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I'm not one for New Year's resolutions, and I never made reading enough of a habit to believe that I could read 50 books in one year. However, I figured it was time for a challenge. Rather than January 1st, my personal book club began on a fateful day in May, when an unexpected book-binge transformed me into an all-out bookworm. (Well, almost!)
If you want to recommend a book, please go ahead, I'm very open to suggestions! My preferences include Murakami, semi-autobiographical fiction/memoir/humour, more mature Young Adult lit, and anything a little bit unusual, yet engrossing.
1. *The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
(17/5)
2. 15 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson
(20/5)
3. Candy Girl - Diablo Cody
(21/5 - 22/5)
4. *Looking For Alaska - John Green
(22/5 - 26/5)
5. 24 Stories - Haruki Murakami
(10/5 - ?)
6. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
(26/5 - 30/5)
7. An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
(5/6 - 12/6)
8. A Place Called Here - Cecelia Ahern
(17/6 - 23/6)
9. *After Dark - Haruki Murakami
(24/6)
10. This Lullaby - Sarah Dessin
(14/6 - 28/6)
11. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler
(9/7 - 11/7)
12. Sex & the City - Candace Bushnell
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13. My Horizontal Life - Chelsea Handler
(16/7 - 19/7)
14. *Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
(1/8 - 3/8)
15. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
(30/7 - ...)
16. *Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
(4/8 - 7/8)
17. *Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
(8/8 - 13/8)
18. The Film Club - David Gilmour
(26/8 - 29/8)
19. South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
(31/8 - 3/9)
20. *The History Boys - Alan Bennett
(8/9)
21. Slam - Nick Hornby
(8/9 - 9/9)
22. *Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
(9/9 - 23/9)
23. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
(2/10 - 9/10)
24. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
(10/10 - 18/10)
25. * Paper Towns - John Green
(19/10 - 23/10)
26. * The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
(19/10 - 23/10)
27. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
(23/10 - 27/10)
28. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
(27/10 - 29/10)
29. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ - Sue Townsend
(29/10-30/10)
30. * On The Road - Jack Kerouac
(30/10 - ...)
31. Fight Club - Chuck Palaniuk
32. I Am the Messenger - Murkus Zusak
33. Let it Snow - John Green, Maureen Johnson & Lauren Myracle
34. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
35. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - David Levithan & Rachel Cohn
36. Bird by Bird - Ann Lamott
37. Animal Farm - George Orwell
38. Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
To-Read List:
The General in His Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief - Marcus Zuzack
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
* - I recommend this book.
I've read it - this is mostly so that the unfinished ones will look naked and guilt me into finishing them!
If you read, what books have you enjoyed recently? What books are your favourites? What do you recommend?
What have you done to challenge yourself this year?
4 comments:
'The Shadow of the Wind' is a great one by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. On my last trip to europe my boyfriend and I read the entire time, going through a book every two days or so. It was wonderful. I am trying to work my way through classics - over the summer I read The Catcher in The Rye, Jane Eyre, Animal Farm.. can't remember what else actually. If you can find a copy of it, Oleg Cassini's biography "In My Fashion" is hilarious.
Is that seriously your room... wow that's fucking cool! (thats not a swear in instances of cool rooms its allowed).
Do you have any books on training monkey's to race?
Hey! Thanks for stopping by my blog! I hope you do find a good book off my list - some of them are Australian, so if you can't find them, that'll be why :) There are some on that list of yours that I'd like to look up!
Ali - Thanks for the recommendation! I've reserved it at my library. Can't wait.
David - Haha I wish! It's a bookstore, there's a link to the original underneath.
Shells - Thanks for the heads up, and thanks for stopping by! I think I'm going to buy the Paul Coelho one you suggested soon.
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