okay, so i just now realized why jessica does 52 books in a year. there are 52 weeks in a year. yeah, i am awful at math... and equations? bad excuse! so i have upped the ante. i will attempt to read 52 books this coming year--one for each week. i may fudge, however, and start my year early.
along with reading all of these books, i plan to journal (if not publically, then for myself) about how each book affected me, and my thoughts of it. i hope, at the end of several years, to have a wonderful collection of thoughts and references.
my list so far:
(already owned...)
a thousand splendid suns (halfway done) - hosseini
good omens (3/4 of the way finished) - gaiman
the tipping point (halfway done) - gladwell
pride and prejudice and zombies (halfway done) - grahame
the brothers karamazov (halfway done) - dostoevsky
life of pi - martel
emma - austen
persuasion - austen
everything is illuminated - foer
the poisionwood bible - kingsolver
the red badge of courage - crane
republic - plato
jane eyre -bronte
the count of monte cristo -dumas
confessions of an economic hitman - perkins
eat, pray, love - gilbert
the long goodbye - chandler
kite runner - hosseini
rule of the bone - banks
the sweet hereafter - banks
i am the cheese - cormier
(need to buy...)
the zookeeper's wife - ackerman
the satanic verses - rushdie
the time traveler's wife - niffenegger
now, i know i have asked 1,000 times... but what else should i add? please comment! if you are feeling shy, feel free to leave out your name. i am in NEED of good reads.
i like to read most all types of books. i am big on the classics. i love stories that move me, make me angry, or give me a completely new perspective on something i would never have had a chance to come into contact with in my own life. i prefer fiction over non-fiction--but am willing to pick up a good non-fiction. i enjoy historical fiction. i like sci-fi--but mostly in a star trek way. i am open for nearly everything. give it to me!!!
thank you.
17 comments:
woo!!! it's a lot of work (way more than i thought it was going to be!) but so worth it. i've read so much great stuff this year. my year-end wrap up will have recommendations! :)
i think i need a challenge! otherwise i read nothing. it is a sad, sad thing. i am excited for your wrap-up!
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
thanks larissa!!! will add it. bam!
i'll leave mine in bunches, but first, :
Foer will publish his first book of non-fiction, Eating Animals, on November 2, 2009. Foer said that he had long been "uncertain about how I felt [about eating meat]", and that the birth of his first child inspired "an urgency because I would have to make decisions on his behalf". The book will intersperse that personal narrative with a more "broad argument" about vegetarianism.
i did not know this, i must find.
52 books - amazing. i couldn't pull it off, but i've been thinking i might set a goal of 26 (that's one for every two weeks, lindsay. haha :) )
if you haven't already read them: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) and Geek Love (Katherine Dunn).
hehe, thanks for the math help. i like the idea of 26! do it!!!
i don't think i have read never let me go, but justin made me read geek love (one of his faves too) and it was pretty good.
thanks brittany!
heather- i think that would be interesting! i think justin would want to read that too. hmm...
I have The Zookeepers Wife, you can borrow! It's decent...I expected more ;) Sarah's Key ended up being pretty good as well as Lucky!
that was the book i remember you recommending, and i never heard how good sarah's key actually turned out to be from you. so now i know! added! thanks! and borrowing would be lovely. i promise i AM a good giver-backer. we'll need to schedule a drop-off hang-out.
For sure...I've misplaced an awful lot lately but I know where my books are :) I prefer Sarah's Key to the Zookeepers wife...it's written well!
haha, i like someone who values their books! alright, so sarah's key it is for sure! thanks!
others people have added via facebook:
'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'
She's Come Undone
I Know this Much is True
Ender's Game
The Way the Crow Flies
Bel Canto
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Hunger Games
Peace Like a River
if these have been posted, i apologize, i took a quick glance but i am now almost the age of death and might have missed them. i'll think of more later too.
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle.
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Rieman.
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami or Norwegian Wood.
Alva & Irva by Edward Carey.
You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem - has one of my favorite book quotes.
I think you should read Irvine Welsh's books. Start with Trainspotting - it's great. I've been reading Freakonomics and loving it so far. Just some thoughts. I should try 52 books in a year.. sounds like a neat challenge.
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