) - 4/5
January 12th - The Old Capital (Yasunari Kawabata, 1962) - 3.5/5
January 10th - Amores (Ovid, 16 BC) - 3/5
January 8th - Nothing More than Murder (Jim Thompson, 1949) - 2.5/5
January 6th - Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (Yukio Mishima, 1965) - 2.5/5
January 4th - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, 1869) - 5/5
January 2nd - Love in a Bottle (Antal Szerb, 1946) - 3/5
2020 (42)
October 2020 (2)
October 24th - Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography (Johnny Marr, 2016) - 3/5
October 5th - The Hustler (Walter Tevis, 1959) - 3.5/5
September 2020 (10)
September 29th - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Nam-Joo Cho, 2016) - 3.5/5
September 26th - The Locked Room (Paul Aster, 1986) - 1.5/5
September 23rd - Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl, 1946) - 4/5
September 20th - A Room with a View (E.M. Forster, 1908) - 3.5/5
September 17th - Ghosts (Paul Aster, 1986) - 1/5
September 14th - City of Glass (Paul Aster, 1985) - 2.5/5
September 12th - Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling, 1902) - 3.5/5
September 9th - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami, 2006) - 2.5/5
September 6th - I Have My Mother's Eyes: A Holocaust Story Across Generations (Barbara Ruth Bluman, 2009) - 3.5/5
September 3rd - Maurice (E.M. Forster, 1971) - 3.5/5
August 2020 (1)
August 17th - The Princess de Clèves (Madame de La Fayette, 1678) - 1/5
July 2020 (2)
July 26th - I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust (Inge Auerbacher, 1986) - 3/5
July 22nd - The Ghost-Seer (Friedrich Schiller, 1787) - 3/5
June 2020 (4)
June 30th - No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai, 1948) - 3.5/5
Juny 20th - The Vegetarian (Kang Han, 2007) - 1.5/5
June 16th - Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886) - 3.5/5
June 4th - Katalin Street (Magda Szabó, 1969) - 3/5
May 2020 (4)
May 26th - A Damsel in Distress (P.G. Wodehouse, 1919) - 3.5/5
May 11th - Trees on a Slope (Sun-won Hwang, 1960) - 3.5/5
May 1st - Barbuchín (Daniel Armas, 1941)
May 1st - Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey (Hermann Hesse, 1911) - 4/5
April 2020 (8)
April 24th - A Fantasy of Doctor Ox (Jules Verne, 1872) - 3/5
April 21st - Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883) - 4.5/5
April 17th - Pilgrim at Sea (Pär Lagerkvist, 1962) - 4/5
April 16th - Scriblerus (Alexander Pope, 1741) - 4/5
April 13th - Dead Men Tell No Tales (Émile Zola, 1899) - 3.5/5
April 10th - Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren, 1945) - 2.5/5
April 9th - Daddy-Long-Legs (Jean Webster, 1912) - 2/5
April 7th - Smoke (Ivan Turgenev, 1867) - 4/5
March 2020 (5)
March 28th - Transformation (Mary Shelley, 1831) - 2.5/5
March 27th - Eye in the Sky (Philip K. Dick, 1957) - 3/5
March 25th - The Grifters (Jim Thompson, 1963) - 3/5
March 23rd - The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami, 1993) - 2/5
March 22nd - The Sandman (E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1815) - 3/5
February 2020 (3)
February 26th - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (James Hilton, 1934) - 3.5/5
February 14th - The Wild Geese (Ōgai Mori, 1911) - 2.5/5
February 6th - Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window (Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, 1981) - 4/5
January 2020 (3)
January 20th - Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne, 1872) - 4/5
January 15th - Thunder and Lightning: A No-B.S. Hockey Memoir (Phil Esposito, 2003) - 3/5
January 9th - Poor People (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1846) - 2/5
2019 (58)
December 2019 (4)
December 26th - Mr. Summer's Story (Patrick Süskind, 1991) - 3/5
December 23rd - Is Shakespeare Dead? (Mark Twain, 1909) - 3/5
December 16th - The Lonely Londoners (Sam Selvon, 1956) - 3.5/5
December 7th - The Persians (Aeschylus, 472 BC) - 3/5
November 2019 (15) (BOOK MONTH)
November 30th - Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, 467 BC) - 3/5
November 28th - A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare, 1595) - 5/5
November 26th - The Suppliants (Aeschylus, ~460 BC) - 3/5
November 24th - A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
November 22nd - The Two Gentlemen of Verona (William Shakespeare, 1594) - 4/5
November 20th - A Double Life (Karolina Pavlova, 1848) - 4/5
November 18th - The Victorian Chaise-Longue (Marghanita Laski, 1953) - 3/5
November 16th - Blake's Job (William Blake, 1826) - 3/5
November 14th - Men Without Women (Haruki Murakami, 2014) - 2/5
November 12th - The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter, 1957) - 2.5/5
November 10th - The Caretaker (Harold Pinter, 1960) - 3.5/5
November 8th - Netochka Nezvanova (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1849) - 4/5
November 6th - Prometheus Bound(Aeschylus, ~470 BC) - 3/5
November 4th - The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (Mark Twain, 1916) - 3/5
November 2nd - Theatre (W. Somerset Maugham, 1937) - 4/5
October 2019 (4)
October 29th - Falling Man (Don DeLillo, 2007) - 0/5
October 27th - Anne of the Island (L.M. Montgomery, 1915) - 3/5
October 22nd - Anne of Avonlea (L.M. Montgomery, 1909) - 2.5/5
October 4th - Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Haruki Murakami, 2011) - 3/5
September 2019 (2)
September 23rd - Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery, 1908) - 4/5
September 15th - Offside: My Life Crossing the Line (Sean Avery, 2018) - 3/5
August 2019 (3)
August 28th - We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924) - 3/5
August 19th - The Road Back (Erich Maria Remarque, 1931) - 4/5
August 3rd - Egyptian Dreamer (Božin Pavlovski, 2001) - 1/5
July 2019 (4)
July 25th - Pudd'nhead Wilson (Mark Twain, 1893) - 3.5/5
July 19th - The Quiet American (Graham Greene, 1955) - 3/5
July 15th - As a Man Grows Older (Italo Svevo, 1898) - 1.5/5
July 1st - Fountains in the Sand (Norman Douglas, 1912) - 3.5/5
June 2019 (2)
June 21st - The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Erskine Childers, 1903) - 2/5
June 8th - Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (W. Somerset Maugham, 1930) - 4/5
May 2019 (5)
May 30th - Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811) - 3/5
May 18th - The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane, 1895) - 1.5/5
May 12th - Rumble Fish (S.E. Hinton, 1975) - 3/5
May 9th - The Reader (Berhnhard Schlink, 1995) - 2.5/5
May 6th - Emma (Jane Austen, 1815) - 2/5
April 2019 (1)
April 14th - Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Franz Kafka, 1915) - 2/5
February 2019 (14) (BOOK MONTH)
February 28th - The Cossacks and Other Stories (Leo Tolstoy, 1863) - 3.5/5
February 26th - The Gambler (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866) - 3.5/5
February 24th - My Man Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse, 1919) - 3/5
February 22nd - Dancers at Night: Stories (David Adams Richards, 1978) - 2/5
February 20th - Memoirs of an Egotist (Stendhal, 1862) - 3.5/5
February 18th - The Gold-Bug and Other Tales (Edgar Allan Poe, 1843) - 4/5
February 16th - Spring Torrents (Ivan Turgenev, 1872) - 5/5
February 14th - The Tempest (William Shakespeare, 1611) - 3/5
February 12th - Alphabet of Wit (Voltaire, 1945) - 3.5/5
February 10th - Whale Music (Paul Quarrington, 1989) - 3/5
February 8th - The Survivor (Primo Levi, 1988) - 3/5
February 6th - The Ogre Downstairs (Diana Wynne Jones, 1974) - 3.5/5
February 4th - The Book of Sand (Jorge Luis Borges, 1975) - 3/5
February 2nd - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or How Violence Develops and Where it Can Lead (Heinrich Böll, 1974) - 3.5/5
January 2019 (4)
January 28th - Amsterdam (Ian McEwan, 1998) - 2.5/5
January 23rd - Under the Yellow & Red Stars (Alex Levin, 2009) - 4/5
January 17th - Liquidation (Imre Kertész, 2003) - 3.5/5
January 10th - The Gate (Natsume Sōseki, 1910) - 4/5
2018 (43)
December 2018 (2)
December 22nd - The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories (P.G. Wodehouse, 1917) - 3/5
December 13th - Skylark (Dezső Kosztolányi, 1924) - 3.5/5
October 2018 (1)
September 13th-October 16th - Up from Slavery (Booker T. Washington, 1900) - 3/5
September (1)
August 17th-September 8th - The Aeneid (Virgil, 19 BC) - 2.5/5
August (3)
August 9th-14th - The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells, 1897) - 2.5/5
August 6th-10th - Rudin (Ivan Turgenev, 1856) - 4/5
July 27th-August 5th - Diario de Greg: Un renacuajo (Jeff Kinney, 2004) - 2.5/5
July (3)
July 20th-25th - The Sickness Unto Death (Søren Kierkegaard, 1849) - 1/5
July 9th-19th - On the Eve (Ivan Turgenev, 1860) - 3/5
April 5th-July 8th - Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy, 1878) - 4/5
June (BOOK READING MONTH) (15)
June 29th-30th - The Underdogs (Mariano Azuela, 1916) - 3/5
June 27th-28th - The Dwarf (Pär Lagerkvist, 1944) - 4.5/5
June 25th-26th - Look Back in Anger (John Osborne, 1956) - 3.5/5
June 23rd-24th - Red's Story (Red Storey, 1994) - 4/5
June 21st-22nd - The Bhagavad Gita (?, ~400 BC) - 2/5
June 19th-20th - Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929) - 2/5
June 17th-18th - Minimum of Two (Tim Winton, 1987) - 3.5/5
June 15th-16th - Closely Watched Trains (Bohumil Hrabal, 1965) - 2.5/5
June 13th-14th - As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (Lady Sarashina, ~1050) - 4/5
June 11th-12th - The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Murasaki Shikibu, ~1010) - 2.5/5
June 9th-10th - Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe, 1958) - 3/5
June 7th-8th - Pinball, 1973 (Haruki Murakami, 1980) - 3.5/5
June 5th-6th - Hear the Wind Sing (Haruki Murakami, 1979) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
Jan 24th-June 4th - The Marquis of Bolibar (Leo Perutz, 1920) - 3.5/5
June 1st-2nd - Diary of a Madman (Brad "Scarface" Jordan, 2014) - 1.5/5
April (1)
March 4th-April 5th - Mockingbird (Walter Tevis, 1980) - 3.5/5
February (1)
February 2nd-28th - A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami, 1982) - 3.5/5
January (BOOK READING MONTH) (16)
January 30 - Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia (1971) - 3/5
January 28 - Sasuke's Story: Sunrise (Masashi Kishimoto, Shin Towada, 2015) - 3/5
January 26 - Itachi's Story, Vol. 2: Midnight (Masashi Kishimoto, Takashi Yano, 2015) - 3.5/5
January 24 - Itachi's Story, Vol. 1: Daylight (Masashi Kishimoto, Takashi Yano, 2015) - 3/5
July 16 2017-January 22 - Tales of Student Life (Hermann Hesse, 1976) - 4.5/5
January 19-20 - Moments of Reprieve (Primo Levi, 1981) - 4/5
January 17-18 - In Praise of Shadows (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1933) - 4/5
January 16 - To Every Thing there is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story (Alistair MacLeod, 1977) - 3/5
January 14-15 - The Tales of Belkin (Alexander Pushkin, 1831) - 4/5
January 12-13 - All the Way: My Life on Ice (Jordin Tootoo, 2014) - 3/5
January 10-11 - Night (Elie Wiesel, 1958) - 2.5/5
January 8-9 - Strait Is the Gate (André Gide, 1909) - 4.5/5
January 6-7 - Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett, 1953) - 3/5
January 4-5 - The Fall (Albert Camus, 1956) - 3/5
January 2-3 - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (Kenzaburō Ōe, 1958) - 4/5
November 26 2017-January 1 - Dance Dance Dance (Haruki Murakami, 1988) - 3/5
2017 (18)
November
September 12-November 7 - Fatelessness (Imre Kertész, 1973) - 4/5
September
September 8-11 - After Dark (Haruki Murakami, 2004) - 3/5
August
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August 1 - The Tales of Beedle the Bard (J.K. Rowling, 2007) - 2.5/5
July
July 5-6 - The Mother of All Questions (Rebecca Solnit, 2017) - 2/5
July 4-5 - Men Explain Things to Me (Rebecca Solnit, 2014) - 2/5
June
June 20-25 - Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata, 1937) - 3/5
May 27-June 16 - Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence, 1928) - 2.5/5
May
November 7 2016-May 27 - Sun and Steel (Yukio Mishima, 1968) - 5/5
May 16-23 - The Wounded and the Slain (David Goodis, 1955) - 3/5
May 11-14 - Vita Sexualis (Ōgai Mori, 1909) - 2/5
May 7-10 - Botchan (Sōseki Natsume, 1906) - 4/5
May 5-7 - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami, 2013) - 3/5
October 5 2016-May 3 - Scission (Tim Winton, 1985) - 2.5/5
April
April 6-? - Why I Write (George Orwell, 1946) - 3/5
March
February 17-March 24 - Coin Locker Babies (Ryū Murakami, 1980) - 5/5
February
January 12-February 5 - Mouchette (Georges Bernanos, 1937) - 4/5
January
December 21 2016-January 8 - The Truce (Primo Levi, 1963) - 4/5
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2016 (18)
December
November 26-December 16 - Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements (Bob Mehr, 2016) - 3/5
September
September 21-25 - Charlotte's Daughter (Susanna Rowson, 1828) - 2.5/5
September 12-21 - Charlotte Temple (Susanna Rowson, 1790) - 1/5
August
August 19-27 - No Great Mischief (Alistair MacLeod, 1999) - 3.5/5
