Book I've Read This Year (2011)
January
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (half-finished; couldn't stand it anymore)
The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Odyssey by Homer
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
February
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Hippolytus by Euripides
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Antigone by Sophocles
The Brothers Manaechmus by Plautus
Poems by Catullus
Song and Silence by Sara L.M. Davis
March
I and Thou by Martin Buber
The Aeneid by Virgil
Dynamics of Faith by Paul Tillich
April
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
Hrafnkel's Saga
Janitors, Street Vendors and Activists by Christian Zlolniski
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Inferno by Dante
Reading the Women of the Bible by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
The Discovery of God by Henri de Lubac
May
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Sinai and Zion by Jon Levenson
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
June
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
The Hidden Face of God by Richard Elliot Friedman
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Rendering of God in the Old Testament by Dale Patrick
July
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
God: A Biography by Jack Miles
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
August
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
The Grave Digger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates (not finished)
September
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas (not finished)
America Divided by Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin
Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties by W.J. Rorabaugh
Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism by Bruce J. Schulman
The Spirit of the Letter by Augustine
Households and Holiness by Carol Meyers
Early Christian Writings (over half the selections)
Ancient Israelite Religion by Susan Niditch
October
Debating the Civil Rights Movement by Steve Lawson and Charles Payne
In the Wake of the Goddesses by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
Antiwarriors by Melvin Small
Sex in the Heartland by Beth Bailey
Framing the Sixties by Bernard von Bothmer
The Japanese Mind by Roger Davies and Osamu Ikeno
Discovering Eve by Carol Meyers
November
The Pacfiic War 1931-1945 by Saburo Ienaga
Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen by Susan Ackerman
Underground by Harumi Murakami
Caught in the Middle East by Peter L. Hahn
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
December
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
Every Man in this Village is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (half-finished; couldn't stand it anymore)
The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Odyssey by Homer
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
February
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Hippolytus by Euripides
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Antigone by Sophocles
The Brothers Manaechmus by Plautus
Poems by Catullus
Song and Silence by Sara L.M. Davis
March
I and Thou by Martin Buber
The Aeneid by Virgil
Dynamics of Faith by Paul Tillich
April
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
Hrafnkel's Saga
Janitors, Street Vendors and Activists by Christian Zlolniski
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Inferno by Dante
Reading the Women of the Bible by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
The Discovery of God by Henri de Lubac
May
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Sinai and Zion by Jon Levenson
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
June
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
The Hidden Face of God by Richard Elliot Friedman
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Rendering of God in the Old Testament by Dale Patrick
July
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
God: A Biography by Jack Miles
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
August
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
The Grave Digger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates (not finished)
September
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas (not finished)
America Divided by Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin
Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties by W.J. Rorabaugh
Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism by Bruce J. Schulman
The Spirit of the Letter by Augustine
Households and Holiness by Carol Meyers
Early Christian Writings (over half the selections)
Ancient Israelite Religion by Susan Niditch
October
Debating the Civil Rights Movement by Steve Lawson and Charles Payne
In the Wake of the Goddesses by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
Antiwarriors by Melvin Small
Sex in the Heartland by Beth Bailey
Framing the Sixties by Bernard von Bothmer
The Japanese Mind by Roger Davies and Osamu Ikeno
Discovering Eve by Carol Meyers
November
The Pacfiic War 1931-1945 by Saburo Ienaga
Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen by Susan Ackerman
Underground by Harumi Murakami
Caught in the Middle East by Peter L. Hahn
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
December
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
Every Man in this Village is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel