Library

52 Books in 52 Weeks

I've read 13 books in 2010. This is week 10 of 52, so I am ahead of my goal.

In 2009, I exceeded my goal of reading 52 books in 52 weeks. The final count was 60 books. According to one program I use to track my reading, I read a total of 21,718 pages.

Previous years: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

Currently Reading (2):

Leviathan Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
Tags: adventure, Austria, Europe, fantasy, steampunk, World War I, YA
Started 9th March 2010
Clockers Clockers
by Richard Price
Tags: crack, crime, drugs, homicide, mystery, police, thriller
Started 26th February 2010

Books Read in 2010 (13):

13. Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer
Tags: adventure, Artemis Fowl, criminal, fairies, fantasy, library book, YA
Finished 10th March 2010. Rated 7 out of 10.
12. Making Money Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Tags: currency, discworld, fantasy, government, humor, mint, satire, thief
Finished 9th March 2010. Rated 8 out of 10.
11. Cloud Atlas Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Tags: interlocking stories, novellas, post-modern, scifi
Finished 25th February 2010. Rated 10 out of 10.
10. Neuromancer Neuromancer by William Gibson
Tags: classic, cyberpunk, cyberspace, scifi, thief, thriller
Finished 12th February 2010. Rated 9 out of 10.
9. Reheated Cabbage: Tales of Chemical Degeneration Reheated Cabbage: Tales of Chemical Degeneration by Irvine Welsh
Tags: comedy, satire, Scotland, short stories
Finished 5th February 2010. Rated 8 out of 10.
8. No Dominion No Dominion by Charlie Huston
Tags: crime, Joe Pitt, library book, thriller, vampyres
Finished 1st February 2010. Rated 8 out of 10.
7. Beat the Reaper Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Tags: assasin, comedy, crime, hospital, intern, mafia, murder, thriller
Finished 23rd January 2010. Rated 10 out of 10.
6. How I Became a Famous Novelist How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
Tags: bestseller, comedy, library book, novelist, publishing, satire
Finished 20th January 2010. Rated 9 out of 10.
4. You Don’t Love Me Yet You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
Tags: art installation, comedy, complaints, musicians, romance
Finished 17th January 2010. Rated 8 out of 10.
3. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
Tags: adventure, Artemis Fowl, audiobook, criminal, fairies, fantasy, YA
Finished 15th January 2010. Rated 8 out of 10.
2. City of Ashes City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
Tags: library book, monsters, Mortal Instruments, undead, vampires, werewolves
Finished 15th January 2010. Rated 7 out of 10.
1. Bright Lights, Big City Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Tags: 1980s, cocaine, decadence, editor, library book, magazine, New York City
Finished 12th January 2010. Rated 10 out of 10.

Unread Books (231):

999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense Brave New World The Three Musketeers House of Sand and Fog Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Interview with the Vampire The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I The Time Traveler’s Wife Running with Scissors: A Memoir The Fountainhead Christine Falls The Chronicles of Narnia The Carl Hiaasen Omnibus The Forest of Hands and Teeth Dead By Day Dead in Dixie The Little Country The Onion Girl Spirits in the Wires Great Expectations The Hidden Family The Clan Corporate The Merchants’ War Perdido Street Station The Cheese Monkeys The Extremes Weaveworld Passage The Road No Country for Old Men The Basic Eight Children of Chaos High Society (Cerebus, Volume 2) Otherness Foundation’s Triumph Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama On Directing Film Naked When You Are Engulfed in Flames Odd Thomas Forever Odd Fire and Hemlock I Capture the Castle Earthchild Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs The Gnostic Gospels The Privilege of the Sword The TV Writer’s Workshop Cuba Libre Mr. Paradise Freaky Deaky At Swim-Two-Birds Crime and Punishment The Magicians and Mrs. Quent Lake Wobegon Days Wlt Storeys from the Old Hotel Peace Sword & Citadel A Storm of Swords A Feast for Crows Fletch’s Fortune Fletch’s Moxie Fletch and the Man Who Flynn Son of Fletch The Buck Passes Flynn Memoirs of an Invisible Man Vellum: The Book of All Hours Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, The Dangerous Visions : The 35th Anniversary Edition Bill, the Galactic hero Dance Dance Dance A Wild Sheep Chase The Elephant Vanishes: Stories Memory of Fire (The World Gates, Book 1) If on a winter’s night a traveler Franny and Zooey The Crystal World, Crash, Concrete Island The Lord of the Rings The Identity Matrix Kushiel’s Chosen Kushiel’s Avatar Kushiel’s Scion Banewreaker: Volume I of The Sundering Kushiel’s Justice Kushiel’s Mercy All The Bells on Earth Through Wolf’s Eyes (Wolf, Book 1) The Age of Grief Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next Novels) Mainspring No Exit and Three Other Plays Middlesex The Snow Queen The Book of Lost Things: A Novel Three Novels: The Deep, Engine Summer, and Beasts The Solitudes Absolute Friends Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy A Murder of Quality The Spy Who Came in From the Cold After Silence The Marriage of Sticks Glass Soup Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Dark Mirror: Book One of the Bridei Chronicles Silver Screen Selling Out Sun of Suns Not the End of the World Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time: A Novel Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 Poison Study (Study, Book 1) London Fields The Pillowman: A Play Burning Water (Diana Tregarde Investigation) Titus Groan Gormenghast Titus Alone Count Geiger’s Blues Summerland: A Novel Cornelius Chronicles Bones of the Earth Vanishing Point The Master and Margarita His Majesty’s Dragon The Confusion The System of the World Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders The Children of Men Moon Called The Talented Mr. Ripley The Gift The New York Trilogy The Tourmaline Bliss The Unteleported Man (aka Lies, Inc.) The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Deus Irae: A Novel The Penultimate Truth: A Novel The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) The Book of Kells The Long Goodbye Blaze I Am Legend The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories Rats Saw God Stranger in a Strange Land Friday Outward Bound Rollback The Company The Bourne Identity The Sigma Protocol The Man in The Maze Assassin’s Apprentice Ship of Magic The First Chronicles of Amber Dies the Fire (Roc Science Fiction) Midnight’s Children Dhalgren The Ruins Mystic and Rider Archangel The Lottery: And Other Stories We Have Always Lived in the Castle The Haunting of Hill House The Shining From a Buick 8 : A Novel Christine (Signet) Dolores Claiborne Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story Salem’s Lot Cell: A Novel The Regulators The Bachman Books Lisey’s Story The Dark Half Four Past Midnight The Host The Sea Came in at Midnight To Reign in Hell: A Novel Reflex Getting Away With It, Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories Biting the Sun The Wee Free Men A Hat Full of Sky McSweeney’s Issue 20 McSweeney’s Issue 21 The Better of McSweeney’s, Volume 1 McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales McSweeney’s Issue 11 McSweeney’s Issue 12 McSweeney’s Issue 14 McSweeney’s Issue 15 McSweeney’s Issue 16 McSweeney’s Issue 18 McSweeney’s Issue 19 Declare The Drawing of the Dark Fault Lines: Expiration Date and Earthquake Weather The Stress of Her Regard Gilligan’s Wake: A Novel Walker of Worlds Earth, Air, Fire and Custard Skinny Legs and All Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Tom Stoppard: Plays 5 In Cold Blood The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana The Island of the Day Before Shadows Over Baker Street The Tombs of Atuan The Farthest Shore Tehanu A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) Spook Country Idoru Vanity Fair Credo Without Feathers On Beauty