August 5-8 - The Death of Ahasuerus (Pär Lagerkvist, 1960) - 4/5
August 3-4 - Herod and Mariamne (Pär Lagerkvist, 1967) - 3.5/5
July 31-August 2 - Shikamaru's Story (Takashi Yano, 2015) - 2.5/5
July
July 30 - Kakashi's Story (Akira Higashiyama, 2015) - 2/5
July 21-25 - Last Words from Montmartre (Qiu Miaojin, 1996) - 3/5
February 14-July 20 - The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922) - 3/5
May 13-July 10 - Kim (Rudyard Kipling, 1901) - 4/5
May
April 21-May 8 - The Riders (Tim Winton, 1994) - 4/5
April
April 18 - In the Miso Soup (Ryū Murakami, 1997) - 5/5
March 29-April 5 - Home of the Gentry (Ivan Turgenev, 1859) - 4/5
March
March 19-26 - The Other Victims (Ina R. Friedman, Ana R. Friedman, 1990) - 3/5
February 2-March 9 - If This Is a Man (Primo Levi, 1947) - 4/5
March 1 - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Tadeusz Borowski, 1947) - 4/5
January
January 17-28 - Still Alive (Ruth Klüger, 1992) - 3/5
2015 (16)
December
December 3-24 - Searching for Bobby Orr (Stephen Brunt, 2006) - 2/5
October
October 18-31 - The Confusions of Young Torless (Robert Musil, 1906) - 3/5
September 13-October 8 - The End of a Family Story ( Péter Nádas, 1977) - 2/5
August
August 5-28 - Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte, 1847) - 1.5/5
July
July 13th-20th - Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895) - 3/5
July 8th-10th - Confusion (Stefan Zweig, 1927) - 3/5
June 27th-July 8th - Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992) - 2.5/5
June
June 13th-27th - The Game (Ken Dryden, 1983) - 2.5/5
June 2nd-4th - Popol Vuh (155?) - 4/5
May
May 14th-17th - Thousand Cranes (Yasunari Kawabata, 1952) - 3/5
May 1st-13th - Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis, 1998) - 2.5/5
April
March 25th-April 30th - The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (Bernal Díaz, 1568) - 5/5
March
March 10th-23rd - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima, 1963) - 3.5/5
March 3rd-5th - In the Pond (Ha Jin, 1998) - 3.5/5
February
February 7th-12th - Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Judith C. Brown, 1986) - 3.5/5
January
December 29th 2014-January 3rd 2015 - The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1935) - 4/5
2014 (55)
December 2014
December 26th-29th - Uneasy Money (P.G. Wodehouse, 1916) - 4/5
December 23rd-26th - The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham, 1925) - 4/5
December 22nd-23rd - Project X (Jim Shepard, 2004) - 2.5/5
December 20th-22nd - The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890) - 2.5/5
December 19th-20th - A Dream Play (August Strindberg, 1907) - 1.5/5
October 21st-December 19th - The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek, 1983) - 3/5
December 12th-19th - The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850) - 2.5/5
December 3rd-11th - King Leary (Paul Quarrington, 1987) - 3/5
November 29th-December 3rd - The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath, 1963) - 4.5/5
November 2014
November 18th-29th - Ubik (Philip K. Dick, 1969) - 3/5
November 13th-18th - Journey by Moonlight (Antal Szerb, 1937) - 4/5
November 6th-13th - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962) - 4/5
October 28th-November 4th - Crabwalk (Günter Grass, 2002) - 2.5/5
October 2014
October 15th-20th - Accident: A Day's News (Christa Wolf, 1987) - 3/5
October 6th-14th - Ready Player One (Ernest Cline, 2011) - 2/5
September 2014
September 20th-23rd - The Father (August Strindberg, 1887) - 2.5/5
September 19th - The Eumenides (Aeschylus, 458) - 2.5/5
September 18th - The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus, 458) - 3/5
September 16th-17th - Agememnon (Aeschylus, 458) - 3.5/5
September 14th-16th - A Doll House (Henrik Ibsen, 1879) - 3/5
September 6th-12th - Headbirths, or: The Germans Are Dying Out (Günter Grass, 1980) - 2/5
September 5th-6th - Strange News from Another Star and Other Tales (Hermann Hesse, 1919) - 4/5
August 14th-September 4th - The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse, 1943) - 4.5/5
August 2014
August 10th-13th - Diary of a Mad Old Man (Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, 1961) - 3.5/5
August 6th-9th - The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon, 1966) - 3.5/5
August 4th-6th - A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887) - 3/5
August 2nd-4th - Tom Sawyer Abroad (Mark Twain, 1894) - 2.5/5
July 31st-August 1st - Anthem (Ayn Rand, 1938) - 1/5
July 2014
July 29th-31st - The Killer Inside Me (Jim Thompson, 1952) - 4/5
July 29th - Klingsor's Last Summer (Hermann Hesse, 1920) - 3.5/5
July 26th-29th - Klein and Wagner (Hermann Hesse, 1919) - 2.5/5
July 22nd-26th - The Defense (Vladimir Nabokov, 1930) - 2.5/5
July 19th-21st - Rosshalde (Hermann Hesse, 1914) - 4/5
July 13th-18th - The Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank, 1944) - 5/5
July 4th-13th - Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726) - 4/5
June 18th-July 4th - The Little Nugget (P.G. Wodehouse, 1913) - 3/5
June 2014
December 10th, 2013-June 16th - The Man Upstairs and Other Stories (P.G. Wodehouse, 1914) - 3/5
May 25th-June 2nd - Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert, 1856) - 2/5
May 2014
May 20th-25th - W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes (Robert Taylor, 1949) - 3.5/5
May 19th - No More Dead Dogs (Gordon Korman, 2002) - 5/5 (4th reading?)
May 14th-18th - Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury, 1962) - 3/5
May 7th-10th - Othello (William Shakespeare, 1603) - 2.5/5
May 7th - Chess Story (Stefan Zweig, 1942) - 4.5/5
May 7th - Lyra's Oxford (Philip Pullman, 2003) - 3/5
April 8th-May 6th - The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman, 2000) - 2.5/5 (2nd reading)
April 2014
April 2nd-7th - The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman, 1997) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
March 29th-April 2nd - The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman, 1995) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
March 2014
March 27th-28th - Demian (Hermann Hesse, 1919) - 5/5 (2nd reading)
March 23rd-25th - Anchorboy (Jay Onrait, 2013) - 2.5/5
February 27th-March 21st - Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (Richard Powers, 1985) - 3/5
February 2014
February 21st-25th - Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen, 1817) - 4/5
February 13th-20th - The Quest for Juice (Jonathan-David Jackson, 2013) - 2.5/5
January 5th-February 12th - The Devils (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1872) - 5/5
January 2014
January 3rd-4th - Born Weird (Andrew Kaufman, 2012) - 3/5
December 18th-January 2nd - The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1880) - 4/5
2013 (51)
December 2013
December 16th-18th - The Box Man (Kōbō Abe, 1973) - 2.5/5
December 14th-15th - The Genius and the Goddess (Aldous Huxley, 1955) - 4.5/5
December 5th-9th - The Prince and Betty (P.G. Wodehouse, 1912) - 3/5
November 18th-December 3rd - The Gourmet Club (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1911-55) - 4/5
July 25th-December 2nd - Seven Japanese Tales (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1910-59) - 4/5
November 2013
November 7th-14th - Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen, 1835-71) - 3/5
August 16th-November 13th - The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu, 10XX) - 5/5
October 2013
September 2013
September 15th-17th - Mister Pip (Lloyd Jones, 2006) - 2/5
September 6th-14th - Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861) - 4.5/5
August 2013
August 6th-16th - Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol, 1842) - 5/5
August 4th-6th - The Key (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1956) - 3/5
August 1st-4th - Arrowroot (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1931) - 4/5
July 27th-August 1st - A Cat, a Man, and Two Women (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1918-36) - 4/5
July 2013
May 8th - July 22nd - Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates, 1961) - 2/5
July 14th - Captain Shigemoto's Mother (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1949) - 4.5/5
July 13th - The Reed Cutter (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1932) - 4/5
July 12th-13th - The Witches (Roald Dahl, 1983) - 3.5/5
July 7th-12th - The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton, 1908) - 3/5
July 1st-7th - Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin, 1837) - 4/5
June 2013
June 28th-29th - Kokoro (Natsume Sōseki, 1914) - 5/5
June 23rd-28th - Rupert of Hentzau (Anthony Hope, 1898) - 2.5/5
June 19th-21st - Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe, 1592) - 2.5/5
June 13th-18th - My Life in Hockey (Jean Béliveau; Chrys Goyens; Allan Turowetz, 1994) - 3/5
June 6th-13th - The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole, 1764) - 2/5
May 31st-June 6th - Persuasion (Jane Austen, 1816) - 3.5/5
May 2013
May 21st-24th - The Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G. Wells, 1896) - 3.5/5
May 18th-21st - The Prisoner of Zenda (Anthony Hope, 1894) - 3.5/5
May 15th-17th - The Woman in the Dunes (Kōbō Abe, 1962) - 4/5
May 11th-15th - Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954) - 3.5/5
May 7th-10th - Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë, 1847) - 4/5
March 20th-May 7th - The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner, 1929) - 4/5
May 2nd-3rd - The Informers (Bret Easton Ellis, 1994) - 3.5/5
May 2nd - Choke (Chuck Palahniuk, 2001) - 0/5
April 24th-May 1st - Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) - 2.5/5
April 2013
November 21st 2012-April 23rd 2013 - Twilight of the Idols (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889) - 3.5/5
April 19th-22nd - Quicksand (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1930) - 3/5
March 30th-April 3rd - The Rules of Attraction (Bret Easton Ellis, 1987) - 4/5
March 2013
March 13th-18th - Geek Love (Katherine Dunn, 1989) - 2.5/5
March 9th-12th - Doppler (Erlend Loe, 2004) - 3/5
March 4th-5th - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka, 1915) - 2.5/5 (2nd reading)
February 13th-March 2nd - The Odyssey (Homer, 8?? BC) - 3.5/5
February 2013
February 23rd-25th - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886) - 3.5/5
February 8th-10th - Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare, 1597) - 2/5
January 30th-February 6th - Galatea 2.2 (Richard Powers, 1995) - 5/5
January 2013
January 26th-29th - Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872) - 2.5/5
January 20th-25th - Piccadilly Jim (P.G. Wodehouse, 1916) - 4/5
January 13th-17th - The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Alexander Pushkin, 1828-41) - 5/5
January 7th-12th - Down and Out in Paris and London (George Orwell, 1933) - 3.5/5
January 4th-7th - Satyricon (Petronius, 0?? AD) - 4/5
January 3rd-4th - A Spy in the House of Love (Anaïs Nin, 1954) - 2/5
December 13th-January 2nd - Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, 1615) - 4/5
2012 (58)
December 2012
April 8th-December 1st - The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1862-1877) - 3.5/5
November 2012
November 3rd - The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848) - 1.5/5
October 2012
October 27th-31st - Candide (Voltaire, 1759) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
October 18th-20th - The Devil in the Flesh (Raymond Radiguet, 1923) - 2/5
September 2012 (school books)
September 24th-28th - Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Marvin Harris, 1975) - 3/5
September 15th-18th - Macbeth (William Shakespeare, 1606?) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
September 14th - Oedipus the King (Sophocles, 429 BC) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
September 1st-5th - Sanshiro (Natsume Sōseki, 1908) - 4.5/5
August 2012 (easy reading books)
August 29th-31st - The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925) - 2.5/5
August 27th-28th - The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan, 1915) - 4.5/5
August 27th - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby, 1997) - 2.5/5
August 26th-27th - Snuff (Chuck Palahniuk, 2008) - 2/5
* August 16th-25th - The Iliad (Homer, 8?? BC) - 4/5
* August 12th-15th - Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov, 1957) - 1/5
August 10th-12th - This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920) - 4/5
August 4th-10th - Strangers (Taichi Yamada, 1987) - 3.5/5
August 2nd-4th - Less than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis, 1985) - 4/5
* July 29th-August 1st - All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque, 1929) - 4.5/5
July 2012 (french books)
* July 18th-28th - Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897) - 2.5/5
July 11th-17th - Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938) - 3/5
July 9th-10th - The Immoralist (André Gide, 1902) - 3/5
July 8th - L'Ingenu (Voltaire, 1767) - 3/5
July 5th-7th - The Bridge over the River Kwai (Pierre Boulle, 1952) - 3.5/5
