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.