Saturday, June 30, 2007

January to June: books

I tried to find a statistics regarding the number of books the average American reads per year, and instead found out that 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school...
Here's the books I've completed so far (in chronological order by date of completion)

1. The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse (Jan 25)
2. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie (Feb 3)
3. Cities on a Hill - Frances Fitzgerald (Feb 20)
4. The Plague - Albert Camus (Mar 3)
5. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin (Mar 7)
6. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (Mar 10)
7. And Still We Rise - Miles Corwin (Mar 15)
8. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (Mar 16)
9. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (Apr 6)
10. How to Read and Why - Harold Bloom (Apr 18)
11. Why White Kids Love Hip Hop - Bakari Kitwana (Apr 24)
12. And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave (May 10)
13. Miss Lonelyhearts/Day of the Locust - Nathanael West (May 19)
14. Saint Francis - Nikos Kazantzakis (June 12)
15. Wandering - Hermann Hesse (June 17)
16. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (June 29)

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