My Reading List for 2011
I like the idea of trying to read 50 books in one year. It's a good goal. I'm going to take it on. Even in my prime reading days I never read more then 40.
I have soooo many books and I really want to gobble them all up, so I figure putting a good number of them here on this list is a good start. Forty of them will be from my bookshelves and 10 will be from collected "Best of" lists from both The New York Times and the supplement I got from the Washington Post. I need more current and timely books on my list.
This post will also serve as a collection place to the reviews I hope to make for each book too.
Now, onto the list:
50 Books in 2011
1. Risk Pool by Richard Russo finished 2/10/11
2. The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie finished 2/22/11
3. The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle finished 1/24/11
4. The Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle finished 2/1/11
5. The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle finished 2/14/11
6. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford finished 2/27/11
7. Tinkers by Paul Harding finished 3/5/11
8. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Tried. Just couldn't get through it.
9. RESERVED FOR FRANZEN'S NEWEST BOOK (if I like The Corrections)
10. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
11. Hunger Games by by Suzanne Collins finished 4/15/11
12. RESERVED FOR CATCHING FIRE
13. RESERVED FOR MOCKINGJAY
14. American Subversive by David Goodwillie finished 7/25/11
15. Room By Emma Donoghue finished 4/30/11
16. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
17. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
18. Diary by Chuck Palahnuik
19. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez finished 8/28/11 FINALLY!
20. Wild Ducks Flying Backwards by Tom Robbins
21. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
22. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
23. A Month of Sundays by John Updike
24. The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin finished 10/30/11
25. The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection by Martin Page
26. Speak Memory by Nabakov
27. The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.J. Going
28. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
29. House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
30. Nature Girl by Carl Haaisen finished 10/30/11
31. Specials by Scott Westerfeld finished 9/28/11
32. Extras by Scott Westerfeld
33. More by John Hodgman
34. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
35. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
36. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
37. Ibid by Mark Dunn
38. Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard
39. The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
40. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
41. The Spooky Art by Norman Mailer
42. The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
43. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
44. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
45. Good as Gold by Joseph Heller
46. All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
47. The New Zealand Stories by Katherine Mansfield
48. Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
49. The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
50. Fondling the Muse by John Warner (from McSweeney's)
Any thoughts on these? Recommendations? Opinions?
What are you guys reading next year?
As I like to have my toes in as many social waters as possible, this post can also be found on DreamWidth. You can comment here or there...or not at all if you want to make me cry.
I have soooo many books and I really want to gobble them all up, so I figure putting a good number of them here on this list is a good start. Forty of them will be from my bookshelves and 10 will be from collected "Best of" lists from both The New York Times and the supplement I got from the Washington Post. I need more current and timely books on my list.
This post will also serve as a collection place to the reviews I hope to make for each book too.
Now, onto the list:
50 Books in 2011
1. Risk Pool by Richard Russo finished 2/10/11
2. The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie finished 2/22/11
3. The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle finished 1/24/11
4. The Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle finished 2/1/11
5. The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle finished 2/14/11
6. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford finished 2/27/11
7. Tinkers by Paul Harding finished 3/5/11
8. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Tried. Just couldn't get through it.
9. RESERVED FOR FRANZEN'S NEWEST BOOK (if I like The Corrections)
10. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
11. Hunger Games by by Suzanne Collins finished 4/15/11
12. RESERVED FOR CATCHING FIRE
13. RESERVED FOR MOCKINGJAY
14. American Subversive by David Goodwillie finished 7/25/11
15. Room By Emma Donoghue finished 4/30/11
16. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
17. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
18. Diary by Chuck Palahnuik
19. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez finished 8/28/11 FINALLY!
20. Wild Ducks Flying Backwards by Tom Robbins
21. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
22. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
23. A Month of Sundays by John Updike
24. The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin finished 10/30/11
25. The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection by Martin Page
26. Speak Memory by Nabakov
27. The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.J. Going
28. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
29. House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
30. Nature Girl by Carl Haaisen finished 10/30/11
31. Specials by Scott Westerfeld finished 9/28/11
32. Extras by Scott Westerfeld
33. More by John Hodgman
34. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
35. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
36. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
37. Ibid by Mark Dunn
38. Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard
39. The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
40. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
41. The Spooky Art by Norman Mailer
42. The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
43. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
44. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
45. Good as Gold by Joseph Heller
46. All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
47. The New Zealand Stories by Katherine Mansfield
48. Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
49. The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
50. Fondling the Muse by John Warner (from McSweeney's)
Any thoughts on these? Recommendations? Opinions?
What are you guys reading next year?
As I like to have my toes in as many social waters as possible, this post can also be found on DreamWidth. You can comment here or there...or not at all if you want to make me cry.