Friday, January 01, 2010

Reading Resolutions

I was planning on making an unofficial resolution to read 52 books in 2010 - one a week. And if I had time, I would blog about the books as I read them.

Out of curiosity, I looked back at the books that I read in 2009 to see how many I read. After reviewing my online BookShelf and tallying them up, I discovered that I had actually read 60 books last year, so I'm thinking that 52 books is kind of a low resolution.

60) Heaven
59) One True Thing
58) The Middle Place
57) The Virgin Suicides
56) The Schopenhauer Cure
55) Julie and Julia
54) Farm City
53) Traveling Mercies
52) The Glass Castle
51) Always Looking Up
50) A Long Way Gone
49) The Help
48) A Grief Observed
47) The Road
46) Left to Tell
45) How Capitalism Saved America
44) Beautiful Boy
43) Blue Like Jazz
42) Honeymoon with my Brother
41) Sorrows of an American
40) The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
39) Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant
38) Good Dog. Stay.
37) World Made by Hand
36) The Sex Lives of Cannibals
35) Things I Want My Daughters to Know
34) Love and Respect
33) See You in a Hundred Years
32) The Geography of Bliss
31) Queen of the Road
30) The Year of Living Biblically
29) The Time Traveler's Wife
28) Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook
27) Scratch Beginnings
26) Tweak
25) This I Believe
24) Three Cups of Tea
23) unChristian
22) Buyology
21) The House on Sugar Beach
20) The Memory Keeper's Daughter
19) Loving Frank
18) The Knitting Circle
17) Deep Survival
16) The Forgotten Man
15) The Alchemist
14) The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted
13) Internal Combustion
12) Hinds Feet on High Places
11) The Rise of the Creative Class
10) 365 Nights
9) Outliers
8) Letter to a Christian Nation
7) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
6) Forbes Great Success Stories
5) Quiet Strength
4) Many Waters
3) Live What You Love
2) Notes From a Small Island
1) Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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