* June 30th-July 4th - Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane, 1896) - 4/5
June 2012 (long books)
June 26th-29th - Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813) - 4/5
June 15th-26th - One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez, 1967) - 3.5/5
June 1st-14th - The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck, 1939) - 2/5
May 2012
May 30th-31st - The Leaf Storm (Gabriel García Márquez, 1955) - 3/5
May 29th-30th - John Manjiro, The Castaway (Masuji Ibuse, 1947) - 4.5/5
May 22nd-26th - Some Prefer Nettles (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1929) - 4/5
May 20th-21st - Naomi (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1924) - 3.5/5
May 13th-20th - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1884) - 4/5
May 9th-12th - Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel García Márquez, 1981) - 3/5
February 23rd-May 9th - A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway, 1929) - 3/5
April 25th-May 1st - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick, 1968) - 3.5/5
April 2012
April 21st-25th - American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis, 1991) - 3.5/5
April 17th - Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote, 1958) - 2/5
April 11th-17th - The Diary of a Country Priest (Georges Bernanos, 1936) - 4/5
April 7th-8th - South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami, 1992) - 3.5/5
April 2nd-7th - Through the Looking Glass (Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1871) - 2/5
March 30th-April 1st - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865) - 1.5/5
March 2012
March 22nd-26th - Open (Andre Agassi, 2009) - 3/5
March 16th-18th - 69 (Ryu Murakami, 1987) - 4/5
March 12th-14th - Beware the Fish (Gordon Korman, 1980) - 2.5/5
March 9th-11th - A Geisha Remembers (Masuji Ibuse, 1952) - 3/5
March 1st-9th - Shoeless Joe (W.P. Kinsella, 1982) - 2/5
February 2012
February 29th - Go Jump in the Pool (Gordon Korman, 1979) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
February 14th-21st - Solaris (Stanisław Lem, 1961) - 3/5
February 16th - For the Good of the Cause (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1963) - 2.5/5
February 12th-13th - The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy, 1886) - 4/5
February 11th - The Forged Coupon (Leo Tolstoy, 1904) - 4/5
November 14th-February 10th - In the Winter Dark (Tim Winton, 1988) - 4/5
January 21st-February 10th - The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937) - 3.5/5
February 2nd-3rd - Fire on Ice (Eric Lindros, 1991) - 3/5
January 2012
January 14th-17th - Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka, 1915) - 3/5
January 11th-13th - The Queen's Gambit (Walter Tevis, 1983) - 4/5
January 7th-10th - Beowulf (???, ???) - 3/5
December 16th-January 4th - Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866) - 4.5/5
2011 (57)
December 2011
December 9th-15th - Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev, 1862) - 4/5
December 7th - Egyptian Nights (Alexander Pushkin, 1837) - 3/5
December 6th-7th - Dubrovsky (Alexander Pushkin, 1832) - 3.5/5
November 28th-December 3rd - The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett, 1934) - 3/5
November 2011
November 22nd-26th - Triple Crown: The Marcel Dionne Story (Ted Mahovlich, 2004) - 2.5/5
September 30th-November 19th- The Anti-Christ (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888) - 3.5/5
November 10th-12th - Les Enfants Terrible (Jean Cocteau, 1929) - 4/5
November 3rd-7th - Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury, 1953) - 3.5/5
October 2011
October 7th-16th - The Pearl (John Steinbeck, 1947) - 3.5/5
October 3rd-9th - Talk Show (Dick Cavett, 2010) - 2.5/5
September 2011
September 15th-29th - The Sound of the Mountain (Yasunari Kawabata, 1954) - 4/5
September 7th-14th - Being There (Jerzy Kosinski, 1971) - 3/5
October 11th, 2011-September 3rd - Black Rain (Masuji Ibuse, 1965) - 5/5
August 31st-September 1st - Exiles (James Joyce, 1918) - 3/5
August 2011
August 30th - This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall (Gordan Korman, 1978) - 2.5/5 (2nd reading)
August 29th - Suffer Little Children (Dereck O'Brien, 1991) - 3.5/5
August 25th-29th - Marcovaldo (Italo Calvino, 1963) - 3/5
August 21st-24th - The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1846) - 4/5
August 19th-20th - No One Writes to the Colonel (Gabriel García Márquez, 1961) - 3.5/5
August 18th - Clouds (Aristophanes, 423 BC) - 2.5/5
August 14th-17th - Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1864) - 3/5
June 5th-August 17th - The Clicking of Cuthbert (P.G. Wodehouse, 1922) - 3/5
August 15th - The Dyskolos (Menander, 317 BC) - 2.5/5
August 10th-13th - Thirst for Love (Yukio Mishima, 1950) - 3/5
August 9th - A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962) - 4/5
August 3rd-8th - Death in Venice (Thomas Mann, 1912) - 2/5
July 30th-August 2nd - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain, 1876) - 5/5
July 2011
July 6th-21st - The Stone Carvers (Jane Urquhart, 2001) - 2/5
June 16th-July 4th - The Songlines (Bruce Chatwin, 1986) - 4/5
June 2011
June 10th-13th - The Tiny Wife (Andrew Kaufman, 2011) - 2/5
June 7th-12th - Psmith in the City (P.G. Wodehouse, 1910) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
June 6th - Mike and Psmith (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 3.5/5 (2nd reading)
June 5th - Mike at Wrykyn (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
June 1st-3rd - A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov, 1841) - 4/5
May 2011
May 5th-30th - The Makioka Sisters (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1948) - 5/5
April 28th-May 5th - Popular Hits of the Showa Era (Ryu Murakami, 1994) - 2.5/5
April 2011
April 22nd - The Stuff That Nightmares Are Made of (Yasutaka Tsutsui, 1967) - 2.5/5
April 22nd - Alcestis (Euripides, 438 BC) - 3.5/5
April 21st-22nd - The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Yasutaka Tsutsui, 1967) - 2.5/5
April 15th-20th - Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk, 1996) - 8/10
April 8th-14th - The Holocaust Industry (Norman G. Finkelstein, 2000) - 8/10
April 5th - The Boat
March 27th-April 1st - Hunger (Knut Hamsun, 1890) - 8.5/10
March 2011
March 29th - Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1835) - 7/10
March 5th-25th - The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1956) - 9/10
March 22nd - And We Sold the Rain (Carmen Naranjo) - 5.5/10
February 25th-March 4th - The Waterproof Bible (Andrew Kaufman, 2010) - 7.5/10
March 2nd - A Mother's Tale (James Agee, 1952) - 6.5/10
February 2011
February 19th-24th - The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774) - 9/10
February 14th-19th - Love All the People (Bill Hicks, 2004) - 7.5/10
February 18th-19th - The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway, 1952) - 7.5/10
February 11th-13th - Daisy Miller (Henry James, 1978) - 7/10
February 7th - Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow (Kurt Vonnegut, 1954) - 7/10
February 4th-6th - Naïve. Super (Erlend Loe, 1996) - 9/10
January 2011
January 24th - The Subliminal Man (J.G. Ballard, 1963) - 6/10
January???-20th - Billy Budd (Herman Melville, 1924) - 8/10
January 17th - A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury, 1952) - 6/10
2010 (47)
December 2010
December 14th - Wolfbay Wings
November 19th-December 13th - Dubliners (James Joyce, 1907) - 9.5/10
November 2010
October 2010
October 3rd-5th - The Moon in the Gutter (David Goodis, 1953) - 9/10
September 2010
September 30th - All My Friends Are Superheroes (Andrew Kaufman, 2003) - 9/10
September 17th-26th - The Man Who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis, 1963) - 8/10
September 7th-15th - An Open Swimmer (Tim Winton, 1981) - 8/10
August 28th-September 6th - Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coatzee, 1980) - 8/10
August 2010
August 25th-28th - Journey to the East (Hermann Hesse, 1932) - 9/10 (2nd reading)
August 21st-25th - Mount Analogue (René Daumal, 1952) - 8/10
August 18th-20th - Audition (Ryu Murakami, 1999) - 8/10
August 15th-16th - Lysistrata (Aristophanes, 411 BC) - 7.5/10
July 16th-August 14th - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce, 1916) - 9/10
August 2nd-7th - King Lear (William Shakespeare, 1603-1606) - 8.5/10
July 2010
July 12th-13th - The Outsider (Albert Camus, 1942) - 8/10
July 7th-9th - Boys and Girls Together (William Saroyan, 1963) - 8/10
June 27th-July 1st - A Devil in Paradise (Henry Miller, 1956) - 8/10
June 2010
June 4th-23rd - The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1869) - 9.5/10
May 30th-June 3rd - Macbeth (William Shakespeare, 1606?) - 8/10
May 2010
May 19th-20th - A Child's Heart (Hermann Hesse, 1919) - 7.5/10
May 16th-18th - Breath (Tim Winton, 2008) - 9/10
May 7th-14th - The Argonautica (Apollonius, 300-400 BC) - 8.5/10
May 4th-5th - That Eye, the Sky (Tim Winton, 1986) - 9/10
April 29th-May 2nd - Candide (Voltaire, 1759) - 8.5/10
April 2010
April 27th-28th - Zadig (Voltaire, 1747) - 8/10
April 25th-26th - Venus in Furs (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, 1870) - 8/10
April 23rd-24th - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde, 1895) - 8.5/10
April 21st-23rd - Lady Windermere's Fan (Oscar Wilde, 1892) - 8.5/10
April 19th-20th - Summer Crossing (Truman Capote, 1949?) - 8.5/10
March 29th-April 19th - Not George Washington (P.G. Wodehouse, 1907) - 8.5/10
April 1st-16th - Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami, 2002) - 7.5/10
March 2010
March 23rd-28th - Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818) - 8/10
March 27th - A Last Will (Williston Fish, 1908) - 7/10
March 22nd - Antigone (Sophocles, 442 BC) - 8/10
March 21st - Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles, 406 BC) - 8/10
March 18th-19th - Playing With Fire (Theoren Fleury, 2009) - 7.5/10
March 16th - The Misanthrope (Moliere, 1666) - 8.5/10
March 7th-11th - The Blonde on the Street Corner (David Goodis, 1954) - 8/10
February 27th-March 5th - The Viceroy of Ouidah (Bruce Chatwin, 1980) - 9/10
February 2010
February 24th-25th - The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima, 1954) - 9/10
February 17th-22nd - Beneath the Wheel (Hermann Hesse, 1906) - 9/10
February 15th-16th - The Symposium (Plato, 385-380 BC) - 7.5/10
February 12th-14th - Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger, 1951) - 8/10
February 10th - Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov, 1899) - 8.5/10
February 2nd-8th - Cloudstreet (Tim Winton, 1991) - 9.5/10
January 28th-February 1st - Knulp (Hermann Hesse, 1915) - 8.5/10
January 2010
January 22nd-26th - Junkie (William S. Burroughs, 1953) - 8/10
December 29th-January 19th - The Red and the Black (Stendhal, 1830) - 9/10
2009 (60)
December 2009
December 28th - A Season in Hell (Arthur Rimbaud, 1873) - 8/10
December 20th-25th - Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card, 1996) - 7.5/10
December 12th-20th - Xenocide (Orson Scott Card, 1991) - 7.5/10
December 6th-11th - Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card, 1986) - 8/10
November 30th-December 5th - Ender in Exile (Orson Scott Card, 2008) - 7.5/10
November 2009
November 26th-29th - Shadow of the Giant (Orson Scott Card, 2005) - 8/10
November 21st-25th - Shadow Puppets (Orson Scott Card, 2002) - 8/10
November 17th-20th - Shadow of the Hegemon (Orson Scott Card, 2001) - 8/10 (2nd reading)
November 13th-16th - Ender's Shadow (Orson Scott Card, 1999) - 8/10 (2nd reading)
November 12th - A War of Gifts (Orson Scott Card, 2007) - 7/10
November 12th - Investment Counselor (Orson Scott Card, 1999) - 7/10
November 11th - Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card, 1977) - 7.5/10
November 10th - Teacher's Pest (Orson Scott Card, 2003) - 7/10
November 10th - The Polish Boy (Orson Scott Card, 2002) - 7/10
November 8th-9th - Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card, 1985) - 8.5/10 (2nd reading)
October 2009
October 25th-November 6th - Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte, 1847) - 9/10
October 7th-16th - Morrissey & Marr - The Severed Alliance (Johnny Rogan, 1993) - 8.5/10
September 29th-October 5th - Scoop (Evelyn Waugh, 1938) - 8.5/10
September 2009
September 28th - Okame-San (Takeshi Kitano, 1987) - 9/10
September 28th - The Nest of Stars (Takeshi Kitano, 1987) - 8/10
September 28th - The Champion in a Padded Kimono (Takeshi Kitano, 1987) - 8.5/10
September 22nd-26th - Barabbas (Pär Lagerkvist, 1950) - 9/10
September 20th - Knots (R.D. Laing, 1970) - 7.5/10
September 16th-20th - The Voyeur (Alberto Moravia, 1986) - 8.5/10
September 13th-14th - Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945) - 8/10
September 3rd-10th - Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut, 1969) - 8.5/10
August 2009
August 29th-31st - Love Among the Chickens (P.G. Wodehouse, 1906/1921) - 8/10
August 28th - The Swoop! (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 8/10
August 22nd-27th - Something Fresh (P.G. Wodehouse, 1915) - 8/10
August 16th-18th - A Gentleman of Leisure (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 8/10
August 14th-16th - The White Feather (P.G. Wodehouse, 1907) - 8/10
August 12th-13th - The Head of Kay's (P.G. Wodehouse, 1905) - 8/10
August 10th-11th - The Gold Bat (P.G. Wodehouse, 1904) - 8/10
August 7th-9th - Tales of St. Austin's (P.G. Wodehouse, 1903) - 8/10
August 5th-6th - A Prefect's Uncle (P.G. Wodehouse, 1903) - 8/10
August 3rd-5th - The Pothunters (P.G. Wodehouse, 1902) - 8/10
July 2009
July 27th-August 2nd - Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, 1955) - 9.5/10
July 21st-26th - The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov, 1903) - 9/10
July 14th-20th - Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami, 1987) - 9.5/10
July 10th-13th - Leave It to Psmith (P.G. Wodehouse, 1923) - 8.5/10
July 6th-8th - Cassidy's Girl (David Goodis, 1951) - 8.5/10
July 3rd-4th - Patriotism (Yukio Mishima, 1966) - 8/10
June 2009
June 28th-31st - Psmith Journalist (P.G. Wodehouse, 1915) - 8/10
June 23rd-27th - Psmith in the City (P.G. Wodehouse, 1910) - 9.5/10
June 21st-23rd - Mike and Psmith (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 9/10
June 18th -20th - Mike at Wrykyn (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 8.5/10
June 8th-16th - Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1939) - 7/10
May 2009
May 28th-30th - Hear the Wind Sing (Haruki Murakami, 1979) - 9/10
May 13th-17th - Almost Transparent Blue (Ryu Murakami, 1976) - 9/10
May 1st-10th - Hamlet (William Shakespeare, 1601) - 9/10
April 2009 (2)
April 23rd-24th - Why I Didn't Say Anything (Sheldon Kennedy, 2006) - 7.5/10
April 4th-7th - Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932) - 9/10
March 2009 (3)
March 27th-30th - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde, 1890) - 9/10
March 16th-22nd - The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells, 1898) - 7.5/10
March 11th-15th - Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain Fournier, 1913) - 10/10
February 2009 (4)
February 22nd-24th - Piercing (Ryu Murakami, 1994) - 7.5/10
February 17th-19th - Utz (Bruce Chatwin, 1988) - 9/10
February 9th-14th - Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima, 1948) - 9.5/10
????????????? - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami, 1995) - 8.5/10
January 2009 (1)
????????????? - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - (Haruki Murakami, 2008) - 8/10
before then, and to be sorted...
Old World Landowners (Nikolai Gogol, 1835) - 8/10
Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol, 1835) - 9/10
White Noise (Don DeLillo, 1985) - 9/10
Fires on the Plain (Ōoka Shōhei, 1951) - 8.5/10
Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami, 1999)- 9/10
Against Nature (Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1884) - 8.5/10
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock 'n' Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'n' Roll (Lester Bangs, 1987) - 9/10
Narziss and Goldmund (Hermann Hesse, 1930) - 9.5/10
High Fidelity (Nick Hornby, 1995) - 8.5/10 (2nd)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman, 2001) - 9/10
Gertrude (Hermann Hesse, 1910) - 9/10
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami, 1995) - 9.5/10
The I Chong (Tommy Chong, 2006) - 7/10
About a Boy (Nick Hornby, 1998) - 7/10
Oedipus the King (Sophocles, 429 BC) - 9/10
Demian (Hermann Hesse, 1919 - 9.5/10
Underground (Haruki Murakami, 1998) - 9/10
After the Quake (Haruki Murakami, 2000) - 9/10
Nightfall (David Goodis, 1947) - 8.5/10
Phaedo (Plato, 3?? BC) - 8/10
Meno (Plato, 3?? BC) - 7/10
Crito (Plato, 3?? BC) - 9/10
Apology (Plato, 3?? BC) - 8.5/10
Euthyphro (Plato, 3?? BC) - 8.3/10
The Gun Seller (Hugh Laurie, 1996) - 8.5/10
A Long Way Down (Nick Hornby, 2005) - 8/10
Peter Camenzind (Hermann Hesse, 1904) - 9.5/10
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse, 1922) - 9.5/10
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse, 1927) - 9.5/10
The Little Prince (Antoine Saint-Exupéry, 1943) -8/10
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller, 1934) - 8.5/10
Journey to the East (Hermann Hesse, 1932) - 8.5/10
On the Road (Jack Kerouac, 1957) - 9.5/10
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells, 1895) - 9/10
December 2023
December 24th - How Do You Live? (Genzaburo Yoshino, 1937) - 3/5
December 21st - The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie, 1922) - 1.5/5
December 16th - The Unteachables (Gordon Korman, 2019) - 4/5
December 15th - Under the Jaguar Sun (Italo Calvino, 1986) - 2/5
December 14th - The Brute & Other Farces (Anton Chekhov, ~1888) - 3.5/5
December 14th - Earwig and the Witch (Diana Wynne Jones, 2011) - 3/5
December 13th - Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (James Finn Garner, 1994) - 2/5
December 8th - Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse, 1922) - 5/5 (2nd reading)
November 2023 (3)
November 30th - The Periodic Table (Primo Levi, 1975) - 5/5
November 13th - To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee, 1960) - 3/5
November 2nd - Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Blaine Harden, 2012) - 3.5/5
October 2023 (2)
October 27th - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, 1990) - 0/5
October 6th - White (Bret Easton Ellis, 2019) - 2.5/5
September 2023 (3)
September 30th - Holes (Louis Sachar, 1998) - 2.5/5 (3rd reading?)
September 17th - Pet Sematary (Stephen King, 1983) - 2/5
September 1st - Going to Meet the Man (James Baldwin, 1965) - 3.5/5
August 2023 (4)
August 31st - One Story, One Song (Richard Wagamese, 2011) - 2/5
August 11th - Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and the Future of Hockey (Ken Dryden, 2017) - 3.5/5
August 3rd - The Death of Bagrat Zakharych and Other Stories (Vazha-Pshavela, 1913) - 3/5
August 1st - The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley, 1954) - 3.5/5
July 2023 (3)
July 26th - Deenie (Judy Blume, 1973) - 2/5
July 20th - Sidney Crosby: The Rookie Year (Neely Lohmann, 2022) - 1.5/5
July 1st - The Coming of Bill (P.G. Wodehouse, 1919) - 4/5
June 2023 (3)
June 28th - Indiscretions of Archie (P.G. Wodehouse, 1921) - 4.5/5
June 22nd - Hard Times (Charles Dickens, 1854) - 2.5/5
June 16th - Igi (Jemal Karchkhadze, 1977) - 3.5/5
May 2023 (7)
May 30th - The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas, 2017) - 1/5
May 18th - 20 Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Pablo Neruda, 1924)
May 16th - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (Judy Blume, 1970) - 2/5
May 14th - Then Again, Maybe I Won't (Judy Blume, 1971) - 3/5
May 13th - George and the Ship of Time (Lucy Hawking, 2019) - 3/5
May 8th - Adibas (Zaza Burchuladze, 2010) - 1/5
May 6th - Kvachi Kvachantiradze (Mikheil Javakhishvili, 1925) - 4.5/5
April 2023 (12)
April 29th - George and the Blue Moon (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2017) - 3/5
April 24th - Shot by Both Sides (Meisei Goto, 1973) - 2/5
April 24th - George and the Unbreakable Code (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2016) - 3/5
April 17th - The Tale of Kiều (Nguyễn Du, 1820) - 3/5
April 16th - Ali and Nino (Kurban Said, 1937) - 1/5
April 14th - The Mandarin and Other Stories (Eça de Queirós, 1880) - 2.5/5
April 14th - George and the Big Bang (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2012) - 3.5/5
April 7th - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne, 1864) - 4/5
April 6th - Old Christmas (Washington Irving, 1820) - 3/5
April 4th - The Devil and Tom Walker (Irving Washington, 1824) - 2.5/5
April 3rd - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Ann Jacobs, 1861) - 3.5/5
April 1st - The Maias (Eça de Queirós, 1888) - 4.5/5
March 2023 (8)
March 30th - The Tales of Max Carrados (Ernest Bramah, 1927) - 3/5
March 22nd - The Innocence of Father Brown (G.K. Chesterton, 1911) - 1/5
March 18th - To Sir, with Love (E.R. Braithwaite, 1959) - 4/5
March 16th - Oroonoko (Aphra Behn, 1688) - 2/5
March 12th - The Adventures of Sally (P.G. Wodehouse, 1922) - 2.5/5
March 7th - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922) - 2/5
March 7th - The Inimitable Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse, 1923) - 3/5
March 4th - The Girl on the Boat (P.G. Wodehouse, 1922) - 3.5/5
February 2023 (6)
February 20th - The Haunted Hotel (Wilkie Collins, 1879) - 2/5
February 15th - Matilda (Mary Shelley, 1820) - 4/5
February 13th - Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain, 1896) - 3/5
February 6th - What Diantha Did (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1910) - 2.5/5
February 4th - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving, 1820) - 4/5
February 2nd - The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955) - 5/5
January 2023 (2)
January 20th - The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
January 7th - The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
2022 (31)
December 2022 (2)
December 20th - The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
December 12th - To-morrow (Joseph Conrad, 1902) - 3/5
November 2022 (2)
November 24th - We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story (Simu Liu, 2022) - 3/5
November 12th - The Chrysalids (John Wyndham, 1955) - 4/5
October 2022 (2)
October 25th - High-Risk Homosexual (Edgar Gomez, 2022) - 1.5/5
October 11th - Ghost Boys (Jewell Parker Rhodes, 2018) - 3/5
September 2022 (1)
September 21st - All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business (Mel Brooks, 2021) - 3/5
July 2022 (2)
July 21st - Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir (Mark Critch, 2018) - 3.5/5
July 7th - A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars (Hakeem Oluseyi, 2021) - 3.5/5
June 2022 (7)
June 30th - I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir (Brian Wilson, 2016) - 4/5
June 27th - Punch Me Up to the Gods (Brian Broome, 2021) - 3/5
June 22nd - Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began (Guido Tonelli, 2020) - 4/5
June 11th - Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Stephen Hawking, 2018) - 4/5
June 7th - Beyond the Gender Binary (Alok, 2020) - 4/5
June 6th - George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2009) - 3/5
June 2nd - George's Secret Key to the Universe (Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking, 2007) - 3/5
May 2022 (1)
May 28th - A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking, 1988) - 4/5
April 2022 (2)
April 29th - The Slender Thread (Stirling Silliphant, 1966) - 1/5
April 9th - MirrorMask (Neil Gaiman, 2005) - 1/5
March 2022 (2)
March 25th - The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman, 2013) - 1/5 (2nd reading)
March 16th - Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman, 2005) - 2/5
February 2022 (3)
February 23rd - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass, 1845) - 4/5
February 16th - American Gods (Neil Gaiman, 2001) - 2/5 (2nd reading)
February 8th - The 50th Law (50 Cent, Robert Greene, 2008) - 2/5
January 2022 (7)
January 23rd - The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (Neil Gaiman, 1997)
January 23rd - Crazy Hair (Neil Gaiman, 2009)
January 23rd - Cinnamon (Neil Gaiman, 1995)
January 23rd - The Sleeper and the Spindle (Neil Gaiman, 2013)
January 17th - The Wolves in the Walls (Neil Gaiman, 2003)
January 10th - How the Marquis Got His Coat Back (Neil Gaiman, 2015) - 2/5
January 9th - Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman, 1996) - 3/5
2021 (44)
December 2021 (2)
December 21st - Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism (Peter Staley, 2021) - 4/5
December 8th - Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter (50 Cent, 2020) - 4/5
November 2021 (2)
November 23rd - Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other (Ken Dryden, 2019) - 3/5
November 8th - The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman, 2008) - 3.5/5
October 2021 (7)
October 30th - Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Mike Love, 2016) - 3/5
October 23rd - Odd and the Frost Giants (Neil Gaiman, 2008) - 3.5/5
October 21st - Coraline (Neil Gaiman, 2002) - 3/5
October 17th - Fortunately, the Milk... (Neil Gaiman, 2013) - 2/5
October 11th - Stardust (Neil Gaiman, 1998) - 3.5/5
October 8th - James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl, 1961) - 3/5
October 3rd - Norse Mythology (Neil Gaiman, 2017) - 4/5
September 2021 (2)
September 28th - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Trevor Noah, 2016) - 2.5/5)
September 20th - The Moon and Sixpence (W. Somerset Maugham, 1919) - 3/5
August 2021 (2)
August 23rd - Son of the Mob (Gordon Korman, 2002) - 2.5/5
August 9th - Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar (Keith Richards, Theodora Richards, 2014) - 4/5
July 2021 (1)
July 25th - Twelve Years a Slave (Solomon Northup, 1853) - 4/5
May 2021 (1)
May 10th - Toast on Toast: Cautionary Tales and Candid Advice (Steven Toast, 2016) - 4/5 (3rd reading?)
