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
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, Ian McEwan
- Chasing Windmills, by Catherine Ryan Hyde
* – unfinished
*** – tried to finish for three times yet unfinished
You read 20 books last year?! Whoa. Ako, 15 lang yata. Sana spinecify mo kung ano sa mga yan yung mga favorites mo. Haha.
Atonement and The Namesake are great novels. I’m sure that you’ll like them. Lahiri and McEwan are good authors!
@Christian: I was in a reading frenzy last year. LOL. And oh, you know J.D Salinger’s my all-time favorite. That’s that.
i cant find the twisted 1 of jessica zafra.
gusto ko pa naman icollect ung series nia.
sabi 1995 pa raw un. wtf.
makakatulong ito, very good choice of titles ha! gusto ko nang magbasa uli. yung The Autograph Man ko nabubulok na.. tatapusin ko yun at bibili na talaga ng Love in the Time of Cholera.
huwaww. hahah.
i just remembered you cause I saw a bag in fully booked na may Salinger na print. Lawll.
pahiram ng winter of our discontent!
)
I want to read “The Wind Up Tool Chronicles.” sabi ng friend ko ang ganda.
if i put up my own list, my preference would be jumping out of your screens. hehe. i love historical romance. =D
I’d have thought you already read 100 Years of Solitude. I think I may have a copy here somewhere that I’m ready to dispose of. Not sure though. :p