Reading

Reading is a great thing to do. Here is a list of books that I read. The number of x indicate my judgement of the book. Three x (xxx) is therefore the highest, and these are marked in bold. There are other books, read before 1999, that fall into this category. The current top three is:

Michael Ende, Die Unendliche Geschichte
Douglas Hofstadter, Godel Escher Bach, an eternal golden braid
Robert Wright, The Moral Animal

The books are sorted by time (and therefore some books might appear twice, if I read them twice). There are also some gaps, caused by the fact that I occasionally lose my notebook.

1993:

Melanie Rawn, Stronghold (x)
Anne Rice, Interview with the vampire (xx)
Stephen R. Donaldson, The wounded land (x)
Anne Rice, The vampire Lestat (xx)
Stephen R. Donaldson, The one tree ()
Anne Rice, Queen of the damned ()
Brian Lumley, Necroscope (x)
Melanie Rawn, Dragon Token (xx)
Toeckey Jones, Het ga je goed, het ga je wel (x) - translation
Stephen King, The gunslinger (x)
J.M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters (x)
Adams, The more than complete hitchhiker's guide (xx, 1994: x)
Anne Rice, The tale of the body thief (x)
Michigan, Alaska (x)
D. Hofstadter, Methamagical themes (xx)
Stephen R. Donaldson, White gold wilder (x)
Stephen King, The wastelands (xx)
Karl May, Winnetou het grote opperhoofd (xx) - translation
L. Ron Hubbard, The invaders plan (x)
Karl May, Old Shatterhand () - translation
L. Ron Hubbard, Black genesis (x)
Anne Rice, The witching hour (x)
L. Ron Hubbard, The enemy within ()
Donna Tartt, The secret history (x)
Isabelle Allende, Het huis met de geesten (xx) - translation
Patrick Süskind, Het parfum (x)
Matti/Spekking, Guerila-kinderen (x)
Anne Ruttyne, De strijd tegen de zonnekinderen (x)
G. Marquez, Honderd jaar eenzaamheid () - translation
C.S. Gardner, A bad day for Ali Baba (x)
H. Lampoon, Bored of the rings (x)
F. de Cesco, De prins van Mexico (x)

1994:

C. Hubert, Garibaldi and his enemies (x)
R. Nye, The voyage of the destiny (xx)
Andersen, Sprookjes en vertellingen (x) - translation
A. Munro, Wie denk je dat je bent? ()
L. Neil Smith, The crystal empire (x)
M. Weiss/T. Hickman, Dragon wing (x)
M. Weiss/T. Hickman, Elven star (xx)
M. Weiss/T. Hickman, Fire sea (x)
M. Weiss/T. Hickman, Serpent mage ()
M. Weiss/T. Hickman, The hand of chaos ()
T. Williams, The dragonbone chair (x)
R. Jordan, The eye of the world ()
Melanie Rawn, Skybowl (x)
Asimov, Foundation (x)
W. Gibson, Neuromancer ()
Asimov, Foundation and empire (x)
Asimov, Second foundation (x)
E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights (x)
T. Williams, The stone of farewell (xx)
Stephen R. Donaldson, The mirror of her dreams (xx)
Stephen R. Donaldson, A man rides through (x)
Annie M.G. Schmidt, Minoes (xx)
Maria Gripe, Kevers vliegen in de schemering (xx) - translation
Tennyson, Wayside thoughts of (x)
Maarten 't Hart, De zaterdag vliegers (x)
Maarten 't Hart, Een vlucht regenwulpen (x)
Asimov, Foundation's edge (x)
T. Williams, Return to greenangel tower, part 1 ()
T. Williams, Return to greenangel tower, part 2 ()
R. Rubinstein, Nee, heb je (x)
Annie M.G. Schmidt, Jorrie en Smorrie (x)
M. Ende, Der Spiegel im Spiegel, ein Labyrinth (xxx)
15 Theaterverhalen ()
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, On the way to KRSNA () - translation
Cervantes, Don Quichot (x) - translation
Milorad Pavic, Landschap geschilderd met thee (xx) - translation
R. Jordan, The great hunt ()
M. van Amerongen, De buikspreker van God, Richard Wagner ()
R. Jordan, The dragon reborn ()

1995:

R. Jordan, The shadow rising ()
I. Ilf/J. Petrov, De twaalf stoelen en het gouden kalf (xx) - translation
Michael Baigul/Richard Leights/Henry Lincoln, The holy blood and the holy Grail (x)
W.M.B. Yeats, Ierse elfenverhalen en andere vertellingen () - translation
Aldous Huxley, Heerlijke nieuwe wereld (x) - translation
Richard Bach, De brug naar de eeuwigheid (xx) - translation
Umberto Eco, Het eiland van de vorige dag (x) - translation
Anne Rice, Lasher ()
Kurzweil, Een kabinet met curiosa (x) - translation
After the king ()
Theo J. Miedene, Pientere jongens ()
H. Rider Haggard, She (x)
John Irving, World according to Garp (x)
Asimov, De rode koningin (x) - translation
Dean Koontz, In de val ()
Raymond E. Feist, Magician (xx)
Elias Canetti, Het mortyrium () - translation
Rex Shelley, Culture shock! Japan (x)
Boudewijn Büch, De kleine blonde dood ()
Rene Diekstra, Het geestige lichaam ()
De Kennedy moord () - translation
Heller, Catch-22 (x)
Pamela Belle, The silver city ()
D. Hofstadter/Dennett, The Mind's I (xx)
Ira Bart, Het begin van de jaartelling (x)
Rein Bloem, Frederico Monpou 1893-1987 (x)
Pronto! () - translation
Emily Carles, A wild herb soup (xx) - translation