April 2021 (3)
April 11th - Burke's Law: A Life in Hockey (Brian Burke, 2020) - 3/5
April 9th - Number Two: More Short Tales from a Very Tall Man (Jay Onrait, 2015) - 3/5
April 6th - How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents (Jimmy O. Yang, 2018) - 3.5/5
March 2021 (6)
March 31st - Teaching: It's Harder Than It Looks (Gerry Dee, 2012) - 4/5
March 26th - The Call of the Wild (Jack London, 1903) - 3.5/5
March 25th - See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody (Bob Mould, 2011) - 3/5
March 17th - Anchorboy (Jay Onrait, 2013) - 3/5
March 8th - A Lost Lady (Willa Cather, 1923) - 3/5
March 5th - The Razor's Edge (W. Somerset Maugham, 1944) - 4/5
February 2021 (3)
February 21st - Prester John (John Buchan, 1910) - 4/5
February 14th - Heidi (Johanna Spyri, 1880) - 4.5/5
February 8th - Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899) - 4/5
January 2021 (15) (BOOK MONTH)
January 30th - Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir (Norm Macdonald, 2016) - 3.5/5
January 28th - Family Lexicon (Natalia Ginzburg, 1963) - 3.5/5
January 26th - The Story of Abelard's Adversities (Pierre Abélard, 1135) - 3/5
January 24th - The Bed Book (Sylvia Plath, 1976)
January 22nd - Houseboy (Ferdinand Oyono, 1956) - 3.5/5
January 20th - The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum, 1900) - 2/5
January 18th - The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays (Primo Levi, 1986) - 3/5
January 16th - Heidi (Johanna Spyri, 1880) - 4/5
January 14th - The Monkey's Wrench (Primo Levi, 1978) - 4/5
January 12th - The Old Capital (Yasunari Kawabata, 1962) - 3.5/5
January 10th - Amores (Ovid, 16 BC) - 3/5
January 8th - Nothing More than Murder (Jim Thompson, 1949) - 2.5/5
January 6th - Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (Yukio Mishima, 1965) - 2.5/5
January 4th - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, 1869) - 5/5
January 2nd - Love in a Bottle (Antal Szerb, 1946) - 3/5
2020 (42)
October 2020 (2)
October 24th - Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography (Johnny Marr, 2016) - 3/5
October 5th - The Hustler (Walter Tevis, 1959) - 3.5/5
September 2020 (10)
September 29th - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Nam-Joo Cho, 2016) - 3.5/5
September 26th - The Locked Room (Paul Aster, 1986) - 1.5/5
September 23rd - Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl, 1946) - 4/5
September 20th - A Room with a View (E.M. Forster, 1908) - 3.5/5
September 17th - Ghosts (Paul Aster, 1986) - 1/5
September 14th - City of Glass (Paul Aster, 1985) - 2.5/5
September 12th - Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling, 1902) - 3.5/5
September 9th - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami, 2006) - 2.5/5
September 6th - I Have My Mother's Eyes: A Holocaust Story Across Generations (Barbara Ruth Bluman, 2009) - 3.5/5
September 3rd - Maurice (E.M. Forster, 1971) - 3.5/5
August 2020 (1)
August 17th - The Princess de Clèves (Madame de La Fayette, 1678) - 1/5
July 2020 (2)
July 26th - I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust (Inge Auerbacher, 1986) - 3/5
July 22nd - The Ghost-Seer (Friedrich Schiller, 1787) - 3/5
June 2020 (4)
June 30th - No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai, 1948) - 3.5/5
Juny 20th - The Vegetarian (Kang Han, 2007) - 1.5/5
June 16th - Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886) - 3.5/5
June 4th - Katalin Street (Magda Szabó, 1969) - 3/5
May 2020 (4)
May 26th - A Damsel in Distress (P.G. Wodehouse, 1919) - 3.5/5
May 11th - Trees on a Slope (Sun-won Hwang, 1960) - 3.5/5
May 1st - Barbuchín (Daniel Armas, 1941)
May 1st - Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey (Hermann Hesse, 1911) - 4/5
April 2020 (8)
April 24th - A Fantasy of Doctor Ox (Jules Verne, 1872) - 3/5
April 21st - Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883) - 4.5/5
April 17th - Pilgrim at Sea (Pär Lagerkvist, 1962) - 4/5
April 16th - Scriblerus (Alexander Pope, 1741) - 4/5
April 13th - Dead Men Tell No Tales (Émile Zola, 1899) - 3.5/5
April 10th - Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren, 1945) - 2.5/5
April 9th - Daddy-Long-Legs (Jean Webster, 1912) - 2/5
April 7th - Smoke (Ivan Turgenev, 1867) - 4/5
March 2020 (5)
March 28th - Transformation (Mary Shelley, 1831) - 2.5/5
March 27th - Eye in the Sky (Philip K. Dick, 1957) - 3/5
March 25th - The Grifters (Jim Thompson, 1963) - 3/5
March 23rd - The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami, 1993) - 2/5
March 22nd - The Sandman (E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1815) - 3/5
February 2020 (3)
February 26th - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (James Hilton, 1934) - 3.5/5
February 14th - The Wild Geese (Ōgai Mori, 1911) - 2.5/5
February 6th - Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window (Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, 1981) - 4/5
January 2020 (3)
January 20th - Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne, 1872) - 4/5
January 15th - Thunder and Lightning: A No-B.S. Hockey Memoir (Phil Esposito, 2003) - 3/5
January 9th - Poor People (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1846) - 2/5
2019 (58)
December 2019 (4)
December 26th - Mr. Summer's Story (Patrick Süskind, 1991) - 3/5
December 23rd - Is Shakespeare Dead? (Mark Twain, 1909) - 3/5
December 16th - The Lonely Londoners (Sam Selvon, 1956) - 3.5/5
December 7th - The Persians (Aeschylus, 472 BC) - 3/5
November 2019 (15) (BOOK MONTH)
November 30th - Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, 467 BC) - 3/5
November 28th - A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare, 1595) - 5/5
November 26th - The Suppliants (Aeschylus, ~460 BC) - 3/5
November 24th - A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
November 22nd - The Two Gentlemen of Verona (William Shakespeare, 1594) - 4/5
November 20th - A Double Life (Karolina Pavlova, 1848) - 4/5
November 18th - The Victorian Chaise-Longue (Marghanita Laski, 1953) - 3/5
November 16th - Blake's Job (William Blake, 1826) - 3/5
November 14th - Men Without Women (Haruki Murakami, 2014) - 2/5
November 12th - The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter, 1957) - 2.5/5
November 10th - The Caretaker (Harold Pinter, 1960) - 3.5/5
November 8th - Netochka Nezvanova (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1849) - 4/5
November 6th - Prometheus Bound(Aeschylus, ~470 BC) - 3/5
November 4th - The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (Mark Twain, 1916) - 3/5
November 2nd - Theatre (W. Somerset Maugham, 1937) - 4/5
October 2019 (4)
October 29th - Falling Man (Don DeLillo, 2007) - 0/5
October 27th - Anne of the Island (L.M. Montgomery, 1915) - 3/5
October 22nd - Anne of Avonlea (L.M. Montgomery, 1909) - 2.5/5
October 4th - Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Haruki Murakami, 2011) - 3/5
September 2019 (2)
September 23rd - Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery, 1908) - 4/5
September 15th - Offside: My Life Crossing the Line (Sean Avery, 2018) - 3/5
August 2019 (3)
August 28th - We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924) - 3/5
August 19th - The Road Back (Erich Maria Remarque, 1931) - 4/5
August 3rd - Egyptian Dreamer (Božin Pavlovski, 2001) - 1/5
July 2019 (4)
July 25th - Pudd'nhead Wilson (Mark Twain, 1893) - 3.5/5
July 19th - The Quiet American (Graham Greene, 1955) - 3/5
July 15th - As a Man Grows Older (Italo Svevo, 1898) - 1.5/5
July 1st - Fountains in the Sand (Norman Douglas, 1912) - 3.5/5
June 2019 (2)
June 21st - The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Erskine Childers, 1903) - 2/5
June 8th - Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (W. Somerset Maugham, 1930) - 4/5
May 2019 (5)
May 30th - Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811) - 3/5
May 18th - The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane, 1895) - 1.5/5
May 12th - Rumble Fish (S.E. Hinton, 1975) - 3/5
May 9th - The Reader (Berhnhard Schlink, 1995) - 2.5/5
May 6th - Emma (Jane Austen, 1815) - 2/5
April 2019 (1)
April 14th - Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Franz Kafka, 1915) - 2/5
February 2019 (14) (BOOK MONTH)
February 28th - The Cossacks and Other Stories (Leo Tolstoy, 1863) - 3.5/5
February 26th - The Gambler (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866) - 3.5/5
February 24th - My Man Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse, 1919) - 3/5
February 22nd - Dancers at Night: Stories (David Adams Richards, 1978) - 2/5
February 20th - Memoirs of an Egotist (Stendhal, 1862) - 3.5/5
February 18th - The Gold-Bug and Other Tales (Edgar Allan Poe, 1843) - 4/5
February 16th - Spring Torrents (Ivan Turgenev, 1872) - 5/5
February 14th - The Tempest (William Shakespeare, 1611) - 3/5
February 12th - Alphabet of Wit (Voltaire, 1945) - 3.5/5
February 10th - Whale Music (Paul Quarrington, 1989) - 3/5
February 8th - The Survivor (Primo Levi, 1988) - 3/5
February 6th - The Ogre Downstairs (Diana Wynne Jones, 1974) - 3.5/5
February 4th - The Book of Sand (Jorge Luis Borges, 1975) - 3/5
February 2nd - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or How Violence Develops and Where it Can Lead (Heinrich Böll, 1974) - 3.5/5
January 2019 (4)
January 28th - Amsterdam (Ian McEwan, 1998) - 2.5/5
January 23rd - Under the Yellow & Red Stars (Alex Levin, 2009) - 4/5
January 17th - Liquidation (Imre Kertész, 2003) - 3.5/5
January 10th - The Gate (Natsume Sōseki, 1910) - 4/5
2018 (43)
December 2018 (2)
December 22nd - The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories (P.G. Wodehouse, 1917) - 3/5
December 13th - Skylark (Dezső Kosztolányi, 1924) - 3.5/5
October 2018 (1)
September 13th-October 16th - Up from Slavery (Booker T. Washington, 1900) - 3/5
September (1)
August 17th-September 8th - The Aeneid (Virgil, 19 BC) - 2.5/5
August (3)
August 9th-14th - The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells, 1897) - 2.5/5
