Novels

Here are my two lists of novels . The first is a list of books that I bought in the last few years. The second lists the novels I have read this year.

Date Bought	Author	Title	Read
July 10/02	Rudy Wiebe	The Temptations of Big Bear	May 27/08
Dec 29/02	Barbara Kingsolver	Prodigal Summer	Mar 12/08

Jan. 11/03	Alan Cumyn	Burridge Unbound
Jan 18/03	V. S. Naipaul	Beyond Belief
Oct 20/03	Ann-Marie MacDonald	The Way the Crow Flies	Mar 28/08
Oct 25/03	William Faulkner	Absalom, Absalom!
Nov 23/03	M. G. Vassanji	The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

May 24/04	Jeffrey Eugenides	Middlesex
Aug 21/04	John Bemrose	The Island Walkers
	Louis de Bernieres	Birds Without Wings
Oct 10/04	J. M. Coetzee	Age of Iron
	Don DeLillo	Libra

June 13/05	Monica Ali	Brick Lane
July 23/05	Khaled Hosseini	The Kite Runner	Mar 17/08
Sept 13/05	Cintra Wilson	Colors Insulting to Nature
Sept 14/05	Salvador Plascencia	The People of Paper
Sept 20/05	Wayson Choy	All That Matters
	Beth Powning	The Hatbox Letters
Sept 27/05	Miriam Toews	Swing Low	Mar 04/08
Oct 07/05	Sandra Birdsell	Children of the Day
Nov 04/05	Pierre Berton	Prisoners of the North
Dec 29/05	Cao Xueqin	The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 2)
	Cao Xueqin	The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 4)
	Cao Xueqin	The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 5)

June 15/06	Cao Xueqin	The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 3)

Mar 12/07	Orhan Pamuk	Snow	Feb 23/08
	Orhan Pamuk	Istanbul
Mar 19/07	J. R. Moehringer	The Tender Bar	Jan 06/08
July 24/07	Sei Shonagon	The Pillow Book
	Haruki Murakami	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Aug 07/07	Nikolai Gogol	Dead Souls
Aug 19/07	Haruki Murakami	South of the Border, West of the Sun	Mar 31/03
	David Mitchell	Cloud Atlas
	Salman Rushdie	The Satanic Verses
	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	Oct 16/08
	Ismail Kadare	The Successor	Mar 02/03
	Jed Rubenfeld	The Interpretation of Murder	May 09/08
Aug 26/07	Mary Lawson	The Other Side of the Bridge	Mar 01/08
Dec 13/07	Ken Follett	The Pillars of the Earth	Jan 23/08
	Ken Follett	World Without End
	Elizabeth Hay	Late Nights on Air	May 18/08
	Bryce Courtney	Sylvia
	Colleen McCullough	Antony & Cleopatra
	Doris Lessing	The Golden Notebook	Feb 12/08
Dec 31/07	William Dalrymple	City of Djinns	May 02/08
	Patricia Atkinson	The Ripening Sun	Feb 02/08

Jan 14/08	Douglas Coupland	The Gum Thief	Jan 28/08
Mar 11/08	Mary Swan	The Boys in the Trees	Mar 15/08
Mar 22/08	Jon McGregor	If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things	Jun 14/08
	John Truby	The Anatomy of a Story
	Robertson Davies	Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading
Mar 26/08	Tyler Trafford	The Story of Blue Eye
	Tyler Trafford	Alexander's Way
Mar 28/08	Absolqasem Ferdowsi	Shahnameh (The Persian Book of Kings)
	Annemarie Schimmel	Rumi's World
Apr 03/08	Andy Merrifield	The Wisdom of Donkeys	Apr 9/08
Apr 09/08	Jonathan Rabin	Bad Land	Apr 17/08
Apr 11/08	Jiang Rong	Wolf Totem	Apr 25/08
May 16/08	Ralph L. Wahlstrom	The Tao of Writing	May 19/08
	Gil Adamson	The Outlander	Nov 28/08
	Chip Kidd	The Cheese Monkeys
	Mark Z. Danielewski	House of Leaves
	Manil Suri	The Age of Shiva	Jun 09/08
Jun 05/08	Shauna Singh Baldwin	What the Body Remembers
	Ronald Wright	A Scientific Romance	Jun 17/08
Jun 21/08	Michael Crichton	State of Fear	Jul 06/08
Jul 01/08	James Fenimore Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans
	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	Dec 26/08
	Honore de Balzac	Lost Illusions
	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essays and Poems
	Upton Sinclair	The Jungle
	Sinclair Lewis	Main Street
	Voltaire	Candide
	Sinclair Lewis	Babbitt	Jul 20/08
Jul 09/08	Ernest Hemingway	Four Novels	Jul 24-Aug 25/08
Jul 11/08	Sid Marty	The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek	Sep 06/08
	Joyce Carol Oates	The Falls	Dec 19/08
	Isabel Allende	Daughter of Fortune
	Jodi Picoult	The Tenth Circle
Aug 29/08	Jacqueline Baker	The Horseman's Graves
Sep 09/08	Miriam Toews	The Flying Troutmans	Nov 21/08
Oct 01/08	David Wroblewski	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Oct 02/08	Micael Crichton	Prey	Oct 21/08
Oct 14/08	Joseph Boyden	Through Black Spruce	Nov 16/08
	Richard B. Wright	October
	Lawrence Hill	The Book of Negroes
	Junot Diaz	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Diaz
Nov 22/08	Joseph Boyden	Three Day Road

