Monday, January 10, 2011

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

Monday, January 03, 2011

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!