Last year I completed the very easy goal of reading fifty books in a year (barely...) and this year, it looks like it will much more difficult. I slacked off for a two or three month period (No comment) and am now hastily making it up.
I wanted 2010's results to be different in terms of quality; no more YA filth! Though I had created a detailed list, outlining everything to be read, I'm unable to follow it as it is one of the mourned victims of the Great Hard-drive Crash of February '10. So, I've been following some unspoken rules:
-More quality literature (this is where 1001 comes in)
-Pick from different time periods, not just modern works
-Select non-fiction pieces that complement my interest in politics
-Spend time on texts and genres I normally wouldn't be drawn to.
-No re-reads!
Unlike last year, I'm counting it as read in 2010 if I completed it in 2010, not started. Take that, Crime & Punishment! You're on this year's list (BETTER BE!).
We'll see, I suppose, how well that turned out. Here's the list so far, in no meaningful order:
Yellow- Goes along with "rules"
Red- Breaks "rules" :(
Blue= Breaks, but I'm not ~ashamed, was worth it
Breakfast of Champions
Sputnik Sweetheart
After the QuakeSo Yesterday
The Communist ManifestoMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Cat's Cradle
Enuma Elish
The Sirens of Titan
The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries #1)
The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries #2)
The Fury (The Vampire Diaries #3)
Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries #4)
The Rainbow
Two Treatises of Government
The Yellow Wallpaper
American Pastoral
Slaughter-House Five
Slaughter-House Five
A Modest Proposal
Death of Ivan Ilyich
Death of Ivan Ilyich
Things Fall Apart
The Professor's House
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Discovering Kwan Yin
Crime & Punishment
African Short Stories
A Quiet Life
The Age of Innocence
The Stranger
Tess of the D'urbervilles
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The White Tiger
Animal Farm
Daisy Miller
Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1)
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
Ignorance
Farewell Waltz
Identity
The Feast of the Goat
A Pale View of Hills
The Bitter Sea
A Personal Matter
Snow Country and Thousand Cranes (two novels in one binding)
The Plague
Up At The Villa
The Lace Reader - (Number 50)The Professor's House
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Discovering Kwan Yin
Crime & Punishment
African Short Stories
A Quiet Life
The Age of Innocence
Paper Towns
The Old Man and the SeaThe Stranger
Tess of the D'urbervilles
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The White Tiger
Animal Farm
Daisy Miller
Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1)
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
Ignorance
Farewell Waltz
Identity
The Feast of the Goat
A Pale View of Hills
The Bitter Sea
A Personal Matter
Snow Country and Thousand Cranes (two novels in one binding)
The Plague
Up At The Villa
Kitchen/Moonlight Shadow
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
The Fall
Death Comes For The Archbishop
Black Boy
Black Like Me
Wuthering Heights
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Facebook Effect
Immortal Beloved
The Lost Executioner
The Dark Divine
Twisted
At The Mountains of Madness
Immortal Beloved
The Lost Executioner
The Dark Divine
Twisted
At The Mountains of Madness
Re-reads (not counted in total)
Goddess Of Yesterday
