Some Other Country(Assorted short stories from NZ.)
Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man
The Existential Imagination (Picador compilation, Satre, Kafka, Moravia - read all except the boring bits and excerpts from books I may want to read in full one day.)
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line(Essays)
J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus
(this book was written in the 1800s by the author of Heart of Darkness, on which Apocalypse Now was partly based. I'm sorry about the title, but I also don't believe you can change history.
William Gibson,Count Zero
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Living to Tell the Tale (vol 1 of his biography)
Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes (should really be reading this one aloud so A. knows how lucky he is!
Salman Rushdie, Fury
Martin Amis, NightTrain
Keith Laumer, The Galaxy Builder (sci-fi slosh)
The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (ed. Fergus Barrowman)(the short stories only, not the extracts which bug me)
Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (second time.)
Andrew McGahan, The White Earth (much overrated, imho)
Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers The Travels of Marco Polo
Will Self, How the Dead Live
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Christopher Green, Toddler Taming
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Janette Turner Hospital, Due Preparations for the Plague
R. Evans, The Pyjama Girl
Books read while recovering from breast cancer
DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
My Year of Meat, Ruth Ozeki
The Vivisector, Patrick White
William Gibson, Idoru
Martin Flanagan, The sound of one hand clapping
Lance Armstrong, It’s not about the bike
Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
Spike Milligan, The Looney
and literary mags:
Going Down Swinging
Overland
Island
Westerly
Heat
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Alexi Sayle, Overtaken
Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mt Improbable
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Raymond Carver, What we talk about when we talk about love
Marion Halligan, The Fog Garden
Philip K. Dick, Flow my tears, the Policeman said
Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake
J.D.Salinger, Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters
Various, The Sleepers Almanac, 2005
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.
Various authors, Space, Verandah, Island, Meanjin, etc, etc etc(literary magazines)
Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe
Gail Bell, The Worried Well (Quarterly Essay)
Murakami HarukiThe Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Marion Halligan Wishbone
Lonely Planet's guide to Paris
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Judah Waten, Alien Son
McSweeney's 2005
More journals: Wet Ink, Total Cardboard, Litmus, Westerly, Islan, Meanjin...
Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1
Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
Marion Halligan, The Apricot Colonel
Tony Birch, Shadowboxing
Best Australian Short Stories 2005
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Kate Grenville, The Secret River
Verandah 21 (various)
Peter Temple, The Broken Shore
Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, Gerald Murnane
Gerald Murnane, The Plains
Jonathon Franzen, The Corrections
J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello
Cate Kennedy, Dark Roots
Will Elliot, The Pilo Family Circus
Elizabeth Jolley, Woman in a Lampshade
Marie Darrieussecq, Pig Tales
Still going on:
The New Yorker (always)
Ulysses James Joyce (380 pages in!)
J.M.Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (which is terribly clever but ultimately is a series of lectures set as short stories, not a proper novel. so there. I don't care if he has a Nobel prize or not. )
Best Australian Essays 2001
Saul Bellow, Him with His Foot in His Mouth
Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (another I may will not finish. I tried him again on G.G. Marquez's say-so, and he's technically wonderful at description, but I still don't really grok the stories.)
Ned Kelly,The Jerilderie Letter(ed. by Alex McDermott)
Modern Poets One (ed. Jim Hunter)
W.Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up (may well will! not finish this one)
