This year I made great progress on my “required”reading. I am shooting to read 100 books on a list I found. The list is of books that you should read for college, but I seemed to have missed a lot of them. I started this in 2007 with hopes of reading 10 books a year, and then maybe more. I kicked butt this year! So here is the list, with a rating listed.
| Rating | Title | Author |
| ** | Complete Poems | Sandburg, Carl |
| ** | Complete Poems | Keats, John |
| *** | A Streetcar Named Desire | Williams, Tennessee |
| *** | The Power of Myth | Campbell, Joseph |
| * | Silent Spring | Carson, Rachel |
| **** | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Angelou, Maya |
| **** | Animal Farm | Orwell, George |
| *** | Favorite Folktales From Around the World | Yolen, Jane |
| **** | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Franklin, Benjamin |
| **** | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander |
| * | Catch-22 | Heller, Joseph |
| **** | Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury, Ray |
| *** | A Testament Of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King Jr. | King, Martin Luther, Jr. |
| ***** | Little Women | Alcott, Louisa M. |
| **** | The Great Gatsby | Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| *** | Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession | Terkel, Studs |
| ** | As I Lay Dying | Faulkner, William |
| **** | The Ox-Bow Incident | Clark, Walter Van Tilburg |
| **** | My Antonia | Cather, Willa |
| *** | Selected Poems | Cummings, E.E. |
| ** | Death of a Salesman | Miller, Arthur |
| ***** | The Story of My Life | Keller, Helen |
| *** | Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World | Maybury-Lewis, David |
| **** | The Jungle | Sinclair, Upton |
| * | White Shroud | Ginsberg, Allen |
| **** | A Death in the Family | Agee, James |
| *** | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Brown, Dee |
| *** | A Passage to India | Forster, E.M. |
| *** | The Color Purple | Walker, Alice |
| ** | Long Day’s Journey Into Night | O’Neill, Eugene |
| *** | My House | Giovanni, Nikki |
| *** | Mother Courage and Her Children | Brecht, Bertolt |
| **** | The Time Machine | Wells, H.G. |
For those counting I read 33 books, approximately 10,500 pages or 320 pages per book. The hardest to get through were the poetry. But I made it through. I don’t know if I will do as well next year. At this point I have read 66 of the 100 on the list. So, maybe 3 more years. We’ll see.
Oh, and my favorite “fun” reads of the year:
| Title | Author |
| The Thief (series) | Turner, Megan Whalen |
| Fablehaven (series) | Mull, Brandon |
| Skipping Christmas | Grisham, John |
| The Westing Game | Raskin, Ellen |
| Tom Sawyer | Twain, Mark |
I’m looking forward to the new year. Time to sit down and make my list.
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