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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |