Books I read in 2012

• To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• Macbeth - William Shakespeare
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban - J.K. Rowling
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• Othello - William Shakespeare
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (again…) 
• Looking for Alaska - John Green 
• Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger (again…)
• Dubliners - James Joyce
• Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters & Seymour, An Introduction - J.D. Salinger
• Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
• Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• The Pat Hobby Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
• The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals - Elizabeth Smart 
• Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf 
• The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
• The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
• We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Mary - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• The Seducer’s Diary - Søren Kierkegaard
• The Stranger - Albert Camus
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
• Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion - Søren Kierkegaard
• The Fall - Albert Camus
• Selected Poems - T.S. Eliot
• The Defence of Socrates/Euthryphro - Plato
• Phaedo - Plato
• Medea - Euripides 
• The Tempest - William Shakespeare
• Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
• Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
• Descartes’ Meditations
• Kant
• Hume
• Fuck philosophy. 

“England was like a rich man after a disastrous orgy who makes up to the household by chatting with them individually, when it is obvious to them that he is only trying to get back his self-respect in order to usurp his former power.” 

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

"When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon my self and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
What what I most enjoy contented least,
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Happily I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate,
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,
That then I scorn to change my state with kings."

— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29

"Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between
The effect and it!"

— William Shakespeare - Macbeth, I.v.

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality."

— Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

i have never been so surprised by a book as i was by Jane Eyre. 

like honestly, i’ve tried the whole wuthering heights/pride and prejudice thing, and i hated it, but something inside of me just told be to give Jane a chance. i’m so happy i did! like i can’t remember the last time i read something that got me so emotionally involved, like the entire time i read the book i was wanting to scream at Jane, and when she found Mr Rochester, a tear came to my eye. i think a male character like Mr Rochester really made me fall in love (i fall for minds not abs, sorry) and i just got so emotionally involved and i just feel so good after reading it. 

and i needed to share that, turrah. 

books i read in 2011

• Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
• Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
• Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
• Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
• Cannabis: Philosophy for Everyone - What Were We Just Talking About? - Dale Jacquette
• Satori in Paris - Jack Kerouac
• Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
• Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (in french, again)
• Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
• Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
• Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 
• Chronicles Volume One - Bob Dylan
• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• Den Lille Havfrue - H.C. Andersen (på dansk) 
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• Everything by Beatrix Potter (repeatedly)
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
• On the Road (Original Scrolls) - Jack Kerouac
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (blah i can’t spell) 
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë 
• The entire Pretty Little Liars series because i was bored and tired. 

"The Four Inevitabilities:
1. Musty Books.
2. Uninteresting Nature.
3. Dull Existence.
4. Blank Nirvana,
buy that boy."

— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums