The Last of the Mohicans – J. Fenimore Cooper
Dracula* – Bram Stoker
The Penguin History of New Zealand – Michael King
Njál's Saga – Anon. (one of the Íslendingasögur or Sagas of Icelanders)
King Harald's Saga – Snorri Sturluson
Raw Spirit – Iain Banks
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* – Susanna Clarke
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Dune – Frank Herbert
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Pretty Monsters – Kelly Link
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sandman Papers – Joe Sanders (ed.)
The Sandman: King of Dreams – Alisa Kwitney
My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers* – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* – J.R.R. Tolkien
Ringdrotten: Ringens brorlag – J.R.R. Tolkien (tr. Eilev Groven Myhren)
Ringdrotten: Dei to tårna – J.R.R. Tolkien (tr. Eilev Groven Myhren)
Ringdrotten: Kongens atterkomme – J.R.R. Tolkien (tr. Eilev Groven Myhren)
(The three above are The Lord of the Rings in Norwegian, or more precisely Nynorsk)
Naiv. Super. – Erlend Loe
Kvinnen som kledte seg naken for sin elskede – Jan Wiese
Bytt Beite! – Roald Dahl (tr. Peter Magnus)
The Lost Gospels (i.e. of Thomas, Judas etc.)
The Apocrypha
Let me know if there's anything you think I should ditch, and what I should replace it with.
Happy reading for 2010!
Planned reads for 2010.
- 10/01/2010 05:10:08 PM
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Interestingly random list.
- 10/01/2010 05:55:51 PM
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It's mostly things I've bought and not read yet. Other than that, there's no coherent theme.
- 10/01/2010 06:16:01 PM
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Okay, colour me shocked. 
- 10/01/2010 07:16:23 PM
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- 10/01/2010 07:16:23 PM
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I'm actually the same as Tim. Haven't read them since I did it in 5th grade.
- 10/01/2010 11:17:23 PM
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Okay, I misread Tim's response and thought he was thinking about a year of Russian literature.
- 14/01/2010 07:18:53 PM
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I wondered about that. 
- 14/01/2010 08:04:32 PM
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- 14/01/2010 08:04:32 PM
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A couple of thoughts
- 15/01/2010 01:46:25 AM
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Huh. You're the second person I've ever seen refer to that book as Demons.
- 15/01/2010 05:35:19 AM
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Don't read the Achebe.
- 11/01/2010 01:09:06 AM
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I'll be reading less serious stuff too.
- 11/01/2010 08:52:14 AM
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Well, I figured that too
- 11/01/2010 03:21:11 PM
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- 11/01/2010 03:21:11 PM
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Of those?
- 11/01/2010 01:33:33 AM
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Are Mohicans and 100 Years worth reading? Folks seem to be dissin' 'em. *NM*
- 11/01/2010 08:49:55 AM
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Ditch Erlend Loe
- 11/01/2010 11:40:37 AM
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However, good for someone who needs a simple book to help with learning the language.
- 11/01/2010 12:06:55 PM
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Re: Planned reads for 2010.
- 11/01/2010 11:41:28 AM
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You can borrow King Harald's Saga when I've finished with it.
- 11/01/2010 12:22:56 PM
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Re: You can borrow King Harald's Saga when I've finished with it.
- 11/01/2010 03:21:37 PM
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heh, good luck with the first one.
- 11/01/2010 01:12:41 PM
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- 11/01/2010 01:12:41 PM
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I suppose if you're interested in the development of the thriller/adventure novel, Cooper is okay.
- 11/01/2010 02:04:29 PM
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