Books I've read in the past

July 1990 - June 1991 (All were in Hebrew, unless noted otherwise):

1. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky: I read this book as part of an assignment for school, but I liked it so much that I read it again.
   
2. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy: The first of the Hardy books - I loved it and read many more of Hardy's books later. What I like in his books is the fact that everything on the surface is very idyllic, in the English countryside, but then, under the surface, weird and crazy things are happening.
   
3. Hundred Years of Solitude - G.G. Marquez: Who hasn't read this book?
4. White Book - Pavel Kohout - was recommended to us by our literature teacher, and from what I remember, was an amusing book about someone who decided to defy gravity.
   
5. The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
6. The Penitent - Issac Bashevis -Singer - This is the first Bashevis-Singer book... As you can see, I liked it so much that I read many more of his books. Some of them are better than others.
   
7. The Magician of Lublin - Issac Bashevis-Singer
8. The Slave - Issac Bashevis-Singer - this is one of his best books. I also like that he talks about vegetarianism a lot in his books. And here he's putting it in a non conventional context of Europe in the 17th century.
   
9. Anthem - Ayn Rand - don't remember much of this one. It didn't make me want to read more of her books, though...
   
10. The Manor - Issac Bashevis-Singer
11. The Children on the Hill - Michael Deakin
12. Shosha - Issac Bashevis-Singer - this is another of his great books. Loved it.
    
13. The Lover - A.B. Yehoshua - read it for class. It was pretty good, though.
    
14. The Anxiety of King Solomon - Emil Ajar
15. Le Grand Meaulnes - Alain Fournier - it's pronounced "Mon Hagadol" in hebrew. I think it was also recommended by my teacher.
    
16. King Lear - Shakespeare
17. Childhood of a Good-for-Nothing (literal translation, I couldn't find the name for this book in English) - Ion Calugaru - From this book I learned about mamaliga.
    
18. Dubin's Lives - Bernard Malamud
19. Old Love - Isaac Bashevis-Singer (this ones was actually in English)
    
20. The World According To Garp - John Irving
21. Momo (La vie devant soi) - Emil Ajar
22. Grandma Sultana's Salted Biscuits - Dan Benaya Seri
23. See Under: Love - David Grossman - Another one of my favorite authors...
    
24. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
25. Infiltration (Hitganvut Yehidim) - Yehoshua Kenaz

July 1991- June 1992:

1. Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
2. Farewell and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams
3. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
4. Thus Far (Ad Hena) - Shmuel Yosef Agnon - A collection of stories. Very nice.
   
5. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. Al Capot Haman'ul - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
7. Moto Shel Metushelach - Isaac Bashevis-Singer
8. Ta'avot - Isaac Bashevis-Singer
9. The Estate - Isaac Bashevis-Singer
10. The Yellow Wind - David Grossman - This book, I'm pretty sure, is the reason for my military service in the Gaza strip: during the entering interview I couldn't stop talking about this book, and I'm sure the interviewer decided to teach me a lesson...
    
11. Kursat Hashaish (Marble Armchair?) - Yehonatan Geffen
12. Second Person (Guf Sheni) - Ofer Shelach
13. The Smile of the Lamb - David Grossman - beautiful book.
    
14. Ratz - David Grossman
15. Acharai Bamidbar - Puchu
16. Eleni - Nicholas Gage
17. Franny and Zooey - D.J. Salinger (English)
    
18. All Creatures, Great and Small - James Herriot
19. Afifonim (Les Cerfs-Volants) - Romain Gary
20. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
    
21. The White Palms - William Faulkner
22. Dr. Fisher of Geneva or the Bomb Party - Graham Greene - My first Greene book. Another favorite.
    
23. Scum - Isaac Bashevis-Singer
24. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
25. Ozer Lechol Et - Robert Valzer
26. The Book of Intimate Grammar - David Grossman
27. Esau - Meir Shalev
28. To Know a Woman - Amos Oz
29. The Mockery Bird - Gerald Durrell
30. Makom Al Pnei Ha'adama - Giv'oni and Surani
31. Circles in the Forest - Dalene Matthee
32. Fillets of Plaice - Gerald Durrell
33. The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium - Gerald Durrell
34. The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother - Gabriel Gracia Marquez - So sad, indeed...
    
35. Sleeping on a Wire (Nochechim Nifkadim) - David Grossman - I think it's safe to say that he's one of the people that shaped my views about the situation in Israel.
    
36. Rosie is my Relative - Gerald Durrell
37. My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
38. The Autumn of a Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - beautiful book.
    
39. Burnt Matchsticks - Yehoshua Bar Yosef
40. The Smile of the Lamb - David Grossman
41. The Pet Guide - Pinhas Amitai

July 1992 - June 1993

1. See Under: Love - David Grossman
2. The Game Machine - Yaji Koshinski (sp?) - in Hebrew: Mechonat Hamis-hak. I don't remember much of it, but I think it was pretty good.
   
3. Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene
4. The Cock's Crow - Avigdor Dagan
5. Adam Resurrected (Adam Ben Kelev) - Yoram Kaniuk
6. Nels Linhe - Jens Peter Jacobsen
7. The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
8. The Silk Tree - Gang Shiangliang
9. Plain Jane - Eve Horowitz (English) - Was written by my friend's relative.
   
10. The Fish and the Dove - Yehoshua Bar Yosef
11. Distant Sister - Yehudith Rotem
12. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
13. Ratz (Running) - David Grossman
14. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh - Franz Wefel - Amazing book. Made me want to learn more about the Armenians. Later found out that because of the good relationships we have with Turkey, Israel is not allowed to talk much about the subject...
    
15. The General in his Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
16. The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis
17. The Second Book of David (Ahavat David) - Yoram Kaniuk
18. The Donkey Rustlers - Gerald Durrell
19. Viktoria - Sami Michael
20. What Would Have Happened if We Forgot Dov? - Gadi Taub - This almost happened one time when Dov fell asleep on the bus from machsom Erez to the base.
    
21. A Hundred New Apples (including tax) - Ora Morag - A funny and sad story about what happens when your husband becomes religious (hozer betshuva) and you don't.
    
22. Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

July 1993 - June 1994

1. Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy (English)
2. Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
3. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell - very interesting
   
4. Plays - Federico Garcia Lorca
5. Lady L - Romain Gary
6. Family Sayings (Dyokan Mishpachti) - Natalia Ginzburg
7. The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux (English)
8. The Master and Margarita - Michail Bulgakov - what a wonderful book!
   
9. On Man's Condition - Pinhas Sadeh - Another one of my favorites!
   
10. Lila - Robert M. Pirsig (English)
    
11. Pan - Knut Hamsun - Another one of my favorites!
    
12. Onat Hanedida El Hatzafon - Eltayeb Saleh
13. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (English)
    
14. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
15. As a Few Days - Meir Shalev

July 1994 - June 1995

1. Midnight Children - Salman Rushdi (English) - This one took me a looong time...
   
2. Victoria - Knut Hamsun
3. Saraya Bat Hashed Hara - Emile Habibi
4. My Michael - Amos Oz - this is probably one of his best books.
   
5. Hagveret Im Haclavlav veod Sipurim - Anton Chekhov - a collection of stories.
   
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
7. Shneim Asar Sipurim Nodedim - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I took a couple of books with me to the trip to South America - they were small enough and I knew they were good.
   
8. A General in his Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Carmit gave me this one to read while we were traveling together.
   
10. Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens (English) - I got that one over there - a big book, but doesn't weight much...
    
11. The Narrow Corner - Somerset Maugham (English) - I borrowed this one from a bookstore/library in Punta Arenas, Chile. I had to stay there for a long time (almost 2 weeks!) so I had time to borrow and return.
    
12. Bgida (Betrayal) - found this one in the hotel I was staying in Punta Arenas. It was a horribly-written book about Jews who find the belief in Jesus as their savior.
    
13. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy (English)
14. The Zigzag Kid - David Grossman
15. The Atom Station - Halldor Laxness
    

July 1995 - June 1996

1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig (Eglish)
2. The Dead Tree Garden - Yossi Avni
3. The Angel - Ephraim Sidon (Kids book) - Another person who shaped my views about the situation in Israel. One of my favorite people when I was a teenager.
   
4. Simta Bekahir - Nagib Mahfuz
5. Lady's Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde (English, play) - Oscar Wilde is AWESOME!
   
6. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
7. The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes - Stratis Myrivilis. Made me think about all the people who die in war (or anywhere) and automatically turn into "angels" - sometimes it's good for their relatives that they're dead...
   
8. Pahonim Vehalomot (Tinshacks and Dreams) - Sami Michael
9. Blood of Amber - Roger Zelazny
10. Middlemarch - George Eliot (English)
11. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
12. The Sun Also Rises - Ernst Hemingway
13. Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party - Graham Greene
14. Persuasion - Jane Austen (English) - Jane Austen is awesome!
    
15. Francois Le Champi - George Sands - So is she! Although this is the only book of hers I read.
    
16. Ananim (Clowds) - Dan Zalaka - I loved this book, but I don't remember anything about it...
    
17. Never Came Back from the Galapagos - Haim Tal
18. The Atom Station - Halldor Laxness
19. Wild Swans - Jung Chang (English)
20. Orlando - Virginia Woolf (English) - I read this twice, and saw the movie twice, and I think I finally understand, less than more, what's going on...
    

July 1996 - June 1997

1. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (English)
   
2. On Cats and People - Desmond Morris
3. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (English)
   
4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams (English)
   
5. Life, the Universe and All the Rest - Douglas Adams (English)
   
6. So Long and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams (English)
   
7. Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams (English) - These last 5 were a compilation.
   
8. Wasserman - Yoram Kaniuk - A beautiful little book about a dog.
   
9. The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy (English)
10. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
11. Emma - Jane Austen (English)
12. Ever Since Darwin - S. J. Gould (English)
    
13. Simtat Hashkediot Be'umrijan - Dorit Rabinian
14. When Nietzsche Wept - Irvin D. Yalom
15. The Ice Palace - Tarey Vesus (sp?) - A beautiful book I read years before while visiting my aunt in Jerusalem about the relationship between two little girls.
    
16. Peacocks, Altruism and the Handicap Principle - Amotz Zehavi
17. The Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel
    
18. The Last Tycoon - F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. Dream from the Red Room - Kai Shu Chin
20. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
21. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
22. The Farewell Waltz - Milan Kundera
23. Akedat Tamar - Naomi Ragan
24. The Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Another favorite.
    
25. Shesh Cnafaim Le'echad - Hanoch BarTov
26. Kirot Etz Dakim - Natan Shaham
27. Hamered Hashafuf - Gadi Taub
28. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
29. Gam Lecha Yihiyeh Tov Bachaim - Yitzhak Bar-Yossef - A beautiful collection of stories.
    
30. Life in the Grave - Stratis Myrivilis - About how bad a war can be...
    
31. Mishehi Ztricha Lihiot Can (someone needs to be here) - Leah Eini
32. Angels and Insect - A. S. Byatt
    

July 1997 - June 1998

1. To Drink from the Sea of Gaza - Amira Hass
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
3. Seth Speaks - The Eternal Validity of the Soul - Jane Roberts - Since I read this book I don't take death as seriously...
   
4. Mainly About Love - Meir Shalev
5. Ha'anusim - Garcia Aguilar - an old book I found in parent's library - burnt and chewed. really cool.
   
6. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy (English)
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
9. Four Mothers - Shifra Horn
10. The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11. I, Claudius - Robert Graves (English) - I loved the TV show, so I had to read it.
    
12. Men are Mars, Women are from Venus - John Gray - it's true
    
13. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
14. Claudius the God - Robert Graves (English)

July 1998 - June 1999

1. Wasserman - Yoram Kaniuk
   
2. Back from Tuichi - Yossi Ginzburg - I read this and a few of the following while on the trip in India.
   
3. Simta beKahir - Nagib Mahfuz
4. Lying on the Couch - Irvin D. Yalom
5. Immortality - Milan Kundera
6. All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot (English)
7. Ropes - Haim Be'er
8. Esau - Meir Shalev
9. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (English) - This took me so long!
   
10. Cod - A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World - Mark Kurlansky (English) - A beautifully designed book - nice blue hard cover, old-page yellow inside with amazing illustrations of old maps etc. It was also very interesting in content, and it includes recipes, but I couldn't do anything with that...
    
