My Year of Reading - A List

Oh, how the time does fly! I can't believe it's been almost three months since my last blog post. It's not like I haven't been reading interesting books or haven't had interesting ideas for blog posts. I just haven't been making the time for writing, and I have no excuses for it except laziness and procrastination. Reading is about the only thing that I don't procrastinate in doing.

I read 46 books this year plus half of two others. I could only bear half of American Gods, and I'm halfway finished with Middlemarch, which I will finish in the next week or so. My list is below.

Book club selections

1. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
   
2. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
   
3. Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
   
4. The Hour Between by Sebastian Stuart
   
5. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
6. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
7. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
8. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
10. Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer

Other books I chose to read:

1. The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
   
2. The Likeness by Tana French
3. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
4. Diamond Dust & Other Stories by Anita Desai
5. Innocent Blood by P.D. James
6. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
7. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
8. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (only read 1/2)
9. Middlemarch by George Eliot (still reading, half finished)

Kids/young adult books:

1. Matched by Ally Condie
2. Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
   
3. Nothing by Janne Teller
   
4. True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
5. The Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
   
6. Burnout by Rebecca Donner
   
7. Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald
   
8. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
9. Kendra by Coe Booth
10. You by Charles Benoit
    
11. Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
12. Pedro and Me by Judd Winick
    
13. Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castelucci
14. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
15. Out of Mind by Sharon Draper
16. Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
17. On Pointe by Lorie Ann Grover
    
18. Liar by Justine Larbalestier
19. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
    
20. Debbie Harry Sings in French by Meagan Brothers
    
21. All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg
    
22. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
    
23. Ruined: A Ghost Story by Paula Morris
    
24. Thirteen Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman
    
25. The War at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks
    
26. The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan
    
27. Fancy White Trash by Marjetta Geerling
    
28. Understanding the Holy Land by Mitch Frank
    
29. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Hopefully, I'll find the time this week to blog about which were my most favorite and least favorite reads as well as my reading plans for the new year. For now, though, I'm going to bed to continue my reading of Middlemarch, which I'm thoroughly enjoying. Later.