74. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

73. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

72. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

71. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

70. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

I gave that one 3 stars. I thought it was an awesome concept with the illustrations throughout the book, and I always love books about books.

I was hooked from the beginning, but towards the middle, it slowed down a lot and it seemed like there was A LOT to get through. It wasn't bad enough to make me stop reading, but I did get anxious for the end. Just last week I picked it up again, just to look through the illustrations. I think if you're an Eco fan, you'll like this one.

Jessica wrote: "61. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco"

Hi Jessica.

What a great year of reading you have had!! What was this Eco novel like? I really love his other books, but haven't read this one yet.

The beginning was good for me, but then it started to drag a bit...well, not really drag, but I started to wonder what the point of the story was. At about the 150 page mark, it started to come together, and after that, I really enjoyed the rest of it.

Jessica,

How was this? I've thought about starting it several times but it never grabbed my attention enough to pick it up.

69. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulkagov

68. On the Beach by Nevil Shute

67. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

66. Watership Down by Richard Adams

65. The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky

64. Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

63. Like Water for Chocolate

62. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

61. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco

60. SMASHED SQUASHED SPLATTERED CHEWED CHUNKED AND SPEWED by Lance Carbuncle

59. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

58. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

I really enjoyed Motherless Brooklyn too, Susanna. I think Ed Norton will be perfect as Lionel.

I loved The Gargoyle, Lacey. There's parts of it that still haunt me when I think about it. It was just beautiful. :)

57. Julie and Julia: 365 Days 524 Recipes 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell

#41: The Gargoyle . . . I loved this book. It was so creative and really made me think about life from another perspective. Truly moving and intelligently written. I'm inspired by some of your choices and will add them to my list!

Jessica wrote: "56. Motherless Brooklyn by Johnathan Lethem"

Loved the book, can't wait for the movie! :)

56. Motherless Brooklyn by Johnathan Lethem

55. Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

53. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
54. The Book of Samson by David Maine

52. Japanese Fairy Tales

50. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
51. The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

49. The Life Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee

48. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

47. The Book of Lost Things by John Connelly

31. The Brief & Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz
32. Flashforward-Robert J. Sawyer
33. I Capture the Castle-Dodie Smith
34. The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoevsky
35. Dead Until Dark-Charlain Harris
36. Living Dead in Dallas-Charlaine Harris
37. The Third Policeman-Flann O'Brien
38. The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas
39. Club Dead-Charlaine Harris
40. Everything That Rises Must Converge-Flannery O'Connor
41.The Gargoyle-Andrew Davidson
42. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies-Seth Grahame-Smith
43. The Day of the Triffids-John Wyndham
44. I Am Legend-Richard Matheson
45. Time Out of Joint-Phllip K. Dick
46. Kafka on the Shore-Haruki Murakami

Ok, I know I haven't started any reading goals this year, but I thought if I started a thread, it might motivate me more to stick with reading my currently owned books and cut down on the book shopping (a little).

I've kept track of all the books I've read so far this year in my book journal, so here's the list.(excluding most of the children's books I've read with my kids)

1. Galapagos-Kurt Vonnegut
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany-John Irving
3. Vaccine: The Controversial Story of America's Greatest Lifesaver
4. Of Mice & Men-John Steinbeck
5. American Psycho-Bret Easton Ellis
6. Mother Night-Kurt Vonnegut
7. Night-Elie Wiesel
8. The Doll People-Ann M. Martin
9. Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers-mary Roach
10. Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
11. The Heretic's Daughter-Kathleen Kent
12. Cat's Eye-Margaret Atwood
13. Fear-L. Ron Hubbard
14. The Book Thief-Marcus Zusak
15. The Pearl-John Steinbeck
16. The Stranger-Albert Camus
17. American Gods-Neil Gaiman
18. The Invention of Morel-Adolfo Bioy Casares
19. Blindness-Jose Saramago
20. Cloud Atlas-David Mitchell
21. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
22. Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found
23. Beloved-Toni Morrison
24. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science & Sex-Mary Roach
25. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War-Max Brooks
26. The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon
27. The Wasp Factory-Iain Banks
28. The Awakening-Kate Chopin
29. The Sparrow-Mary Doria Russell
30. Shopgirl-Steve Martin