Books, 2011

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Goal: 100 books read by January 1^st, 2012

67/100 complete (as of 12/12/11)

28 Nonfiction
39 Fiction

January:
Callgirl, Jeannette Angell – 1/3
Church of Lies, Flora Jessop with Paul T. Brown – 1/12
Remembering Raquel, Vivian Vande Velde – 1/14
Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell – 1/22
Escape, Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer – 1/30
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, Rachel Simmons – 1/31
 
February:
The Book of Margery Kempe, Margery Kempe (translated by Lynn Staley) – 2/7
Triumph, Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer – 2/17
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen – 2/26
 
March:
Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag – 3/6
Fallout, Ellen Hopkins– 3/9
Ape House, Sara Gruen – 3/16
After the Stroke: A Journal, May Sarton – 3/18
Walks With Men, Ann Beattie – 3/27
 
April:
The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood – 4/2
World Made By Hand, James Howard Kunstler – 4/10
The Witch of Hebron, James Howard Kunstler – 4/17
Versed, Rae Armantrout – 4/29
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk – (reread) – 4/29
Bad Bridesmaid, Siri Agnell – 4/30
 
May:
Blockade Billy, Stephen King – 5/2
Four Blondes, Candace Bushnell – 5/8
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, David Grann – 5/15
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins – 5/28
The Lover's Dictionary, David Levithan – 5/29
Rot & Ruin, Jonathan Maberry – 5/31
 
June:
Room, Emma Donoghue – 6/3
The Idiot Girl's Action-Adventure Club, Laurie Notaro – 6/8
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson - (reread) – 6/11
Crank, Ellen Hopkins – 6/15
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides – 6/18
Across the Universe, Beth Revis – 6/19
The Girl's Guide to Homelessness, Brianna Karp – 6/23
True Grit, Charles Portis – 6/27
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros – (reread) – 6/29
 
July:
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins – 7/1
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins – 7/5
Buffalo Gal: A Memoir, Laura Pederson – 7/10
Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood, Laurie Notaro – 7/13
The Help, Kathryn Stockett – 7/15
Feed, M.T. Anderson – (reread) – 7/17
Bodega Dreams, Ernesto Quiñonez – 7/21
Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, David Nickle – 7/25
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – 7/30
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi – (reread) – 7/30
 
August:
Brothel: The Mustang Ranch and Its Women, Alexa Albert – 8/12
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee – 8/21
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls – 8/23
The Slap, Cristos Tsiolkas – 8/29

September:
The Color of Water, James McBride – 9/9
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett – (reread) – 9/22
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain – (reread) – 9/30

October:
The Girl With Glass Feet, Ali Shaw – 10/5
The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan – 10/12
Bossypants, Tina Fey – 10/16
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, Max Brooks – 10/17
In My Skin, Kate Holden – 10/29

November:
Inside Scientology, Janet Reitman – 11/2
Oh Baby, Kim Chinquee – 11/6
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher – 11/6
Tales of Wonder and Magic, Berlie Doherty – (reread) – 11/8
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, Mordecai Gerstein – 11/8
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, Emma Donoghue – 11/10
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank – (reread) – 11/19
The Classic Fairy Tales, Maria Tatar – 11/28

December:
a world of laughter, a world of tears, Anonymous – 12/5
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern – 12/12