Lists: Murakami Haruki

This is a personal challenge I’ve decided to take on long ago, but I see that lots of people are doing it here. Incidentally, I also copied the list from that blog.

I’m able to read books in several languages (not Japanese, though; not yet), so if there’s a book published in a language other than English that has not appeared in English translation, I’ll add it to the list. As far as I know, this is not the case for now, so I’m using the English list, but will possibly read some books in other translations. They’ll be marked accordingly, because I’m anal retentive like that.

Start: 2001 (when I first read Kaze no uta wo kike)

Last updated: 13.01.2014

End:  possibly n/a

Novels/Novellas

• Hear the Wind Sing (風の歌を聴け Kaze no uta o kike)
• Pinball, 1973 (1973年のピンボール 1973-nen no pinbōru)
• A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険 Hitsuji o meguru bōken)
• Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド Sekai no owari to hādoboirudo wandārando)
• Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森 Noruwei no mori)
• Dance Dance Dance (ダンス・ダンス・ダンス Dansu dansu dansu)
• South of the Border, West of the Sun (国境の南、太陽の西 Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi)
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru)
• Sputnik Sweetheart (スプートニクの恋人 Supūtoniku no koibito)
• Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ Umibe no Kafuka)
• After Dark (アフターダーク Afutā Dāku)
• 1Q84 (1Q84 Ichi-kyū-hachi-yon)

Short story collections

• after the quake
• The Elephant Vanishes
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Non-fiction

• Underground (アンダーグラウンド Andāguraundo)
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto)

Lists: Jane Austen's Works and Derivations

Right now this list only houses Jane Austen's original works, but eventually I plan to add novels that are based on the worlds she created. I will not be aiming for a definitive list as new versions and continuations of P&P etc. just keep popping up.

Started: I have no idea
Last updated: 13.01.2014
Completed: ?

Novels

• Sense and Sensibility (1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1815)
• Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
• Persuasion (1818, posthumous)

Short fiction

• Lady Susan (1794, 1805)

Unfinished fiction

• The Watsons (1804)
• Sanditon (1817)

Other works

• Sir Charles Grandison (adapted play) (1793, 1800)
• Plan of a Novel (1815)
• Poems (1796-1817)
• Prayers (1796-1817)
• Letters (1796-1817)

Juvenilia — Volume the First (1787-1793)

• Frederic & Elfrida
• Jack & Alice
• Edgar & Emma
• Henry and Eliza
• The Adventures of Mr. Harley
• Sir William Mountague
• Memoirs of Mr. Clifford
• The Beautifull Cassandra
• Amelia Webster
• The Visit
• The Mystery
• The Three Sisters
• A beautiful description
• The generous Curate
• Ode to Pity

Juvenilia — Volume the Second (1787-1793)

• Love and Freindship
• Lesley Castle
• The History of England
• A Collection of Letters
• The female philosopher
• The first Act of a Comedy
• A Letter from a Young Lady
• A Tour through Wales
• A Tale

Juvenilia — Volume the Third (1787-1793)

• Evelyn Catharine, or the Bower

Lists: BBC's Top 200 (the Big Read)

Copied from BBC’s website.

Started: officially in November 2011, unofficially -- can't really say.
Last updated: 13.01.2014
End: ?

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews

things I need to look into for my reading.

Before I muster the courage to post an actual review of something, I thought I'd copy some of my general book notes to this place. This blog is an infant, but if you have somehow stumbled upon this page and have any recommendations for me in any of these categories, I'd be very happy. Thank you!

• Authors of colour. I don't think I've ever read a book written by a black person, and I've only read Murakami and Mishima out of the Asian authors category. This is a sad oversight indeed.
• Jewish lit. Unfamiliar territory for me. Two stories by Sholem Aleichem do not a well-read woman make. My ancestors are not impressed.
• Established classics of various genres. Mostly I am looking into sci-fi, dystopia, post-apocalyptic, fantasy. I've read some, of course, but I figure I still can't call myself a fan of dystopia or science-fiction until I read 1984 or Frankenstein or Asimov.
• German literature. Completely unfamiliar. I think I can really only name Thomas Mann and Goethe off the top of my head. I can name more French guys.
• Contemporary Russian writers. I can't find a single book by contemporary Russian authors, aside from occasional mystery book here and there, that I would actually enjoy. I will continue my search. Perhaps the recent programme presented by Stephen Fry will be of help.
• Scholarly works on Paganism. The modern part of it.
• Feminism. All I learnt about feminism, I learnt either via a very personal experience of being a woman in a country which has a proverb that compares an unbeaten wife to a house that needs cleaning, or via tumblr and the likes.

Challenges 2014: Kelley's Bingo

(head on to bingo page for rules and things)

The Goals for this Challenge

(listed in brackets are my possible reads)

B1: Book I bought but haven’t read yet

B2: Book recommended by a friend (the Secret (oh dear lord) or a Song of Ice and Fire volume)

B3: Book outside my comfort zone (the Host or something horror)

B4: Book that teaches me something 

B5: Finish/reread a series

I1: Nonfiction book I already own

I2: Book I got for free

I3: Ebook I already own (TTSS)

I4: Book I’m excited for (Whispers Under Ground)

I5: Book about food

N1: Classic on my TBR list

N2: 2013 debut I missed last year (I'm bad with new releases, so something from here, or here -- or feel free to recommend me something!)

N3: FREE SQUARE!

N4: Verse novel (Paradise Lost, Eugene Onegin, the Satanic Verses)

N5: Book I got signed but haven’t read

G1: Finish a series ending in 2014 (Under the Never Sky)

G2: Adult book on my TBR list

G3: Book by an author I haven’t read before

G4: Book that uses experimental prose

G5: Finish a series that ended before 2014 (Smiley)

O1: Standalone book on my TBR list

O2: Indie book

O3: Book I started years ago and forgot about

O4: Visual novel

O5: Chunkster

Challenges 2014: Anne and Kristilyn Book Bingo

(head on to challenge page for rules and things)

So~ Some maths tells me that if I were to read all the books in the card, then I'd have to read 55 books, which is 10 more than the number of books I've challenged myself to read this year. We'll see about that. But I'll definitely try. The new releases column will be the most difficult one. I'm always late to the party. Pretty sure for this one I'll be entirely dependent on Kindle's free books section.

TBR Pile
(For the purpose of this challenge, I'm defining TBR as all the books I've been meaning to read but haven't for some reason, whether they will be borrowed from the library, downloaded for free, freshly bought, or will indeed come from my overflowing shelves. Any book that inspires the thought of "oh yeah, yeah, I remember you, been meaning to read you..." counts.)

• one book
• two books
• three books
• four books
• five books

Mix it up

• non-fiction
• classic
• re-read
• free square
• contemporary

Series

• one book (Save Me)
• two books (a Song of Ice and Fire OR 50 Shades)
• three books (Robert Langdon)
• four books (Hitchhiker's Guide)
• five books (George Smiley)

Genres

• fantasy
• free square
• historical fiction
• mystery
• romance

New Releases

• one book
• two books
• three books
• four books
• five books

Challenges 2014: Books in Translation

(photo credit for button)

(hosted by the Introverted Reader)

From the challenge page: 

The goal is obviously to read translations of books, from any language into the language(s) you're comfortable reading in; they don't have to be in English.
You can read any genre and any age range.

I'm aiming for the fourth level, Linguist, that is: 10-12 books. Although I'm a translator by trade and certainly respect the profession, I usually shun translated books for whatever reason, especially if the originals happen to be in languages I've the fortune of understanding. So this challenge will be a true challenge for me.