Books for 2011
Here are the 30 books that I read in 2011. I didn't do very well this year. I had hoped to read at least one book a week but I fell far short of that. Sigh. I hope to do better in 2012.
January (3)
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
February (3)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
March (3)
Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor
The Ghost Map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world by Simon Winchester
The Woods by Stephen Leigh
April (4)
Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
Where good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation by Steven Johnson
Kingdom under glass: a tale of obsession, adventure, and one man's quest to preserve the world's great animals by Jay Kirk
The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley
May (2)
Dangerously funny : the uncensored story of the Smothers Brothers comedy hour by David Bianculli
Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution by Holly Tucker
June (1)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
July (1)
The 4-hour body : an uncommon guide to rapid fat-loss, incredible sex, and becoming superhuman by Timothy Ferriss
August (2)
Stories I only tell my friends by Rob Lowe
The Snow Empress by Laura Joh Rowland
September (2)
The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind
From This Moment On by Shania Twain
October (2)
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
November (3)
Falling Backward by Jann Arden
Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox
Ocean Soul by Brian Skerry
December (4)
Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark
Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber
Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
Magazines
Maclean's (52 issues)
National Geographic (12)
National Geographic Traveller (10)
Reader's Digest (12)
Canadian Living (12)
Royal Ontario Museum (6)
January (3)
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
February (3)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
March (3)
Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor
The Ghost Map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world by Simon Winchester
The Woods by Stephen Leigh
April (4)
Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
Where good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation by Steven Johnson
Kingdom under glass: a tale of obsession, adventure, and one man's quest to preserve the world's great animals by Jay Kirk
The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley
May (2)
Dangerously funny : the uncensored story of the Smothers Brothers comedy hour by David Bianculli
Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution by Holly Tucker
June (1)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
July (1)
The 4-hour body : an uncommon guide to rapid fat-loss, incredible sex, and becoming superhuman by Timothy Ferriss
August (2)
Stories I only tell my friends by Rob Lowe
The Snow Empress by Laura Joh Rowland
September (2)
The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind
From This Moment On by Shania Twain
October (2)
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
November (3)
Falling Backward by Jann Arden
Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox
Ocean Soul by Brian Skerry
December (4)
Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark
Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber
Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
Magazines
Maclean's (52 issues)
National Geographic (12)
National Geographic Traveller (10)
Reader's Digest (12)
Canadian Living (12)
Royal Ontario Museum (6)