– very late that night –
(Panting) OK. OK. I think I finally got it. I’ll still have to update it manually, but I managed to get pretty dang close to the shiny Goodreads montage without the help of widgets. Check out my new Reading List page here!
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– 1.5 hours later –
So I thought I could just add a cheeky Goodreads widget and have this beautiful, automatically updating montage of books read and books to read on my Reading List page, but ahahahaha, oh-hoho I was wrong. WordPress does not support the necessary javascript, and even with the simplest widget Goodreads offers, WordPress displays it wrong.
SO my friends, it appears I’ll be getting creative. Stay tuned.
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As my TBR list sprawls wildly out of control– hard to read, nearing 200 items, and hopelessly behind on both additions and books I’ve actually finished– I have decided to move from a written list to a system that will be easier to process and less work to maintain.
But before I do, I thought I would post the old list here as a sort of memento of times past, and also a celebration of the progress I’ve made in my efforts to read more since starting this blog. As many items as there are remaining, there are quite a few crossed off, too. And who doesn’t enjoy the satisfaction of items crossed off a list?
While living in Japan, where I had very slim access to books in English, I started a reading list. Containing novels, nonfiction, plays, speeches, classics, books for teens, children, and adults, the list quickly ran wild. It continues to grow, taking over cities, genres, and age groups and plotting world domination faster than I can pare it down. Keep an eye out for additions– if we aren’t careful, they just might block out the sun.
Julie’s Assorted To-Read List, in no particular order:
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd(9/4/2013)- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde(5/27/2012)Food Rules by Michael Pollan(7/15/2013)- And The Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman
The Illiad by Homer(1/22/2012)The Odyssey by Homer(3/14/2014)- The Aeneid by Virgil
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky(1/22/2014)- Infero by Dante Alighieri
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger(9/27/2011)Paradise Lost by John Milton(11/18/2011)- How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith
Never Let You Go by Kazuo Ishiguro(8/4/2011)The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini(4/29/2012)- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez(9/17/2013)Life of Pi by Yann Martel(4/2011)- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell(3/21/2013)- Public Enemies by Bernard Henri Levi
- Greek & Roman Myths
- Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
Dubliners by James Joyce(11/3/2011)- Ulyssess by James Joyce
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde(1/12/2014)Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand(9/14/2011)The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald(1/14/2013)The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath(10/10/2013)The Prince by Machiavelli(1/10/2014)- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami(2/11/2012)American Gods by Neil Gaiman(6/30/2013)A Strategy of Peace (commencement speech) by JFK(1/20/2014)Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte(5/28/2013)- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery(10/6/2011)Brave New World by Aldous Huxley(10/12/2012)Great Expectations by Charles Dickens(9/10/2012)A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens(5/22/2013)- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins(3/24/2012)The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society(12/3/2011)Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer(1/6/2013)- The Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel(12/11/2011)Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy(2/22/2012)- The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut(6/7/2012)Imagine by Jonah Lehrer(2/14/2014)- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka(9/25/2013)- A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
The Fate of the Species by Fred Guterl* (research for my WIP!) (1/20/2013)Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll(5/25/2014)- Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassaunt
On Writing by Stephen King(9/16/2012)The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck(2/10/2014)- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
John Dies at the End by David Wong(11/1/2013)- The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Cider House Rules by John Irving(3/3/2013)- Martin Eden by Jack London
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- Germinal by Émile Zola
Jumper by Steven Gould(4/7/2013)- Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green(10/2/2013)- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Legend by Marie Lu(2/16/2014)- The Beach by Alex Garland
- Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman(7/18/2013)- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Giver by Lois Lowry(3/3/2014)A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle(3/18/2014)Tenth of December by George Sanders(7/4/2013)Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke(8/23/2013)11/22/63 by Stephen King(8/8/2013)Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson(8/22/2013)- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas(10/15/2014)- Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery(1/31/2014)Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn(11/12/2013)I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore(1/4/2014)If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino(11/27/2013)Vicious by V.E. Schwab(12/6/2013)A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess(3/1/2014)The Book Thief by Markus Zusak(11/13/2014)Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins(12/23/2013)- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman(5/25/2014)- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann(12/16/2013)- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- Chocolat by Joanne Harris
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta(7/26/2014)Looking for Alaska by John Green(9/6/2014)Divergent by Veronica Roth(2/24/2014)- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin(1/21/2014)- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Prodigy by Marie Lu (#2 in the Legend series)
- Insurgent by Veronica Roth (#2 in the Divergent series)
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Cavendish Home for Girls and Boys by Claire Legrand(3/21/2014)Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier(4/3/2014)- The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly(3/28/2014)Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare(4/14/2014)Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott(7/28/2014)- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Wool by Hugh Howey(4/25/2014)Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher(5/6/2014)After by Kristin Harmel(5/1/2014)34 Pieces of You by Carmen Rodrigues(5/2/2014)- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
If I Stay by Gayle Forman(9/9/2014)- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
- Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver(5/15/2014)- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver(5/31/2014)- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King(6/8/2014)- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman(6/14/2014)Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull(6/26/2014)Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu(7/7/2014)- The Real Boy by Anne Ursu
- Nightingale’s Nest by Nikki Loftin
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart(11/28/2014)- The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater(10/12/2014)- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Landline by Rainbow Rowell(12/8/2014)- Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman(8/13/2014)- I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum
- Paris in Love by Eloisa James
Delirium by Lauren Oliver(8/31/2014)17 First Kisses by Rachael Allen(9/17/2014)The Graham Cracker Plot by Shelley Dougas(10/19/2014)
- The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow by Jessica Haight and Stephanie Robinson
Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder(8/21/2014)- Paper Towns by John Green
- Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
- Last Train to Babylon by Charlee Fam
- Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
- Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead(10/23/2014)- Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume