I can’t believe its taken this long for me to upload the booklist. I fell down on the job in regards to my reading list last year. It is a sad state of affairs when a girl can’t sort herself out long enough to read fifteen non-school books.
So, this year I have decided that I will not fall down on the job! I will succeed! So, I’ve added a number of things that have been recommended to me in the past year (along with a number of things that my book group has selected) to last year’s list in order to come up with this year’s list. There is only one change I am making. Last year, Ivanhoe was on the list because I thought that was something I already owned. Turns out, what I own by Sir Walter Scott is actually Rob Roy.
It will be replacing Ivanhoe on the list this year.
So, starting with Last year’s books first:
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- Compassionate Carnivore by Catherine Friend
- On the Wealth of Nations by P.J. O’Rourke
- Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
- Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia
- The Eight By Katherine Neville
- Begin Anywhere by Frank Gianpietro
- The Horse, The Wheel and Language by David Anthony
- How Language Works by David Crystal
- The Ode Less Traveled by Stephen Fry
- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
- The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Farber
- Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount Jr.
- The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
- Ibid by Mark Dunne
- The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
- The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
- The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
- Speak by Laura Halse Anderson
- Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
- Jaws by Peter Benchley
- Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer
- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
- Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
- Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
- The Stuff of Thought by Stephen Pinker
And, then adding:
And, four more books to be determined. So, the rules are as they’ve always been. I can read whatever I want, on the list or not. But, I am challenged to make it through at least these 30 books. (Which, yes, I still realize, includes Ivanhoe.)
