January
●Wolf: The Lives of Jack London - James L. Haley
●Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
●Blindness - Jose Saramago
●Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems - Folger Shakespeare Library
●Apologetics for the 21st Century - Dr. Louis Markos
●Have A New Kid by Friday - Dr. Kevin Leman
●Bread Givers - Anzia Yezierska
February
●Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff
●Room - Emma Donoghue
●Restoring Beauty: The Good, The True and The Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis - Dr.Louis Markos
●The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
●Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
●Our Horses in Egypt - Rosalind Belben
●The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
March
●The Testament - John Grisham
●Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
●Crazy U - Andrew Ferguson
●Decision Points - George Bush
April/May/June
I didn't keep track - I was moving
July/August
●Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
●Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
●Running on Empty by Marshall Ulrich
●Unnatural Selection by Mara Hvistendahl
●The Churchills by Mary S. Lovell
●A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
●Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
●Night by Elie Weisel
●The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
September
●Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
●What Was She Thinking [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoe Heller
●Until Tuesday by Luis Montalvan
●My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
●The Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
●The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
●The Hours by Michael Cunningham
October
●War and Peace (Book One) by Leo Tolstoy
●Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
●A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
●The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
●The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal
November
●The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt
●Blue Nights by Joan Didion
●The Lost Hero and
●The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
●The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
●The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein
December
●Anne of Green Gables
●Anne of Avonlea
●Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud montgomery
●The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
●Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
●11-22-63 by Stephen King
●The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
That is 52 books in 2011. Respectable (considering the 3 months lost to an international move) and I don't think I could have fit another one in. Some were disappointments (but who cares about those). And then there were the great ones. The top five of 2011 ... and these will stick with me for a long time:
Blindness by Saramago
11-22-63 By King
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Clarke
The Night Circus by Morganstern
Catherine the Great by Massie
Except for Blindness, because it is just too disturbing, I would recommend these to anyone.
Goals for 2012 - and I know I always set goals that tend to be pie in the sky, but I am not the kind of person that is disappointed when I don't achieve them. I am proud to accomplish even a fraction of my reading goals. For example, I only read four of the classics that I had picked out for last year, but those were well worth it. And I finished Mrs. Dalloway! Which I never would have done without the goal to begin with. I am not the beat myself up kind of person ... just trying to get better and better.
But back to the goal ... its a big one. Are you ready?
One Shakespeare play per month. I know too little of the bard. Suggestions on where to begin?
2 comments:
I love your header photo! Where was it taken? I grew up in Calgary, Alberta so I'm assuming it is in the
Rockies.
Thanks for posting your book list. I love reading what other people are reading.
Sheila, the photo was taken in K-County. This photo was taken on our very first hike in the mountains on the way back from Chester Lake.
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