I am a voracious reader.
Inspired by Laura of 52Books, and hundreds of others participating in 52 book projects, I’ve decided to go ahead and make a note of the books that I’m reading in 2011 (and now 2012). I usually keep track loosely over at Goodreads, but I’d like to spend more time thinking about the reading. I’m also working on a larger goal of reading all 200 of the BBC Big Read List.
Here are the books I’ve been reading, with a link to each of my posts.
Books in 2012
#1: Half Magic by Edward Eager
#2: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Books in 2011
#1: The Checklist Manifesto by Dr. Atul Gawande
#2: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
#3: To the End of the Land by David Grossman
#4: The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
#5: Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey
#6: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
#7: Just Kids by Patti Smith
#8: Cutting For Stone by Dr. Abraham Verghese
#9: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
#10: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
#11: Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
#12: Dune by Frank Herbert
#13: And I shall have some peace there by Margaret Roach
#14: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
#15: One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
#16: An Extravagant Hunger by Anne Zimmerman
#17: For You Mom, Finally by Ruth Reichl
#18: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
#19: Firewall: A Kurt Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell
#20: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
#21: Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger by Nigel Slater
#22: On Writing by Stephen King
#23: Season To Taste by Molly Birnbaum
#24: Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
#25: Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food by Colman Andrews
#26: The Stand by Stephen King
#27: The Silver Crown by Robert C. O’Brien