A Joke/A Crime

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1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. (for class) My rating: (9.5/10)
2. Mapping the Edge, by Sarah Dunant. My rating: (6/10)
3. City of God, by E. L. Doctorow. My rating: (7/10)
4.The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane (for Acadec). My rating: (2/10) 
5. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand. My Rating: (10/10)
6. House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. My Rating: (10/10) 
7. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. My Rating: (9/10)
8. The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami. My Rating: (9.7/10)
9. Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch, by Dai Sijie. My Rating (9/10)
10. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. My Rating: (9.6/10)
11. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. My Rating: (10/10 - this book changed me)
12. Diary, by Chuck Palahniuk. My Rating: (8/10)
13. Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk. My Rating: (9.5/10) 
14. Hiroshima, by John Hersey. (for class) My Rating: (3.5/10) 
15. Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. (for class) My Rating: (I still don't know what I think about this/10) 
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey. (for class) My Rating: (9.8/10) 
17. Twilight, by Stephanie Meyers. My Rating: (I only read this because Lourdes wanted me to/10) 
18. Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri. My Rating: (9/10) 
19. New Moon, by Stephanie Meyers. My Rating: (I don't like this series, but it's growing on me anyway. I'm sort of frustrated about that.)
20. Eclipse, by Stephanie Meyers. My Rating: (Eh/10)
21. Paradise, by Toni Morrison. My Rating: (7/10) 
22. Dracula, by Bram Stoker. My Rating (8.8/10) 
23. We the Living, by Ayn Rand. My Rating: (8/10) (I would have thought this a better book if I hadn't read Atlas Shrugged first.) 
24. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. My Rating: (8/10)
25. That Old Ace in the Hole, by Annie Proulx. My Rating: (5/10)
26. Sputnik Sweetheart, by Haruki Murakami. My Rating: (10/10)
27. When You are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris. My Rating: (4/10) (It would have been really good, if it had anything resembling a plot.)
28. Like the Red Panda, by Andrea Seigel. My Rating: (2.8/10) (I just don't understand....)
29. Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski. My Rating: (8/10) (The wierd type arrangement wasn't as novel the second time around, and I didn't really like reading the same story twice, but it brought up some interesting thoughts.) 
30. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (re-read). My Rating: (10/10) 
31. Night Watch, by Sergei Lukyanenko. My Rating (8.7/10)
32. The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. My Rating (7.5/10) (At first I hated this book, and then I reached a conversation that pulled everything together for me.)
33. A Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill. (for class) My Rating: (9.2/10) 
34. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. My Rating: (10/10) (The Devil comes to atheist Moscow? Come on.)
35. Out, by Natsuo Kirino. My Rating: (8.7/10) (Cut out all the gory parts, and it would have been a really good book....)
36. The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien. (for class) My Rating: (9.5/10)
37. The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood. My Rating: (7/10) (the writing wasn't great, but when she hides under the bed, it was like... Oh. I get her.)
38. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. My Rating: (9.3/10)

Currently reading: nothing

I want to read: Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
1984, by George Orwell
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel, by Haruki Murakami
Wild Sheep Chase, by Haruki Murakami
The Church of Dead Girls, by Stephen Dobyns