This is another project I did in 2010 that I loved. I really enjoy the arts and crafts, too but reading has a special place in my heart. So for 2011 I decided to continue my “a book a week” goal. Some weeks I won’t get to finish it and that’s ok but I know that I will read a whole lot more if I set this goal.
Here is my current list of 2011 books. They’re alphabetically sorted and you’ll see most of them are fiction. Some are young adult. Some are nonfiction. Some are from last year and some are new. I might only read a few on this list or many, it doesn’t matter, the idea is just to have a starting point.
- Ape House
- Before I Fall
- Before You Know Kindness
- By Nightfall
- Catching Fire
- cutting for stone
- Department of Lost & Found
- elsewhere
- Empire Falls
- Fly Away Home
- Flying Lessons
- Freedom
- Good Omens
- Graceling
- labor day
- Let’s Take the Long Way Home
- Linchpin
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
- Man in the Woods
- Mary and O’Neill
- Mockingjay
- My Name Is Memory
- Ozma of Oz/Road to Oz
- Private Life
- Raising Jake
- Room
- Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk?
- stiff
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Big Short
- The Castaways
- The Coral Thief?
- The Devil in the White City
- The Distant Hours
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- The Imperfectionists
- The Magicians
- The Maze Runner
- The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz
- The Sea
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- the unit
- the unnamed
- the whole world over
- the writing circle
- What I talk about when I talk about Running
- What I Wish I Knew when I was 20
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- World Without End
Here’s to another year of high quality reading. As always, if you have suggestions please leave comments. Last year, I read a lot of the suggested books and loved them.
Little Bee was one of my favorites last year, also Countdown by Deborah Wiles about the Cuban missile crisis (teen fiction) and Theodore Boon, Kid Lawyer by John Grisham. Happy Reading. 🙂
I read Little Bee but not the others you mention. I will check them out! thanks so much!!
I loved ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest’, infact I loved all three of these books. Enjoy!
i did too! just finished it 🙂
May I make a suggestion?
Malorie Blackman the noughts and crosses trilogy. Its kidult fiction but very thought provoking. I have bought myself a couple off your last year’s list. Next up to read phantom tollbooth
Is it a book I can read to my son? (he’s six) if not I’ll add it to my list, but if so, i can add it to our list 🙂
he is probably too young at 6. I think I would probably not let my children read it until 12. Some of the topics are a bit ‘grown up’
thank you! I will just add it to my own list then 🙂
do let me know if you read it and how you get on…..I would be interested to see if it translates across the pond
Great list! I will look forward to your reviews. After doing a book a week this past year, I am doing book titles A-Z, plus my monthly book club. I will be posting my list of planned titles later and that makes me very nervous! I guess I always want the flexibility to go off the path and not be locked in. If you can do it, I can do it! Happy 2011!
ooh I was wondering if you were planning on continuing for 2011. I am so glad you are!! What do you mean book titles A-Z? don’t feel locked in. Read what inspires you or what you enjoy. life’s short 🙂 and this is our time we spend for ourselves 🙂 can’t wait to see what you read!
Wow, your book list is extensive! Have you ever tried reading the Bible? I encourage you to giving it a try. It will touch your soul and change your life in a beautiful way. I have read it three times (in its entirety), and I am starting my fourth Bible reading journey in 2011. It’s the only book I read.
Loved Devil in the White City (and I hear there’s a movie coming out for it too)–just fascinating history there about the World Fair (other parts were morbid); also liked The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Are you on GoodReads.com? That’s where I keep my booklist – currently in progress and those I’m interested in. I get most of mine from the library, so not sure when I’ll get what I request–but it’s a delightful surprise.