I noticed several that repeated but at least it's closer to complete than the list I lost. Thanks again for sharing it.

There were some repeats (I think Huck Finn was on there like 5 times) but it lays them all out there.

Oh thank you -- this is much more than I had in the previous list.

Dotti, No problem! It's a matter of copy and paste! Personally, I supplemented the list with some others that I own and think fit in. But here's the link to the site:

http://rorysbookclub.webs.com/booksseeno...

Lori -- could you post a link to that list -- I used to have a similar though incomplete list but I lost it. If not a link then maybe e-mail a document if someone else also wants this. Thanks -- just asking so don't feel obligated to do a lot of typing if you would rather not, okay?

I've been thinking about reading goals for 2010 already. (I didn't do spectacularly at keeping track of my progress for 2009, so I've pretty much abandoned it) I guess I'm thinking more long term than that. I'm taking a year off, so I'll start law school or grad school in August 2011, which is about 21 months away. I found a list of books by Gilmore Girls episode. After going through it, I realized that I had read a fair number, but I owned a ton of them. 65 as it turned out. So my first goal is to read all of those 65 during the next 21 months. If I finish that, there are several on there that I want to read, but haven't bought. I'm considering introducing the list to my dad, although I probably won't tell him where I got it.

Thanks for the story! I've been off work for five months and read 16 books. I thought that was good until I saw this. A couple of great reads to the question what's everyone reading right now:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (half-way through. I love world war II stories that are unique and different like The Reader. This is definetely one of them)
The Monsters of Templeton (did not want it to end)

I think Rory would like both of these books!

did anyone else see this story? this woman has read 1 book a day for the last year and it's incredible! i wish i could do that ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/nyregi...
her reviews are here:
http://www.readallday.org/

I'm REALLY psyched... I'm on book #53 for the year, and should finish it this evening. Seriously, I did that with only reading two books in April, and five books two other months. Tell me that's not awesome!

I've been calculating the pages, too, as I said I would... I was doing that so I wouldn't feel so pressured to read so many books and would feel good about doing the longer ones... but now I can do both in a way because I've done enough for one book a week for the whole year... and I have 4.5 months left! (I HAVE done several 800-ish pagers as it is, but that's nothing to The Count of Monte Cristo that I plan to FINALLY read after I finish all my library books currently out!)

The only thing is that lately I've been reading books from the BBB The Big Read Top 100 list even though I've collected all but 3 or 4 of Rory's original list! That's so lame, but suddenly I found myself on this role and just couldn't (can't) seem to role another way!

Anyway, I'm really excited about my current number...

I am a teacher and my summer reading goals were the 4 books in the Twilight series, and also the 7 books in the Harry Potter series. (I am on book 5!) My best friend read the Twlight series, so she already had the books for me. The HP's I have gotten all from the Philadelphia free library, as well as the movies for after I read the book.

Zala wrote: "Today I realized I only read 19 books this year till this date, and two of them not even completly, because I had to return them to the library and am now waiting for another oportunity to borrow t..."

I was just thinking how I have to divide my time between reading and being on line discussing reading! Quite the dilemma!

Today I realized I only read 19 books this year till this date, and two of them not even completly, because I had to return them to the library and am now waiting for another oportunity to borrow them. Aghr, I hate myself. Got to read more and spend less time online. :)

wooohooo! Go Angie! Sadly, still behind on my goals. But I picked up Anna K. again, and I'm really enjoying it. Slowly, but surely I'll get there.

Met my goal of reading all Louisa May Alcott this summer! On to something else, now.

Laura, so glad you're here! We are an eclectic group with eclectic tastes, yet we all seem to have a marvelous time here. Hope you do too!

I'm new to Good Reads and have to comment that this group is inspirational! I had a goal of 50 books this year (not counting children's books at all), and find myself avoiding long books so I do not throw off the pace. Bad form! I'm not thinking pages and inspiried to see a board where Harry Potter and Anna Karenina are mingled together. I just may belong here. I'm going to get my copy of AK off the shelf and dive in. Thanks for the inspiration and looking forward to continuing in this group!

