Books We've Read

Kent and I like to read to each other - usually while the other draws or paints.We started writing our books down when we started - then lost our list for a while there and got out of the habit of keeping track. Oops. I'm doing a little better again... here you go:

2013

The Canning Season - Polly Horvath (ck)

In process - The Round House - Louise Erdich (ck)
In process - Hector Servadac - Jules Verne


2012
Kurt Vonnegut Letters - Edited by Dan Wakefield (ck)
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh - Mo Yan

The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker - Dorthy Parker (ck)
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami (ck)
Kinky Friedman - A Blast From The Past
Norah Labiner - Our Sometime Sister (ck)
Norah Labiner - German for Travelers (ck)
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami (ck)

2011
A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (ck)
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville - Mostly listened to a recording of it.
Swamplandia - Karen Russell (ck) (Loved beginning - hated ending. Felt like I got socked in the gut)
The Second Bakery Attack - Haruki Murakami short story (ck)
The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women - Haruki Murakami
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
Time Quake - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

2010
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami (ck)
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer (Horrible)
New Moon - Stephanie Meyer (Worse than the first one)
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Catching fire - Suzanne Collins

2009
Blindness - Jose Saramago (ck)
Can't think what else I read this year either

2007
A Confederate General from Big Sur - Richard Brautigan
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
The Cave - Jose Saramago
The City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
The General in His Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Trout Fishing In America - Richard Brautigan

2006
And Where Were You, Adam? - Heinrich Böll
Dust Tracks on the Road - Zora Neale Hurston
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Henderson The Rain King - Saul Bellow
Lives of the Monster Dogs - Kirsten Bakis
Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
The Train Was on Time - Heinrich Böll
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Wicked - Gregory Maguire

2005
"J", or Seiteki Ningen (Sexual Humans) - Kenzaburo Oe
A Bar in Brooklyn - Andrei Codrescu
A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
A Meeting By The River - Christopher Isherwood
Apologizing to Dogs - Joe Goomer
Barrell Fever - David Sedaris
Black Elk Speaks - John G. Neihardt
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Fifth Business - Robertson Davis
Four Corners - Kira Salakes
Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
House of Incest - Anais Nin
Maggie Cassidy - Jack Kerouac
Seventeen - Kenzaburo Oe.
The Air Conditioned Nightmare - Henry Miller
The Big Sea - Langston Hughes
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
The Manticore - Robertson Davies
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
The Robber Bridgroom - Eudora Welty.
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
World of Wonders - Robertson Davies
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks

2004
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov
Laments For The Living - Dorothy Parker
Me Talk Pretty Someday - David Sedaris
Memoirs of a Geisha - Aurthur Golden
Nexus - Henry Miller
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Comissariat of Enlightenment - Ken Kalfus
The Electic Koolaid Acid Test - Tom Wolf
The Holy Terrors - Jean Cocteau
The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
The Master & the Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov   
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Walden - Henry David Thoreau

2003
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Noa Noa - Paul Gauguin
Pictor's Metamorphoses - Hermann Hesse
Plexus - Henry Miller
Sexus - Henry Miller
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian
Steppin' on a Rainbow - Kinky Friedman
The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
The Razor's Edge - Somerset Maugham
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

2002
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
For Whom the Bell tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Pulp - Charles Bukowski
Radical Chic & Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers - Tom Wolfe
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Smile at the Foot of the Ladder - Henry Miller
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Thin Red Line - James Jones

2001
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
A Personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe
Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & the Prizoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling
Queer - William S. Burroughs
Return of the King - JRR Tolkien
Snows of Kilimanjaro & Other Stories - Ernest Hemingway
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
Two Towers - JRR Tolkien

2000
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Tompson
Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
God Bless You, John Wayne - Kinky Friedman
Little Green Men - Christopher Buckley
Old Possoms Book for Practical Cats - T. S. Eliot
Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Saint Mudd - Steve Thayer
Selected Poems - Carl Sandburg
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

1999
A Place Called Freedom - Ken Follett
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Armadillos & Old Lace - Kinky Friedman
Blue Movie - Terry Southern
Budding Prospect - T.C. Boyle
Candy - Terry Southern
Cather In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
Elvis, Jesus & Coca Cola - Kinky Friedman
Flash & Filligree - Terry Southern
Junky - William S. Burroughs
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Pinocchio in Venice - Robert Coover
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Suberraneans - Jack Kerouac   
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
The Weatherman - Steve Thayer
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austin
Road Kill - Kinky Friedman
South of No North - Charles Bukowski
Thank You For Smoking - Christopher Buckley
The Dubliners - James Joyce
The Fox - D. H. Lawrence
The Magic Christian - Terry Southern
The Sound & The Fury - William Faulkner
When the Cat's Away - Kinky Friedman

1998
A Dangerous Fortune - Ken Follett
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Fall of America - Allen Ginsberg
Frequent Flyer - Kinky Friedman
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
Lie down with Lions - Ken Follett
Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover - Kinky Friedman
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berehnt
Noble House - James Clavell
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
The Alienist - Caleb Carr
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - Omar Khayyam
The Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Secret Sharer and other stories - Joseph Conrad

1997
Gai-Gin - James Clavell
Tai Pan - James Clavell
The Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov

1996
Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlin