For the last 2 years, I've kept a website with a list of the books I read each year. This year, I read 33. Not nearly as much as I would have liked, but my knitting/crocheting obsession takes up a lot of time around November/December.
Here is my list from 2010.
And my list from 2009.
Good news is I read more in 2010 than in 2009.
My goal for 2011? Even more! Let's see...30 in 2009, 33 in 2010. How about 40 in 2011? Done!
One of the things I learned this year, is to stop reading books that I'm not enjoying. I used to feel obliged to finish a book once I'd started. But I've realized that I read for pleasure, for escape, for fun, for thrill, for learning. What's the point in reading something that I'm not having fun reading? No point. So, in 2010, I think there were probably 5 or so books that I started, didn't finish, and therefore did not put on the list. And I feel a lot less guilty about not finishing a book now that I frequent the Uptown Branch of the Chicago Public Library!
And my favorites of 2010? There's a few (in the order in which I read them):
2. The Shadow of the Wind -- by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
3. The Forgotten Garden -- by Kate Morton
5. The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -- by Ann Shaffer & Annie Borrows
16, 17, 18. The Millennium Trilogy -- by Stieg Larsson
28. Juliet -- Anne Fortier
30, 31, 32. three novels by Sarah Addison Allen
33. The Distant Hours -- by Kate Morton
One of my other reading plans for 2011? Try to read other books by authors that I already love!
What did you read and love in 2010?
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