Fiction Reading List: June - December 2018

Well, my fiction reading list for the first half of the year can be found here. Seems like my second half managed to be depressingly less productive than the first, but oh well. As usual, I'm not including my non-fiction / lit crit reading . . . all that's too hodgepodge for accurate counts.

Hanif Kurieshi, The Black Album, 250 pg
Hanif Kurieshi, Intimacy, 150 pg.
Kazuo Ishiguru, The Buried Giant, 200 pg (uncompleted)

Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies, 400 pg.
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith, 600 pg.
Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, 500 pg.
Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members, 150 pg 
Zadie Smith, White Teeth, 550 pg

Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Shattered Chain, 300 pg.
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sharra's Exile, 350 pg.
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Thendara House, 400 pg.

Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, 400 pg.
Stephen R. Donaldson, The Illearth War, 550 pg.
Stephen R. Donaldson, The Power that Preserves, 450 pg.
Stephen R. Donaldson, Reave the Just and Other Stories, 250 pg.

L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 300 pg.
L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, 200 pg.
L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz, 200 pg.

Frank Kafka, The Metamorphosis, 100 pg.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 300 pg. 
Stephen Crane, The Monster, 100 pg.  
Beowulf, translated by Heaney, 100 pg.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. by Armitage, 100 pg.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore, 150 pg.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan, 150 pg.
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, 200 pg. 

M.R. James, The Complete Ghost Stories, 400 pg (of 550)
Sheridan LeFanu, Collected Ghost Stories, 150 pg.
Max Brooks, World War Z, 400 pg.
Susan Hill, The Woman in Black, 150 pg.
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, 150 pg.
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, 100 pg.
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 50 pg.  
Michael Cox & R. A. Gilbert, editors. The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, 300 pg (of 500 total).

Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things, 300 pg.
Paul Hoffman, The Beating of His Wings, 500 pg.
Lev Grossman, The Magicians, 400 pg.
Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin, 200 pg. (uncompleted)
Joe Haldeman, The Forever War, 250 pg

Joanna Russ, The Female Man, 200 pg (about half finished)
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, 150 pg (about 1/3 finished)

So, all told: 11,100 pages read. Strangely enough, it's been exactly 214 days** since my last post, which brings my reading per day to about 52 pages of fiction. Kinda depressing, actually, having such a low number . . . alas.


** I originally posted this on 12-17-18 (200 days), but then added a few titles to bring my reading up-to-date until 12-31-19. That took me from a meager 49 pages a day to an almost respectable 52 pages per day.

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