booklog: the reckoning
Of my three goals I set for 2011, I achieved one: to read 50 books in the year. I ended up reading 81. The list behind the cut.
#1: Reappriasals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, Tony Judt
#2: The Secret History of Moscow, Ekaterina Sedia
#3: The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
#4: Ten Cents a Dance, Christine Fletcher
#5: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
#6: Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch
#7: The Art of Biblical Narrative, Robert Alter
#8: Star Crossed, Elizabeth C. Bunce
#9: The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
#10: Warrior, Marie Brennan
#11: The House of Discarded Dreams, Ekaterina Sedia
#12: Witch, Marie Brennan
#13: Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout
#14: Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell
#15: Twelve, Jasper Kent
#16: Mirrors: Stories of Nearly Everyone, Eduardo Galeano
#17: Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
#18: Genesis, Eduardo Galeano
#19: A Game of Thrones, George RR Martin
#20: Bossypants, Tina Fey
#21: Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano
#22: The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
#23: My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead, ed. Jeffrey Eugenides.
#24: Faces and Masks, Eduardo Galeano
#25: Century of the Wind, Eduardo Galeano
#26: Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#27: Medium Raw, Anthony Bourdain
#28: Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
#29: Sinner's Grand Tour, Tony Perrottet
#30: In The Garden of Beasts, Erik Larsen
#31: Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay
#32: Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, Arundhati Roy
#33: The Imperfectionists: A Novel, Tom Rachman
#34: Sizzlin' Sixteen, Janet Evanovich
#35: Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way, Molly Birnbaum
#36: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
#37: The Golden Key, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson, and Kate Elliot
#38: Wanderlust: A Love Affair With Five Continents, Elisabeth Eaves
#39: The Crimson Petal and the White, Michael Faber
#40: My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store, Ben Ryder Howe
#41: It Looked Different On The Model, Laurie Notaro
#42: Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
#43: Anne of Avonlea, LM Montgomery
#44: Anne of the Island, LM Montgomery
#45: Anne of Windy Poplars, LM Montgomery
#46: Anne's House of Dreams, LM Montgomery
#47: Anne of Ingleside, LM Montgomery
#48: Rainbow Valley, LM Montgomery
#49: Rilla of Ingleside, LM Montgomery
#50: Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History, ed. Anne Walthall
#51: Best Food Writing 2010, ed. Holly Hughes
#52: Bright's Passage, Josh Ritter
#53: Zoo City, Lauren Beukes
#54: I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Sloane Crosley
#55: The Wake of Forgiveness, Bruce Machart.
#56: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering, Melanie Thernstrom
#57: The Zoo on the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West Bank, Amelia Thomas
#58: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, Mary Lovell
#59: The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
#60: How Did You Get This Number, Sloane Crosley
#61: The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Potzsch, Lee Chadeayne
#62: Alone in the Kitchen With an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, Jenni Ferrari-Adler
#63: Gilgamesh: A Novel, Joan London
#64: Sleight, Kirsten Kaschok
#65: An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
#66: War Dances, Sherman Alexie
#67: Fun and Games, Duane Swierczynski
#68: Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon
#69: Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion, Michael Levy
#70: A Tiger In The Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
#71: Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
#72: Waiter Rant, Steve Dublanica
#73: A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage
#74: The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht
#75: The Jasmine Trade, Denise Hamilton
#76: Drinking With Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt, Matt Diehl and Butch Walker
#77: The Best American Travel Writing 2011, ed. Sloane Crosley.
#78: Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova, Elaine Feinstein.
#79: Cheaper By The Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.
#80: Sugar Skull, Denise Hamilton
#81: Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
I'm not going to set a number goal for 2012, but I will keep logging my reading here and hope to keep a similar pace.
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#1: Reappriasals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, Tony Judt
#2: The Secret History of Moscow, Ekaterina Sedia
#3: The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
#4: Ten Cents a Dance, Christine Fletcher
#5: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
#6: Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch
#7: The Art of Biblical Narrative, Robert Alter
#8: Star Crossed, Elizabeth C. Bunce
#9: The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
#10: Warrior, Marie Brennan
#11: The House of Discarded Dreams, Ekaterina Sedia
#12: Witch, Marie Brennan
#13: Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout
#14: Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell
#15: Twelve, Jasper Kent
#16: Mirrors: Stories of Nearly Everyone, Eduardo Galeano
#17: Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
#18: Genesis, Eduardo Galeano
#19: A Game of Thrones, George RR Martin
#20: Bossypants, Tina Fey
#21: Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano
#22: The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
#23: My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead, ed. Jeffrey Eugenides.
#24: Faces and Masks, Eduardo Galeano
#25: Century of the Wind, Eduardo Galeano
#26: Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#27: Medium Raw, Anthony Bourdain
#28: Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
#29: Sinner's Grand Tour, Tony Perrottet
#30: In The Garden of Beasts, Erik Larsen
#31: Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay
#32: Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, Arundhati Roy
#33: The Imperfectionists: A Novel, Tom Rachman
#34: Sizzlin' Sixteen, Janet Evanovich
#35: Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way, Molly Birnbaum
#36: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
#37: The Golden Key, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson, and Kate Elliot
#38: Wanderlust: A Love Affair With Five Continents, Elisabeth Eaves
#39: The Crimson Petal and the White, Michael Faber
#40: My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store, Ben Ryder Howe
#41: It Looked Different On The Model, Laurie Notaro
#42: Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
#43: Anne of Avonlea, LM Montgomery
#44: Anne of the Island, LM Montgomery
#45: Anne of Windy Poplars, LM Montgomery
#46: Anne's House of Dreams, LM Montgomery
#47: Anne of Ingleside, LM Montgomery
#48: Rainbow Valley, LM Montgomery
#49: Rilla of Ingleside, LM Montgomery
#50: Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History, ed. Anne Walthall
#51: Best Food Writing 2010, ed. Holly Hughes
#52: Bright's Passage, Josh Ritter
#53: Zoo City, Lauren Beukes
#54: I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Sloane Crosley
#55: The Wake of Forgiveness, Bruce Machart.
#56: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering, Melanie Thernstrom
#57: The Zoo on the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West Bank, Amelia Thomas
#58: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, Mary Lovell
#59: The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
#60: How Did You Get This Number, Sloane Crosley
#61: The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Potzsch, Lee Chadeayne
#62: Alone in the Kitchen With an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, Jenni Ferrari-Adler
#63: Gilgamesh: A Novel, Joan London
#64: Sleight, Kirsten Kaschok
#65: An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
#66: War Dances, Sherman Alexie
#67: Fun and Games, Duane Swierczynski
#68: Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon
#69: Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion, Michael Levy
#70: A Tiger In The Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
#71: Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
#72: Waiter Rant, Steve Dublanica
#73: A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage
#74: The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht
#75: The Jasmine Trade, Denise Hamilton
#76: Drinking With Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt, Matt Diehl and Butch Walker
#77: The Best American Travel Writing 2011, ed. Sloane Crosley.
#78: Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova, Elaine Feinstein.
#79: Cheaper By The Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.
#80: Sugar Skull, Denise Hamilton
#81: Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
I'm not going to set a number goal for 2012, but I will keep logging my reading here and hope to keep a similar pace.
The Dreamwidth copy of this post has
comments. Comment there or here, as you like!