I read 111 books last year. It's almost May and I'm way behind this year. Can I catch up? Let's find out, shall we. . . 2011 January 1. Wishin' and Hopin' - Lamb 2. A Reliable Wife - Goolrick 3. Unbroken - Hillenbrand 4. The End of the World As We Know It - Goolrick 5. It Could Be Worse - Leve 6. Boomsday - Buckley 7. Moonlight Mile - Lehane 8. Great House by Krauss 9. Plum Spooky - Evanovich Feb. 10. Christmas Mourning - Maron 11. Ms. Hempel Chronicles - Bynum 12. Passage to India - Forster 13. Freedom - Franzen 14. Feed Me - Brown 15. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - Janzen 16. Ella Minnow Pea - Dunn 17. One Day - Nichols March 18. I Still Have It - Rudner 19. Killing Moon - Hogan 20. Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bryson 21. Hunger Games - Collins 22. I Know I Am, But What Are You - Bee 23. Big Stone Gap - Trigiani 24. Lamb - Moore 25. Between a Rock & A Hot Place - Jackson 26. Cheese Monkeys - Kidd 27. Visit From the Goon Squad - Egan 28. Dead & Gone - Harris April 29. Devil in the White City - Larson 30. Catching Fire - Collins 31. 3 Weeks to Say Goodbye - Box 32. Mockingjay - Collins 33. Quite a Year for Plums - White 34. Under the Dome - King 35. Election - Perrotta 36. Crunch Time - Davidson (Uh-oh! It's the end of April. I'm exactly 10 books behind last year. Did I do nothing but read in 2010?) May 37. Me of Little Faith - Black 38. When Autumn Leaves - Foster 39. Crawl Space - Graves 40. Dead in the Family -Harris 41. Red Azalea - Min 42. Watchmen - Moore/Gibbons 43. Heads You Lose - Lutz/Hayward 44. The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance - Baker 45. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party - Smith 46. Caleb's Crossing - Brooks 47. Death at Devil's Hole - Williams 48. Sovereign - Sansom June 49. The God Delusion - Dawkins 50. Jesus Land - Scheeres 51. Rico Slade... - Sands 52. The Emperor of All Maladies - Mukherjee 53. An Abundance of Katherines - Green 54. Bad Things Happen - Dolan 55. Valis - Dick 56. The Sisters Brothers - DeWitt 57. The Imperfectionists - Rachman 58. Serena - Rash July Aaa! The year is half over! I've caught up some - only 5 books behind last year at this time. 59. Deer Hunting With Jesus - Bageant 60. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran - Sheffield 61. American Gods - Gaiman 62. Muscle Memory - Lowe 63. Miss Peregrine's Home ...- Riggs 64. Case Histories - Atkinson 65. Johnny Got His Gun - Trumbo 66. Spooky Little Girl - Notaro 67. State of Wonder - Patchett 68. Great Expectations - Dickens August 69. Midnight Riot - Aaronovitch 70. Hi! I'm a Social Disease - Prunty 71. The Brothers K - Duncan 72. The Vegan Revolution with Zombies - Agranoff 73. Bullfighting - Doyle 74. Guide to the Birds of East Africa - Drayson 75. Black Hole Blues - Wensink 76. The Lonely Polygamist - Udall 77. The Red Garden - Hoffman 78. Savage Season - Lansdale 79. The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver 80. The Ghost Map - Johnson 81. Dead Reckoning - Harris September 82. The Leftovers - Perrotta 83. Kitchen - Yoshimoto 84. The Big Year - Obmascik 85. Summer World - Heinrich 86. 1984 - Orwell 87. The Messenger of Athens - Zouroudi 88. The Prospect of My Arrival - Okita 89. South of the Northeast Kingdom - Mamet 90. The World According to Monsanto - Robin 91. At Home - Bryson October 92. The Painted Bird - Kosinski 93. Betty - Simenon 94. Frankenstein - Shelley 95. The Night Circus - Morgenstern 96. The Family Fang - Wilson 97. Stiff - Roach 98. Survivor's Club - Sherwood 99. The Disspossessed - Le Guin 100.Rise Again - Tripp 101.October Dreams -Various 102.Dark Harvest - Partridge November 103.The Madonnnas of Leningrad - Dean 104.Packing For Mars - Roach 105.Wingnuts - Avlon 106.Chop Suey - Hutchinson 107.The Name of the Rose - Eco 108.The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex - Schaal 109.Thanksgiving Night - Bausch 110.An Inconvenient Amish Zombie... - Smucker December 111.Towing Jehovah - Morrow 112.When Elves Attack - Dorsey 113.The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood 114.Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Simonson 115.The Postman Always Rings Twice - Cain 116.The Infernals - Connolly 117.The Wheelman - Swierczynski
way behind this year. Can I catch up? Let's find
out, shall we. . .
2011
January
1. Wishin' and Hopin' - Lamb
2. A Reliable Wife - Goolrick
3. Unbroken - Hillenbrand
4. The End of the World As We Know It - Goolrick
5. It Could Be Worse - Leve
6. Boomsday - Buckley
7. Moonlight Mile - Lehane
8. Great House by Krauss
9. Plum Spooky - Evanovich
Feb.
10. Christmas Mourning - Maron
11. Ms. Hempel Chronicles - Bynum
12. Passage to India - Forster
13. Freedom - Franzen
14. Feed Me - Brown
15. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - Janzen
16. Ella Minnow Pea - Dunn
17. One Day - Nichols
March
18. I Still Have It - Rudner
19. Killing Moon - Hogan
20. Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bryson
21. Hunger Games - Collins
22. I Know I Am, But What Are You - Bee
23. Big Stone Gap - Trigiani
24. Lamb - Moore
25. Between a Rock & A Hot Place - Jackson
26. Cheese Monkeys - Kidd
27. Visit From the Goon Squad - Egan
28. Dead & Gone - Harris
April
29. Devil in the White City - Larson
30. Catching Fire - Collins
31. 3 Weeks to Say Goodbye - Box
32. Mockingjay - Collins
33. Quite a Year for Plums - White
34. Under the Dome - King
35. Election - Perrotta
36. Crunch Time - Davidson
(Uh-oh! It's the end of April. I'm exactly 10 books
behind last year. Did I do nothing but read in 2010?)
May
37. Me of Little Faith - Black
38. When Autumn Leaves - Foster
39. Crawl Space - Graves
40. Dead in the Family -Harris
41. Red Azalea - Min
42. Watchmen - Moore/Gibbons
43. Heads You Lose - Lutz/Hayward
44. The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance - Baker
45. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party - Smith
46. Caleb's Crossing - Brooks
47. Death at Devil's Hole - Williams
48. Sovereign - Sansom
June
49. The God Delusion - Dawkins
50. Jesus Land - Scheeres
51. Rico Slade... - Sands
52. The Emperor of All Maladies - Mukherjee
53. An Abundance of Katherines - Green
54. Bad Things Happen - Dolan
55. Valis - Dick
56. The Sisters Brothers - DeWitt
57. The Imperfectionists - Rachman
58. Serena - Rash
July
Aaa! The year is half over! I've caught up some - only 5 books behind last year at this time.
59. Deer Hunting With Jesus - Bageant
60. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran - Sheffield
61. American Gods - Gaiman
62. Muscle Memory - Lowe
63. Miss Peregrine's Home ...- Riggs
64. Case Histories - Atkinson
65. Johnny Got His Gun - Trumbo
66. Spooky Little Girl - Notaro
67. State of Wonder - Patchett
68. Great Expectations - Dickens
August
69. Midnight Riot - Aaronovitch
70. Hi! I'm a Social Disease - Prunty
71. The Brothers K - Duncan
72. The Vegan Revolution with Zombies - Agranoff
73. Bullfighting - Doyle
74. Guide to the Birds of East Africa - Drayson
75. Black Hole Blues - Wensink
76. The Lonely Polygamist - Udall
77. The Red Garden - Hoffman
78. Savage Season - Lansdale
79. The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
80. The Ghost Map - Johnson
81. Dead Reckoning - Harris
September
82. The Leftovers - Perrotta
83. Kitchen - Yoshimoto
84. The Big Year - Obmascik
85. Summer World - Heinrich
86. 1984 - Orwell
87. The Messenger of Athens - Zouroudi
88. The Prospect of My Arrival - Okita
89. South of the Northeast Kingdom - Mamet
90. The World According to Monsanto - Robin
91. At Home - Bryson
October
92. The Painted Bird - Kosinski
93. Betty - Simenon
94. Frankenstein - Shelley
95. The Night Circus - Morgenstern
96. The Family Fang - Wilson
97. Stiff - Roach
98. Survivor's Club - Sherwood
99. The Disspossessed - Le Guin
100.Rise Again - Tripp
101.October Dreams -Various
102.Dark Harvest - Partridge
November
103.The Madonnnas of Leningrad - Dean
104.Packing For Mars - Roach
105.Wingnuts - Avlon
106.Chop Suey - Hutchinson
107.The Name of the Rose - Eco
108.The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex - Schaal
109.Thanksgiving Night - Bausch
110.An Inconvenient Amish Zombie... - Smucker
December
111.Towing Jehovah - Morrow
112.When Elves Attack - Dorsey
113.The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
114.Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Simonson
115.The Postman Always Rings Twice - Cain
116.The Infernals - Connolly
117.The Wheelman - Swierczynski
Woo hoo! I did it!!!