In 2005 I read 53 books, amounting to a total of 14.767 pages. The post about my personal reading challenges in the years 2005 – 2008 will tell you I had actually hoped to get to 15.000 pages, but alas. So that’s the challenge I failed this year — but I had two more!
- to read a book from each decade from 1900 until 2005
- to finish all bookcrossing books in my possession before the year closed (which happened to be 16 in total)
I succeeded in both these missions!
Here’s my complete list of books finished in 2005. Bold titles belong to the decades challenge, those with an asterisk (*) were BX-copies on my shelf that needed to be read.
- In april was het gras op , Ruth Feigenbaum ( 1999 ) nonfiction
- De vernuftige edelman van La Mancha Don Quichot II , Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( 1615 )
- Kaas en de evolutietheorie , Bas Haring ( 2001 ) * nonfiction
- Museumhuizen , Ella Reitsma ( 2003 ) nonfiction
- Het museum van de toekomst , Anita van Mil & Marije Verduijn ( 2001 ) nonfiction
- Number9dream , David Mitchell ( 2001 )
- Deception on his mind , Elizabeth George ( 1997 )
- Kafka on the shore , Haruki Murakami ( 2003 )
- Get everything done and still have time to play , Mark Foster ( 2000 ) * nonfiction & bx-copy –> I bought a copy for myself
- Gedoemd tot kwetsbaarheid , Geert Mak ( 2005 ) * nonfiction
- Oracle night , Paul Auster ( 2003 )
- Specht en zoon , Willem Jan Otten ( 2004 )
- Property , Valerie Martin ( 2003 )
- Microserfs , Douglas Coupland ( 1995 )
- Saturday , Ian McEwan ( 2005 )
- Avondgezichten: liefdes uit het leven van Prins Genji (Genji Monogatari), plus inleiding , Murasaki Shikibu ( vanaf 1002 )
- Het stenen bruidsbed , Harry Mulisch ( 1959 )
- De dood wil mij niet (La mort ne veut pas de moi), Yolande Mukagasana ( 1997 ) nonfiction
- Killing critics , Carol O’Connell ( 1996 )
- Ministerie van pijn (Ministarstvo boli) , Dubravka Ugresic ( 2004 )
- Girl with a pearl earring , Tracey Chevalier ( 2001 ) *
- Ministerie van pijn (Ministarstvo boli) , Dubravka Ugrešić ( 2004 )
- The bridge of San Luis Rey , Thornton Wilder ( 1927 )
- Strangers (Ijintachi to no natsu) , Taichi Yamada ( 1987 )
- De verzamelaar (The collector) , John Fowles ( 1963 )
- The Samurai’s Garden , Gail Tsukiyama ( 1995 ) * bx-copy –> bought a copy of my own!
- Sonny Boy , Annejet van der Zijl ( 2004 ) *
- El Negro en ik , Frank Westerman ( 2004 ) nonfiction
- Spookliefde , Vonne van der Meer ( 1995 ); audio book
- Through the green valley , Barbara Gowdy ( 1988 )
- Women of the silk , Gail Tsukiyama ( 1991 )
- Van oude mensen, de dingen, die voorbijgaan.. , Louis Couperus ( 1906 )
- Fingersmith , Sarah Waters ( 2002 ) *
- Scoop , Evelyn Waugh ( 1938 )
- De zaak Sotheby’s , Peter Watson ( 1997 ) nonfiction
- In pursuit of the proper sinner , Elizabeth George ( 1999 )
- Een museum is ook maar een mens ( 1999 ) nonfiction
- The shadow of the wind , Carloz Ruiz Zafón ( 2001 )
- De buitenproef , Thomas Rosenboom ( 1983 ); audio book
- The time traveller’s wife , Audrey Niffenegger ( 2004 )
- Dichtertje , Nescio ( 1917 )
- Cal , Bernard MacLaverty ( 1983 ) *
- Vanonder de koperen ploert , Hans Vervoort ( 1975 ) nonfiction
- Kitchen , Banana Yoshimoto ( 1988 ) *
- Eens was ik een mens (Se questo è un uomo) , Primo Levi ( 1947 ) * nonfiction
- Steffie Steek in de klauwen van het leven , Dubravka Ugresic ( 1982 ) *
- [De indologen , Cees Fasseur ( 1993 )] nonfiction ~ temporarily put aside
- Stone angel , Carol O’Connell ( 1997 )
- The museum guard , Howard Norman ( 1998 ) *
- Behind the scenes at the museum , Kate Atkinson ( 1995 ) *
- Tokyo , Mo Hayder ( 2004 ) *
- Srebrenica: het zwartste scenario , Frank Westerman en Bart Rijs ( 1997 ) nonfiction
- De stenen dagboeken , Carol Shields ( 1993 ) *
- Extremely loud & incredibly close , Jonathan Safran Foer ( 2005 ) *
Biggest disappointment: probably Don Quixote because I had expected so much of it. But I’m glad I persevered because now I really know what it’s about and that makes it easier to spot references in other books. That’s fun ;)
I really didn’t like The Collector and Specht en zoon.
Thankfully I have lots of favourites to compensate: Number9dream (you had probably guessed that ;), Kafka on the shore, Oracle night, Property, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Strangers, The samurai’s garden, Fingersmith, The time traveller’s wife, Eens was ik een mens, Extremely loud & incredibly close.
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zaterdag 29 mei 2010 bij 00:18
uncertainprinciples
oooh, I wish I had a signed copy of number9dream. Loved the book to bits.
zondag 30 mei 2010 bij 13:12
gnoegnoe
Keep an eye out for the Mitchell world tour to promote his book The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet! He’s visiting Holland next week… (I’ll be seeing him again on Saturday, yay!)
zondag 30 mei 2010 bij 21:37
chasing bawa
Interesting picture on the page! Have fun on Saturday!!
zondag 30 mei 2010 bij 23:01
gnoegnoe
Interesting picture indeed… Did you read my remark about that in today’s Sunday Salon? ;)