Anna... 101. That's incredible!!! I'm jealous. :) I just finished book number 18. Which is very low for my goal. however, I have a month off from school. I just visited the library and came home with five books. So there is still hope! I am placing great faith on my library and hoping that it will bring me out of my reading funk.

Have been off good reads awhile and not really reading much. Mostly because I have another very important hobby. But lately that hobby has me a bit burned out so I've been reading a lot.

Not sure what my goal will be. But I think probably 3 per month for the rest of the year plus what I've already finished would give me 25. So that's my low ball number.

I think I will use the suggestion of rearranging shelves. Currently the read and non-read are comingling.

Great topic for a blog! For the past 3 years I've kept a list of all my finished books to see what my average was. Looks like I averaged 55 books, so I upped my goal last year to read 60. On New Year's Eve, I finished my 60th book (with an hour to spare - boy was a fun person to have at a party HA HA!) This year I'd like to shoot for 65, but I'm a bit behind my usual pace. I try to pick big books (4oo+ pages) to read to give myself a challenge, but sometimes I can't resist a good short book. I think this year I plan to incorporate some of the classics into my reading list. Now that "I'm older and wiser" (I think - Ha Ha) I think I'll enjoy the books I hated reading when forced to in High School/College. Any suggestions?

48 ha meadow in the strict centre of the city

Hee-hee -- that's good to know! What a lovely place to go for relaxation.

Who says I read just inside?? I read sunbathing at Błonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%82onia...).

Anna -- put down the book -- go outside -- take some deep breaths. That's fresh air. Just kidding -- well, sort of -- 101 books is astounding to me and I consider myself even now enough of a bookworm. I'm impressed.

I just reached the 101st book read this year. I think I started changing into the cyborg.

LOL, love the Harry Potter reference. I read HPB to be ready for the film and immediately read DH cuz I couldn't stop myself! And, in a short time, as well. My only real goal this year was to read more non-fiction than usual, so I try to read 1 non fiction for every fiction; I haven't met that goal; it's more like 1:4 or 5. Another goal I had for this year was to read all of Louisa May Alcott. I'm on my 5th book now, Jack and Jill.

So as of the end of June, I've read 36 books that total 12,836 pages. (That's actual text pages, not superfluous blank pages fore and aft.) I've read more than that, but don't count the pages until I finish the book... and I'm languishing in the middle of a half dozen or so. Actually, I'm leaving tomorrow for a 4 day trip & am bringing two I've stutter-stepped through that must be finished before I get to one of my other two I'm also bringing! The book of poems, however, can be read whenever.

Considering I only read two rather short books in April, I'm doing alright. Also, this month alone I read 4,456 pages! Crazy! That's what happens when you reread the last four Harry Potter books back-to-back I suppose (in less than a week).

My only clear goal has been to make the 50 book goal of last year that I missed by two. But I thought I'd do the pages as we talked about to see what I came up with...

I think the good part about wanting to accomplish much but not having clearly defined goals has been that I feel more free to read what I like when I like again, and also that I am more motivated in some ways because I just want to see how much I can actually do (while still living a full life). Sort of like the time I decided to go to as many of the home hockey games as I could in a season. I only missed 3 - sick for 1, holidays for 2. Never thought I'd have that experience (and I certainly won't ever again) - but it was a blast and I'm so glad I went for it!

I'm rambling. Sorry!

Barbara, I love that you have a theme to your lists and goals for the year. I will definitely have to try that next year. :)

I'm doing alright on my goal for the year. Now that summer's here, I am enjoying the freedom to lounge and catch up on my reading. On my trip, I got to read Bourne Identity and North and South. Now, I'm feeling adventuresome and I think I'm going to tackle Anna karenina. Who knows how that will go? I'm just excited to be back in the states and for it to be summertime. :)

Barbara and Michele - thank you for your suggestions! I've read and enjoyed Room with a View. (perhaps should re-read with this trip in mind so that I can catalogue the intersections between my sightseeing and literary milestones!)

Michele - I'd love your suggestions on pizza, people watching, gelato, but I'm not sure I'll have much say in our itenerary. you see, this is a really a painting trip for my husband and 2 other artists, so I expect to spend lots of time tagging along in the countryside, looking at gorgeous vistas... reading ... maybe with a little picnic basket and a bottle of wine in tow! we'll be based in Diecimo, taking daytrips to Florence, Piza, the coast, and random picturesque spots that lend themselves to being captured on canvas!

we are very fortunate to be traveling with friends who know the area well, but that probably means we'll wind up at the places that they think are best - which is really fine with me, since Italy has always been a place that caused me a little trepidation in terms of driving, language, etc. They are taking care of all the things that worried me, freeing me up to fall in love with the place, right?!

My goal is to read the books I own and get rid of the ones I don't like enough to read again. But I keep reading the books that I'm really wanting to read, rather than the ones I own but am not too excited about. My fear is that I'm not going to end up getting rid of any books!

As for my reading goals, after that month with like 11 huge books in it, I then went down to 5 and again down to only 2! But just last week I read two books which brought last month's count back up to 5... Don't know that I'll make it to 11 this month, but I'm back to it a bit more. So much of it depends on exactly WHAT I'm reading. Some things just can't be ingested fast. Others, it's the only way! (And yes, my mood at the time as well as life stresses play a part in just how much I do read.)

Anyway, feeling good because I'm still ahead in the books-to-weeks ratio... and I am still counting pages - keeping a record. Very curious what that adds up to at the end of the year!

Erin, I lived in Florence for a year. I could give you info on some great places to... whatever... the best pizza or gelato places in the city; the best place and time to actually see locals hanging out; all sorts of things. Let me know. As for reading, I bought a copy and read Room with a View while living just off of Piazza Santa Croce, which is where a major event takes place. I have other books, but that one was significant because of the situation. (Great book, too.)

Since school has gotten out for the summer, I'm definitely getting more reading done. But it's still not as much as I'd like to do because I have work during the day (where I do homework) and class at night. I'm trucking along though, I've read 7 books since sometime in April.

Erin wrote: "Barabara - I'm headed to Tuscany next week and would love your recomendation on your favorite fiction relating to that region!" Lucky you!!! We had a rental farmhouse in Buonconvento, outside Siena for 2 weeks and day tripped all over. I loved the obvious "Room With a View (Forester), Up At The Villa (Somerset Maugham), Golden Bowl (James), My House in Umbria (Wm Trevor) and The Rosetti Letter actually Venice by Christi Phillips and the Guido Brunetti books by Donna Leon (also Venice but the food is wonderful in them!) Don't miss reading Much Ado About Nothing (filmed outside Greve (in the Chianti area). Obviously, after watching Under The Tuscan Sun, I reread the book and thought it as a novel and wished to buy my own house. Romeo and Juliet (filmed in Pienza), and my 2 favorites, Enchanted April (Von Arnim) and Playing For Pizza (John Grisham, yes Grisham, just a fun book, nothing like all the lawyer books I also love). A good book for all kinds of ideas is Italy Fever (Darlene Marwitz, lists ideas, movies, books, memoir and pre-travel companion). I also liked Imperium (Harris), actually ancient Rome but fascinationg along with all of the Colleen McCullough's. In NF I loved Marlene de Blasi's Thousand Days books, Phil Doran's Reluctant Tuscan and especially Michael Tucker's Living in a Foreign Language and both of Ferenc Mate's books.
Goodness, I could do it all over again for our next visit (early May 2010). Have fun and I can't wait to hear about it!!! Ciao!

Barabara - I'm headed to Tuscany next week and would love your recomendation on your favorite fiction relating to that region!

I am new to the group and had not really planned on how may books I was going to get to this year. And that was odd, because I usually do have a goal of some sort or other. Last year was all books relating to Italy (bio, novel, travel, NF, author, whatever, it had to relate to Italy, 75) What fun that was, made our trip to Tuscany so much more rewarding. My husband thought that I would n changing topics for 2009, but when he found me with pen and pad in hand in a bookstore in Siena he just sighed!

This is the new author year and favorite author year. There are always things I never got to (like finishing off Austen, McCullough and Rutherford) and new classic authors that never seemed to find their way onto my shelves (I just finished Somerset Maugham) so I plan to try Evelyn Waugh and Margaret Atwood. I just now that I will NOT now and NEVER read another Doris Lessing (gag me, Golden Notebook!!!) or William Faulkner (worst college course I ever took Southern Literature).

I constantly have to reexamine my goals and make them more realistic!

Meghan wrote: "Barbara, I have the same problem with nonfiction (which is why so much of my languishing shelf is nf). I figure with nf, I can stop anytime because I've learned something no matter how much I read,..."

Love it when the goals get more "realistic" :-) I set one to finish each month this year...so far, 0 for 0. But I've finished so many others...........

Barbara, I have the same problem with nonfiction (which is why so much of my languishing shelf is nf). I figure with nf, I can stop anytime because I've learned something no matter how much I read, right? Right?

Last year, I tried to read one nf book/month, but they just all ended up on my languishing shelf (it's why I created one). This year, I just have the goal of finishing one languishing book as part of my summer reading.

I've done pretty well with my reading since school has gotten out. I really hope I'm able to keep up this pace because it feels like I'm accomplishing something. I read Love in the Time of Cholera technically in a week, but only because I had to take 3 days off to visit my grandparents and move home for the summer. So really it was in 4 days. And I'm almost finished with The Rum Diary in 3 days.

I'm happy about this and I hope the trend keeps up.

Nice to see you posting here, Barbara!

I love the idea of a "languishing shelf"! It's my "to-finish" shelf on here but it's one section of the real shelf by the bed. It's populated most by non-fiction; I seem to lose interest by half to 2-thirds the way through. Whatever curiosity drew me in the first place is usually satisfied by that point and it's not like I'm driven to "see how it ends" so...there it sits. My goal this year was to finish one a month...uh, hasn't happened yet!

Btw, I'm a 1st-time poster but have enjoyed reading the dialogue for a couple months now.

Dini, They start having little episodes and adventures, but it does take a little wihle for that to get started.

I'm so mad at myself! I have become so trained to go to bed at a certain time that it's difficult for me to stay up late to read. I need to break this habit, but I also don't want to sleep any later.

Lori, re: Huck Finn, I guess I felt a little bored because Huck and Jim kept on floating on the river, unlike in Tom Sawyer where he and Huck had different adventures. Of course it's also related to my moods, once I switched to other books it's hard to come back to the 'languishing' book. But I definitely want to finish it... just don't know when.

I need to do some work on my shelves and come up with clever names...

Meghan! The instant I'm on here when it's not four in the morning I've creating a "languishing" shelf!! ADORE it. I like clever names... for instance I have a shelf for books I want to get which is called "iwantitnowdaddy" (from the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). So much more interesting that "to get." :D

Now, good night for heaven's sake!!

I recently moved almost all of my books home for the summer. While organizing them, I removed almost all of the bookmarks so that I will start fresh with them (I don't much remember where I was anyway) when I get around to them. The bottom line is that I need to create a languishing shelf! If I get into a good stride with reading and school, maybe I can make it a goal to finish a languishing book every other/every couple of months.

Dini, Any idea what is holding you up with Huck Finn? Hemingway said that all of American literature comes from Huck. I liked it a lot when I read it (and I even HAD to read it for class).

Meghan -- the idea of a 'languishing' shelf is hilarious! I myself have been languishing Huckleberry Finn for quite a few months now...

whichwaydidshego? wrote: "Vera wrote: "I just breathe-through some books, and get stuck on others. And I hate to give up on books even if I don't like them, so I just struggle to the end."

I totally get that, Vera... I'm o..."

me too! i even have a shelf labeled "languishing" for those books i haven't given up on, but haven't picked up in ages. maybe my goal is to finish at least one of the books on that shelf by the end of the year!

last year, i set a goal to read at least one nonfiction book a month, but i only made it until march before quitting. i haven't set any goals this year, and i'm just reading as much as i can for fun.

What's really bizarre is all the books I've set down I still know exactly where I am, so though I haven't read Our Mutual Friend since fall of 2006, I know I'm at Lizzie Hexam's and Eugene has just come by to visit her and Jenny.

Yep, same here! I especially get stuck with self-help/motivational books. They always sound so good, but just can't keep my interest.