Read 100 Books in one year

Not off to a great start for 2009. This is going to be a painfully busy year, involving a cross-country move and the necessary rebuilding of my life that will follow.

Maybe in 2010.

I’d be happy with 50 this year.

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

lol I’m a pretty slow reader. haha It might take me a few years to actually get this right. To date, I think the most books I’ve read in a year was 35 and that was when I was unemployed. Now that I have a job, I read much less. :’( I’m encouraged in remembering one summer in high school when I read 15 books in a month and a half. (most of the Anita Blake series and a couple others.) If I could read at that pace again, by some miracle, I’d have no problem. But these days, I’m lucky if I get one or two done in a month. haha
I’ve got a ton of books I’ve bought with the money from said job, now I just have to read them.

Just FYI, if you like action/horror/vampires/romance.. the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton goes by really fast and there’s 16 of them now. That’s a nice chunk off the list. The more recent ones are pretty racy, though, so proceed with caution.

This is going to be one of my goals for 2009. I just finished my 2008 goal of 50 new books in one year.

Start date: November 27, 2008

1. Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
2. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
3. In The Stars – Stacia Deutsch & Rhody Cohon
4. Crush Du Jour – Micol Ostow
5. Love, Hollywood Style – P.J. Ruditis
6. Something Borrowed – Catherine Hapka
7. Labor of Love – Rachel Hawthorne
8. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do – Niki Burnham, Terri Clark, Ellen Hopkins, and Lynda Sandoval
9. Love That Dog – Sharon Creech
10. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (School)
11. Granny Torelli Makes Soup – Sharon Creech
12. Heartbeat – Sharon Creech
13. Hate That Cat – Sharon Creech
14. Prom Crashers – Erin Downing
15. Orange is the New Pink – Nina Malkin
16. Multiple Bles8ings – Jon & Kate Gosselin
17. Stop Pretending: what happened when my big sister went crazy – Sonya Sones
18. Geek Magnet: a novel in five acts – Kieran Scott
19. Miles To Go – Miley Cyrus
20. Audrey, Wait! – Robin Benway

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 want to read 100 books in one year, but i want them to be great books worth ready.

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

I read 100 books on one year! Yay!!!! I feel satisfied.

Surprisingly, I got some reading done on vacation!

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