One Year Of Book Lists
One year ago Saturday (couldn't post this then seeing as I was out of town), I decided to give myself a reading list so I could expand my reading horizons and become less pigeon-holed.
This year I read 40 books. Well, 39, but I got through 600 of the 800 pages of Anna Karenina, so I think that counts as a book!
Anyway, I learned something about my taste in books that I never really thought I would. I assumed that by reading classics and things I normally wouldn't pick up, that I would find a new-found love for a different genre. I was wrong. I love the same types of books as I did before. Romance, Mystery/Suspence, YA Fantasy and Chick Lit. I can appreciate other genres, but I don't generally love them.
So this past year has made me more well-rounded, which I do like, but it also made me realize that since I'm not school and don't have assigned homework, I should just read what I like to read.
Here is my reading list.
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley B+
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy C-
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte A+
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom B
The Prince, Machiavelli B
John Adams, David McCullough A+
Absolute Power, David Balducci B
Morrigan's Cross, Nora Roberts A
A Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez C
Sing It To Her Bones, Marcia Talley B
A Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde A
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde A
Final Jeopardy, Linda Fairstein C+
Dance of the Gods, Nora Roberts A
Emma, Jane Austen B+
Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell A
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Patricia Cornwell B
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte B
Valley of Silence, Nora Roberts A
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini A
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson B
The Other Woman, Jane Green B+
Nightfall, Nelson DeMille A-
Honeymoon, James Patterson B+
STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach A+
Aztec, Gary Jennings A+
In The Company Of The Courtesan, Sarah Dunant B
State of Fear, Michael Crichton A+
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein B
Norweigan Wood, Haruki Murakami A
Cut and Run, Carla Neggers D
Little Women, Louise May Alcott B+
A Great And Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray A+
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult A+
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella A+
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters B
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella A
Shopaholic Ties The Knot, Sophie Kinsella A-
Rebel Angels, Libba Bray A
Time and Again, Jack Finney A
This year I read 40 books. Well, 39, but I got through 600 of the 800 pages of Anna Karenina, so I think that counts as a book!
Anyway, I learned something about my taste in books that I never really thought I would. I assumed that by reading classics and things I normally wouldn't pick up, that I would find a new-found love for a different genre. I was wrong. I love the same types of books as I did before. Romance, Mystery/Suspence, YA Fantasy and Chick Lit. I can appreciate other genres, but I don't generally love them.
So this past year has made me more well-rounded, which I do like, but it also made me realize that since I'm not school and don't have assigned homework, I should just read what I like to read.
Here is my reading list.
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley B+
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy C-
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte A+
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom B
The Prince, Machiavelli B
John Adams, David McCullough A+
Absolute Power, David Balducci B
Morrigan's Cross, Nora Roberts A
A Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez C
Sing It To Her Bones, Marcia Talley B
A Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde A
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde A
Final Jeopardy, Linda Fairstein C+
Dance of the Gods, Nora Roberts A
Emma, Jane Austen B+
Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell A
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Patricia Cornwell B
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte B
Valley of Silence, Nora Roberts A
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini A
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson B
The Other Woman, Jane Green B+
Nightfall, Nelson DeMille A-
Honeymoon, James Patterson B+
STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach A+
Aztec, Gary Jennings A+
In The Company Of The Courtesan, Sarah Dunant B
State of Fear, Michael Crichton A+
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein B
Norweigan Wood, Haruki Murakami A
Cut and Run, Carla Neggers D
Little Women, Louise May Alcott B+
A Great And Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray A+
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult A+
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella A+
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters B
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella A
Shopaholic Ties The Knot, Sophie Kinsella A-
Rebel Angels, Libba Bray A
Time and Again, Jack Finney A