Saturday, December 24, 2011

Reading Goal List for 2012

There are a lot of classics I haven't even touched so my list is going to lean heavily in that department. Please feel free to leave recommendations:

1. The Book of Negroes
2. Crime and Punishment
3. A Tale of Two Cities
4. Great Expectations
5. Madame Bovary (in French)
6. Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi
7. Something by Chabon...either The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay or the Yiddish Policemen's Union
8. The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
9. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (2011's Giller prize winner)
10. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
11. Of Mice and Men
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. War and Peace
14. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or Hitler's Scientists
15. The English Patient
16. Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy

It's going to be a heavy year in reading!!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Books read in 2011

Here's my list...wish it was longer!

1. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
2. Kids are Worth It by Barbara Coloroso
3. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
4. The Brother's Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
6. Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
7. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
8. The Entitlement Trap by Linda and Richard Eyre
9. The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
10. Sula by Toni Morrison
11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
12. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
13. An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
14. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
15. Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
16. hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

I think there may be more but I didn't keep very good track, will update if need be. The Russians were by far my favorite. And the Italian was amazing as usual.