August 6th-10th - Rudin (Ivan Turgenev, 1856) - 4/5
July 27th-August 5th - Diario de Greg: Un renacuajo (Jeff Kinney, 2004) - 2.5/5
July (3)
July 20th-25th - The Sickness Unto Death (Søren Kierkegaard, 1849) - 1/5
July 9th-19th - On the Eve (Ivan Turgenev, 1860) - 3/5
April 5th-July 8th - Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy, 1878) - 4/5
June (BOOK READING MONTH) (15)
June 29th-30th - The Underdogs (Mariano Azuela, 1916) - 3/5
June 27th-28th - The Dwarf (Pär Lagerkvist, 1944) - 4.5/5
June 25th-26th - Look Back in Anger (John Osborne, 1956) - 3.5/5
June 23rd-24th - Red's Story (Red Storey, 1994) - 4/5
June 21st-22nd - The Bhagavad Gita (?, ~400 BC) - 2/5
June 19th-20th - Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929) - 2/5
June 17th-18th - Minimum of Two (Tim Winton, 1987) - 3.5/5
June 15th-16th - Closely Watched Trains (Bohumil Hrabal, 1965) - 2.5/5
June 13th-14th - As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (Lady Sarashina, ~1050) - 4/5
June 11th-12th - The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Murasaki Shikibu, ~1010) - 2.5/5
June 9th-10th - Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe, 1958) - 3/5
June 7th-8th - Pinball, 1973 (Haruki Murakami, 1980) - 3.5/5
June 5th-6th - Hear the Wind Sing (Haruki Murakami, 1979) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
Jan 24th-June 4th - The Marquis of Bolibar (Leo Perutz, 1920) - 3.5/5
June 1st-2nd - Diary of a Madman (Brad "Scarface" Jordan, 2014) - 1.5/5
April (1)
March 4th-April 5th - Mockingbird (Walter Tevis, 1980) - 3.5/5
February (1)
February 2nd-28th - A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami, 1982) - 3.5/5
January (BOOK READING MONTH) (16)
January 30 - Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia (1971) - 3/5
January 28 - Sasuke's Story: Sunrise (Masashi Kishimoto, Shin Towada, 2015) - 3/5
January 26 - Itachi's Story, Vol. 2: Midnight (Masashi Kishimoto, Takashi Yano, 2015) - 3.5/5
January 24 - Itachi's Story, Vol. 1: Daylight (Masashi Kishimoto, Takashi Yano, 2015) - 3/5
July 16 2017-January 22 - Tales of Student Life (Hermann Hesse, 1976) - 4.5/5
January 19-20 - Moments of Reprieve (Primo Levi, 1981) - 4/5
January 17-18 - In Praise of Shadows (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1933) - 4/5
January 16 - To Every Thing there is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story (Alistair MacLeod, 1977) - 3/5
January 14-15 - The Tales of Belkin (Alexander Pushkin, 1831) - 4/5
January 12-13 - All the Way: My Life on Ice (Jordin Tootoo, 2014) - 3/5
January 10-11 - Night (Elie Wiesel, 1958) - 2.5/5
January 8-9 - Strait Is the Gate (André Gide, 1909) - 4.5/5
January 6-7 - Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett, 1953) - 3/5
January 4-5 - The Fall (Albert Camus, 1956) - 3/5
January 2-3 - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (Kenzaburō Ōe, 1958) - 4/5
November 26 2017-January 1 - Dance Dance Dance (Haruki Murakami, 1988) - 3/5
2017 (18)
November
September 12-November 7 - Fatelessness (Imre Kertész, 1973) - 4/5
September
September 8-11 - After Dark (Haruki Murakami, 2004) - 3/5
August
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August 1 - The Tales of Beedle the Bard (J.K. Rowling, 2007) - 2.5/5
July
July 5-6 - The Mother of All Questions (Rebecca Solnit, 2017) - 2/5
July 4-5 - Men Explain Things to Me (Rebecca Solnit, 2014) - 2/5
June
June 20-25 - Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata, 1937) - 3/5
May 27-June 16 - Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence, 1928) - 2.5/5
May
November 7 2016-May 27 - Sun and Steel (Yukio Mishima, 1968) - 5/5
May 16-23 - The Wounded and the Slain (David Goodis, 1955) - 3/5
May 11-14 - Vita Sexualis (Ōgai Mori, 1909) - 2/5
May 7-10 - Botchan (Sōseki Natsume, 1906) - 4/5
May 5-7 - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami, 2013) - 3/5
October 5 2016-May 3 - Scission (Tim Winton, 1985) - 2.5/5
April
April 6-? - Why I Write (George Orwell, 1946) - 3/5
March
February 17-March 24 - Coin Locker Babies (Ryū Murakami, 1980) - 5/5
February
January 12-February 5 - Mouchette (Georges Bernanos, 1937) - 4/5
January
December 21 2016-January 8 - The Truce (Primo Levi, 1963) - 4/5
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2016 (18)
December
November 26-December 16 - Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements (Bob Mehr, 2016) - 3/5
September
September 21-25 - Charlotte's Daughter (Susanna Rowson, 1828) - 2.5/5
September 12-21 - Charlotte Temple (Susanna Rowson, 1790) - 1/5
August
August 19-27 - No Great Mischief (Alistair MacLeod, 1999) - 3.5/5
August 5-8 - The Death of Ahasuerus (Pär Lagerkvist, 1960) - 4/5
August 3-4 - Herod and Mariamne (Pär Lagerkvist, 1967) - 3.5/5
July 31-August 2 - Shikamaru's Story (Takashi Yano, 2015) - 2.5/5
July
July 30 - Kakashi's Story (Akira Higashiyama, 2015) - 2/5
July 21-25 - Last Words from Montmartre (Qiu Miaojin, 1996) - 3/5
February 14-July 20 - The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922) - 3/5
May 13-July 10 - Kim (Rudyard Kipling, 1901) - 4/5
May
April 21-May 8 - The Riders (Tim Winton, 1994) - 4/5
April
April 18 - In the Miso Soup (Ryū Murakami, 1997) - 5/5
March 29-April 5 - Home of the Gentry (Ivan Turgenev, 1859) - 4/5
March
March 19-26 - The Other Victims (Ina R. Friedman, Ana R. Friedman, 1990) - 3/5
February 2-March 9 - If This Is a Man (Primo Levi, 1947) - 4/5
March 1 - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Tadeusz Borowski, 1947) - 4/5
January
January 17-28 - Still Alive (Ruth Klüger, 1992) - 3/5
2015 (16)
December
December 3-24 - Searching for Bobby Orr (Stephen Brunt, 2006) - 2/5
October
October 18-31 - The Confusions of Young Torless (Robert Musil, 1906) - 3/5
September 13-October 8 - The End of a Family Story ( Péter Nádas, 1977) - 2/5
August
August 5-28 - Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte, 1847) - 1.5/5
July
July 13th-20th - Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895) - 3/5
July 8th-10th - Confusion (Stefan Zweig, 1927) - 3/5
June 27th-July 8th - Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992) - 2.5/5
June
June 13th-27th - The Game (Ken Dryden, 1983) - 2.5/5
June 2nd-4th - Popol Vuh (155?) - 4/5
May
May 14th-17th - Thousand Cranes (Yasunari Kawabata, 1952) - 3/5
May 1st-13th - Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis, 1998) - 2.5/5
April
March 25th-April 30th - The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (Bernal Díaz, 1568) - 5/5
March
March 10th-23rd - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima, 1963) - 3.5/5
March 3rd-5th - In the Pond (Ha Jin, 1998) - 3.5/5
February
February 7th-12th - Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Judith C. Brown, 1986) - 3.5/5
January
December 29th 2014-January 3rd 2015 - The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1935) - 4/5
2014 (55)
December 2014
December 26th-29th - Uneasy Money (P.G. Wodehouse, 1916) - 4/5
December 23rd-26th - The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham, 1925) - 4/5
December 22nd-23rd - Project X (Jim Shepard, 2004) - 2.5/5
December 20th-22nd - The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890) - 2.5/5
December 19th-20th - A Dream Play (August Strindberg, 1907) - 1.5/5
October 21st-December 19th - The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek, 1983) - 3/5
December 12th-19th - The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850) - 2.5/5
December 3rd-11th - King Leary (Paul Quarrington, 1987) - 3/5
November 29th-December 3rd - The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath, 1963) - 4.5/5
November 2014
November 18th-29th - Ubik (Philip K. Dick, 1969) - 3/5
November 13th-18th - Journey by Moonlight (Antal Szerb, 1937) - 4/5
November 6th-13th - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962) - 4/5
October 28th-November 4th - Crabwalk (Günter Grass, 2002) - 2.5/5
October 2014
October 15th-20th - Accident: A Day's News (Christa Wolf, 1987) - 3/5
October 6th-14th - Ready Player One (Ernest Cline, 2011) - 2/5
September 2014
September 20th-23rd - The Father (August Strindberg, 1887) - 2.5/5
September 19th - The Eumenides (Aeschylus, 458) - 2.5/5
September 18th - The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus, 458) - 3/5
September 16th-17th - Agememnon (Aeschylus, 458) - 3.5/5
September 14th-16th - A Doll House (Henrik Ibsen, 1879) - 3/5
September 6th-12th - Headbirths, or: The Germans Are Dying Out (Günter Grass, 1980) - 2/5
September 5th-6th - Strange News from Another Star and Other Tales (Hermann Hesse, 1919) - 4/5
August 14th-September 4th - The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse, 1943) - 4.5/5
August 2014
August 10th-13th - Diary of a Mad Old Man (Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, 1961) - 3.5/5
August 6th-9th - The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon, 1966) - 3.5/5
August 4th-6th - A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887) - 3/5
August 2nd-4th - Tom Sawyer Abroad (Mark Twain, 1894) - 2.5/5
July 31st-August 1st - Anthem (Ayn Rand, 1938) - 1/5
July 2014
July 29th-31st - The Killer Inside Me (Jim Thompson, 1952) - 4/5
July 29th - Klingsor's Last Summer (Hermann Hesse, 1920) - 3.5/5
July 26th-29th - Klein and Wagner (Hermann Hesse, 1919) - 2.5/5
July 22nd-26th - The Defense (Vladimir Nabokov, 1930) - 2.5/5
July 19th-21st - Rosshalde (Hermann Hesse, 1914) - 4/5
July 13th-18th - The Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank, 1944) - 5/5
July 4th-13th - Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726) - 4/5
June 18th-July 4th - The Little Nugget (P.G. Wodehouse, 1913) - 3/5
June 2014
December 10th, 2013-June 16th - The Man Upstairs and Other Stories (P.G. Wodehouse, 1914) - 3/5
May 25th-June 2nd - Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert, 1856) - 2/5
May 2014
May 20th-25th - W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes (Robert Taylor, 1949) - 3.5/5
May 19th - No More Dead Dogs (Gordon Korman, 2002) - 5/5 (4th reading?)
May 14th-18th - Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury, 1962) - 3/5
May 7th-10th - Othello (William Shakespeare, 1603) - 2.5/5
May 7th - Chess Story (Stefan Zweig, 1942) - 4.5/5
May 7th - Lyra's Oxford (Philip Pullman, 2003) - 3/5
April 8th-May 6th - The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman, 2000) - 2.5/5 (2nd reading)
April 2014
April 2nd-7th - The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman, 1997) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
March 29th-April 2nd - The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman, 1995) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
March 2014
March 27th-28th - Demian (Hermann Hesse, 1919) - 5/5 (2nd reading)
March 23rd-25th - Anchorboy (Jay Onrait, 2013) - 2.5/5
February 27th-March 21st - Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (Richard Powers, 1985) - 3/5
February 2014
February 21st-25th - Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen, 1817) - 4/5
February 13th-20th - The Quest for Juice (Jonathan-David Jackson, 2013) - 2.5/5
January 5th-February 12th - The Devils (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1872) - 5/5
January 2014
January 3rd-4th - Born Weird (Andrew Kaufman, 2012) - 3/5
December 18th-January 2nd - The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1880) - 4/5
2013 (51)
December 2013
December 16th-18th - The Box Man (Kōbō Abe, 1973) - 2.5/5
December 14th-15th - The Genius and the Goddess (Aldous Huxley, 1955) - 4.5/5
December 5th-9th - The Prince and Betty (P.G. Wodehouse, 1912) - 3/5
November 18th-December 3rd - The Gourmet Club (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1911-55) - 4/5
July 25th-December 2nd - Seven Japanese Tales (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1910-59) - 4/5
November 2013
November 7th-14th - Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen, 1835-71) - 3/5
August 16th-November 13th - The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu, 10XX) - 5/5
October 2013
September 2013
September 15th-17th - Mister Pip (Lloyd Jones, 2006) - 2/5
September 6th-14th - Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861) - 4.5/5
August 2013
August 6th-16th - Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol, 1842) - 5/5
August 4th-6th - The Key (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1956) - 3/5
August 1st-4th - Arrowroot (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1931) - 4/5
July 27th-August 1st - A Cat, a Man, and Two Women (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1918-36) - 4/5
July 2013
May 8th - July 22nd - Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates, 1961) - 2/5
July 14th - Captain Shigemoto's Mother (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1949) - 4.5/5
July 13th - The Reed Cutter (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1932) - 4/5
July 12th-13th - The Witches (Roald Dahl, 1983) - 3.5/5
July 7th-12th - The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton, 1908) - 3/5
July 1st-7th - Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin, 1837) - 4/5
June 2013
June 28th-29th - Kokoro (Natsume Sōseki, 1914) - 5/5
June 23rd-28th - Rupert of Hentzau (Anthony Hope, 1898) - 2.5/5
June 19th-21st - Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe, 1592) - 2.5/5
June 13th-18th - My Life in Hockey (Jean Béliveau; Chrys Goyens; Allan Turowetz, 1994) - 3/5
June 6th-13th - The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole, 1764) - 2/5
May 31st-June 6th - Persuasion (Jane Austen, 1816) - 3.5/5
May 2013
May 21st-24th - The Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G. Wells, 1896) - 3.5/5
May 18th-21st - The Prisoner of Zenda (Anthony Hope, 1894) - 3.5/5
May 15th-17th - The Woman in the Dunes (Kōbō Abe, 1962) - 4/5
May 11th-15th - Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954) - 3.5/5
May 7th-10th - Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë, 1847) - 4/5
March 20th-May 7th - The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner, 1929) - 4/5
May 2nd-3rd - The Informers (Bret Easton Ellis, 1994) - 3.5/5
May 2nd - Choke (Chuck Palahniuk, 2001) - 0/5
April 24th-May 1st - Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) - 2.5/5
April 2013
November 21st 2012-April 23rd 2013 - Twilight of the Idols (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889) - 3.5/5
April 19th-22nd - Quicksand (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1930) - 3/5
March 30th-April 3rd - The Rules of Attraction (Bret Easton Ellis, 1987) - 4/5
March 2013
March 13th-18th - Geek Love (Katherine Dunn, 1989) - 2.5/5
March 9th-12th - Doppler (Erlend Loe, 2004) - 3/5
March 4th-5th - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka, 1915) - 2.5/5 (2nd reading)
February 13th-March 2nd - The Odyssey (Homer, 8?? BC) - 3.5/5
February 2013
February 23rd-25th - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886) - 3.5/5
February 8th-10th - Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare, 1597) - 2/5
January 30th-February 6th - Galatea 2.2 (Richard Powers, 1995) - 5/5
January 2013
January 26th-29th - Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872) - 2.5/5
January 20th-25th - Piccadilly Jim (P.G. Wodehouse, 1916) - 4/5
January 13th-17th - The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Alexander Pushkin, 1828-41) - 5/5
January 7th-12th - Down and Out in Paris and London (George Orwell, 1933) - 3.5/5
January 4th-7th - Satyricon (Petronius, 0?? AD) - 4/5
January 3rd-4th - A Spy in the House of Love (Anaïs Nin, 1954) - 2/5
December 13th-January 2nd - Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, 1615) - 4/5
2012 (58)
December 2012
April 8th-December 1st - The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1862-1877) - 3.5/5
November 2012
November 3rd - The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848) - 1.5/5
October 2012
October 27th-31st - Candide (Voltaire, 1759) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
October 18th-20th - The Devil in the Flesh (Raymond Radiguet, 1923) - 2/5
September 2012 (school books)
September 24th-28th - Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Marvin Harris, 1975) - 3/5
September 15th-18th - Macbeth (William Shakespeare, 1606?) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
September 14th - Oedipus the King (Sophocles, 429 BC) - 4/5 (2nd reading)
September 1st-5th - Sanshiro (Natsume Sōseki, 1908) - 4.5/5
August 2012 (easy reading books)
August 29th-31st - The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925) - 2.5/5
August 27th-28th - The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan, 1915) - 4.5/5
August 27th - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby, 1997) - 2.5/5
August 26th-27th - Snuff (Chuck Palahniuk, 2008) - 2/5
* August 16th-25th - The Iliad (Homer, 8?? BC) - 4/5
* August 12th-15th - Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov, 1957) - 1/5
August 10th-12th - This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920) - 4/5
August 4th-10th - Strangers (Taichi Yamada, 1987) - 3.5/5
August 2nd-4th - Less than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis, 1985) - 4/5
* July 29th-August 1st - All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque, 1929) - 4.5/5
July 2012 (french books)
* July 18th-28th - Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897) - 2.5/5
July 11th-17th - Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938) - 3/5
July 9th-10th - The Immoralist (André Gide, 1902) - 3/5
July 8th - L'Ingenu (Voltaire, 1767) - 3/5
July 5th-7th - The Bridge over the River Kwai (Pierre Boulle, 1952) - 3.5/5
* June 30th-July 4th - Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane, 1896) - 4/5
June 2012 (long books)
June 26th-29th - Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813) - 4/5
June 15th-26th - One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez, 1967) - 3.5/5
June 1st-14th - The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck, 1939) - 2/5
May 2012
May 30th-31st - The Leaf Storm (Gabriel García Márquez, 1955) - 3/5
May 29th-30th - John Manjiro, The Castaway (Masuji Ibuse, 1947) - 4.5/5
May 22nd-26th - Some Prefer Nettles (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1929) - 4/5
May 20th-21st - Naomi (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1924) - 3.5/5
May 13th-20th - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1884) - 4/5
May 9th-12th - Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel García Márquez, 1981) - 3/5
February 23rd-May 9th - A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway, 1929) - 3/5
April 25th-May 1st - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick, 1968) - 3.5/5
April 2012
April 21st-25th - American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis, 1991) - 3.5/5
April 17th - Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote, 1958) - 2/5
April 11th-17th - The Diary of a Country Priest (Georges Bernanos, 1936) - 4/5
April 7th-8th - South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami, 1992) - 3.5/5
April 2nd-7th - Through the Looking Glass (Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1871) - 2/5
March 30th-April 1st - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865) - 1.5/5
March 2012
March 22nd-26th - Open (Andre Agassi, 2009) - 3/5
March 16th-18th - 69 (Ryu Murakami, 1987) - 4/5
March 12th-14th - Beware the Fish (Gordon Korman, 1980) - 2.5/5
March 9th-11th - A Geisha Remembers (Masuji Ibuse, 1952) - 3/5
March 1st-9th - Shoeless Joe (W.P. Kinsella, 1982) - 2/5
February 2012
February 29th - Go Jump in the Pool (Gordon Korman, 1979) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
February 14th-21st - Solaris (Stanisław Lem, 1961) - 3/5
February 16th - For the Good of the Cause (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1963) - 2.5/5
February 12th-13th - The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy, 1886) - 4/5
February 11th - The Forged Coupon (Leo Tolstoy, 1904) - 4/5
November 14th-February 10th - In the Winter Dark (Tim Winton, 1988) - 4/5
January 21st-February 10th - The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937) - 3.5/5
February 2nd-3rd - Fire on Ice (Eric Lindros, 1991) - 3/5
January 2012
January 14th-17th - Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka, 1915) - 3/5
January 11th-13th - The Queen's Gambit (Walter Tevis, 1983) - 4/5
January 7th-10th - Beowulf (???, ???) - 3/5
December 16th-January 4th - Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866) - 4.5/5
2011 (57)
December 2011
December 9th-15th - Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev, 1862) - 4/5
December 7th - Egyptian Nights (Alexander Pushkin, 1837) - 3/5
December 6th-7th - Dubrovsky (Alexander Pushkin, 1832) - 3.5/5
November 28th-December 3rd - The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett, 1934) - 3/5
November 2011
November 22nd-26th - Triple Crown: The Marcel Dionne Story (Ted Mahovlich, 2004) - 2.5/5
September 30th-November 19th- The Anti-Christ (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888) - 3.5/5
November 10th-12th - Les Enfants Terrible (Jean Cocteau, 1929) - 4/5
November 3rd-7th - Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury, 1953) - 3.5/5
October 2011
October 7th-16th - The Pearl (John Steinbeck, 1947) - 3.5/5
October 3rd-9th - Talk Show (Dick Cavett, 2010) - 2.5/5
September 2011
September 15th-29th - The Sound of the Mountain (Yasunari Kawabata, 1954) - 4/5
September 7th-14th - Being There (Jerzy Kosinski, 1971) - 3/5
October 11th, 2011-September 3rd - Black Rain (Masuji Ibuse, 1965) - 5/5
August 31st-September 1st - Exiles (James Joyce, 1918) - 3/5
August 2011
August 30th - This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall (Gordan Korman, 1978) - 2.5/5 (2nd reading)
August 29th - Suffer Little Children (Dereck O'Brien, 1991) - 3.5/5
August 25th-29th - Marcovaldo (Italo Calvino, 1963) - 3/5
August 21st-24th - The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1846) - 4/5
August 19th-20th - No One Writes to the Colonel (Gabriel García Márquez, 1961) - 3.5/5
August 18th - Clouds (Aristophanes, 423 BC) - 2.5/5
August 14th-17th - Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1864) - 3/5
June 5th-August 17th - The Clicking of Cuthbert (P.G. Wodehouse, 1922) - 3/5
August 15th - The Dyskolos (Menander, 317 BC) - 2.5/5
August 10th-13th - Thirst for Love (Yukio Mishima, 1950) - 3/5
August 9th - A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962) - 4/5
