Read 100 Books in one year

1. God’s Creatures: A Biblical View of Animals – Susan Bulanda
2. Made to Crave – Lysa Terkeurst
3. Common Sense for Board Members – Edgar Stoesz
4. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins

1. Sin in the Second City – Karen Allen
2. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
4. The Silver Chair – CS Lewis
5. The Last Battle – CS Lewis
6. Forgotten God – Francis Chan
7. The Lottery and Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
8. Why Dogs Eat Poo… – Francesca Gould
9. Get Fuzzy: The Dog is Not a Toy – Darby Conley
10. Get Fuzzy 2: Fuzzy Logic – Darby Conley
11. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
12. Dawn – Elie Wiesel
13. Day – Elie Wiesel
14. My Life in France – Julia Child
15. Out of the Silent Planet – CS Lewis
16. Perelandra – CS Lewis
17. Bossypants – Tina Fey
18. The Management Methods of Jesus – Bob Briner
19. I Like You: Entertaining Under the Influence – Amy Sedaris
20. That Hideous Strength – CS Lewis
21. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox – Maggie OFarrell
22. Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the 21st Century – Thomas Wolf
23. Restoring At-Risk Communities – edited by John M. Perkins
24. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth – Fee and Stuart
25. Grasping God’s Word – Duvall and Hays
26. Sidewalks in the Kingdom – Eric O. Jacobsen
27. Heaven is for Real – Todd Burpo
28. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
29. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
30. Prince Caspian – CS Lewis
31. Voyage of the Dawn Treader – CS Lewis
32. Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations – Michael Allison and Jude Kaye
33. The Silver Chair – CS Lewis
34. The Horse and His Boy – CS Lewis
35. The Magician’s Nephew – CS Lewis
36. The Last Battle – CS Lewis
37. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? – Mindy Kaling
38. My Antonia – Willa Cather

1. The Penal Colony – Franz Kafka
2. I Am America (and So Can You!) – Stephen Colbert
3. Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane
4. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
5. The Alchemy of Air – Thomas Hager
6. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints – Dito Montiel
7. Therese Raquin – Emile Zola
8. The Case for Easter – Lee Strobel
9. Through Painted Deserts – Donald Miller
10. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare – GK Chesterton
11. Harry the Dirty Dog – Gene Zion
12. Harry and the Lady Next Door – Gene Zion
13. The Magus – John Fowles
14. Bible
15. The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
16. The Collector – John Fowles
17. Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour, An Introduction – JD Salinger
18. Winesburg, OH – Sherwood Anderson
19. A Separate Peace – John Knowles
20. The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
21. Night – Elie Wiesel
22. A Concise Biography of Adolf Hitler – Thomas Fuchs
23. 100 Selected Poems – e.e. cummings
24. Changeling – Delia Sherman
25. The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
26. April in Paris – Michael Wallner
27. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
28. Another River, Another Town – John P. Irwin
29. A Man For All Seasons – Robert Bolt
30. The Star Observer’s Guide – St. Martin’s Press
31. Eight Tales of Terror – Edgar Allan Poe

1. Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
2. Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
4. 84 Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
5. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street – Helene Hanff
6. Q’s Legacy – Helene Hanff
7. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
8. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling (rereading)
10. The Devil in the White City – Eric Larson
11. Moral Disorder – Margaret Atwood
12. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
13. Sky Burial – Xinran
14. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
15. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
16. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
17. Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
18. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
19. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
20. All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris
21. From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris
22. Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris
23. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
24. Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Boogers… – Francesca Gould
25. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
26. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
27. Smile When You’re Lying – Chuck Thompson
28. City of Thieves – David Benioff
29. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
30. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – Judy Blume

1. Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
2. Howards End – EM Forster
3. The Boxcar Children #1 ? Gertrude Chandler Warner (I know, it’s a kids’s book, but I LOVED it when I was young and I had to reread it)
4. Perfume – Patrick Suskind
5. Maria – Maria Von Trapp
6. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
7. The Magician’s Nephew – CS
8. Two for the Dough – Janet Evanovich
9. It’s a Wonderful Lie – ed. Emily Franklin
10. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
11. The Horse and His Boy – CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian – CS Lewis
13. No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July
14. The Voyage of the Dawntreader – CS Lewis
15. Skinny Bitch – Rory Freeman and Kim Barnouin
16. Submarine – Joe Dunthorne
17. Mortified – David Nadelberg
18. The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester
19. The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
20. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
21. New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
22. The Doubtful Guest – Edward Gorey
23. The Willowdale Handcar – Edward Gorey
24. The other Statue – Edward Gorey
25. The Object-Lesson – Edward Gorey
26. The Iron Tonic – Edward Gorey
27. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
28. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
29. Human Monsters – David Everitt

Well, not 100, but much better than 2007. 2009 will be my year, I can feel it! :)

I’m definitely not getting to 100 by December 31. But, I now know how to pace myself so that I can get thru 100 by December 31, 2008.

15. Wicked – Gregory Maguire

Surprisingly, I got some reading done on vacation!

13. One For the Money – Janet Evanovich
14. Collected Short Stories – Graham Greene

10. The Fall – Albert Camus
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
12. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

A retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche.
This is a wonderful book. In general, I enjoy C.S. Lewis and his thoughts on life, religion, etc. I tried to read this book a few years ago and couldn’t get through it for some reason.
This time, it was compelling. I enjoyed the myth told from the ugly sister’s point of view.
Another good book…perhaps I’m too generous in these mini-reviews. Or I’m easy to please!

If you’re not familiar with Flannery O’Connor, she write mostly short stories. She has two novels that were included in this book, along with 9 short stories.
She writes about religious fanatics and life and relationships in the South in the 40’s and 50’s. O’Connor’s writings are dark and powerful and she has a wonderful sense of irony in her stories. I definitely recommend reading her. Very intense and fierce.