read 104 books in 2009

I didn’t accomplish either part of this goal (104 books in 52 weeks, or 15 books in the last 26 weeks), but I’m still satisfied with the number of books I read this year. The point was to increase the number of books I read and I definitely did that. It’s probably more books than I had read in the five years before this year combined. When I was in school I used to devour books.. it feels good to be reading again.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

(best book EVER)

Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don’t Go To School Tell Their Own Stories
edited & with a foreword by Grace Llewellyn

A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted
by Will Bowen

The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom
by Mary Griffith

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah

Real-Life Homeschooling: The Stories of 21 Families Who Teach Their Children at Home
by Rhonda Barfield

The Other Mother: A Novel
by Gwendolen Gross

Money Changes Everything: Twenty-two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune
Edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell

Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief
by Dale McGowan, Molleen Matsumura, Amanda Metskas, and Jan Devor

Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
Edited by Dale McGowan
Foreword by Michael Shermer, Ph.D.