Target: 100+
Running total: (fiction: , non-fiction: )
Ebooks:
Week: 52
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.
Last year saw a slight increase on the previous year, but that was partly because of discovering both P. D. James and Patrick O'Brian, and possibly because of reading more ebooks (not so much because they're more portable, as because they're downloadable at times when I wouldn't otherwise have a book with me or be able to buy one).
This year I have a short list of books I'd like to make sure I read (though I'll still probably mostly be guided by whim and happenstance and the recommendations of friends):
The last two were Christmas presents, so I really have to read them this year, though I think I still have a couple I haven't read from last Christmas's presents... I also got a book subscription as a Christmas present from Owen this year, so I'll be reading the monthly books (modern fiction) from that as well. Should keep me busy!
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | P. D. James, A Taste for Death |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Bunmi Laditan, The Honest Toddler: a child's guide to parenting |
| Maggie O'Farrell, Instructions for a Heatwave | |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | C. S. Forester, Mr Midshipman Hornblower |
| Philippa Gregory, Earthly Joys | |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street |
| Alison Uttley, Lavender Shoes: Eight Tales of Enchantment | |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Nikolay Gogol, The Overcoat |
| Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved | |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | Beatrix Potter, The Fairy Caravan |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | |
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | Agatha Christie, Problem at Pollensa Bay |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | Sarah Dunant, Blood and Beauty |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | Esther Freud, Hideous Kinky |
| May 7 - May 13 | Jessica Pine, Rock 'n' Roll Girlfriend |
| May 14 - May 20 | Kathleen Tessaro, The Perfume Collector |
| Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Underground | |
| Tamora Pierce, Tortall and Other Lands: a collection of tales | |
| Susan Hill, The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read | |
| Susan Scarlett (Noel Streatfeild), Ten Way Street | |
| May 21 - May 27 | Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground |
| Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London | |
| Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho | |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | Robert Lee Hall, Exit Sherlock Holmes |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes |
| Rick Gekowski, Outside of a Dog: a bibliomemoir | |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Louis Golding, Adventures in Living Dangerously |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended and other stories |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | James Herriot, Every Living Thing |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | Jessica Pine, Rock 'n' Roll Girlfriend |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | Evelyn Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | Dossie Easton & Janet W. Hardy, The New Topping Book |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes for Anna |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30 | Steven Brust, My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | Joss Whedon / Brett Matthews, Serenity: Those Left Behind |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | Zack Whedon / Georges Jeanty, Serenity: Leaves on the Wind |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | Joss Whedon et al, Serenity: Better Days and other stories |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Zack Whedon / Chris Samnee, Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | Michael Chabon, Maps & Legends: reading and writing along the borderlands |
| Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy, The Ethical Slut: a practical guide to polyamory, open relationships and other adventures | |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | Jonathan Meades, Filthy English |
| J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey | |
| Stephanie Milton et al., Minecraft: The official beginner's handbook | |
| Peter Dickinson, A Bone from a Dry Sea | |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 | David Nicholls, Starter for Ten |
| Avery Aames, Lost and Fondue | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest | |
| George R. R. Martin, Dying of the Light | |
| Vikram Seth, Beastly Tales | |
| Haruki Murakami, After the Quake | |
| Stephin Merritt, 100 two-letter words | |
| Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation | |
| E. F. Benson, Queen Lucia |