I’ve challenged myself to read 52 books in 2012. This might be a silly goal since I’m expecting a child… but oh well. Let’s just see how well I do!
This project started because I realized I had a lot of books on my shelves that I’ve yet to read. Twenty-seven of the 52 titles are from my own shelves, with the list below. I’ll cross them off as I finish. If I write a review, I’ll link the review. If a title has an asterisk next to it, it means I started reading it but gave up… and in those cases, I’ll start again at the beginning (which is a very good place to start!).
Here’s the list of 26 from my shelves:
- Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver(Finished 2/23)- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft*
- The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson*
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood*
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne(Finished 03/09)- The Inner Vision: Liberty and Literature by Edward McClean
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss* – Currently Reading!
- Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates*
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley*
- Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century by Patricia Hills*
- Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley
- After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson*
- Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever
- Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf
- Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction and Betrayal by Dick Kreck*
- Lies my Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
- Shakespeare by Michael Wood
- Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard
- The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel*
Here are 10 additional I’d like to read (from Amazon’s Top 100 of 2011)
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern- The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
- A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
- Before I go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
- The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
- Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Other books toward the goal:
Beautiful Outlaw by John Eldredge(Finished 03/21)The Help by Kathryn Stockett(Finished 03/26)Bringing up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman(Finished 04/05)- Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Mom, Incorporated: A Guide to Business + Baby by Aliza Sherman and Danielle Smith(Finished 06/14)The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond(Finished 05/10)Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, the bloggess(Finished 06/11)The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings(Finished by 06/28)- Mom, Inc: The Essential Guide to Running a Business Close to Home by Meg Mateo Ilasco
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
What to Expect When You’re Expectingby Heidi Murkoff(Finished 04/12)Momsense: A Common-Sense Guide to Confident Mothering by Jean Blackmer(Finished 06/15)Dead Until Darkby Charlaine Harris(Finished 06/19)The Swami’s Ringby Carolyn Keene(Finished 06/23)The Honorable Imposterby Gilbert Morris(Finished 06/24)The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings(Finished 06/28)Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris(Finished 07/01)Club Dead by Charlaine Harris(Finished 07/02)- All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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