The Books of My Numberless Dreams

2006

The bolded entries are the ones I liked best. The choices are slightly different from the ones featured in My Notable Twenty-Five because I read more after the post date or felt warmer (or colder) towards some.

Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

Making It Up - Penelope Lively

Firmin: The Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife - Sam Savage

Brother Man - Roger Mais

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

The Sea - John Banville

Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice - A.S. Byatt

The Architect of the Roman Empire - Thomas Rice Holmes

The Hills were Joyful Together - Roger Mais

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami

Memory in Death - J.D. Robb

Dance of the Gods - Nora Roberts

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Shroud - John Banville

Ticknor - Sheila Heti

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Bet Me - Jennifer Crusie

Eugenie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac

Hot Night - Shannon Mckenna

Charlie All Night - Jennifer Crusie

Strange Bedpersons - Jennifer Crusie

Getting Rid of Bradley - Jennifer Crusie

What The Lady Wants - Jennifer Crusie

Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen

The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett

The Immoralist - Andre Gide

Seduction and Betrayal* - Elizabeth Hardwick

King Dork - Frank Portman

The Fox in the Attic - Richard Hughes

The Unknown Masterpiece - Honoré de Balzac

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton (yuck)

We Always Treat Women Too Well - Raymond Queneau

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Scandal in Spring - Lisa Kleypas

All U Can Eat - Emma Holly (Yes, I am chagrined at having read a book with such letter abuse.)

Chess Story - Stefan Zwieg

Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett

A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes

Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood

Come Closer - Sara Gran

The History of Reading - Alberto Manguel

Manservant and Maidservant - Ivy Compton-Burnett

Kingdoms of Elfin - Sylvia Townsend Warner

Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett

Mapping the Mind - Rita Carter

The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett

Woman in the Dark - Dashiell Hammett

Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran

Old Goriot - Honoré de Balzac

Other Electricities - Ander Monson

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

Defence Speeches - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Conrad’s Fate - Diana Wynne Jones

Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Atlas - Jorge Luis Borges

Reading Cicero - Catherine Steel

Dreamtigers - Jorge Luis Borges

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

Power of Three - Diana Wynne Jones

Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami

An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom - Marcus Tullius Cicero

On Art and Life - John Ruskin

A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami

The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul - Paul M. Churchland

Possession - A.S. Byatt

Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

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  • Semicolon // January 1, 2007 at 11:57 pm

    [...] Imani gives her list here with favorites highlighted, and here she says she’s never read a bad book (this year). [...]

  • rozmarins // June 4, 2007 at 4:30 am

    WOW! 70 books! That`s a lot.

  • Andrew // June 15, 2007 at 2:59 pm

    I work as a bookseller - well, a bookshop manager - and I must say: I’m impressed. I tracked back your blog from a comment left on my book blog and I will be showing your blog to my colleagues. We dream of getting customers like you through the doors to share the fun of books with!

  • imani // June 15, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    Thank you for the very nice words. I admit I am fairly chummy with the book store manager of the independent store in town. We can book talk for ages.

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