2007 Reading List

  

Just keeping tabs of what I’ve read this year. I’m trying to also keep up with the reviews, which you can read at In Search of a Text.

January
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (400 pages)
2. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (192 pages)

February
3. Bound by Donna Jo Napoli (192 pages)
4. Tam Lin by Pamela Dean (480 pages)

March
5. Othello by William Shakespeare (with students) (130 pages)
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (with students-reread) (154 pages)
7. I am Morgan le Fay by Nancy Springer (240 pages)

April
8. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (661 pages)

May
9. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston (with students) (203 pages)
10. Martyrs’ Crossing by Amy Wilentz (311 pages)
11. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (with students-reread) (100 pages)

June
12. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (362 pages)
13. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (465 pages)

July
14. Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme by Chris Roberts (202 pages)
15. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang (285 pages)
16. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (288 pages)
17. The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles; translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (251 pages)
18. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (406 pages)

August
I’m ashamed to say that I did not finished any books whatsoever this month. Sad, I know. I’ll try to do better in September.

September
19. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum (479 pages)
20. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (126 pages)
21. The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell (280 pages)
22. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (162 pages)

October
23. Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslung (542 pages)
24. Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney (213 pages)
25. The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin (179 pages)

November
26. Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, ed. by Nina Auerbach and U.C. Knoepflmacher (360 pages)

December
27. Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi by Donald Spoto (215 pages)
28. Atonement by Ian McEwan (351 pages)

Current page count: 8,229
Goal: 10,000 pages; 30 books

Wrap up: Well, I almost made it, and could have exceeded my goal if I hadn’t taken that sewing break back in August. I liked this goal, however, so I’ll definitely be continuing this challenge in 2008.

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