Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Books I want to read

1. A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 2. Anna Karennina and War and Peace - Tolstoy 3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 4. More Sartre generally (Being and Nothingness, actually finishing Nausea) 5. Some Descartes 6. For Whom the Bell Tolls (I started this a while ago and only got to about page 7, but OCD laws dictate that I now finish it come what may!) 7. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera 8. Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevski 9. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig(think I might regret this one!). 10. Don Quixote - Cervantes 11. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 12. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (so keen to read this after listening to the tapes when I was a kid that I just went and ordered it - can't wait!) I will add more as I think of them, and hopefully some of them will soon appear on the list of 'Books I wanted to read and Did' list. Update to reveal that I am cheating and already listening to one of these (Tom Sawyer) as an audio book - a much easier way to digest some of the weightier tomes I have promised myself I would read, but also fun to listen to real Americans reading classic American literature like Tom Sawyer, although I have yet to hear enough to know whether I actually enjoy the book or not.