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?

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.

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

- Fiction -

The Road

Interpreter of Maladies

The Senator's Wife

Annie Dunne

Last Night at the Lobster