Being a list of recently finished books with a link to a relevant blog post, if available.

2008

  • Lee M. Silver: Challenging Nature (05/08 )
  • Albert Camus: The Fall (03/08 )
  • Andre Comte-Sponville: The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality (03/08 )
  • Lao Tzu/Ursula K. Le Guin: Tao Te Ching (03/08 )
  • Philip Pullman: The Subtle Knife (02/08 )
  • Philip Pullman: The Golden Compass OR Northern Lights (01/08 )
  • Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis (01/08 )
  • 2007

  • Sam Keen: Sightings (12/07)
  • Jack Kerouac: On the Road (11/07)
  • R. Goscinny and A. Uderzo: Asterix and the Class Act (09/07)
  • Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking (08/07)
  • J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (08/07)
  • Rabindranath Tagore: The Home and the World (Ghare-Baire) (07/07)
  • Alexander McCall Smith: The Right Attitude to Rain (06/07)
  • J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace (06/07)
  • J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (05/07)
  • Anthony Trollope: The Warden (05/07)
  • Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (04/07)
  • Larry Gonick & Mark Wheelis: The Cartoon Guide to Genetics (04/07)
  • Sam Harris: Letter to a Christian Nation (04/07)
  • Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion (03/07)
  • Wallace Stegner: Remembering Laughter (02/07)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (02/07)
  • Stephen Meyer: The End of the Wild (01/07)
  • Gabriel García Márquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (01/07)
  • Simon Barnes: How to be a (Bad) Birdwatcher (01/07)
  • 2006

  • G. H. Hardy: A Mathematician’s Apology (11/06)
  • J. M. Coetzee: Foe (11/06)
  • Gabriel García Márquez: Memories of My Melancholy Whores (10/06)
  • Margaret Craven, Walk Gently This Good Earth (10/06)
  • Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness (09/06)
  • J.M. Coetzee: The Lives of Animals (09/06)
  • Gabriel García Márquez: Love in the time of Cholera (08/06)
  • Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (07/06)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: The Farthest Shore (06/06)
  • John Steinbeck: The Pearl (05/06)
  • Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (05/06)
  • Alexander McCall Smith: The Sunday Philosophy Club (04/06)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan (03/06)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea (03/06)
  • John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent (03/06)
  • Menno Schilthuizen: Frogs, Flies and Dandelions (02/06)
  • Lynne Truss: Eats, Shoots and Leaves (02/06)
  • Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (01/06)
  • 2 Responses to “Timeline”


    1. 1 bloglily October 2, 2006 at 7:03 pm

      What a very nice way to keep track, and build a useful archive. May I copy you?

    2. 2 Polaris October 2, 2006 at 8:32 pm

      Oh, of course. Go right ahead. This can allow us to track the change in other bloggers’ reading interests as well.

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