In 2002, I only finished 23 books. I made a goal for 2003 to double that. I'm thrilled to say that I went over my original goal, hurrah!
Reading Goals For 2004
- Finish reading 50+ books by the end of the year (again, yay!).
- Finish The Lord Of The Rings goddamnit!!!
- Give Will Self and Jack Kerouac another try.
- Read another Aubrey/Maturin book or two.
- Read more "classics".
- Buy less books until I read most of the unread ones I already own (not likely to happen... Camille = No Will Power).
Books I Abandoned This Year
- The Sparrow [Mary Doria Russell] <--- will attempt again some day
- A Clockwork Orange [Anthony Burgess] <--- will attempt again some day
- My Date with Satan [Stacey Richter]
- Some Of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning [Daniel Scott]
Note: I purchased or was given 155 books in 2003, EEK!
Books I Read in 2003
(Alphabetical by Author)
- Go Ask Alice [Anonymous]
- He Died with a Felafel in His Hand [John Birmingham]
- Wasteland [Francesca Lia Block]
- Kitchen Confidential [Anthony Bourdain]
- Every Nine Seconds [Joseph Brockton]
- Interzone [William S. Burroughs]
- Queer [William S. Burroughs]
- The Dwarves of Death [Jonathan Coe]
- The Rotters' Club [Jonathan Coe]
- Artemis Fowl [Eoin Colfer]
- Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident [Eoin Colfer]
- Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook [William Cook - editor]
- The Chocolate War [Robert Cormier]
- The Hours [Michael Cunningham]
- Switch Bitch [Roald Dahl]
- No Longer Human [Osamu Dazai]
- One Pill Makes You Smaller [Lisa Dierbeck]
- A Treasury of Royal Scandals [Michael Farquhar]
- Namedropper [Emma Forrest]
- Moab Is My Washpot [Stephen Fry]
- American Gods [Neil Gaiman]
- Good Omens [Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett]
- California Screaming [Doug Guinan]
- Girl, Interrupted [Susanna Kaysen]
- The Boys of Swithins Hall [Chris Kent]
- On the Road [Jack Kerouac]
- Common People [Martin Knight]
- From Blue to Black [Joel Lane]
- A Wrinkle in Time [Madeleine L'Engle]
- A Working Stiff's Manifesto [Iain Levison]
- Boy Meets Boy [David Levithan]
- The Torture Garden [Octave Mirbeau]
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal [Christopher Moore]
- Practical Demonkeeping [Christopher Moore]
- Dogrun [Arthur Nersesian]
- Master and Commander [Patrick O'Brian]
- A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia & Other Stories [Victor Pelevin]
- The Wee Free Men [Terry Pratchett]
- Paranoia in the Launderette [Bruce Robinson]
- Still She Haunts Me [Katie Roiphe]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [J.K. Rowling] (reread)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [J.K. Rowling] (reread)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [J.K. Rowling] (twice)
- The Sweet Smell of Psychosis [Will Self]
- Naked Pictures of Famous People [Jon Stewart]
- The Adrian Mole Diaries [Sue Townsend]
- Adrian Mole: The Lost Years [Sue Townsend]
- Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years [Sue Townsend]
- The Queen and I [Sue Townsend]
- The Language of Blood [Jane Jeong Trenka]
- Live From Golgotha [Gore Vidal]
- Fierce People [Dirk Wittenborn]