All the books you've read in your life.

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Urizen

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I was home sick with flu for the last couple of days, laying in bed drinking tea most of the time. Anyway I started thinking of all the books I've read and I had trouble remembering, especially the more I went in to the past(even couple of years ago), which I saw as strange because I have a good memory.

Anyway, out of curiosity, does any of you runs like a little log writing down the titles and authors of the books read, 'cause I know at least one person that does. He has all books he read on a list.

All of you who have such lists post it here when you find time or at least the number of books read. We could even make a little analysys of most frequent ones and such... :D I'll try and post mine when I get around to, remember that is.
 
Since I've read about 2 books/week since I was 8-10 years old and am nearing 40 it's impossible. Besides, if I re-read any books, should I count every time I read them or only the first time? But if any of you in your lists could mark your top 5 books or something like that, I'd be happy to get some ideas of new books. I'll try to give you my top 5 list here, in no particular order, but the 5 books I don't seem to be able to forget:

1. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's not that it's such a literary masterpiece, but since I read it almost once a year, it has a strange appeal to me. Probably it's its sense of humour.
2. Dostojevskij - The Idiot. A really great book and one that wasn't at all as boring or difficult that I thought it would be.
3. Groucho Marx - Groucho and me - his autobiography. A really funny book.
4. Isaac Asimov - The Foundation series. - I know, it's not a single book, but you can't really read just one and the leave them, not if you like them. And again, it's not because it's such literary mastery, it's the impact on my further reading after these books. I read only Sci-Fi for 8-10 years after that.
5. C Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination. Non-fiction, but it helped me define my scientific interests very clearly.

I couldn't possibly give you titles and authors of all the books I've read throughout the years and most of them were more or less crap anyway :D, but I hope my top 5 gives you some new titles to read...
 
I used to keep a list, I might still have it in fact, but I stopped keeping track when I found out how pathetic it is. No need to keep count. Also by now I've read so many books for both school and pleasure that I can't keep track of them. This seems like fun though so I'll go back and see which ones I've read for fun.
 
I can't make a list of all the books I've read in my life, because it would be too long and I would forget some and there are some which title and/or authors I can't remember. But I can make a list of the books I'm going to read in 2007 which are books I bought or I was offered in 2006 but I didn't have time to read.

Harlan Coben - Just one look
Douglas Kennedy - State of the Union
Jean-Pierre Andrevon - Le monde enfin (French Sci-Fi)
Bruno Bettelheim - The uses of enchantment
J K Rowling- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Theodore Roszak -Flicker
Philip K Dick - Martian Time-slip
Kathleen Meyer - How to shit in the woods
Sigmund Freud - Totem and taboo
Barbara Unell and Jerry Wyckoff - Discipline without Shouting or Spanking
 
Here's the books in my cue right now:

Abdalrachman Munif, Salt Cities
Joseph Conrad, Heart Of Darkness
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea
Andreas Eschbach, Solar Station

I hope I'll get those done by March or so.
 
First thing I'm gonna read will be Crime and punishment, and then Hamlet, as I have both of them for school, you know, how do you call it- school assignment?
And I'm also gonna start studying from this history book, as I have a history competition coming up.  :smartarse:

Let this be a thread for books to read then.
 
We all have one (or more) very particular book(s) that we treasure and reread from time to time. Mine is undoubtedly Roy Lewi's The Evolution Man (first published under the title of What we did to father in 1960). The title in French is Pourquoi j'ai mangé mon père. I think that I've reading this wonderful book approx. 10-15 times.
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Back to the trees! :wub:
 
Urizen said:
Let this be a thread for books to read then.
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The Now Reading thread exist for that very purpose. I think if people really want to dig through their old library and school assignments (like I'm currently doing) they can post the vast amounts of books they've read in the past.
 
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