1996:

Robert and Nanthapa Cooper, Culture Shock! Thailand (x)
Culture Shock! USA (x)
Melanie Rawn, The ruins of Ambrai ()
Raymond E. Feist/Janny Wurts, Daughter of the empire (x)
James Frazer, The golden Bough (x)
Raymond E. Feist/Janny Wurts, Servant of the empire ()
Tom Clancy, Mirror image (x)
Raymond E. Feist/Janny Wurts, Mistress of the empire ()
Gaardner, Het geheim van de kaarten (x) - translation
James Clavell, Shogun (x)
James Clavell, Tai Pan (xx)
Peter Hoeg, Miss Smilla's feeling for snow (x) - translation
Adriaan van Dis, Palmwijn ()
Carolyn Chute, The Beans of Egypt, Maine (x)
Paul Hofmann, The Viennese ()
People of the sea ()
Chaim Potok, The chosen (x)
Leo Tolstoy, Master and Man (x)
Stephen Fry, Paperweight (x)
Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clark ha ha ha (x)

1997:

Lloyd Alexander, De eerste twee levens van Lukas Kasha (xx)
Lloyd Alexander, Westermark (x)
Lloyd Alexander, De tovenaar in de boom (xx)
Mikhail Bulgakov (x)
Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos ()
Robert Sacks, An anthropologist on Mars (x)
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull (x)
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (x)
C.S. Lewis, The screwtape letters (x)
Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach, een eeuwige gouden band (xxx)
Wim Hofman, Zwart als inkt is het verhaal van Sneeuwwitje en de zeven dwergen (x)
Caris Davis' Stealth: The White Edition (xx)
Gerhard Zwerenz, Het huwelijk van Maria Braun ()
E.M. Forster, A passage to India (x)
William Gibson, Idoru (x)
Piers Anthony, Out of Phaze ()
Paul Biegel, De kleine kapitein in het land van waar en wijs ()
Christine Nostlinger, De augurkenkoning kan de pot op ()

1998:

Veronica Hazelhoff, Auw! ()
Veronica Hazelhoff, Nou moe ()
Joke van Leeuwen, De metro van Magnus ()
Tonke Dracht, de brief voor de koning (x)
Joke van Leeuwen, Een huis met zeven kamers (x)
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence ()
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen en de kunst van het motoronderhoud (x)
Han de Horst, The Low Sky ()
Arnon Grunberg, De heilige Antonio ()
John F. Richards, The Mughal Empire (x)
Swami Vivekananda 1 (x)
Swami Vivekananda 2 ()
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (x)
Marcel Moring, In babylon ()
Sukuman Ray, The selected nonsense of (x)
Lloyd Alexander, het boek van drie (x)
Lloyd Alexander, de zwarte ketel (x)
Lloyd Alexander, het kasteel van Llyr (x)
Lloyd Alexander, Taran Zwerver (x)
Jules Renard, Een uitvreter (x)
Llord Alexander, De grote koning (x)
Gitanjali Kolanad, Culture Shock India (x)
Wim Hofman, Konig Wikkepok (x)
James Clavell, Noble House (x)

1999:

Rudyard Kipling, Kim (xx)
Samuel Beckett, Verroeren ()
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Critical Chain (x)
Dirkje Kruik, Piranesi en zijn dochter()
Arundhati Roy, THe God of small things (xx)
Anne Rice, Menno the Devil ()
Debussy, Kritische notities (x)

2000:

Stephen King, The Dark Tower (x)
Stephen Lawhead, Taliesin (x)
William Gibson, Neuromancer (x)
Jannetje Koelewijn, Alleen winnaars overleven ()
Mary Blocksma, Reading The Numbers (x)
Marion Bradley, Black Trillium ()
Stephen King, Wizard and Glass ()
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Critical Chain (x)
William Sutcliffe, Ben je ervaren? (x)
Dik dieren vertelboek ()
Richard Awlinson, Shadowdale ()
Julian F. Thompson, Philo Portune's awesome journey there (x)
Wim Hofman, de dochters van de kolenboer (x)
Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings ()
Raymond E. Feist, Magician (x)
Melanie Rawn, the Star Scroll ()
Melanie Rawn, the Dragon Prince (xx)
Preussler, Meester van de zwarte molen (x)
Vladimir Nabokov, De verdediging (x)

2003:

Bill Bryson, Het verloren continent (xx)
Douglas Hofstadter, Le ton beau de Marot (xx)
Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit ()
Michael Moore, Dude, where is my country? (x)

2006:

Ted Bell, Pirate ()
The Future Dictionary of America ()
Robert Wright, The Moral Animal (xxx)
David Wolstencroft, Good News Bad News (x)
Richard and Sherry Mangum, Flagstaff Past and Present ()
Choderlos de Lacroix, Les Liasons Dangereux (xx) - in french