Novels 2008

[bagheera_san]

1. The Time-Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Gregorius by Hartman v. Aue
3. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
4. The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
5. The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
6. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
7. Der Verdacht by F. Dürrenmatt
8. Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann
9. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
10. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
11. England, England by Julian Barnes
12. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
13. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
14. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
15. The Idiot by Dostoevsky
16. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
17. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
18. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
19. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik

20. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
This book could have been crap and I would still have loved it for its happy ending: and then Harry Dresden went and played D&D with the werewolves. But it wasn't crap. The Dresden series gets better with each installment (it's still pulp, of course, but highly entertaining) and this parallels another development: it's more of a fantasy novel. The series started out as a hardboiled detective story with fantasy elements, and now it is a fantasy story whose protagonist happens to be a PD as well. I guess this shows where my preferences lie.

Next up is some serious reading! The next semester is close, and I've got Hawthorne, Updike and Arthur Miller to read, as well as some medieval German stuff.