10 Books to Read in 2012
Last year, I made a short, casual list of a few books that I'd been putting off and really wanted to read. And I stuck to it and read them during the first few months of 2011. I like this productivity, and the insights it gave me, and I want to start doing this every year.
There's no source or rule for these books. Some I recently discovered--one was a Christmas present, another won't be published for another week--and some I've been meaning to read for years. Two I remembered when I found that my husband owned copies, so they are now on my bookshelves.
XThe Hero With a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
From Girl to Goddess, by Valerie Estelle Frankel
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
XQuiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
XDust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson, by Lyndsay Faye
XThe Waste Lands, by Stephen King
XThe Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse
XSnow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
XThe Resurrection of the Son of God, by N. T. Wright
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
There's no source or rule for these books. Some I recently discovered--one was a Christmas present, another won't be published for another week--and some I've been meaning to read for years. Two I remembered when I found that my husband owned copies, so they are now on my bookshelves.
XThe Hero With a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
From Girl to Goddess, by Valerie Estelle Frankel
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
XQuiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
XDust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson, by Lyndsay Faye
XThe Waste Lands, by Stephen King
XThe Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse
XSnow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
XThe Resurrection of the Son of God, by N. T. Wright
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco