Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Books Read, 2005.

For my own edification, a listing of all of the books I read in 2005.

# = recommended

Fiction

Home Away From Home by Lorna J. Cook
# The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
# Sula by Toni Morrison (discussed here)
# Midwives: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
# The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (discussed here)
# Life of Pi by Yann Martel
# The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart
# "Brokeback Mountain" by E. Annie Proulx (discussed here and here)

Nonfiction

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Essentials of Corporate Finance by Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W Westerfield, Bradford D Jordan, and Bradford Jordan
Managerial Accounting, 11th Edition by Ray H Garrison, Eric Noreen, and Peter C. Brewer

2 comments:

iWoman said...

Hahaha. What? That joke is so bad!

The book is actually about a boy on a lifeboat with various zoo animals--including a tiger--after a shipwreck. Goood, but I think it drags on too long.

Mangerial Accounting actually is interesting, if you like accounting!

iWoman said...

He doesn't get eaten by tigers! : )

The book is good because there's a twist at the end--but then there's another twist, because you don't know if the first twist is real or not.