my goal for last year was 100, then increased to 120 - and in the end i managed to complete 146 books (but i also counted the books i read for my job as a researcher). sooo lets aim for 150 this year
January
1. Barclay, Florence L. - The Rosary (good)
2. Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth (good)
3. Laxness, Halldor - Aan de Voet van de Gletsjer (good)
4. Canavan, Trudi - The Magician's Guild (good)
5. Thirkell, Angela - Wild Strawberries
6. Barbery, Muriel - Die Eleganz des Igels
7. Harris, Charlaine - Shakespeare's Landlord (good)
8. O'Hara, John - Appointment in Samarra
9. Roth, Philip - American Pastoral
10. Malamud, Bernard - The Assistant
11. Eggers, Dave - Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (good)
12. Harris, Charlaine - Shakespeare's Champion (good)
13. Burroughs, William S. - Naked Lunch
14. Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea
15. Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
16. Butcher, Jim - Small Favor (good)
17. Harris, Charlaine - Shakespeare's Christmas (good)
18. Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cranford
19. Oliphant, Margaret - The Rector
February
20. Harris, Charlaine - Shakespeare's Trollop
21. Cheever, John - Falconer
22. Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
23. Harris, Charlaine - Shakespeare's Counsellor
24. O'Brien, Flann - At Swim-two-Birds
25. Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes were Watching God
26. Lindsay, David - A Voyage to Arcturus
27. Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint
28. DeLillo, Don - White Noise
29. Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep (great)
30. Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
31. Piercy, Marge - Available Light (good)
32. Berrigan, Daniel - Prison Poems (good)
March
33. Moore, Alan - Absolute Watchmen
34. Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Beautiful and Damned
35. Berlin, Isaiah - Freedom and its Betrayal (great)
36. Heyer, Georgette - They Found Him Dead (great)
37. Roth, Henry - Call it Sleep
38. Galenkamp, Marlies - Individualism versus Collectivism, the concept of collective rights
39. Orwell, George - Essays (good)
40. Nin, Anais - Delta of Venus
41. Heyer, Georgette - Footsteps in the Dark (good)
42. Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let me Go
43. Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano
44. Wright, Richard - Native Son
45. Canavan, Trudi - The Novice (great)
46. Bowen, Elizabeth - The Death of the Heart
47. Radbruch, Gustav - Der Mensch im Recht (good)
48. Berlin, Isaiah - Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (good)
49. Kosinsky, Jerzy - De geverfde vogel
50. Canavan, Trudi - The High Lord (great)
April
51. Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire (good)
52. Calvino, Italo - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
53. West, Nathanael - The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts
54. Green, Anna Katharine - That Affair Next Door (good)
55. Allport, Gordon Willard - The Nature of Prejudice (great)
56. Molesworth, Mrs. - The Palace in the Garden (good)
57. Smith, Zadie - White Teeth
58. Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence (good)
59. Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House (good)
60. Dick, Philip K. - The Man in the High Castle
61. Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
62. Abbott, Edwin A. - Flatland
63. Norris, Zoe Anderson - The Way of the Wind
64. Sayers, Dorothy L - Whose Body
65. Krischak, Detlef - Brautmorde
66. Harris, C.S. - Who Buries the Dead (good)
May
67. Butcher, Jim - Turn Coat (good)
68. Abercrombie, Joe - Half a King (good)
69. Dick, Philip K. - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich (good)
70. Beaton, M.C. - Agatha Raisin und der Tote im Wasser (good)
June
71. Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club
72. Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
73. Heyer, Georgette - A Blunt Instrument (good)
74. Wilde, Oscar - The Canterville Ghost (good)
75. Ibsen, Henrik - Hedda Gabler
76. Galsworthy, John - Justice (good)
77. Maeterlinck, Maurice - Pelleas and Melisande
78. Maeterlinck, Maurice - Alladine and Palomides
July
79. Doctorow, E.L. - Ragtime
80. Panunzio, Constantine Maria - The Soul of an Immigrant
81. Stone, Robert - Dog Soldiers
82. Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
83. Fluke, Joanne - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
84. Wilde, Oscar -A Woman of No Importance (good)
85. Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
86. Hammett, Dashiell - Red Harvest (good)
87. Butcher, Jim - Changes (good)
88. FitzGibbon, Brian - Icelandid Folk Tales (good)
89. Strindberg, August - The Inferno (good)
90. Fuchs, Thomas - Die Niederlande
91. Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
92. Faulkner, William -Light in August
August
93. Kent, Hannah - Burial Rites
94. Eggers, Dave - A Hologram for the King
95. Heyer, Georgette - The Unfinished Clue (good)
96. Roddick, Amy Redpath - The Romance of a Princess: A Comedy and Other Poems
97. Heyer, Georgette - Powder and Patch (good)
98. Stoker, Bram - Dracula (great)
99. McInerney, Lisa - The Glorious Heresies
100. Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (great)
101. Bessels, Emil - 196 Tage auf Treibender Eisscholle (good)
September
102. Morrison, Toni - Beloved
103. Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
104. Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
105. Zola, Emile - L'Assomoir
106. Dick, Philip K. - Blade Runner (great)
107. Heyer, Georgette - No Wind of Blame (good)
108. Tracy, Louis - The Postmaster's Daughter
109. Wells, HG - The Island of Dr. Moreau (good)
110. Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter
111. Miller, Andrew - The Crossing
112. Heyer, Georgette - Why Shoot a Butler? (good)
113. Collins, Wilkie - The Woman in White (good)
114. Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of AJ Fikry (good)
115. Collins, Wilkie - The Haunted Hotel (good)
116. Le Queux, William - The Great White Queen
October
117. Abercrombie, Joe - Half the World (good)
118. Müller, Hertha - Der König verneigt sich und tötet
119. Heyer, Georgette - Duplicate Death (good)
120. Barr, Robert - A Chicago Princess (good)
121. Russell, William Clark - The Death Ship (good)
122. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Verbrechen und Strafe
123. Chesterton, GK - The Man who was Thursday
124. Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
125. Butcher, Jim - Ghost Story (good)
126. Abercrombie, Joe - Half a War (good)
November
127. Porter, Max - Grief is the Thing with Feathers
128. Thomas, Scarlett - The Seed Collectors
129. Bru, Hedin - Vater und Sohn unterwegs (good)
130. Heyer, Georgette -The Talisman Ring (good)
131. Mahen, Jiri - Der Mond
132. Heyer, Georgette - These old Shades (good)
133. Fischer-Lescano, Andreas - Der Kampf um globale soziale Rechte
134. Morrison, Toni - Jazz
135. Auster, Paul - Leviathan
136. Barth, John - The Sot-Weed Factor
137. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Of Love and Other Demons
December
138. Galsworthy, John - The Silver Box
139. Hall, Radclyffe - Twixt Earth and Stars
140. Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
141. Zola, Emile - Therese Raquin
142. Rilke, Rainer Maria - Auguste Rodin
143. Ibsen, Henrik - Ein Volksfeind