Monday, November 22, 2010

Progress

I was able to read 10 winners this year, 2010:
Vernon Gd Little, Oscar and Lucinda, Remains of the Day, Gd of Small Things, Rites of Passage, Wolf Hall, Amsterdam, The Conservationist, The Old Devils, and Heat and Dust. This brings me up to 19 winners read.

Nominees this year: According to Queeney, Hotel World, The White Hotel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and The Driver's Seat (total of 9 including last yr's nominee list.)

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Booker Prize Reads 2009

Robyn's Books Read 2009

Here's my list of books read and ones I'd already identified as "planned reads," because I have them on hand. I'm starting to set my personal goal for 2010.

Books I've Read:
2004 - The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst)
2002 - Life of Pi (Martel)
1999 - Disgrace (Coetzee)
1984 - Hotel du Lac (Brookner)
1979 - Offshore (Fitzgerald)
1972 - G (Berger)

Soon to be Read (because they're already on my shelves!)
2007 - The Gathering (Enright)
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss (Desai)
2005 - The Sea (Banville)
2003 - Vernon God Little (Pierre)
2001 - The History of the Kelly Gang (Carey)
2000 - The Blind Assassin (Atwood)
1998 - Amsterdam (McEwan)
1997 - The God of Small Things (Roy)
1995 - The Ghost Road (Barker)
1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Doyle)
1992 - Sacred Hunger (Unsworth)
1991 - The Famished Road (Okri)
1990 - Possession (Byatt)
1989 - The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda (Carey)
1987 - Moon Tiger (Lively)
1985 - The Bone People (Hulme)
1982 - Schindler's Ark (Keneally)
1975 - Heat and Dust (Jhabvala)
1970 - The Elected Member (Rubens)
1969 - Something to Answer For (Newby)