Here is the list of novels that I have read this year.

Date Start	Author	Date	Title of Novel	Date End
Dec 29/07	J. R. Moehringer	2006	The Tender Bar	Jan 06/08
Jan 07/07	Ken Follett	1989	The Pillars of the Earth	Jan 23/08
Jan 24/08	Douglas Coupland	2007	The Gum Thief	Jan 28/08
Jan 29/08	Patricia Atkinson	2003	The Ripening Sun	Feb 02/08
Feb 03/08	Doris Lessing	1962	The Golden Notebook	Feb 12/08
Feb 13/08	Orhan Pamuk	2004	Snow	Feb 23/08
Feb 24/08	Mary Lawson	2006	The Other Side of the Bridge	Mar 01/08
Mar 02/08	Ismail Kadare	2003	The Successor	Mar 02/08
Mar 03/08	Miriam Toews	2005	Swing Low: A Life	Mar 04/08
Mar 05/08	Barbara Kingsolver	2000	Prodigal Summer	Mar 12/08
Mar 13/08	Mary Swan	2008	The Boys in the Trees	Mar 15/08
Mar 16/08	Khaled Hosseini	2003	The Kite Runner	Mar 17/08
Mar 20/08	Ann-Marie MacDonald	2003	The Way the Crow Flies	Mar 28/08
Mar 29/08	Haruki Murakami	1998	South of the Border, West of the Sun	Mar 31/08
Apr 01/08	Marcel Proust	1927	Time Regained. In Search of Lost Time. vol. 6	Apr 05/08
Apr 06/08	Andy Merrifield	2008	The Wisdom of Donkeys	Apr 09/08
Apr 10/08	Jonathan Rabin	1996	Bad Land	Apr 17/08
Apr 18/08	Jiang Rong	2008	Wolf Totem	Apr 25/08
Apr 26/08	John Milton	2005	Paradise Lost	Apr 30/08
May 01/08	William Dalrymple	1993	City of Djinns	May 02/08
May 03/08	Jed Rubenfeld	2006	The Interpretation of Murder	May 09/08
May 09/08	Elizabeth Hay	2007	Late Nights on Air	May 18/08
May 22/08	Rudy Wiebe	1973	The Temptations of Big Bear	May 27/08
Jun 04/08	Manil Suri	2007	The Age of Shiva	Jun 09/08
Jun 10/08	Jon McGregor	2002	If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things	Jun 14/08
Jun 15/08	Ronald Wright	1997	A Scientific Romance	Jun 17/08
Jul 01/08	Michael Crichton	2004	State of Fear	Jul 06/08
Jul 08/08	Sinclair Lewis	1922	Babbitt	Jul 20/08
Jul 21/08	Ernest Hemingway	1926	The Sun Also Rises	Jul 24/08
Aug 03/08	Ernest Hemingway	1929	A Farewell to Arms	Aug 05/08
Aug 06/08	Ernest Hemingway	1940	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Aug 24/08
Aug 25/08	Ernest Hemingway	1949	The Old Man and the Sea	Aug 25/08
Aug 26/08	Sid Marty	2008	The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek	Sep 06/08
Sep 27/08	Margaret Craven	1973	I Heard the Owl Call My Name	Sep 28/08
Sep 07/08	Salman Rushdie	1981	Midnight's Children	Oct 16/08
Oct 17/08	Micael Crichton	2002	Prey	Oct 21/08
Oct 22/08	Joseph Boyden	2008	Through Black Spruce	Nov 16/08
Nov 17/08	Miriam Toews	2008	The Flying Troutmans	Nov 21/08
Nov 22/08	Gil Adamson	2007	The Outlander	Nov 28/08
Dec 12/08	Joyce Carol Oates	2004	The Falls	Dec 19/08
Dec 20/08	Charles Dickens	1859	A Tale of Two Cities	Dec 26/08