Deck The Halls

Unlike some more devoted people I didn't take the pain of adding up the number of pages I'd read this year (meaning 2011) but I am in the position to proudly announce that I'd accomplished the one book per week quest for 2011. Here's the complete list (in random order mostly).

John Bayley: Iris
Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior - Memoirs of a Childhood among Ghosts
Szabó Magda: Mézescsók Cerberusnak
Tandori Dezső: Medvék minden mennyiségben
Varró Dániel: Bögre azúr
Anthony Minghella: Truly, Madly, Deeply
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
David Mitchell: Ghostwritten
Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
Philip Roth: I Married a Communist
Jack Kerouac: On the Road
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Tóth Krisztina: Pixel
Tóth Krisztina: Vonalkód
Susan Minot: Folly
Bíró Kriszta: Jozefa
Jane Austen: Emma
Toni Morrison: Love
Ian McEwan: The Comfort of Strangers
Kajetan Kovic: Képzelet tanár úr
Barbara Honigmann: Zohara utazása
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played with Fire
Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Henry James: The Europeans
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses
Jhumpa Lahiri: Unaccustomed Earth: Stories
Szabó Magda: Abigél
Virginia Woolf: Flush: A Biography
Alex Garland: The Beach
Alice Walker: The Color Purple
Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat pray love
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
Tóth Krisztina: Hazaviszlek, jó?
Szabó Magda: Régimódi történet
Jacqueline Wilson: The Illustrated Mum
Kathryn Stockett: The Help
Ephraim Kishon: Az eszed tokja!
Ljudmila Ulickaja: Imágó
Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Cecilia Ahern: P. S. I love you
Lázár Ervin: A négyszögletű kerek erdő
Susan Minot: Evening
Frank McCourt: Angela’s Ashes
Frank McCourt: ’Tis
Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
Thomas Mann: A varázshegy (aka The Magic Mountain)

And my plans for the near future:
Richard Yates: Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (reading now),
Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl,
Thomas Mann: A Buddenbrook-ház,
Eliot Pattison: Tibeti démon,
Nigel Cawthorne: Daughter of Heaven,
Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera,
Tony Parsons: Man and Boy,
Karafiáth Orsolya: A Maffia-klub,
Tracy Chevalier: Falling Angels,
John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman,
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
(the last three are stolen from the last Bookstation newsletter of 2011).

As you can see, I won't be wasting my time this year either though I'm not planning to pursue any kind of resolution pattern this year. I'm sure books will find me along the way and I'll write about them from time to time, I promise. I'm planning to read a bit more classical literature this time, especially Jane Austen and Thomas Mann. And a bit of Hungarian must-know, let's say. I'm pretty much lagging behind in this department.

Btw, I've written about 33 of them (if I'm right) plus 2 articles in Hungarian (Pixel and Imágó).