This year I read 46 books… well, I guess “read” is kind of inaccurate, since I’ve been “reading” a lot of audiobooks, mostly while exercising. In the list below, the audiobooks have an asterisk. If you subtract those, I really read 32 books, which is still not too shabby.
Standouts for me this year were Waking up in Eden, Bossypants, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which were all biographies/memoirs. I recommend Bossypants on audio because Tina Fey reads it herself and it’s super funny. Waking up in Eden is about a woman who gave everything up and moved to Kauai. What a dream! And The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a great science read but also just really a great telling of how mistreated this woman and her family were.
For fiction, Before I Go to Sleep, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, and The Kitchen House were all books I could not put down or stop reading/listening to. I recommend each of them. I got caught up in two series this year: The True Blood series and the Hunger Games series. I enjoyed both of them. Hunger Games is 3 books geared towards tweens. Very quick reads for adults. The True Blood series is one I didn’t come close to finishing and don’t feel the need to. I think I’ve had enough of it.
This year and last year I got caught up in a few books that I didn’t really enjoy but spent a lot of time on. Last year I had a few I tried and tried to read and never finished. This year I had a few I finished just to finish. Maybe a goal for 2012: If I read a half of a book and I don’t like it, just walk away! I have such a hard time with this, but there are so many great books out there! Why should I be wasting precious time on things I don’t enjoy?
Here’s what I read in past years:
- 2010: 39 books
- 2009: 34 books
- 2008: 31 books
- 2007: 21 books
- 2006: 28 books
- 2005: 24 books
- 2004: 31 books
Here are all of the books I read in 2011:
finished 12.29.11 |
finished 12.16.11 |
finished 12.6.11** |
finished 11.30.11 |
finished 11.18.11 |
finished 10.27.11 |
finished 10.15.11** |
finished 10.09.11 |
finished 09.30.11 |
finished 09.26.11** |
finished 09.25.11 |
finished 09.06.11 |
finished 08.05.11 |
finished 8.31.11** |
finished 08.31.11 |
finished 08.30.11** |
finished 08.19.11** |
finished 08.09.11** |
finished 08.01.11** |
finished 07.22.11 |
finished 07.13.11** |
finished 07.05.11** |
finished 06.25.11 |
finished 06.17.11 |
finished 06.09.11 |
finished 06.07.11** |
finished 06.04.11 |
finished 06.03.11 |
finished 05.24.11 |
finished 05.14.11 |
finished 05.08.11** |
finished 05.04.11 |
finished 04.22.11 |
finished 04.11.11** |
finished 04.08.11 |
finished 04.06.11 |
finished 03.30.11 |
finished 03.24.11 |
finished 03.17.11 |
finished 03.07.11 |
finished 03.04.11 |
finished 02.28.11 |
finished 02.16.11 |
finished 02.08.11 |
finished 01.29.11 |
finished 01.21.11** |