Read 40 books in 2009

1) A Short History of Nearly Everything
2) Outliers
3) Anger
4) The Story of your Life
5) Night
6) The Tipping Point
7) Dream it. List it. Do it!
8) Ethan Frome
9) Wired for Survival
10) The Tao of Pooh
11) What’s Stopping YOU?
12) V for Vendetta
13) The Power of Now
14) The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for life
15) A New Earth
16) The Elements of Style
17) The Poetics
18) The Introvert Advantage
19) How the Mighty Fall
20) Budo Secrets
21) The Art of the Straight Razor Shave
22) The Miracle of Mindfulness
23) A General Theory of Love
24) Metamorphosis
25) Anthem
26) Our Story Begins
27) An Introduction to Classical Education
28) The Prophet
29) Understanding Comics
30) The Giver
31) The “I Give Up” Guide to Relationships
32) Shop Management
33) The Picture of Dorian Gray
34) Common Sense
35) Hunger
36) The Devil’s Dictionary
37) It Works
38) The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship
39) The Power of Creative Intelligence
40) The Anti-Christ

long way to go, but it’s summertime now and I should be getting a lot more reading time in! this is still do-able!

1. Murder, The Women’s Hope by Oskar Kokoschka (play)
2. Sancta Susanna by August Stramm (play)
3. Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (play)
5. Ithaka by Gottfried Benn (play)
6. Masses and Man by Ernst Toller (play)
7. From Morning to Midnight by …?
8. Bloodletting & Other Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lee
9. Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by… ?
10. A Pale View of Hills – Kazou Ishiguro
11. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
12. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (1859)
2. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (1937)
3. IT – Stephen King (1986)
4. L’ Analphabète – Agota Kristof (2004)
5. Teacher Man – Frank McCourt (2005)
6. The Call of the Wild – Jack London (1903)
7. Passenger to Frankfurt – Agatha Christie (1970)
8. Animal Farm – George Orwell (1945)
9. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie (1939)
10. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt (1996)
11. Le Petit Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (1943)
12. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne (1870)
13. Inferno – Dante (c.1315)
14. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman (1996)
15. Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway (1932)
16. The Wayward Tourist – Mark Twain (c.1895)
17. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie (1995)
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STATS

Mean year published = 1911
Median year published = 1943
Earliest year published = c.1315
Latest year published = 2005
Range of years published = approx. 690
Most read centuries = 20th (11), 19th (3), 21st (2)
Most read decades = 1930s (3), 1990s (3), 1940s (2), 2000s (2)
Most read authors = Agatha Christie (2), Frank McCourt (2)
Fiction/Non Fiction Split = 12 Fiction, 5 Non Fiction

So far I’m off to a slow start, but I’m almost done with the 3rd!

1) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Here’s a master list of the books i’ve finished for 2009:

1. Sellevision
By Augusten Burroughs

2. Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
By Robert P. Moses

3. Sea of Poppies
By Amitav Ghosh

4. Water For Elephants
By Sara Gruen

5. Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley

6. The White Tiger
By Aravind Adiga

7. Haweswater
By Sarah Hall

8. The House of the Spirits
By Isabel Allende

9. Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides

10. Tall Cool One
By Zoey Dean

11. Northanger Abbey
By Jane Austin

12. Along for the Ride
by Sarah Dessen

13. I Was Told There’d Be Cake
By Sloane Crosley

14. Dreams From My Father
By Barack Obama

15. Beneath a Marble Sky
By John Shors

16. Me Talk Pretty One Day
By David Sedaris

1. Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Just ordered three books:

Philip Caputo’s 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Viet Nam War.
Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life.
Brennan Manning’s The Ragamuffin Gospel.

Checked out from the library:
Studs Terkel The Good War.
John Pilgar Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism That Changed the World.