All right, I feel like a complete idiot. When I started this “required” reading list I found a list of 100 books you should read for college. I felt like I was making great progress until I started counting. I completed my 110th book from the list this year. Wait, shouldn’t it stop at 100? Then I finally looked at the list. Nope nothing about it just being 100 books. It looks like I still have about 50 to go. Hopefully it will go as good as this last year.
This year I completed 45 books on my “required” reading list, and then I read 58 “fun” reads. Grand total: 103 books and 31,173 pages. (Yep, I got a little anal about keeping track. I was really curious) So here’s the list of “required” books I waded through.
2010 Required Reading
| Would I Buy? | Title | Author |
| Totally | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Kesey, Ken |
| Nah | The Devil in the Shape of a Woman | Karlsen, Carol |
| Yes | The Autobiography of Malcom X | Malcom X, Alex Haley |
| Yes | The Ascent of Man | Bronowski, Jacob |
| Nope | No Exit | Sarte, Jean Paul |
| Ugh | The Tin Drum | Grass, Gunter |
| No | There are No Children Here | Kotlowitz, Alex |
| Nope | Poems | Wordsworth, William |
| Nope | Poems of Dylan Thomas | Thomas, Dylan |
| Yes | All Quiet on the Western Front | Remarque, Erich Maria |
| Nah | Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | Bellamy, Edward |
| Probably | Lord of the Flies | Golding, William |
| No | Brave New World | Huxley, Aldous |
| Yep | Growing Up | Baker, Russell |
| Ugh | The Living Planet: A Portrait of Earth | Attenborough, David |
| Nope | Selected Poems | Brooks, Gwendolyn |
| Would see again | Our Town | Wilder, Thornton |
| Totally | The Chosen | Potok, Chaim |
| Nope | Alistair Cooke’s America | Cooke, Alistair |
| Don’t know | The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust | Berenbaum, Michael |
| No way | The Origin of Species | Darwin, Charles |
| GAG!!! | The Cherry Orchard – play | Chekhov, Anton |
| Maybe | Selected Poems | Hughes, Langston |
| Totally | The Importance of Being Earnest | Wilde, Oscar |
| Nah | The Waste Land | Eliot, T.S. |
| Nope | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | Dorris, Michael |
| Don’t know | The Catcher in the Rye | Salinger, J.D. |
| Maybe | Like Water for Chocolate | Esquivel, Laura |
| Probably not | Things Fall Apart | Achebe, Chinua |
| Maybe | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Hurston, Zora Neale |
| Yes | To Destroy You is No Loss | Criddle, Jan, & Butt Mam, Teeda |
| Yes | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Dickinson, Emily |
| Nah | The Piano Lesson | Wilson, August |
| Yes | Thirteen Stories | Welty, Eudora |
| Nope | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James |
| Gag! | Born on the Fourth of July | Kovic, Ron |
| No | Waiting for Godot | Beckett, Samuel |
| Yep | The Poetry of Robert Frost | Frost, Robert |
| Nope | Days of Grace | Ashe, Arthur |
| Definitely | Friendly Shakespeare | Epstein, Norrie |
| Select Few | Shakespearean Plays |
Totally not writing all the “Fun” reads I had this year. But here are the ones I really liked:
2010 Fun Reading Sampling
| Title | Author |
| The Goose Girl (series) | Hale, Shannon |
| Hunger Games (series) | Collins, Suzanne |
| Percy Jackson (series) | Riordan, Rick |
| The Maze Runner (series) | Dashner, James |
| Just Ella | Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
| Courting of Miss Lancaster | Eden, Sarah M. |
| The Looking Glass Wars (series) | Beddor, Frank |
| Birthmarked | O’Brien, Carah M. |
| Ranger’s Apprentice(series) | Flanagan, John |
| Number the Stars/The Giver | Lowry, Lois |
| Becoming Queen Victoria | Williams, Kate |
| The Measure of a Lady | Gist, Deeanne |
| The Freedom Factor | Lund, Gerald |
Whew!! Can you believe I moved in the midst of all that reading? I’m looking forward to 2011, and hoping that I will finish my list, if not, get really, really close.
You are amazing. I didn't finish one book on my lifetime reading list last year. you are my inspiration!! and with three boys. i have no excuse.
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