Bibliophilia 2008

This will serve as a record of what books/literature i engaged myself to read in 2008. Emily suggested cataloguing a list and i think its a good idea to see what I have and haven't read, see how productive my reading was on a given year, show trends and interests, see what I re-read in a given year and for the sake of pride and motivation to continue to read and propagate that as leisure for myself. I think it would serve as a nice personal examination of my mindsets and ideas and eventually might serve as some sort of self-serving statement of a life lived reading and in pursuit of words.

So without further ado (and hopefully forgiveness for any and all pretension) here was 2008 (in no chronological order).

(SS = short story works, P = poetry collection, GN = Graphic Novel, CS = Comic Strip Collection* = Repeat Read )

1. The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald *
2. Preacher Vol 1 - Garth Ennis (GN) *
3. Preacher Vol 2 - Garth Ennis (GN) *
4. Preacher Vol 3 - Garth Ennis (GN) *
5. Preacher Vol 4 - Garth Ennis (GN) *
6. The Gunny Sack - M.G. Visanji
7. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
8. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
9. Northern Lights/Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
10. The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman
11. The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
12. V - Thomas Pynchon
13. Leaf Storm - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (SS)
14. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler
15. The Street - Mordecai Richler (SS)
16. Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tolstoy (SS)
17. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (P)
18. A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
19. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
20. Demian - Hermann Hesse
21. Desperation - Stephen King *
22. The Regulators - Stephen King *
23. Animal Farm - George Orwell *
24. 1984 - George Orwell *
25. Collected Short Works of Nikolai Gogol - Nikolai Gogol (SS)
26. The Communist Manifesto - Lenin/Marx *
27. Oil! - Upton Sinclair
28. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
29. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie *
30. Shame - Salman Rushdie
31. The Boondocks Vol.2 - Aaron McGruder (CS)
32. Where Hope Takes Root, Speeches of Aga Khan IV - The Aga Khan
33. Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
34. Musicophillia - Oliver Sachs
35. The Bhagavad Gita - Sacred Scripture, so authorship might be some variation of God
36. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
37. Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut (SS)
38. Trumpets Sound No More - John Redfern
39. Walden and Other Writings - Henry David Thoreau
40. The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
41. The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche
42. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
43. Bonjour Tristesse (english translation) - Françoise Sagan
44. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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