Book List.
This is a list of books I have read since April 2007. Since I want to keep the list I've been keeping up to this point in the same place, I am keeping the list as it was, rather than starting over with a new one on January 1, 2008. The books counting toward the mission101 project begin with January 2008 and will end in September 2010. The goal is to read 150 books that aren't for classes; each book can only be read once, but they may be books I've read before the start of the project.
Feel free to suggest books you think I might like based on the books I've marked as once I've enjoyed. I'm always open to suggestions.
- Books I really enjoyed will have plus signs in front of them, between 1 and 3. The more plus signs, the more I enjoyed the book.
- Books that have an (*) after them are ones I've read before.
- I will be numbering books counting toward my goal of 150 before the titles (example: [025] TITLE). Any books without numbers do not count toward my goal (most likely because they have been read before during the 1001 days.)
- Books are separated by month; I put the book under the month I finish it in, rather than the month I started. That is, if I started it on the 28th of one month and finished it on the 2nd of the next, I would put it under the second month.
APRIL 2007
The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
Goodnight, Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
(++) Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty*
(+++) Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty*
MAY 2007
(++) Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty*
(+++) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd*
(++) Getting Over Jack Wagner by Elise Juska*
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
JUNE 2007
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans*
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
(+) Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan*
Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot
(+) The Rules for Hearts by Sara Ryan (read Empress of the World first; this is the sequel)
JULY 2007
(+++) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer
(+++) Lucky by Alice Sebold
(+) Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
(+) My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
(+++) Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
(+++) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
(+) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling
(++) Empress of the World by Sara Ryan*
AUGUST 2007
(++) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
(++) Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty
(+) Everything I Needed To Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume ed. by Jennifer O'Connell
SEPTEMBER 2007
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
(+) The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Summer by Edith Wharton
OCTOBER 2007
(+++) Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver*
(++) High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
(+) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller*
NOVEMBER 2007
(++) This Is Not Chick Lit by various authors
(++) Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
(++) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Sula by Toni Morrison
(+++) The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
DECEMBER 2007
(++) Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
(+++) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
JANUARY 2008
[001] (+++) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
[002] (+++) Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
[003] (+++) Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
(+) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
FEBRUARY 2008
[004] (+) Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer*
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar
[005] (+++) Super America by Anne Panning*
[006] (++) Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
MARCH 2008
(+) The Street by Ann Petry
[007] (+++) Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
APRIL 2008
[008] (+++) Name All The Animals by Alison Smith
(+) Flight To Canada by Ishmael Reed
(++) The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
[009] (+) Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams
(+) Twenty Grand: and other tales of love and money by Rebecca Curtis
MAY 2008
[010] (++) Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
(++) Quicksand by Nella Larsen
(++) Like One of the Family by Alice Childress
[011] (+++) Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy) edited by Heather Armstrong
(++) Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
(+++) Sula by Toni Morrison*
JUNE 2008
[012] The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
[013] (+++) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
(+++) Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude by Amy Bloom
[014] (++) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
[015] (+++) Trash by Dorothy Allison
[016] (++) Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
[017] (+) Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
[018] (+++) Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
[019] (+++) Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty*
[020] (+++) Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty*
JUNE 2008
[021] (+++) Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty*
[022] (+++) Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty*
[023] (+++) Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Feel free to suggest books you think I might like based on the books I've marked as once I've enjoyed. I'm always open to suggestions.
- Books I really enjoyed will have plus signs in front of them, between 1 and 3. The more plus signs, the more I enjoyed the book.
- Books that have an (*) after them are ones I've read before.
- I will be numbering books counting toward my goal of 150 before the titles (example: [025] TITLE). Any books without numbers do not count toward my goal (most likely because they have been read before during the 1001 days.)
- Books are separated by month; I put the book under the month I finish it in, rather than the month I started. That is, if I started it on the 28th of one month and finished it on the 2nd of the next, I would put it under the second month.
APRIL 2007
The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
Goodnight, Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
(++) Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty*
(+++) Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty*
MAY 2007
(++) Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty*
(+++) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd*
(++) Getting Over Jack Wagner by Elise Juska*
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
JUNE 2007
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans*
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
(+) Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan*
Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot
(+) The Rules for Hearts by Sara Ryan (read Empress of the World first; this is the sequel)
JULY 2007
(+++) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer
(+++) Lucky by Alice Sebold
(+) Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
(+) My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
(+++) Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
(+++) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
(+) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling
(++) Empress of the World by Sara Ryan*
AUGUST 2007
(++) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
(++) Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty
(+) Everything I Needed To Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume ed. by Jennifer O'Connell
SEPTEMBER 2007
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
(+) The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Summer by Edith Wharton
OCTOBER 2007
(+++) Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver*
(++) High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
(+) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller*
NOVEMBER 2007
(++) This Is Not Chick Lit by various authors
(++) Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
(++) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Sula by Toni Morrison
(+++) The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
DECEMBER 2007
(++) Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
(+++) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
JANUARY 2008
[001] (+++) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
[002] (+++) Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
[003] (+++) Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
(+) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
FEBRUARY 2008
[004] (+) Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer*
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar
[005] (+++) Super America by Anne Panning*
[006] (++) Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
MARCH 2008
(+) The Street by Ann Petry
[007] (+++) Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
APRIL 2008
[008] (+++) Name All The Animals by Alison Smith
(+) Flight To Canada by Ishmael Reed
(++) The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
[009] (+) Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams
(+) Twenty Grand: and other tales of love and money by Rebecca Curtis
MAY 2008
[010] (++) Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
(++) Quicksand by Nella Larsen
(++) Like One of the Family by Alice Childress
[011] (+++) Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy) edited by Heather Armstrong
(++) Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
(+++) Sula by Toni Morrison*
JUNE 2008
[012] The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
[013] (+++) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
(+++) Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude by Amy Bloom
[014] (++) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
[015] (+++) Trash by Dorothy Allison
[016] (++) Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
[017] (+) Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
[018] (+++) Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
[019] (+++) Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty*
[020] (+++) Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty*
JUNE 2008
[021] (+++) Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty*
[022] (+++) Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty*
[023] (+++) Fun Home by Alison Bechdel