Let's get straight to the point. I wouldn't exactly say I'm 'back' (I haven't really been away, have I?), but it feels like a 'hey-I'm-back-*waves*' journal anyway.

Not only that, I also seemed to have forgotten about starting this journal. Now I've hopelessly run out of time, so there it ends. I'll update you lot on stuff soon enough!




Reading List

English Literature
/ A Clockwork Orange, Burgess
The Kingdom of the Wicked, Burgess
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
American Psycho, Ellis
As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
The Gate of Angels, Fitzgerald
Memoirs of a Geisha, Golden
/ Lord of the Flies, Golding
Rites of Passage, Golding
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Green
King Solomon's Mines, Haggard
Montezuma's Daughter, Haggard
Silence of the Lambs, Harris
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
Catch 22, Heller
/ A Farewell To Arms, Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
The Kite Runner, Hosseini
/ The Bone People, Hulme
Brave New World, Huxley
Fear of Flying, Jong
Ulysses, Joyce
Finnegans' Wake, Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey
The Plumed Serpent, Lawrence
/ The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Marlowe
/ Life of Pi, Martel
Paradise Lost, Milton
Number 9 Dream, Mitchell
Cloud Atlas, Mitchell
Paradise, Morrison
Lolita, Nabokov
Under the Eye of the Clock, Nolan
1984, Orwell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig
V., Pynchon
The Plot Against America, Roth
The Satanic Verses, Rushdie
Midnight's Children, Rushdie
/ The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
Macbeth, Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare
Hamlet, Shakespeare
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson
The Secret History, Tartt
The Silmarillion, Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
Beowulf, Unknown
/ The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
The Land of Heart's Desire, Yeats

Dutch Literature
/ Het huis van de moskee, Abdolah
Liefde's verbijstering, Belcampo
Tussen hemel en afgrond, Belcampo
De ideale dahlia, Belcampo
/ Een Dag in Gent, Brusselmans (Flemish)
/ De Verwondering, Claus (Flemish)
Het Verdriet van België, Claus (Flemish)
/ Iskander, Couperus
/ In Afrika, van Dis
/ Villa des Roses, Elsschot (Flemish)
Langs de Nijl, Emants
/ Het woud der verwachting, Haasse
/ Au Pair, Hermans
Nooit meer slapen, Hermans
/ Een schitterend gebrek, Japin
/ De klopgeest, Komrij
/ Verwoest Arcadië, Komrij
/ Lucifer, Palmen
/ Trekkerswee, Totius (Afrikaans)
/ Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol, Verhulst (Flemish)
Ivoren Wachters, Vestdijk (Flemish)
/ Turks Fruit, Wolkers

Arab Literature (translated)
Wedding Songs, Mahfouz
Respected Sir, Mahfouz
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Mahfouz
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace of Desire, Mahfouz
The Cairo Trilogy: Sugar Street, Mahfouz
Qur'an, Muhammed's companions

German Literature (translated)
Faust, Goethe
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Goethe
The Trial, Kafka
Metamorphosis, Kafka
In the Penal Colony, Kafka
The Castle, Kafka
Amerika, Kafka
Measuring the World, Kehlmann
The Antichrist, Nietzsche
Human, All too Human, Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche

French literature (translated)
À la recherche du temps perdu, Proust
La Nausée, Sartre
Les chemins de la liberté, Sartre

Italian literature (translated)
Inferno, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (English/Mandelbaum)
Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (English/Mandelbaum)
Paradiso, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (English/Mandelbaum)
Il Filostrato, Boccaccio
Il Decameron, Boccaccio
Il deserto dei Tartari, Buzzati
Il nome della rosa, Eco
Il pendolo di Foucault, Eco
Il Principe, Macchiavelli
Discorsi, Macchiavelli
Xenia, Montale
Il Canzoniere, Petrarca

Spanish/Latin American literature (translated)
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, de Cervantes
100 years of solitude, Garcia Marquez
Love in the time of cholera, Garcia Marquez
No one writes to the colonel, Garcia Marquez
/ Florentine Codex, de Sahagún
El Cantar de Mio Cid, Unknown

Latin literature (translated/untranslated)
De Bello Gallico, Caesar
Stultitiae laus, Erasmus

Greek literature (translated)
Iliad, Homer
Odyssey, Homer
Metamorphosis, Ovid

Russian literature (translated/untranslated)
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
The Double: A Petersburg Poem, Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
The Gulag Archipel, Solzhenitsyn
War and Peace, Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
Hadji Murat, Tolstoy
The Cossacks, Tolstoy

Japanese literature (translated)
Silence, Endo
Norwegian Wood, Murakami

Finnish literature (translated)
Meek Heritage, Sillanpää
Kalevala, Unknown

Other literature (translated)
/ Shahnameh, Ferdowsi (Persian)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera (Czech)
Prose Edda, Sturluson (Old Norse)
/ Avesta, Unknown (Avestan)
Bible, Unknown (Hebrew)
Poetic Edda, Unknown (Old Norse)
Popol Vuh, Unknown (K'ich'e Maya-English/Christenson)
The Country Where No One Ever Dies, Vorpsi

= Read
= Reading
= Yet to read/Need to Re-read
= School-related reading (which doesn't mean I don't greatly enjoy them!)
= Partially read, but not currently reading

Likely missed a lot on "Read" and surely missed tons on "Yet to read", but it gives you (and me!) an idea.