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Books read, 2011.

For the past five years, I’ve tried to read 52 books in a year. And while I made it the first two years, the past two years I’d stalled out right around 48 or so (to be fair though, I was reading books like Anna Karenina and Infinite Jest in 2009, both of which are close to one million pages long). Anyway, the point is that I actually made it to 53 this year, and even included some long reads in there. So, for one day I feel good and like I accomplished something. That day was yesterday. Now I’m back to feeling like a nerd who has too many books going at once (4) and will never possibly finish any/all of them. I think I’ll make 2012 about reading big books I’m embarrassed to have never read (Moby Dick, In Search of Lost Time, etc) instead of shooting for 52 yet again. Do you hear that, 52 books in a year? YOU BORE ME NOW.

Here’s a list of the 53 books I read in 2011, in order:

  1. Great House - Nicole Krauss
  2. The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
  3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest - Steig Larrson
  4. Fame - Daniel Kehlmann
  5. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays - Zadie Smith
  6. Half a Life - Darrin Strauss
  7. And Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
  8. The Humbling - Philip Roth
  9. That Old Cape Magic - Richard Russo
  10. The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning - Ernest Kurtz
  11. Carver: A Writer’s Life - Carol Sklenicka
  12. The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
  13. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
  14. Union Atlantic - Adam Haslett
  15. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
  16. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  17. Morning, Noon, and Night: Life’s Stages Through Literature - Arnold Weinstein
  18. Good Soliders - David Finkel
  19. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  20. Schopenhauer’s Porcupines - Deborah Ann Leupnitz
  21. Nothing Was the Same - Kay Redfield Jamison
  22. Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Sheytagart
  23. The Case for God - Karen Armstrong
  24. Point Omega - Don Delillo
  25. Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis
  26. The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner
  27. The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
  28. Object Relations Therapy - Sheldon Cashden
  29. Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
  30. Shadow Tag - Louise Erdrich
  31. The Imp of the Mind - Dr. Lee Baer
  32. Incognito: Secret Lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
  33. Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
  34. Bright’s Passage - Josh Ritter
  35. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
  36. The Bedwetter - Sarah Silverman
  37. The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
  38. Fathers and Daughters and the Changing American Family - Dr. Peggy Drexler
  39. Attached - Dr. Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
  40. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
  41. A First Rate Madness - Dr. Nassir Ghaemi
  42. Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
  43. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
  44. Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
  45. Momma and The Meaning of Life - Irvin Yalom
  46. Taking the Leap - Pema Chodron
  47. The Pain Chronicles - Melanie Therstrom
  48. By Nightfall - Michael Cunningham
  49. Girl With Curious Hair - David Foster Wallace
  50. Neurosis and Human Growth - Karen Horney
  51. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl
  52. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage - Elizabeth Gilbert
  53. The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James

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  1. parasols said: Moby Dick is on my list for this year too!
  2. eireannmarie reblogged this from sometimesagreatnotion
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  4. ub14 said: inspiring!
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  6. michelle-said said: Oh! I got your card. Thank you!
  7. redsirocco said: this is an interesting idea, though i’m not sure i’d push for one a week personally. i generally like a little time to digest between books, if possible.
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