Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman

The Counterlife by Philip Roth

I was right even though I hadn't read any: Roth's Zuckerman novels are mostly boring.

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

Ιστορία του Κώστα Καλαπανίδα

Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama

Animal Man by Grant Morrison

Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis

Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? by Alan Moore

Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Swamp Thing: Volume One by Alan Moore

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

The Principles of Project Management by Meri Williams

Napoleon by Paul Johnson

Gittins' Guide to Economics by Ross Gittins

A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

Batman: The Black Glove by Grant Morrison

A Small Killing by Alan Moore

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer

Britain: A Short History by TA Jenkins

Buddha by Karen Armstrong

A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

How to Write by Alastair Fowler

An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton

The March of Patriots by Paul Kelly

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

xkcd: volume 0 by Randall Munroe

Dubliners by James Joyce

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler

Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafón

Goodbye Jerusalem: Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider by Bob Ellis

Greece and Rome by HA Guerber

The Orthodox Church by Timothy Ware

My Mother's House by Collette

Teach Yourself Eastern Philosophy by Mel Thompson

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Ο Ξένος by Albert Camus

Introducing Anthropology by Merryl Wyn Davies

Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola

The Chess Doctor by Bruce Pandolfini

A Beginner's Guide to Heidegger by Michael Watts

Madame Bovary by Flaubert

The Eleanor Marx-Aveling translation.

This Is Not A Book: Adventures in Popular Philosophy

Speaking our Language: The Story of Australian English by Bruce Moore

Orwell's Victory by Christopher Hitchens

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Inventing a Nation by Gore Vidal

Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse

Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson

Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess by Bruce Pandolfini

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Renewing Philosophy by Hilary Putnam

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen

The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle

The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry

A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen

Also included The League of Youth and The Lady from the Sea.

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Middlemarch by George Eliot

A bigger tome than Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, also wittier, more entertaining and perhaps wiser for not being so solemn a novel.

I bought the book for $1 in a clearance sale over at the City of Melbourne library. I think that constitutes the best money to pages and money to enjoyment ratio for a book that is possible (at least for one that isn't free).

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

I can see the influence of Goethe on Schopenhauer with this.

Rather enjoyable emo literature.

The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche

Nice, entertaining diatribe against Christianity, read while hanging out with 7th-Day-Adventist Indonesians on the south coast of Java.

Liza of Lambeth by Somerset Maugham

As generally happens when reading the full complement of a favourite author's works, the highs of initial brilliance are replaced by the lows of missteps.

This was Maugham's first novel, and though the trademark sympathy for fun-loving people is apparent, it's pretty ordinary.

Is this the only Maugham novel written in the third person?

Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hilariously, devilishly, morosely good.

I think of Nick Cave as the musical embodiment of Dostoyevsky -- depressing, but funny.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

For a brilliant book, it still needed some mighty trimming in parts.

I suppose it's one of the shortfalls of the realistic kind of writing Tolstoy employed that it can drag in parts because the scenes portrayed are somewhat dull and the writing won't let itself be entertaining enough in its own right to save a dull sequence of events.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Seriously, how did this ever become the great American novel? How could this interest anyone over ten years of age? I suppose the sympathetic depiction of African Americans is much less powerful these days, but even when concessions are made for that, I still can't get past the simple language and harebrained schemes that made it impossible for me to enjoy.

A huge disappointment.

The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Any Sherlock is good Sherlock. Nevertheless, this is one of the lesser Sherlocks.

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

OK I suppose, but a Booker?

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

Too many details in what could have been an entertaining book.

The Bell by Iris Murdoch

The primary problem of a philosopher: an over-analysis of situations that don't make much sense.

So stuff happens, and instead of just leaving it at that, Murdoch has to start talking about something like "guilt touched by a hint of sadness as one's love for another is seen to pass".

What upsets me most about that style of writing is the precision of the words that simply do not match the imprecision of emotions -- it's the illusion of understanding, the illusion of making sense, and it makes everything rather unbelievable.

The Wisdom of Father Brown by GK Chesterton

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Apparently Huckleberry Finn's epic is better. Can't see how that would be hard.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Letter by Somerset Maugham

Supreme short stories set in the tropics and reread in the tropics.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Not as good as I would have hoped -- the linguistic tricks are what I think about on a day-to-day basis and not particularly as hilarious as others might think them to be.

My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

Amusing and as one would expect a Wodehouse to be.

This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Islam: The Straight Path by John Esposito

Inside Indonesian Society by Niels Mulder

Awesome book by an anthropologist.

I love anthropologists.

Twilight in Djakarta by Mochtar Lubis

Another one of those left-wing books about corruption, poverty and politics.

Pulp Fiction Indonesian style.

A History of Modern Indonesia by Adrian Vickers

It really needed an editor and some kind of narrative arc or point.

The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch

The first Australian fiction I've read since Tsiolkas's deplorable Dead Europe and I gotta say I liked it.

Quite entertaining and informative, although the idiosyncratic use of colons and semi-colons was a little strange.

In the Time of Madness by Richard Lloyd Parry

Finally, someone writes in the past tense. Good writer, but I would have preferred something more journalistic and less memoir-like.

The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

Quite good economics as far as I can tell, but the book really should have had a real writer writing it.

Indonesia: An Eyewitness Account by Michael Maher

A journalist writing a journalistic account of Indonesia's troubled turn into a democracy.

Ordinary but competent.

The People Next Door by Duncan Graham

Somehow, this poor book got a foreword by Wahid and Geoff Gallop.

Even more somehow, the author has a M Phil and a Walkley Award.

Staggering considering some of the insipid comments and terrible writing.

The Indonesian Language: Its History and Role in Modern Society by James Sneddon

So many interesting facts so poorly expressed.

One would think a linguist could string decent sentences together, and if one were thinking of Guy Deutscher as the linguist, you'd be right!, but Sneddon ain't got what it takes.