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Books read in 2012:

1) Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
2) Zadie Smith - On Beauty
3) Roberto Bolaño - Los Detectives Salvajes (The Savage Detectives)
4) Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
5) A.S. Byatt - Elementals
6) Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
7) Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciónes (Fictions)
8) Anthony Trollope - The Prime Minister
9) John Irving - The World According to Garp
10) Tom Lanoye - Het Derde Huwelijk (The Third Marriage)
11) Sandro Veronesi - XY (in Dutch translation of the Italian original)
12) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)
13) Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
14) Gail Carriger - Soulless
15) Stendhal - Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)
16) Caroline Finkel - Osman's Dream
17) George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
18) Eduardo Mendoza - Riña de Gatos, Madrid 1936 (Cat Fight, Madrid 1936)
19) Jean Anouilh - Antigone
20) Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
21) C.S. Friedman - Feast of Souls
22) David Eddings - The Diamond Throne
23) David Eddings - The Ruby Knight
24) David Eddings - The Sapphire Rose
25) Orlando Figes - Crimea
26) Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
27) Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow
28) David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
29) Kathryn Stockett - The Help
30) Richard Miles - Carthage Must Be Destroyed
31) Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
32) Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
33) Muriel Barbery - L'Elégance du Hérisson (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
34) Colette - Claudine à Paris
35) Robert Graves - I, Claudius
36) Stephen E. Ambrose - Band of Brothers
37) Madame de Lafayette - La Princesse de Clèves (The Princess of Clèves)
38) Robert Harris - The Fear Index
39) Steven Erikson - The Crippled God
40) Alaa al-Aswani - The Yacoubian Building (Imarat Yacoubian - in Dutch translation)
41) Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
42) Matthew Lewis - The Monk
43) Baroness Orczy - A Bride of the Plains
44) Edward Rice - Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
45) Charles Dickens - Bleak House
46) Peter Carey - The Chemistry of Tears
47) Neil Gaiman - Coraline
48) William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
49) Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear
50) George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
51) Umberto Eco - The Prague Cemetery
52) Zadie Smith (editor) - The Book of Other People
53) Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
54) Laini Taylor - Days of Blood and Starlight

Books read in 2011:

1) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (started in 2010)
2) John Milton - Paradise Lost
3) Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
4) Suetonius - Twelve Caesars (in Dutch translation)
5) Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
6) Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
7) A.S. Byatt - The Game
8) Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her?
9) Maurice Leblanc - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur
10) Thomas Pynchon - Vineland
11) Anthony Trollope - Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
12) Anthony Summers - Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
13) André Castelot - Bonaparte
14) Franz Kafka - Amerika
15) Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
16) Anthony Trollope - The Eustace Diamonds
17) Orhan Pamuk - My Name Is Red
18) William Thackeray - Vanity Fair
19) Walter Scott - Waverley
20) Elisabeth Vonarburg - Les Rêves de la Mer (Dreams of the Sea)
21) Richard Fortey - Life. An Unauthorized Biography (in Dutch translation)
22) Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
23) Anthony Trollope - Phineas Redux
24) Marguerite de Valois - Mémoires
25) William Beckford - Vathek (in English translation)
26) Camille Paglia - Vamps & Tramps (in Dutch translation)
27) Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin
28) Charlotte Link - Die Letzte Spur (The Last Trace)
29) Jane Harris - The Observations
30) George R.R. Martin - A Dance With Dragons
31) Michel Faber - The Fahrenheit Twins
32) Ian Cameron Esslemont - Return of the Crimson Guard
33) Tony Judt - Postwar. A History of Europe Since 1945.
34) Nigel Williams - East of Wimbledon
35) Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire of the Vanities
36) John LeCarré - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
37) Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel
38) Hugh Kennedy - The Great Conquests of the Arabs
39) D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
40) Shlomo Sand - The Invention of the Jewish People
41) Stephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles
42) Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama
43) George Eliot - Middlemarch
44) Cornelia Funke - Tintentod (Inkdeath)
45) Adrian Goldsworthy - Antony and Cleopatra
46) D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
47) Naomi Novik - Throne of Jade
48) Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness
49) Milan Kundera - L'Ignorance
50) Charlotte Roche - Schoßgebete