Showing posts with label favorite books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label favorite books. Show all posts

Monday, July 26, 2010

mid year review

Not sure why, but it seems like a good time to take stock of my reading so far in 2010. Back in January, I read about the book a week idea. I liked the idea and have been committed to reading at this pace. It looks like I will definitely reach a goal of reading at least 52 books this year if I continue what I've been doing.

A quick check of the year's progress to this point reveals:

  • I've read 38 books
  • I've listened to one book (Making Toast)
  • I've read one graphic-style book (Fun Home)
  • Fiction: 18
  • Nonfiction: 21

Stand outs:

  • The Financial Lives of the Poets
  • Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It
  • Fun Home
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  • American Rust
  • Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog
  • Brooklyn
  • The Spare Room
  • Unaccustomed Earth
  • The Suicide Index
  • Stuff - Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
  • One Day

How's your year coming along?

Friday, January 1, 2010

Best of 2009

Here are my favorite books read in 2009:

- Fiction -

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout

The Believers by Zoe Heller

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Honorable Mentions:
"The Women" & "The Tortilla Curtain" both by T.C. Boyle


- Nonfiction -

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
by Nick Reding

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks by Robin Romm

That Went Well: Adventures in Caring for My Sister
by Terrell Harris Dougan

Note: If you like end-of-the-year-best-of lists, there is a comprehensive list of the lists at largehearted boy.

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Thursday, January 8, 2009

The Best of 2008

- Nonfiction -

Infidel

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Three Cups of Tea

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

A Three Dog Life

Honorable mention: The Middle Place

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Fiction -

The Road

Interpreter of Maladies

The Senator's Wife

Annie Dunne

Last Night at the Lobster