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heh, good luck with the first one. nossy Send a noteboard - 11/01/2010 01:12:41 PM

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!
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Planned reads for 2010. - 10/01/2010 05:10:08 PM 896 Views
I'd ditch Cooper - 10/01/2010 05:16:12 PM 544 Views
You might find the Cooper to be turgid - 10/01/2010 05:28:55 PM 451 Views
Interestingly random list. - 10/01/2010 05:55:51 PM 586 Views
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 558 Views
Okay, colour me shocked. - 10/01/2010 07:16:23 PM 519 Views
Re: Okay, colour me shocked. - 10/01/2010 09:57:26 PM 551 Views
Re: Okay, colour me shocked. - 11/01/2010 03:48:47 PM 518 Views
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 320 Views
It does look that way, doesn't it? - 11/01/2010 05:06:41 PM 449 Views
Oh. - 11/01/2010 10:44:06 PM 476 Views
I just read it this past year for the first time. - 11/01/2010 11:36:21 PM 454 Views
Okay, I misread Tim's response and thought he was thinking about a year of Russian literature. - 14/01/2010 07:18:53 PM 590 Views
I wondered about that. - 14/01/2010 08:04:32 PM 529 Views
A couple of thoughts - 15/01/2010 01:46:25 AM 470 Views
Huh. You're the second person I've ever seen refer to that book as Demons. - 15/01/2010 05:35:19 AM 540 Views
That is the correct name. - 15/01/2010 01:14:54 PM 337 Views
Ditch Márquez. He sucks. - 10/01/2010 09:29:03 PM 441 Views
I'm sticking with "The List." - 10/01/2010 09:43:13 PM 474 Views
And to add input on your list... - 11/01/2010 02:17:20 AM 439 Views
Don't read the Achebe. - 11/01/2010 01:09:06 AM 449 Views
I'll be reading less serious stuff too. - 11/01/2010 08:52:14 AM 504 Views
Well, I figured that too - 11/01/2010 03:21:11 PM 476 Views
That is one seriously disturbing book. - 11/01/2010 03:31:12 PM 474 Views
It's under "weird" in my librarything catalog. - 15/01/2010 08:12:42 PM 459 Views
Things Fall Apart has an outstanding ending. *NM* - 12/01/2010 04:11:53 AM 228 Views
Must not be that outstanding if I can't remember it. *NM* - 15/01/2010 08:13:08 PM 223 Views
Of those? - 11/01/2010 01:33:33 AM 495 Views
Are Mohicans and 100 Years worth reading? Folks seem to be dissin' 'em. *NM* - 11/01/2010 08:49:55 AM 188 Views
I disagree with Tom that Marquez sucks... - 11/01/2010 04:09:54 PM 480 Views
Ditch Erlend Loe - 11/01/2010 11:40:37 AM 329 Views
However, good for someone who needs a simple book to help with learning the language. - 11/01/2010 12:06:55 PM 358 Views
I feel for you *NM* - 11/01/2010 09:02:51 PM 234 Views
Re: Planned reads for 2010. - 11/01/2010 11:41:28 AM 446 Views
You can borrow King Harald's Saga when I've finished with it. - 11/01/2010 12:22:56 PM 570 Views
Re: You can borrow King Harald's Saga when I've finished with it. - 11/01/2010 03:21:37 PM 601 Views
heh, good luck with the first one. - 11/01/2010 01:12:41 PM 530 Views
I suppose if you're interested in the development of the thriller/adventure novel, Cooper is okay. - 11/01/2010 02:04:29 PM 427 Views
Because I already bought it as number 3 of a 3-for-2 . *NM* - 11/01/2010 02:06:38 PM 150 Views
Have fun, buddy. *NM* - 12/01/2010 03:38:55 AM 188 Views
Hrm. - 11/01/2010 11:46:52 PM 504 Views
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe - 12/01/2010 04:10:20 AM 360 Views

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