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 in 2008 was less successful, but we have now finished cataloguing our 3,405 books! ... Just in time to move house again. :-}
| 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 | |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | Lucy A. Snyder, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, and other oddities |
| Lafcadio Hearn, Oriental Ghost Stories | |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | Charles Webb, The Graduate |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | Charles Bukowski, Post Office |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30 | |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | Ian Banks, Raw Spirit |
| Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming, Devil May Care | |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet |
| Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union | |
| Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | |
| Håkan Nesser, The Return | |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | Stieg Larsson, The Girl who Played With Fire |
| Stieg Larsson, The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest | |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Kurt Vonnegut, A man without a country |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | Geoffrey Willans & Ronald Searle, The Compleet Molesworth |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive |
| Elizabeth Garner, The Ingenious Edgar Jones | |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 | Richard Aldington, Death of a Hero |
| Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time |