Target: 100+
Running total: (fiction: , non-fiction: , ebooks: )
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 I barely made it to 'a book a week' (even counting all the Serenity comics) and I think the reasons for that were 1) work, and 2) Candy Crush. This year I plan to be better at time-management, and actually read 'Underworld' (and get to bed early, go jogging, and eat more kale*).
* not really
Week | Book(s) read |
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Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Dick King-Smith, Happy Mouseday |
Robert Robinson, Landscape with Dead Dons | |
Jan 8 - Jan 14 | J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters / Seymour: an Introduction |
Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Jonathan Coe, 9th & 13th |
Marcus Sedgwick, Blood Red Snow White | |
Anthony Horowitz, The House of Silk | |
Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half | |
Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness | |
Jan 22 - Jan 28 | William Goldman, The Princess Bride |
Jan 29 - Feb 4 | Andrew Martin, The Necropolis Railway |
Feb 5 - Feb 11 | |
Feb 12 - Feb 18 | Joss Whedon, Firefly - The Official Companion (Volume 1) |
Feb 19 - Feb 25 | Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Dimsie Grows Up |
Leslie Charteris, The Saint Intervenes | |
Dorothy L. Sayers, Striding Folly | |
Feb 26 - Mar 4 | Leslie Charteris, The Saint in Europe |
Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Joss Whedon, Firefly - The Official Companion (Volume 2) |
John Buchan, The Gap in the Curtain | |
Mar 12 - Mar 18 | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Two Sams at the Chalet School |
Mar 19 - Mar 25 | Helen McClelland, The Chalet School Companion |
Mar 26 - Apr 1 | |
Apr 2 - Apr 8 | |
Apr 9 - Apr 15 | |
Apr 16 - Apr 22 | |
Apr 23 - Apr 29 | |
Apr 30 - May 6 | |
May 7 - May 13 | Françoise Sagan, Those Without Shadows |
May 14 - May 20 | Mavis Doriel Hay, Death on the Cherwell |
May 21 - May 27 | |
May 28 - Jun 3 | |
Jun 4 - Jun 10 | |
Jun 11 - Jun 17 | Françoise Sagan, The Heart-Keeper |
Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Jessica Pine, Rock and Roll Scandal |
Jessica Pine, Rock and Roll Boss | |
Jun 25 - Jul 1 | Mary Webb, Precious Bane |
Jul 2 - Jul 8 | |
Jul 9 - Jul 15 | |
Jul 16 - Jul 22 | Jo Nesbo, The Son |
Jul 23 - Jul 29 | |
Jul 30 - Aug 5 | Garth Nix, Sabriel |
Aug 6 - Aug 12 | |
Aug 13 - Aug 19 | Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution |
Aug 20 - Aug 26 | Anthony Horovitz, Alex Rider: Russian Roulette |
Aug 27 - Sep 2 | |
Sep 3 - Sep 9 | |
Sep 10 - Sep 16 | Anna Roberts, A Box Full of Ashes |
Sep 17 - Sep 23 | |
Sep 24 - Sep 30 | |
Oct 1 - Oct 7 | Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe |
Oct 8 - Oct 14 | |
Oct 15 - Oct 21 | Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle |
Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly | |
Oct 22 - Oct 28 | Philip Reeve, No Such Thing as Dragons |
F. W. Farrar, Eric, or Little by Little | |
Oct 29 - Nov 4 | |
Nov 5 - Nov 11 | Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents |
Nov 12 - Nov 18 | |
Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Gene Kim et al, The Phoenix Project |
Kenneth Grahame, Dream Days | |
Nov 26 - Dec 2 | Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel |
Dec 3 - Dec 9 | |
Dec 10 - Dec 16 | |
Dec 17 - Dec 23 | Kenji Miyazawa, The Restaurant of Many Orders and other stories |
Dec 24 - Dec 31 | Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám |
Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth | |
Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling | |
Kim Newman, The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange |