Sometimes, you need to force yourself to do something to appreciate it.
It was a strict requirement, way back High School, to make a book report for our English subject. I was in second year when I read “The Perfect Storm” (though I’ve read it before – my Dad insinuated the idea of reading on my ill-concentrated gray matter). There goes the reading frenzy.
2005
- Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger
- Over the Edge of the World, by Laurence Bergreen*
- Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand***
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K Rowling
- A Walk to Remember, by Nicholas Sparks
- Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
2006
- The Little Prince, by Antoine de-Saint Exupery
- The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho*
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K Rowling
- Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk(e-book)*
- Politika, by Tom Clancy*
- Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
2007
- The Good German, by Joseph Kanon
- Catcher in the Rye, by J.D Salinger
- The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
- The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K Rowling
- Diary, by Chuck Palahniuk
- Flight of the Intruder, by Stephen Coonts*
- Digital Fortress, by Dan Brown
- The King of Torts, by John Grisham
- Twisted 6, by Jessica Zafra
- Deception Point, by Dan Brown
- Nine Stories, by J.D Salinger*
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
- Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K Rowling
- Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
- Sleepers, by Lorenzo Carcaterra
- A Movable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway*
- Brick, by Rian Johnson
- The Winter of our Discontent, by John Steinbeck
2008
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- Franny and Zooey, by J.D Salinger
- Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Constant Gardener, by John Le Carre
- Beautiful Boy, by David Sheff
- The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
- Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens*
- Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Piano Tuner, by Daniel Mason*
- Anything Goes, by Madison Smartt Bell*
- After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck*
- Friction, by E.R Frank
- You are not a Stranger Here, by Adam Haslett
- Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Wishlist
- Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
- Bonk, by Mary Roach
- The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- A Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
- God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
- Naked, by David Sedaris
- Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- Book Lust, by Nancy Pearl
- My Side of the Story, by Will Davis
- The Opium Wars, by Hanes, Sanello
- Chasers, by Lorenzo Carcaterra
- Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- Chasing Windmills, by Catherine Ryan Hyde
* – unfinished
*** - tried to finish for three times yet I can’t see why I’m reading it, so I snapped it back to the bookshelf
I would always try to finish a book that I’ve started but recently, with all the fickle-mindedness I have been developing for the past few months, I tend to abandon those books and thought about reading them again at the “right time”. And when I read it when I feel like reading it, and not just forced or coerced by oftentimes irrational motives and reasons, that should be the “right time” to read the book.
