Books read in BOOKLEAVES from 2005 to 2010

2005

#1 Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

#2 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

#3 The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

#4 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

#5 Perfume by Patrick Süskind

#6 The Histroian by Elizabeth Kostova

#7 Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

#8 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

#9 The Hours by Michael Cunningham

2006

#10 The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

#11 11Minutes by Paulo Coelho

#12 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

#13 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

#14 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

#15 The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

#16 Quarantine by Jim Crace

#17 The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G.Vassanji

#18 Love in the time of Cholera by Garcia Marquez

#19 Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller

#20 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

#21 The Coffee Trader by David Liss

#22 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#23 Still Life with Rice by Helie Lee

#24 A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

#25 Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

#26 No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

#27 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

2007

#28 Snow by Orhan Pamuk

#29 The Inheritence of Loss by Kiran Desai

#30 The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig

#31 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

       A Taxonomy of Barnacles by Galt Niederhoffer

#32 The Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett

#33 The Music of Chance by Paul Auster

#34 Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

#35 The High Window by Raymond Chandler

#36 The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

#37 Life of Pi by Yan Martel

#38 A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss

#39 You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon

#40 Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller

#41 In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant

#42 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

#43 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

#44 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

2008

#45 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

#46 Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

#47 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

#48 You Suck by Christopher Moore

#49 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

#50 Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

#51 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

#52 Known World by Edward P. Jones

#53 Oil by Upton Sinclair

#54 Love in the Time of Cholera by Garcia Marquez

#55 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

#56 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

#57 Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs

#58 Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

#59 The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

#60 Ex Libris: Confessions of a  Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

#61 Persuasion by Jane Austen

#62 Spectacle of Corruption by David Liss

#63 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

#64 Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

#65 Sickened by Julie Gregory

#66 Old School by Tobias Wolff

2009

#67 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

#68 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

#69 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

#70 The Zahir by Paulo Coelho

#71 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger

#72 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

#73 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

#74 Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

#75 Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

#76 The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

#77 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffe & Annie Barrows

#78 The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

#79 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

#80 White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

#81 Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

2010

#82 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

#83 The Painted Veil by William Somerset Maughan

#84 Wicked by Gregory Maguire

#85 Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

#86 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

#87 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

#88 My Life in France by Julia Child

#89 Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

#90 The Shakespeare Curse by Jennifer Lee Carrell

#91 Lost City of Z by David Grann

#92 Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

#93 The Shadow of the Winds by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

#94 The Women by T.C. Boyle

#95 Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

#96 In the Woods by Tana French
2011

#97 The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

Happy New Year! Happy 2011!

 

It's so weird trying to write 2011 when it seems like only yesterday that I got used to writing 2010.

But here it is, isn't it? 

2011 is really here and we can't really rewind and go back..

I hope that this year will be a great year for everyone.

To my friends and families all around the world, I miss you, love you and wish you all the best of 2011!

Happy 2011, everyone!