11. To Follow the Heart - Suzana Tamaro
12. Hamachtzeva - Ehud Ben Ezer
    
13. Habaday - Hanoch Bar-Tov
14. Ha'arema - Shmuel Kalo

July 1999 - June 2000

1. Bikur Bait - New Indian Stories
2. The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho (English)
   
3. Animal Liberation - Peter Singer
4. Cold Mountain - Charles Fraser - I loved this book, and I didn't even realize that I would later live in the places where it actually happened!
   
5. Angels and Insects - A. S. Byatt
6. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - A beautiful interesting long book - written so nicely. He's a great author.
   
7. The Snake - Luigi Malerba
8. The Lord God Made Them All - James Herriot
9. The Disappearance of Childhood - Neil Postman
10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowlins - The first and last for me!
    
11. Franny and Zooey - J. D. Sallinger (English)
    
12. Bruno's Dream - Iris Murdoch
13. Besod Achvishim - Amotz Hacohen - a nice little book about spiders.
    
14. Edot Mesaprot - Avraham Shtal
15. Melech Badulina - Gabi Nitzan
16. Babies and People - Desmond Morris
17. The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester - A good book about the writing of the Oxford dictionary.
    
18. Timbuktu - Paul Auster - Another favorite
    
19. Shvil Kiney Ha'achvishim - Italo Calvani
20. Glory - Vladimir Nabokov

July 2000 - June 2001

1. Ha'ir vehaclavim (couldn't find the English name for it) - Mario Vargas Llosa
2. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
3. Stories - Franz Kafka - Kafka is awesome!
   
4. The Trial - Franz Kafka
5. Uranus - Marcel Ayme - I remember lying in the shade on the beach in Sinai, and enjoying this book a lot.
   
6. The Fox - D. H. Lawrence
7. Amerika - Franz Kafka
8. The Diary of Nobody - Grossmith (English)
9. South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
10. Washington Square - Henri James (English)
11. The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy (English)
12. Blindness - Jose Saramago - another favorite (although some of his other books are better than this one, I think. This one is still very interesting.)
    
13. Minzar Hashatkanim - Amos Oz
14. The Prince of West End Avenue - Alan Isler - I loved this book!
    
15. Winter in Lisbon - Antonio Munoz Molina
16. The Human Comedy - William Saroyan - I loved his short story - the haircut - and was somewhat disappointed by this novel.
    
17. Leviathan - Paul Auster
18. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi - This was my introduction to Primo Levi. He later became one of my favorites.
    
19. Voices in the Evening - Natalia Ginzburg
20. Dr. Barkel - Dan Zalaka

July 2001 - June 2002

1. Et Hazamir (Time for Trimming) - Haim Be'er
2. My Year of Meats - Ruth L. Ozeki - Very interesting.
   
3. The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
4. Happy Birthday, Noah - Noam Ziv
5. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - Jose Saramago
6. Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial de Convento) - Jose Saramago
7. The Master and Margarita - Michail Bulgakov
8. The Binding Chair - Kathryn Harrison
9. Wind in the Andes - Orit Uriel - Her sister, Aviva, worked in my lab. She always taught me a lot about history and such. It's a beautiful book for kids (10-12).
   
10. Dream in Sicily - Leonardo Shasha
11. The Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
12. My Life with the Fathers - Dov Elboim
13. The Plague - Albert Camus
14. Laundry - Susan Adam
15. Die verschwundene Miniatur - Erich Kastner
16. The First Man - Albert Camus
17. Hashanim Haniflaot Bazevel - Michael Vivog (sp??)
18. The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
19. Letters from Elijah: The Secret of Moral - A.A ? - Was given to me by someone who thought she could convert me into a religious person... She also tried to convince me that evolution didn't happen...
    
20. Three Love Stories - Yael Hadaya
21. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde (English)
22. Good Soldier Schweik - Jaroslav Hasek
23. On Man's Condition - Pinhas Sadeh

July 2002 - June 2003

1. Vanity Fair - W. M. Thackery (English) - With this one I entered the US!
   
2. Someone to Run with - David Grossman
3. A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
4. Life as a Parable - Pinhas Sadeh
5. Badulina - Gabi Nitzan
6. Hornblower and the Hotspur - C. S. Forester (English) - Loved the TV show!
   
