Reading. Read. To read.

I like to read. A lot! Contained herein is the list of books I’ve read (…since 2010).

2012!

  1. 02-Jan: How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, Mike Brown (finished)
  2. 15-Jan: Wonderstruck, Brian Selznick (finished)
  3. 04-Feb: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (finished)
  4. 05-Feb: The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (finished)
  5. 14-Feb: The Lock Artist, Steve Hamilton (finished)

40 in ‘11:

  1. In the Woods, Tana French (finished)
  2. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (finished)
  3. The Fiddler in the Subway, Gene Weingarten (finished)
  4. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson (finished)
  5. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde (finished)
  6. Jumper, Steven Gould (finished)
  7. Old Man’s War, John Scalzi (finished)
  8. Kingdom Come, Mark Waid & Alex Ross (finished)
  9. The Wettest County in the World, Matt Bondurant (finished)
  10. Persuasion, Jane Austen (finished)
  11. The Girl in the Blue Beret, Bobbie Ann Mason (finished)
  12. Jane Slayre, Charlotte Brontë and Sherri Browning Erwin (finished)
  13. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré (finished)
  14. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (finished)
  15. Salt A World History, Mark Kurlansky (finished)
  16. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (finished)
  17. The Mother Tongue, English and How It Got That Way, Bill Bryson (finished)
  18. Five Skies, Ron Carlson (finished)
  19. The Heroes of Olympus, Book Two: The Son of Neptune, Rick Riordan (finished)
  20. The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater (finished)
  21. A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage (finished)
  22. Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde (finished)
  23. Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor (finished)
  24. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall (finished)

20 by NYE (2010): only finished 9 books! O the shame.

  1. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen (finished)
  2. Sisters Red, Jackson Pearce (finished)
  3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (finished)
  4. The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan (finished)
  5. Prince of Thieves, Chuck Hogan (finished)
  6. Tinkers, Paul Harding (finished)
  7. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (finished)
  8. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (finished)
  9. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (finished)

20 by June (2010): 16 out of 20’s not bad, but I can’t keep choosing massive tomes like The Inheritance of Rome and The Rest is Noise. Heh.

  1. Do Not Deny Me - Jean Thompson (finished)
  2. The Coral Thief - Rebecca Stott (finished)
  3. 2666 - Roberto Bolaño*
  4. Lincoln: Biography of a Writer - Fred Kaplan* (finished)
  5. The Four Seasons - Laurel Corona* (finished)
  6. The Creative Habit - Twyla Tharp* (finished)
  7. The Tao of Wu - The RZA (finished)
  8. The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross
  9. Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell (finished)
  10. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (finished)
  11. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery (finished)
  12. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann (finished)
  13. The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (abandoned)
  14. The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes* (finished)
  15. The Inheritance of Rome - Chris Wickham
  16. Love Walked In - Marisa de los Santos (finished)
  17. How We Decide - Jonah Lehrer (finished)
  18. His Excellency: George Washington - Joseph J. Ellis
  19. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman (finished)
  20. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (finished)
  21. The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan (finished)