Target: 100+
Running total: (fiction: , non-fiction: )
Week:
Several years ago I decided that I would do my utmost to read a book a week, because I felt like I was getting out of the habit of reading new things and I thought that having a goal to aim for would help. The effort paid off, and it's something I've kept up (off and on) ever since -- it encourages me to read more widely, and it helps me to justify to myself the vast quantities of books that I buy.
In 2008 I made a resolution to read War and Peace and Ulysses before I was 30. I didn't quite succeed in finishing Ulysses before my 30th birthday, but I did finish both books. Our resolution to finish cataloguing all our books on LibraryThing was less successful (we're over 2000 books now, but that's probably only about 2/3 of the way through...).
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Ben Goldacre, Bad Science |
| George Monbiot, Heat: How to stop the planet burning | |
| Bernard Williams, Morality | |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Jenny Downham, Before I Die |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Iris Murdoch, A Word Child |
| Brigid Brophy, The King of a Rainy Country | |
| Toni Morrison, Sula | |
| John Buchan, The Power-House | |
| Anthony Trollope, The Warden | |
| John Grisham, The Firm | |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Mayer Hillman, How We Can Save The Planet |
| Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent | |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | Michael Coveney, Cats on a Chandelier |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves |
| Fawcett Primary School, The Wishing Eel | |
| Alessandro Baricco, Silk | |
| Patrick McGrath, Dr Haggard's Disease | |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | William Newton, The Two Pound Tram |
| Amin Maalouf, The First Century After Beatrice | |
| Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip | |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | Jan Morris, Conundrum |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Nick Hornby, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree |
| Kingsley Amis, You Can't Do Both | |
| Haruki Murakami, After the Quake | |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | Luis Fernando Verissimo, Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utan |
| Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare | |
| Margaret Atwood, The Tent | |
| Frederick Covins, The Battle for Badger's Wood | |
| Christina Rossetti, Commonplace | |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | Simon May, Atomic Sushi |
| Dolph Sharp, Ludwig von Wolfgang Vulture | |
| Elizabeth Taylor, The Devastating Boys | |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter |
| Barbara Comyns, Sisters by a River | |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | George R. R. Martin, The Armageddon Rag |
| Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden | |
| Anna Funder, Stasiland | |
| Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales | |
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | Samuel Beckett, The Lost Ones |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | Ian Oswald & Kirstine Adam, Get A Better Night's Sleep |
| Jake Poller, Reach | |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | Jan Mark (ed.), School Stories |
| William Shakespeare / Emma Vieceli, Hamlet (Manga Shakespeare) | |
| Woodrow Phoenix, Rumble Strip | |
| May 7 - May 13 | Mary Cadogan and Patricia Craig, You're a Brick, Angela! : The Girls' Story 1839-1985 |
| Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, Phonogram: Rue Britannia | |
| May 14 - May 20 | Christopher Brookmyre, Country of the Blind |
| Gillian Avery, The Warden's Niece | |
| Christopher Brookmyre, A Snowball in Hell | |
| May 21 - May 27 | Sandy Balfour, A Clue to Our Lives: 80 Years of the Guardian Crossword |
| Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Dimsie Among the Prefects | |
| Mike Carey, Thicker Than Water | |
| Sam Savage, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife | |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | Erica Jong, Fear of Flying |
| Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City | |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun |
| Haruki Murakami, What I talk about when I talk about running | |
| Michael Chabon, The Final Solution | |
| Ernest Thompson Seton, Old Silver-Grizzle the Badger, and other stories | |
| Evelyn Waugh, Scoop | |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Andrew Smith, Moondust: in search of the men who fell to earth |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | James F. Fixx, The Complete Book of Running |
| Patricia Highsmith, Carol |