Reading List

I thought it might be nice to set up a little queueing system for my current reading list here.

Wish List
I need to stop by the bookshop for these:

  • The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
  • Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevallier

Waiting on my Bookshelf
In no particular order as I have no idea in what order I’ll attack them.

  • Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  • L’Éveil du Dieu Noir by Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Projet Mars by Andreas Eschbach
  • Eldorado by Laurent Gaudé
  • An Exemplary Life by Siegfried Lenz
  • Making Money by Terry Pratchet
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

In Progress

Recently Completed
and hopefully reviewed:

  • La Maison de la Mosquée by Kader Abdolah ( June 2008 )
  • Spook Country by William Gibson ( June 2008 )
  • Matter by Iain M. Banks ( May 2008 )
  • La Reprise by Alain Robbe-Grillet ( May 2008 )
  • Grand Fugue by Juan José Saer ( May 2008 )
  • Brooklyn Folies by Paul Auster ( February 2008 )
  • Clara et la Pénombre by José Carlos Somoza ( January 2008 )
  • The Red and the Black by Stendhal (December 2007)
  • The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky (November 2007)
  • Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (November 2007)
  • Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz (November 2007)
  • The Heritage by Siegfried Lenz (October 2007)
  • Embers by Sándor Márai (October 2007)
  • Herzog by Saul Bellow (September 2007)
  • Tours et Détours de la Vilaine Fille by Mario Vargas Llosa (August 2007)
  • Neighbours by Lilia Momplé (August 2007)
  • Des Milliards de Tapis de Cheveux by Andreas Eschbach (August 2007)
  • My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad (August 2007)
  • La Cité Nymphale by Stéphane Beauverger (July 2007)
  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (July 2007)
  • Rant by Chuck Paluhniuk (June 2007)
  • Les Noctivores by Stéphane Beauverger (June 2007)
  • La Théorie des Cordes (Zigzag) by José Carlos Samoza (June 2007)
  • The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks (May 2007)
  • Snow (Neige) by Orhan Pamuk (May 2007)
  • The Pesthouse by Jim Crace (Apr. 2007)
  • Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster (Mar. 2007)
  • Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (Mar. 2007)
  • Chromozone by Stéphane Beauverger (Feb. 2007)
  • The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia (Jan. 2007)
  • Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (Jan. 2007)
  • The Uncomfortable Dead by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Subcomandante Carlos (Jan. 2007)
  • Le Jésus Vidéo by Andreas Eschbach (Dec. 2006)
  • Les Bienveillantes (The Furies) by Jonathan Littell (Dec. 2006)

Abandoned
Hopefully the shortest list:

  • Neuromancer by William Gibson (September 2007)
  • Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness (August 2007)
  • The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (abandoned March 2007 after 800 pages!)