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Feb.7. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
8. Othello - Shakespeare (reread)
9. The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare (reread)
10.Faces in the Water* - Frame
11.Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare (reread)
12.Ancestral Voices* - van Heerden
13.Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
14.Othello - Shakespeare
15.Some Prefer Nettles* - Tanizaki
16.The Country Girls* - O'Brien
17. Anagrams* - Moore
March18. Marjorie Morningstar - Wouk
19. Professor Marten's Departure* - Kross
20. Maurice - Forster
21. Gone Girl - Flynn
22. The Hundred Foot Journey - Morais
23. Arcanum 17* - Breton
24. Dark Alliance - Gary Webb (nonfiction)
25. Hyperion* - Holderin
26. Alamut* - Bartol
27. The Dark Child* - Laye
28. The Homesman - Swarthout
April29. *The Lost Honor or Katharina Blum* - Boll
30. *Three Lives* - Stein
31. Dead Wake - Larson (nonfiction)
32. *The Trial* - Kafka (reread)
33. *A Suitable Boy* - Seth
May34. *Where Angels Fear to Tread - Forster (reread)
35. *All Souls - Marias (reread)
36. The Two Faces of January - Highsmith
37. *Compassion - Perez-Galdos
38. Odd Man Out - Green
39. *On the Black Hill - Chatwin
40. Unbroken - Hilldenbrand
41. *Chaka - Mofolo
42. *Enduring Love - McEwan (reread)
43. Before I Go to Sleep - Watson
44. *Falling Man - DeLillo
45. *Pricksongs and Descants - Coover
* indicates title from Boxall's..."
June46. Still Alice - Genova
47. *Nervous Conditions - Dangarembga
48. *Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton
49. *Veronica Decides to Die- Coelho
50. *Foe - Delillo
51. *Queer - Burroughs
52. *Therese Raquin - Zola
53. 1408 - King (short stories)
54. Inherent Vice - Pynchon
55. The Friends of Eddie Coyle - Higgins
56. *That They May Face the Rising Sun - McGahern
57. *Memento Mori - Spark
July58. *The Passion of New Eve - Carter
59. *Journey to the End of Night - Celine
60. *The Nose - Gogol
61. *Nicholas Nickleby - Dickens
62. *The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - Anon.
63. *Independent People - Laxness
64. *The Vicar of Wakefield - Goldsmith
Left off earlier months' lists:
1 *Cat and Mouse - Grass (reread)
2 American Sniper - Kyle
3 The Caveman's Valentine - Green
4 Redeployment - Klay
5 Where the Truth Lies - Holmes
6 Starting Out in the Evening - Morton
7 The Lady Vanishes - White
8 Many Lives, Many Masters - Weiss (nonfiction)
9 The Princes in the Tower - Weir
10 *No One Writes to the Colonel - Marquez (reread)
11 *Silence - Endo
12 *The Quest for Christa T - Wolf
Running total - 76
August77. *The Marriage Plot - Eugenides
78. *The Golden Ass - Apuleius
79. *Thais - France
80. *Under the Yoke - Vazov
81. *The French Lt.'s Woman - Fowles (reread)
82. *Lord Jim - Conrad (reread)
83. Rosewater - Bahari (nonfiction)
84. *Shadow Lines - Ghosh
85. *Eugene Onegin - Pushkin (reread)
September86. The Brick Foxhole-Brooks
87. *The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman - Szczypiorski(reread)
88. *Cataract - Osadchyi
89. *Summer in Baden Baden - Tsypkin
90. *Caleb Williams - Godwin
91. Chinese Coffee - Lewis (play)
October92. *The Summer Book - Jonssan
93. *The Blind Owl - Hedayat
94. *By the Open Sea - Strindberg
95. *2666 - Bolano
96. Arthur and George - Barnes
97. *The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne (reread)
98. *The House with the Blind Glass Windows - Wassmo
99. *The Iron Heel - London
November100.*The House on the Borderland - Hodgson
101.*Paradise of the Blind - Huong
102.*Catch-22 - Heller (reread)
103.*The Revenge for Love - Lewis
104.*The Deadbeats - Ruyslinck
105.*The Thinking Reed - West
106. Dark Places - Flynn
December107. *Out of Africa - Dinesen (reread)
108. The Ice House - Walters
109. *Kieron Smith, Boy - Kelman
110. *Couples, Passersby - Strauss
111. *Measuring the World - Kehlmann
112. A Slight of Mind - Cullen
113. Mermaid Singing - McDermid
114. Wire in the Blood - McDermid
1. Mr. Vertigo* - Auster
2. Untouchable* - Anand
3. Labor Day - Maynard
4. Bad Debts - Temple
5. The Successor* - Kadare
6. A Gate at the Stairs* - Moore
* indicates title from Boxall's 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die Lists