Reading list for 2009 (enough with the resolutions already)
As you may remember, we will be moving in spring 2010 and we want to trim down the number of boxes of stuff to be moved. A good place to start is books, we own a lot. And I mean, a lot.
One way to go about it, is stop buying new books and reading the ones we have and didn’t get to yet. Another is to bookmooch and a third is to give books away. We’ll do all these.
As I went through the shelves (books are standing in double rows) to fill a box to go in the attic, to make room for the books lying around elsewhere, I created a little “books on reserve” shelf (Handapparat aus der Uni), with books I really need to get to and intend to read this year.
Here is the complete list:
Macolm Gladwell – Outliers
Carlos Ruiz Zafón – Shadows of the Wind
Wallace Stegner – Crossing to Safety
John Irving – Until I Find You
Siri Hustvedt – Sorrows of an American
Dan&Chip Heath – Made to Stick
Paul Auster – Book of Illusions
Richard Powers – The Time of Our Singing
Jasper Fforde – Eyre Affair
Joseph Jaffe – Join the Conversation
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne – Blue Ocean Strategy
David Foster Wallace – Infinte Jest
Siri Hustvest – Enchantment of Lily Dahl
Hermann Scheer – Energie Autonomie
Dan Tapscott – Wikinomics
Sten Nadolny – Discovery of Slowliness (*)
Ken Follett – Pillars of the Earth
Charles Frazier – Thirteen Moons
Nick Hornby – Slam
Jonathon Franzen – The Corrections (*)
McCarthy – McCarthy’s Bar
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (*)
Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Paul Auster – Oracle Night (*)
Naomi Klein – Shock Doctrin
*=reread
That’s 23 books, more than two weeks per book which should be manageable. The number of business books seems low, but you can add to that 1-2 books I will still get for Christmas and 1-2 I intend to pick-up as the year progresses, depending of what comes out and my way. And course Lee Child – Nothing to Lose once that comes out as paperback.
The Irving tome, Shock Doctrine and Infinite Jest look scary thick, but what’s a guy to do.
However, I have finally started to read Stephen D. Frank’s The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Programm, a book I had lying around for years. Last night’s speed was 580 words per minute, faster than average they say, but they are striving for at least 1.500 words per minute. That sounds scary too.
Have a great 2009!
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Timo Heuer
Actually I did not want to publish my reading list because I will probably change it over the year several times and at the end of the year, I read a lot — but not what’s on the list. But here is is, just for you 🙂
* Büchner, Georg: Woyzeck (Amazon)
* Dürrenmatt, Friedrich: Das Versprechen
* Dürrenmatt, Friedrich: Der Besuch der alten Dame
* Kafka, Franz: Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen
* Goethe, Johann Wolfgang: Faust I
* Goethe, Johann Wolfgang: Leiden des jungen Werthers
* Schiller, Friedrich: Die Räuber (Amazon)
* Schiller, Friedrich: Maria Stuart
* Süskind, Patrick: Das Parfüm (Amazon)
* Kalevala
16. – 17. Jhr.
* Marlowe, Christopher: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
* Shakespeare, William: Macbeth, Sonnets, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet
* Jonson, Ben: Volpone
18. Jhr.
* Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
* Sterne, Laurence: Leben und Ansichten von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
* Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels
19. Jhr:
* Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights (Reclam)
* Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations; Oliver Twist (Amazon)
* Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Ernest, Picture of Dorian Gray
20. Jhr:
* Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice oder Emma
* Conrad, Joseph: Herz der Finsternis (Reclam)
* Fitzgerald, Scott: The Great Gatsby (Reclam)
* Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
* Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (eventuell Ulysses)
* Kane, Sarah: Zerbombt / Phaidras Liebe / Gesäubert / Gier / 4.48 Psychose (Amazon)
* Lee, Harper: Wer die Nachtigall stört (Amazon)
* Tolkien, J.R.R.: Der kleine Hobit, Der Herr der Ringe (1-3)
* Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway (Amazon) oder To the Lighthouse
Okay. Maybe it’s more a “What I want to read the next years” list than a 2009 list. But.. at least it’s a list!
Timo Heuer
Where is my comment gone? Nevermind.
Timo Heuer
Last but not least, here is my final list of books I want to read this year: http://upim.tumblr.com/post/68138858/2009-reading-list
Markus
Oh, now I will have to think about my list as well.
I’ll try to cover at least 20 books from my Amazon Wishlist –> http://www.amazon.de/gp/registry/19A7JK41RB6B4
One of the big advantages of beeing an research assistant is that I can use interlibrary loan for free.
Sebastian
@Timo: wow, very methodical. I hope you have a real interest in these books and just not taken them from some Top 100 lists. Some of them are, albeit Classics, a bit dull. Looking at your tumblr list I would think you’d want some novels from recent years, too.
@Markus: That is an advantage. Some time ago I thought having a big library was my thing. I don’t anymore 😉
Timo Heuer
No no, I don’t like novels from today. I am just reading “Dubliners” (James Joyce) and I am really enjoying it. It’s a different feeling and a different spirit, really cool and fascinating.
You know me and you know that I want to plan everything to the last detail: travels, life, books. So I downloaded some lists called “Lektüreliste” and looked at every book in that list via Wikipedia and I wrote down the most interesting ones. And no, it’s no top 100 list :-). But I guess the Tumblr list is a more accurate list for 2009…
Sebastian
@Timo: Novels written today can still be in the setting of old 😉
But keep it up. You want the speed-reading book when I’m done with it? It’s in English though.
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