Jimmy's List

[Jimmy]

Hey it's July 1st and I just went over my list. Seems like I've read 25 books so far, so I am exactly on schedule! Kind of unbelievable since I wasn't aiming to finish 50 this year.

1. The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K Le Guin - Sci Fi
2. Breaking the News - James Fallows - Non Fiction
3. Extinction - Thomas Bernhard - Literary (read: depressingly funny)
4. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy - Literary
5. Occasion the Mosaic Distance - Paul Klinger - Poetry chapbook
6. Dubliners - James Joyce - short fiction
7. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor - Southern Gothic
8. Moon Palace - Paul Auster - Literary
9. Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields - Ashley Capps - Poetry
10. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - Classics
11. Maud Martha - Gwendolyn Brooks - Literary
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Classics
13. In Another Castle - Matthew Shindell - Poetry
14. America (The Book) - Jon Stewart - Political Humor
15. Selected Poetry - Rainer Maria Rilke - Poetry
16. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters
17. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle - Young Adult
18. The Bun Field - Amanda Vahamaki - Graphic Novel
19. Theory of Tables - Emmanuel Hocquard - Poetry
20. For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut - Takashi Hiraide - Poetry
21. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse - Classics
22. Death Tractates - Brenda Hillman - Poetry
23. A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes - Classics
24. Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick - Literary
25. Summer Blonde - Adriane Tomine - Graphic Novel

Wow, I can't believe there's only one nonfiction title in there. I started a lot... I just tend to not finish them for some reason.

[Jimmy]

26. The End of the Affair - Graham Greene - Religious Thriller?
27. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead - Barbara Comyns - Southern Gothic?
28. A Month in the Country - JL Carr - fiction
29. Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell - Gitta Sereny - nonfiction
30. The Invention of Morel - Bioy Casares - philosophical sci fi
31. Charlotte Sometimes - Penelope Farmer - young adult
32. Carbonel: The King of Cats - Barbara Sleigh - children's lit
33. In the Freud Archives - Janet Malcolm - nonfiction
34. The Ten Thousand Things - Maria Dermout - mystical realism
35. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter - Cesar Aira - philosohpical historical fiction
36. Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles - fiction
37. The Book of Tendons - Eleni Sikelianos - poetry chapbook
38. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - science/self improvement
39. The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato - neurotic fiction
40. The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane - memoir/crazy thoughts
41 - Howards End - EM Forster - lit fic
42. The Kingdom of Carbonel - Barbara Sleigh - childrens lit
43. Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson - childrens lit
44. How I Became a Nun - Cesar Aira - Argentinian fiction
45. Stoner - John Williams - literary fiction
46. The Book of Were - Wayne Clifford - poetry
47. The Reservoir - Donna Stonecipher - poetry
48. Frances Johnson - Stacey Levine - experimental fiction
49. Boudica - Paol Keineg - poetry
50. Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau - slapstick french classic