Books 2011

I love to read and this year I’m determined to read at least 52 books – one a week – in an effort to rekindle a passion for words that suffers because of the usual complaints … You know the ones: I don’t have time, I’m too busy, etc.

Included in this list are books I’ve read related to my studies (marked *) and books I’ve read for enjoyment. Not all of the books I read for study make it onto this list as there is a large pile of reference material sitting on my desk, but books I’ve re-read and regularly refer back to have been added while ones I skim through and read selected chapters from have been left out.

If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment! I love a challenge and I am working on reading things outside my usual repertoir!

1. The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick*
2. Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve*
3. Web of Air by Philip Reeve*
4. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson*
5. Extras by Scott Westerfeld*
6. The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin
7. No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
8. Wanting by Richard Flanagan
9. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
10. Room by Emma Donoghue
11. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
12. Ecocriticism by Greg Garrard*
13. Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction by Robyn McCallum*
14. Evil Seed by Joanne Harris
15. The Environmental Imagination by Lawrence Buell*
16. Writing for an Endangered World by Lawrence Buell*
17. The Future of Environmental Criticism by Lawrence Buell*
18. Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature by Roberta Seelinger Trites*
19. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
20. The Ghost’s Child by Sonya Hartnett
21. Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
22. The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld
23. Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
24. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
25. Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney
26. Beastly by Alex Flinn
27. A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn
28. Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo
29. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
30. Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
31. Beauty by Robin McKinley
32. The Fall by Garth Nix
33. The Castle by Garth Nix
34. Aenir by Garth Nix
35. Magician by Raymond E. Feist
36. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
37. The Fiftieth Gate by Mark Raphael Baker
38. Literary Theory by Jonathan Culler*
39. Tinkers by Paul Harding
40. Deerskin by Robin McKinley
41. Scrivener’s Moon by Philip Reeve
42. Matched by Allie Condie
43. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
44. The Solemn Lantern Maker by Merlinda Bobis
45. Pegasus by Robin McKinley
46. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
47. Chalice by Robin McKinley
48. The Magician’s Guild by Trudi Canavan
49. The Novice by Trudi Canavan
50. The High Lord by Trudi Canavan
51. Little Ice Cream Boy by Jacques Pauw
52. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

52 books and it’s only September! Given that 12 (did I count that correctly?) are Uni books, I’m going to aim to get through at least 12 more books before December 31st that aren’t related to my studies. The plot thickens …

1. Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers
2. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
4. Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst
5. The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
6. The Winner Stands Alone by Paulo Coelho
7. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
8. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
9. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
10. Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
11. The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer
12. I Came to say Goodbye by Caroline Overington
13. Tithe by Holly Black
14. Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody
15. The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody
16. Ashling by Isobelle Carmody
17. Forgotten by Cat Patrick
18. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
19. The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
20. Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
21. Crossed by Ally Condie
22. Eve by Anna Carey
23. Royal Exile by Fiona McIntosh
24. Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
25. The Fiction Class by Susan Breen
26. Incognito by Claire Carmichael
27. The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
28. Skinned by Robin Wasserman
29. Crashed by Robin Wasserman
30. Wired by Robin Wasserman
31. The Famished Road by Ben Okri
32. The Keepers and the Kept by Terry Boylan

84 books in 12 months – hurrah! I far exceed my goal of 52 books in a year … I wonder what 2012 will bring …