User:Merope/Booklist

I doubt anyone else is interested in this (which may be one of the mottos of Wikipedia), but here are the books I've read in 2006. In theory I'll use this list to help focus my efforts on writing new and improving existing articles.

Currently reading

 * Women in Ancient Greece, Sue Blundell
 * A • B • C et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet, Alexander and Nicholas Humez

Finished in 2007

 * Cien Sonetos de Amor, Pablo Neruda
 * Yeah, this is embarrassing: Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
 * It gets worse with this admission: Books 1 through 6 of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
 * And any literary cachet I had before is absolutely annihilated with this: Tales of the Slayer volumes 1 through 4.
 * From Alpha to Omega: The Life and Times of the Greek Alphabet, Alexander and Nicholas Humez
 * Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z , by David Sacks

Finished in 2006

 * Bee Season, Myla Goldberg
 * The Séance, Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
 * The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
 * Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
 * Enemies, a Love Story, Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * The Golden Ass, Apuleius
 * Kristy's Great Idea, Raina Telgemeier
 * Genesis, translated by Robert Alter
 * Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities, Alexandra Robbins
 * Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Bart D. Ehrman
 * Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Bart D. Ehrman
 * The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
 * The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault
 * Confessions, Augustine
 * Emile: Or, On Education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
 * The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
 * The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
 * The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
 * The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
 * The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
 * Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
 * The Athenian Murders, José Carlos Somoza
 * Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
 * The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
 * The Truth About Stacey, Raina Telgemeier
 * The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * The Plague, Albert Camus