This afternoon, I finished the last of my assigned reading for my first year of college. Somewhat fittingly, I began and ended the year with Henry James: The Ambassadors (September 29, 2009) and The Turn of the Screw (May 29, 2010).
I thought I'd compile a list of the books I've read this year. The few I did not read for school will be marked with an F (for fun). They are largely in order.
The Ambassadors- Henry James
A Room With a View- E.M. Forster
Dubliners- James Joyce
Portraits- Gertrude Stein
In Our Time- Ernest Hemingway
L'Étranger- Albert Camus
Banjo- Claude McKay
The Last September- Elizabeth Bowen
Hedda Gabler- Henrik Ibsen (F)
Nightwood- Djuna Barnes
Goodbye to Berlin- Christopher Isherwood
Portraits and Observations- Truman Capote (F)
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
White Swan, Black Swan- Adrienne Sharp
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz (F)
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol- Andy Warhol (F)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky (F)
The Monk- Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Italian- Ann Radcliffe
Mother Courage and Her Children- Bertolt Brecht
The Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole
The Lesson- Eugene Ionesco
Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen
Waiting for Godot- Samuel Beckett
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
Zoot Suit-Luis Valdez
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Dracula- Bram Stoker
The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
I think that's it.
