Update: 52 books in 52 weeks

At the beginning of 2012, one of my resolutions for the year was to read a book a week. It came right down to the wire, but I made it! Here’s the complete list of what was on my list this past year.

1. Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward
2. Sideways* – Rex Pickett
3. 44 – Jools Sinclair
4. The Help* – Kathryn Stockett
5. 44 Book 2 – Jools Sinclair
6. One Day – David Nicholls
7. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
8. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
9. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
10. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Steig Larsson
11. Endgame – Frank Brady
12. A Moveable Feast* – Anthony Bourdain (editor)
13. The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux
14. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World* – Haruki Murakami
15. Will Write For Food* – Dianne Jacob
16. Molokai* – Alan Brennert
17. 1Q84* – Haruki Murakami
18. The Paris Wife: A Novel* – Paula McClain
19. Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy – EL James
20. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
21. In Our Time – Ernest Hemingway
22. The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
23. Savages: A Novel*- Don Winslow
24. Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy – Susan Ray Schmidt
25. The Thong Also Rises – Jennifer Leo (editor)
26. The Mosquito Coast – Paul Theroux
27. Falling Off the Map* – Pico Iyer
28. Mafia Summer: A Novel – E Duke Vincent
29. The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka
30. All the Pretty Horses*- Cormack McCarthy
31. Fool Me Twice – Paul Levine
32. Dreams of Joy – Lisa See
33. The Trudeau Vector* – Juris Jurjevics
34. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table* – Ruth Reichl
35. Blood, Bones & Butter – Gabrielle Halmilton
36. Pono – Kaala Souza
37. Trauma Stewardship – Laura VanDernoot Lipsky
38. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkein
39. Bah, Humbug! – Heather Horrocks
40. Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
41. Mango Days* – Patty Smith
42. Oryx and Crake* – Margaret Atwood
43. The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
44. This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. Beloved* – Toni Morrison
46. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
47. The Last Days of Socrates – Plato
48. Etcetera – ee Cummings
49. Love: Ten Poems* – Pablo Neruda
50. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! – Dr. Suess
51. There’s No Such Place as Far Away – Richard Bach
52. The Little Prince* – Antoine de St. Exupery

The starred ones were my favorites… I’d love to hear your suggestions for 2013! What’s on your kindle/bookshelf/nightstand?

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8 Comments

  1. I adore this resolution. What a gift to yourself. I see a few on this list that I also read. And I’m with Christy, what were your favorites?

  2. OK I went back and starred my favorites… It’s hard to remember all of them but I think my top 5 overall (no particular order) would be The Paris Wife, 1Q84, Molokai, Beloved and The Moveable Feast collection of short stories. Will Write for Food was #1 for nonfiction – Diane Jacob’s workshop about food writing was what inspired me to start writing this blog. It’s a great resource. =)

  3. how was dreams of joy? i just read shanghai girls by lisa see and that was pretty good.
    molokai was so good! i was out reading it and was tearing up in the first couple chapters!

    1. I like Dreams of Joy a lot. I think shanghai girls is a prequel? I can’t remember now but I think I had that on my list to read too… Molokai was so interesting, I love historical fiction. His other one Honolulu is good too!

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