Something to be remembered

[the_islander]

I'm not feeling very well just now (probably more to come) and so I decided I'd do something to cheer me up:

100 Books I want to read next year (in no particular order)     [14/100]

1. Walter Scott - Waverley (Bonnie Prince Charlie, YAY ^^)
2. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (already had a go at that one for my ZP, but never finished. Shame on me.)
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
4. Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby
5. John Cleland - Fanny Hill
6. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
7. JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings (reread, obviously)
8. Rebecca Gablé - Das zweite Königreich
9. Rosemary Sutcliff - whichever I can lay my hands on (preferably Warrior Scarlet or Bonnie Dundee ^^)
10. Philipp Pullman - Northern Lights (want to reread all of them)
11. Philipp Pullman - The Subtle Knife
12. Philipp Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
13. RL Stevenson - The Black Arrow (never knew that book even existed before I saw it in a shop...)
14. Joseph Eichendorff - Leben eines Taugenichts (also reread)
15. Novalis - Heinrich von Ofterdingen
16. Heinrich Böll - Irisches Tagebuch
17. Schiller - Der Geisterseher
18. Kleist - Michel Kohlhaas
19. Büchner - Leonce und Lena & Woyzeck (because the two together are only 70 pages) 
20. ETA Hoffmann - Lebensansichten des Katers Murr
21. Marc Aurel - Selbstbetrachtungen
22. Jostein Gaarder - Sopies Welt (reread, hopefully I will understand it now that I'm older and know more about philosophy)
23. Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose (finally finish....)
24. CS Lewis he Magician's Nephew (and the other Narnia-Books)- T
25. TA Barron - The Lost Years of Merlin (another reread)
26. TA Barron - The Seven Songs of Merlin
27. TA Barron - The Fires of Merlin
28. TA Barron - The Mirror of Merlin
29. TA Barron - The Wings of Merlin
30. John Polidori - The Vampyre
31. ETA Hoffmann - Die Elixire des Teufels
32. Thomas Mann - Der Zauberberg
33. Brian Jacques - Redwall (and its sequels ^^)
34. Tad Williams - Otherland 1 - City of Golden Shadow (all reread, never finished the last one)
35. Tad Williams - Otherland 2 - River of Blue Fire
36. Tad Williams - Otherland 3 - Mountain of Black Glass
37. Tad Williams - Otherland 4 - Sea of Silver Light
38. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre (started but never finished...)
39. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
40. John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (also never finished)
41. Victor Hugo - Bug-Jargal
42. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
43. Alexandre Dumas - Les Trois Musquetaires (probably won't try the French one, though...)
44. Alexandre Dumas - Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
45. something by George Eliott (to be decided)
46. another Dickens (yet to be decided)
47. Kate Fox - Watching the English
48. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Complete Sherlock Holmes (exept Hound of the Baskervilles, reread that recently)
49. John Toohey - Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare
50. Harald Haarmann - Weltgeschichte der Sprachen
51. WM Thackeray - Vanity Fair
52. Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
53. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
54. Heinrich Mann - Der Untertan
55. Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
56. Monica Ali - Brick Lane
57. something by EM Forster (yet to be decided...)
58. JJ Rousseau - Emile (Yes, you can call me crazy...)
59. Michael Ende - Die unendliche Geschichte
60. Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth (once again ^^)
61. Michael Ende - Momo
62. Astrid Lindgren - Mio mein Mio (once again)
63. Astrid Lindgren - Ronja Räubertochter (also again)
64. Henry Fielding - Tom Jones
65. Patrick O'Brian - Mauritius Command (I'm already 60 pages in, but but seeing that the book has like 400 pages in total, I'll count it)
66. Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark - How not to write a novel (only counts as half because I'm already 160 pages in)
67. Reif Larsson - The selected works of TS Spivett
68. unknown author - Beowulf (for my exam, but nevermind)
69. Dan Price - How to make a journal of your life
70. Daniel Kehlmann - Die Vermessung der Welt

 

As you can see, I am nowhere near 100, so suggestions are welcome!

Comments

[kanon-chan.livejournal.com]

Lea recommends Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind. :) (Billie liked it, too.)

[varelia.livejournal.com]

Noted :-)