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Rebecca’s Progress
Since Martel sends another book every two weeks, this list will constantly be growing. Links below lead to my reviews on Rebecca Reads; bold indicates I’ve personally read it. (November 30, 2009)
Book Number 81: Diary of a Madman, by Lu Xun, sent to you by Charles Foran
Book Number 80: For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down, by David Adams Richards, sent to you by Steven Galloway
Book Number 79: Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White, sent to you by Alice Kuipers
Book Number 78: Century, by Ray Smith, sent to you by Charles Foran
Book Number 77: King Leary, by Paul Quarrington, sent to you by Steven Galloway
Book Number 76: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Book Number 75: Nadirs, by Herta Müller
Book Number 74: Eunoia, by Christian Bök
Book Number 73: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
Book Number 72: Books: a memoir, by Larry McMurtry
Book Number 71: The Financial Expert, by R. K. Narayan
Book Number 70: Tropic of Hockey, by Dave Bidini
Book Number 69: Property, by Valerie Martin
Book Number 68: Generation A, by Douglas Coupland
Book Number 67: Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee
Book Number 66: What Is Stephen Harper Reading?, brought to you by dozens of great writers
Book Number 65: The Tartar Steppe, by Dino Buzzati
Book Number 64: The Virgin Secretary’s Impossible Boss, by Carole Mortimer
Book Number 63: Flaubert’s Parrot, by Julian Barnes
Book Number 62: Everyman, by Philip Roth
Books Number 61: Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, stories and pictures by Maurice Sendak
Book Number 60: The Tin Flute, by Gabrielle Roy, translated by Hannah Josephson
Books Numbers 58 and 59: Runaway, by Alice Munro, and The Door, by Margaret Atwood, with Camino, music by Oliver Schroer
Book Number 57: Hiroshima Mon Amour, a screenplay by Marguerite Duras and a movie by Alain Resnais
Book Number 56: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book Number 55: The Gift, by Lewis Hyde
Books Number 53 and 54: Louis Riel, by Chester Brown, and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, by Yukio Mishima, translated by John Nathan
Book Number 52: Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change, a collaboration organized by David Buckland and the Cape Farewell Foundation
Book Number 51: Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare
Book Number 50: Jane Austen, A Life, by Carol Shields
Book Number 49: The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
Book Number 48: Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
Book Number 47: The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, by Michael Ignatieff
Book Number 46: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics 1965-1999, by Paul McCartney
Book Number 45: Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
Book Number 44: The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
Book Number 43: The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett
Book Number 42: Gilgamesh, in an English version by Derrek Hines
Book Number 41: Gilgamesh, in an English version by Stephen Mitchell
Book Number 40: A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Book Number 39: Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones
Book Number 38: Anthem, by Ayn Rand
Book Number 37: A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
Book Number 36: Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O’Connor
Book Number 35: Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas
Book Number 34: The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Book Number 33: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
Book Number 32: The Rez Sisters, by Tomson Highway
Book Number 31: Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Book Number 30: The Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy
Book Number 29: Drown, by Junot DÃaz
Book Number 28: Read All About It!, by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush
Book Number 27: To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
Book Number 26: Birthday Letters, by Ted Hughes
Book Number 25: The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, by Larry Tremblay
Book Number 24: Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
Book Number 23: Artists and Models, by Anaïs Nin
Book Number 22: Meditations, by Marcus Aurellius
Book Number 21: The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway
Book Number 20: The Educated Imagination, by Northrop Frye
Books Number 19: The Brothers Lionheart, by Astrid Lindgren; Imagine A Day, by Sarah L. Thomson and Rob Gonsalves; and The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg
Book Number 18: Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
Book Number 17: The Island Means Minago, by Milton Acorn
Book Number 16: Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Book Number 15: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson
Book Number 14: Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Book Number 13: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Book Number 12: Maus, by Art Spiegelman
Book Number 11: The Watsons, by Jane Austen
Book Number 10: Miss Julia, by August Strindberg
Book Number 9: Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
Book Number 8: Short and Sweet: 101 very short poems, edited by Simon Armitage, published by Faber and Faber
Book Number 7: Candide, by Voltaire
Book Number 6: Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan
Book Number 5: The Bhagavad Gita
Book Number 4: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, by Elizabeth Smart
Book Number 3: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
Book Number 2: Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Book Number 1: The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy