Saturday, July 7, 2012

Books I Read on my Trip


The books are listed in chronological order of when I read them. I’ve rated them 1-5 stars here, and the title links will take you to my review of each book on goodreads.com.

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter (****)

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux (***)

Requiem pour l’Est by Andrei Makine (*****)

Molotov’s Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky (***)

The Story of Russia by Robert Van Bergen (**)

The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (***)

Мертвые Души (Dead Souls) by Nikolai Gogol (****)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (****)

The Man of Property by John Galsworthy (****)

The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (****)

Russendisko by Wladimir Kaminer (***)

Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac Mccarthy (*****)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (****)

The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (19% read)

Du Côté de Chez Swann by Marcel Proust (23% read)