7. Itaron Medume (a seeming advantage) - Priah Hart - was given to me by my last boss in Israel - an editor for the newsletter of some teachers organization.
   
8. Burnt Bread and Chutney - Carmit Delman (English) - about an Israeli/American/Indian Jew...
   
9. Herzog - Saul Bellow (English)
   
10. My Childhood - Maxim Gorky (English)
    
11. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (English)
    
12. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (English)
13. The Call of the Wild and White Fang - Jack London (English) - Very intense at times...
    
14. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding (English) - Great funny book.
    

July 2003 - June 2004 (English, unless noted otherwise)

1. Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
   
2. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson - read it for class ENT 550
   
3. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Poor White - Sherwood Anderson
5. The Tree Beans - Barbara Kingsolver
   
6. Bagombo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Hebrew)
7. Country Sunset - Itzhak Ben Ner (Hebrew)
8. Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier (Hebrew)
   
9. Pere Atzil (Noble Brute) - Dudu Bussi (Hebrew) - Liked it very much.
   
10. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
11. Clerical Errors - Alan Isler
12. Francois le Champi - George Sands (French) - yes, I read it in French. It was hard...
    
13. If this is a Man - Primo Levi (Hebrew)
14. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr - E. T. A. Hoffmann - My all-time favorite! Hoffmann is Awesome (especially in this book!)
    
15. The Reawakening - Primo Levi

July 2004 - June 2005

1. Maus: A survivor's Tale I and II - Art Speigelman (Comics) - I'm in my holocaust period...
   
2. Dry Tears - A Story of a Lost Childhood - Nechama Tec
3. The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
4. The Monkey's Wrench - Primo Levi
5. Moments of Reprieve - Primo Levi
6. Love - Toni Morrison
7. King Solomon's Ring - Konrad Lorenz
8. Pig Tales - Marie Darrieussecq
9. Eternal Treblinka - Charles Patterson
10. The Mirror Maker - Primo Levi - Primo Levi is absolutely genius.
    
11. End Zone - Don Delillo - Was recommended to me by Karsten. I didn't even know from the name that it would talk about football...
    
12. The Drifters - James Michener - recommended by Astrid - she has a good taste!
    
13. Pastoralia - George Saunders
    
14. The Very Persistant Gappers of Frip - George Saunders - Named a band after this book!
    
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
17. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich - very enlightening.
    
18. The Missing Persons League - Frank Bonham - bought this while I was in Sinai. Used books are expensive there!
    
19. The Last Berliner - Yoram Kaniuk (Hebrew)
20. Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

July 2005 - June 2006

1. The Czar's Madman - Jaan Kross
2. Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keilor
3. Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
4. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
5. The Best American Non Required Reading 2003
6. The Medium is the Message - Marshal Mcluhan & Quentin Fiore
7. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
8. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders
9. Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - I'm pretty sure I read this one while in Honduras, and was horrified by one of the stories...
   
10. The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
11. Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
12. Jane Austen - Claire Tomalin
13. Pateplumas - Shelli Tabar

June 2006 - July 2007

1. Two Lives - Vikram Seth
2. The Sharpshooter Blues - Lewis Nordau - Very sad...
   
3. The Golden Pot and Other Stories - E. T. A. Hoffmann
4. Funny Mirrors - Aliza Elroy (Hebrew)
5. Pigeons in Trafalgar - Sami Michael (Hebrew)
6. Country Sunset - Itzhak Ben Ner (Hebrew)
   
7. Otherwise Engaged - Suzanne Finnamore (Hebrew) - kinda stupid but readable
   
8. Malacheiah Nirdemu Culam - Mira Magen (Hebrew) - very good, but I think you need to be an isareli to understand it...
   
9. Once There Was a Giant - Keith Laumer - one of Mark's favorites...
   
10. Cry of the Kalahari - Deliah and Mark Owen - What they did and experienced was amazing in itself. The book was rather sad at times. Especially when you know it really happened...
    

Only 10 books! That's horrible. I know who's to blame!!


July - December 2007

1. Sheahava Nafshi - Gail Hareven
2. Hashmanpufim vehahadhutim - De Morois
3. Perfume - Patrick Zuskind
4. The Secret of Scent - Luca Turin - Funny that I got to read this book right after Perfume...
   
5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
6. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams