Target: 100+
Running total: (fiction: , non-fiction: )
Ebooks:
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.
2012 saw me dividing my time between work (4 days a week) and toddler-wrangling (every other hour available). Despite this, I managed to fit in quite a lot of books. This year shouldn't be any more difficult!
A note on dates: I only add a book when I've actually finished it; if it looks like I've read an implausible number of books in a week, it's probably just that I've had several books on the go at once and finished them all in the same week.
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Sean Hughes, It's What He Would Have Wanted |
| Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods | |
| P. D. James, Death Comes to Pemberley | |
| P. D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | P. D. James, Innocent Blood |
| P. D. James, The Skull Beneath the Skin | |
| Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be At This Hour? | |
| P. D. James, The Murder Room | |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | P. D. James, The Black Tower |
| Alan Garner, The Stone Book Quartet | |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Michael Innes, Operation Pax |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | Agatha Christie, The Big Four |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | P. D. James, Devices and Desires |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | Chuck Palahniuk, Non-Fiction |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Agatha Christie, Detectives |
| Barbara Pym, Some Tame Gazelle | |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction |
| Meg Rosoff, Just in Case | |
| P. D. James, A Certain Justice | |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | Hanif Kureishi, The Word and the Bomb |
| P. D. James, Death in Holy Orders | |
| Charlie Higson, By Royal Command | |
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | |
| May 7 - May 13 | |
| May 14 - May 20 | Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night |
| May 21 - May 27 | Chris Brookmyre, Where the Bodies are Buried |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | Various authors, I'm with the bears: short stories from a damaged planet |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | Bernhard Schlink, The Reader |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves |
| Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved | |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games |
| Jo Nesbø, Phantom | |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | John Buchan, Huntingtower |
| Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate | |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | G. K. Chesterton, The Complete Father Brown Mysteries |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | Anonymous, The Pearl |
| Andrew Lane, Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud | |
| Alexander McCall Smith, Precious and the Monkeys | |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | Kevin Crossley-Holland, Outsiders |
| P. D. James, Original Sin | |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30 | Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain |
| Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise | |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | Stephen King, On Writing |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command |
| Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island | |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour |
| Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World | |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | Patrick O'Brian, The Reverse of the Medal |
| Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque | |
| Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute | |
| Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation | |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | Patrick O'Brian, Clarissa Oakes |
| Patrick O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea | |
| Patrick O'Brian, The Commodore | |
| Patrick O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral | |
| Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days | |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen |
| P. D. James, A Mind to Murder | |
| P. D. James, Shroud for a Nightingale | |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna |
| Philippa Gregory, Virgin Earth | |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | Jessica Pine, Just a Small Town Girl |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | Jessica Pine, Held |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 |