August 3rd-8th - Death in Venice (Thomas Mann, 1912) - 2/5
July 30th-August 2nd - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain, 1876) - 5/5
July 2011
July 6th-21st - The Stone Carvers (Jane Urquhart, 2001) - 2/5
June 16th-July 4th - The Songlines (Bruce Chatwin, 1986) - 4/5
June 2011
June 10th-13th - The Tiny Wife (Andrew Kaufman, 2011) - 2/5
June 7th-12th - Psmith in the City (P.G. Wodehouse, 1910) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
June 6th - Mike and Psmith (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 3.5/5 (2nd reading)
June 5th - Mike at Wrykyn (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 3/5 (2nd reading)
June 1st-3rd - A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov, 1841) - 4/5
May 2011
May 5th-30th - The Makioka Sisters (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1948) - 5/5
April 28th-May 5th - Popular Hits of the Showa Era (Ryu Murakami, 1994) - 2.5/5
April 2011
April 22nd - The Stuff That Nightmares Are Made of (Yasutaka Tsutsui, 1967) - 2.5/5
April 22nd - Alcestis (Euripides, 438 BC) - 3.5/5
April 21st-22nd - The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Yasutaka Tsutsui, 1967) - 2.5/5
April 15th-20th - Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk, 1996) - 8/10
April 8th-14th - The Holocaust Industry (Norman G. Finkelstein, 2000) - 8/10
April 5th - The Boat
March 27th-April 1st - Hunger (Knut Hamsun, 1890) - 8.5/10
March 2011
March 29th - Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1835) - 7/10
March 5th-25th - The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1956) - 9/10
March 22nd - And We Sold the Rain (Carmen Naranjo) - 5.5/10
February 25th-March 4th - The Waterproof Bible (Andrew Kaufman, 2010) - 7.5/10
March 2nd - A Mother's Tale (James Agee, 1952) - 6.5/10
February 2011
February 19th-24th - The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774) - 9/10
February 14th-19th - Love All the People (Bill Hicks, 2004) - 7.5/10
February 18th-19th - The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway, 1952) - 7.5/10
February 11th-13th - Daisy Miller (Henry James, 1978) - 7/10
February 7th - Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow (Kurt Vonnegut, 1954) - 7/10
February 4th-6th - Naïve. Super (Erlend Loe, 1996) - 9/10
January 2011
January 24th - The Subliminal Man (J.G. Ballard, 1963) - 6/10
January???-20th - Billy Budd (Herman Melville, 1924) - 8/10
January 17th - A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury, 1952) - 6/10
2010 (47)
December 2010
December 14th - Wolfbay Wings
November 19th-December 13th - Dubliners (James Joyce, 1907) - 9.5/10
November 2010
October 2010
October 3rd-5th - The Moon in the Gutter (David Goodis, 1953) - 9/10
September 2010
September 30th - All My Friends Are Superheroes (Andrew Kaufman, 2003) - 9/10
September 17th-26th - The Man Who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis, 1963) - 8/10
September 7th-15th - An Open Swimmer (Tim Winton, 1981) - 8/10
August 28th-September 6th - Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coatzee, 1980) - 8/10
August 2010
August 25th-28th - Journey to the East (Hermann Hesse, 1932) - 9/10 (2nd reading)
August 21st-25th - Mount Analogue (René Daumal, 1952) - 8/10
August 18th-20th - Audition (Ryu Murakami, 1999) - 8/10
August 15th-16th - Lysistrata (Aristophanes, 411 BC) - 7.5/10
July 16th-August 14th - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce, 1916) - 9/10
August 2nd-7th - King Lear (William Shakespeare, 1603-1606) - 8.5/10
July 2010
July 12th-13th - The Outsider (Albert Camus, 1942) - 8/10
July 7th-9th - Boys and Girls Together (William Saroyan, 1963) - 8/10
June 27th-July 1st - A Devil in Paradise (Henry Miller, 1956) - 8/10
June 2010
June 4th-23rd - The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1869) - 9.5/10
May 30th-June 3rd - Macbeth (William Shakespeare, 1606?) - 8/10
May 2010
May 19th-20th - A Child's Heart (Hermann Hesse, 1919) - 7.5/10
May 16th-18th - Breath (Tim Winton, 2008) - 9/10
May 7th-14th - The Argonautica (Apollonius, 300-400 BC) - 8.5/10
May 4th-5th - That Eye, the Sky (Tim Winton, 1986) - 9/10
April 29th-May 2nd - Candide (Voltaire, 1759) - 8.5/10
April 2010
April 27th-28th - Zadig (Voltaire, 1747) - 8/10
April 25th-26th - Venus in Furs (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, 1870) - 8/10
April 23rd-24th - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde, 1895) - 8.5/10
April 21st-23rd - Lady Windermere's Fan (Oscar Wilde, 1892) - 8.5/10
April 19th-20th - Summer Crossing (Truman Capote, 1949?) - 8.5/10
March 29th-April 19th - Not George Washington (P.G. Wodehouse, 1907) - 8.5/10
April 1st-16th - Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami, 2002) - 7.5/10
March 2010
March 23rd-28th - Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818) - 8/10
March 27th - A Last Will (Williston Fish, 1908) - 7/10
March 22nd - Antigone (Sophocles, 442 BC) - 8/10
March 21st - Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles, 406 BC) - 8/10
March 18th-19th - Playing With Fire (Theoren Fleury, 2009) - 7.5/10
March 16th - The Misanthrope (Moliere, 1666) - 8.5/10
March 7th-11th - The Blonde on the Street Corner (David Goodis, 1954) - 8/10
February 27th-March 5th - The Viceroy of Ouidah (Bruce Chatwin, 1980) - 9/10
February 2010
February 24th-25th - The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima, 1954) - 9/10
February 17th-22nd - Beneath the Wheel (Hermann Hesse, 1906) - 9/10
February 15th-16th - The Symposium (Plato, 385-380 BC) - 7.5/10
February 12th-14th - Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger, 1951) - 8/10
February 10th - Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov, 1899) - 8.5/10
February 2nd-8th - Cloudstreet (Tim Winton, 1991) - 9.5/10
January 28th-February 1st - Knulp (Hermann Hesse, 1915) - 8.5/10
January 2010
January 22nd-26th - Junkie (William S. Burroughs, 1953) - 8/10
December 29th-January 19th - The Red and the Black (Stendhal, 1830) - 9/10
2009 (60)
December 2009
December 28th - A Season in Hell (Arthur Rimbaud, 1873) - 8/10
December 20th-25th - Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card, 1996) - 7.5/10
December 12th-20th - Xenocide (Orson Scott Card, 1991) - 7.5/10
December 6th-11th - Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card, 1986) - 8/10
November 30th-December 5th - Ender in Exile (Orson Scott Card, 2008) - 7.5/10
November 2009
November 26th-29th - Shadow of the Giant (Orson Scott Card, 2005) - 8/10
November 21st-25th - Shadow Puppets (Orson Scott Card, 2002) - 8/10
November 17th-20th - Shadow of the Hegemon (Orson Scott Card, 2001) - 8/10 (2nd reading)
November 13th-16th - Ender's Shadow (Orson Scott Card, 1999) - 8/10 (2nd reading)
November 12th - A War of Gifts (Orson Scott Card, 2007) - 7/10
November 12th - Investment Counselor (Orson Scott Card, 1999) - 7/10
November 11th - Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card, 1977) - 7.5/10
November 10th - Teacher's Pest (Orson Scott Card, 2003) - 7/10
November 10th - The Polish Boy (Orson Scott Card, 2002) - 7/10
November 8th-9th - Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card, 1985) - 8.5/10 (2nd reading)
October 2009
October 25th-November 6th - Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte, 1847) - 9/10
October 7th-16th - Morrissey & Marr - The Severed Alliance (Johnny Rogan, 1993) - 8.5/10
September 29th-October 5th - Scoop (Evelyn Waugh, 1938) - 8.5/10
September 2009
September 28th - Okame-San (Takeshi Kitano, 1987) - 9/10
September 28th - The Nest of Stars (Takeshi Kitano, 1987) - 8/10
September 28th - The Champion in a Padded Kimono (Takeshi Kitano, 1987) - 8.5/10
September 22nd-26th - Barabbas (Pär Lagerkvist, 1950) - 9/10
September 20th - Knots (R.D. Laing, 1970) - 7.5/10
September 16th-20th - The Voyeur (Alberto Moravia, 1986) - 8.5/10
September 13th-14th - Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945) - 8/10
September 3rd-10th - Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut, 1969) - 8.5/10
August 2009
August 29th-31st - Love Among the Chickens (P.G. Wodehouse, 1906/1921) - 8/10
August 28th - The Swoop! (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 8/10
August 22nd-27th - Something Fresh (P.G. Wodehouse, 1915) - 8/10
August 16th-18th - A Gentleman of Leisure (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 8/10
August 14th-16th - The White Feather (P.G. Wodehouse, 1907) - 8/10
August 12th-13th - The Head of Kay's (P.G. Wodehouse, 1905) - 8/10
August 10th-11th - The Gold Bat (P.G. Wodehouse, 1904) - 8/10
August 7th-9th - Tales of St. Austin's (P.G. Wodehouse, 1903) - 8/10
August 5th-6th - A Prefect's Uncle (P.G. Wodehouse, 1903) - 8/10
August 3rd-5th - The Pothunters (P.G. Wodehouse, 1902) - 8/10
July 2009
July 27th-August 2nd - Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, 1955) - 9.5/10
July 21st-26th - The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov, 1903) - 9/10
July 14th-20th - Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami, 1987) - 9.5/10
July 10th-13th - Leave It to Psmith (P.G. Wodehouse, 1923) - 8.5/10
July 6th-8th - Cassidy's Girl (David Goodis, 1951) - 8.5/10
July 3rd-4th - Patriotism (Yukio Mishima, 1966) - 8/10
June 2009
June 28th-31st - Psmith Journalist (P.G. Wodehouse, 1915) - 8/10
June 23rd-27th - Psmith in the City (P.G. Wodehouse, 1910) - 9.5/10
June 21st-23rd - Mike and Psmith (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 9/10
June 18th -20th - Mike at Wrykyn (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) - 8.5/10
June 8th-16th - Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1939) - 7/10
May 2009
May 28th-30th - Hear the Wind Sing (Haruki Murakami, 1979) - 9/10
May 13th-17th - Almost Transparent Blue (Ryu Murakami, 1976) - 9/10
May 1st-10th - Hamlet (William Shakespeare, 1601) - 9/10
April 2009 (2)
April 23rd-24th - Why I Didn't Say Anything (Sheldon Kennedy, 2006) - 7.5/10
April 4th-7th - Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932) - 9/10
March 2009 (3)
March 27th-30th - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde, 1890) - 9/10
March 16th-22nd - The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells, 1898) - 7.5/10
March 11th-15th - Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain Fournier, 1913) - 10/10
February 2009 (4)
February 22nd-24th - Piercing (Ryu Murakami, 1994) - 7.5/10
February 17th-19th - Utz (Bruce Chatwin, 1988) - 9/10
February 9th-14th - Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima, 1948) - 9.5/10
????????????? - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami, 1995) - 8.5/10
January 2009 (1)
????????????? - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - (Haruki Murakami, 2008) - 8/10
before then, and to be sorted...
Old World Landowners (Nikolai Gogol, 1835) - 8/10
Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol, 1835) - 9/10
White Noise (Don DeLillo, 1985) - 9/10
Fires on the Plain (Ōoka Shōhei, 1951) - 8.5/10
Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami, 1999)- 9/10
Against Nature (Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1884) - 8.5/10
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock 'n' Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'n' Roll (Lester Bangs, 1987) - 9/10
Narziss and Goldmund (Hermann Hesse, 1930) - 9.5/10
High Fidelity (Nick Hornby, 1995) - 8.5/10 (2nd)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman, 2001) - 9/10
Gertrude (Hermann Hesse, 1910) - 9/10
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami, 1995) - 9.5/10
The I Chong (Tommy Chong, 2006) - 7/10
About a Boy (Nick Hornby, 1998) - 7/10
Oedipus the King (Sophocles, 429 BC) - 9/10
Demian (Hermann Hesse, 1919 - 9.5/10
Underground (Haruki Murakami, 1998) - 9/10
After the Quake (Haruki Murakami, 2000) - 9/10
Nightfall (David Goodis, 1947) - 8.5/10
Phaedo (Plato, 3?? BC) - 8/10
Meno (Plato, 3?? BC) - 7/10
Crito (Plato, 3?? BC) - 9/10
Apology (Plato, 3?? BC) - 8.5/10
Euthyphro (Plato, 3?? BC) - 8.3/10
The Gun Seller (Hugh Laurie, 1996) - 8.5/10
A Long Way Down (Nick Hornby, 2005) - 8/10
Peter Camenzind (Hermann Hesse, 1904) - 9.5/10
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse, 1922) - 9.5/10
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse, 1927) - 9.5/10
The Little Prince (Antoine Saint-Exupéry, 1943) -8/10
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller, 1934) - 8.5/10
Journey to the East (Hermann Hesse, 1932) - 8.5/10
On the Road (Jack Kerouac, 1957) - 9.5/10
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells, 1895) - 9/10