Another year, another meme.
This will be main page listing of all the books I read this year, added as I finish them. This time, I get to start on the first of the year. Ready, set, go!
Others participating in this meme:
- Rob
- A different Rob (robertsiders.com)
- Veronica (“a number of books in a period of time”)
- Speedkill
- System 13
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Publisher: Scholastic
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 652
- №1
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World War Z - Publisher: Crown
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 352
- №2
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The Last Town on Earth - Publisher: Crown
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 416
- №3
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Dandelion Wine - Publisher: William Morrow
- Year: 1957/1999
- Pages: 288
- №4
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The Fellowship of the Ring - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 506
- №5
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The Two Towers - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 413
- №6
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The Return of the King - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 500
- №7
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Three Cups of Tea - Publisher: Viking
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 352
- №8
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Galatea 2.2 - Publisher: Picador
- Year: 1995/2004
- Pages: 336
- №9
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Publisher: Viking Adult
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 528
- №10
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Darfur Diaries - Publisher: Nation Books
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 256
- №11
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Black Bodies and Quantum Cats - Publisher: Penguin
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 336
- №12
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The Road to Oxiana - Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Year: 1982
- Pages: 292
- №13
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The Silmarillion - Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Year: 1999
- Pages: 384
- №14
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Publisher: Orb Books
- Year: 1967/1997
- Pages: 384
- №15
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Naked in Baghdad - Publisher: Picador
- Year: 2003/2004
- Pages: 264
- №16
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The Eyre Affair - Publisher: Penguin
- Year: 2003
- Pages: 384
- №17
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The Lemon Tree - Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Year: 2003
- Pages: 304
- №18
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What is the What - Publisher: McSweeney's
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 475
- №19
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The Alphabet of Manliness - Publisher: Citadel
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 204
- №20
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Then We Came to the End - Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 400
- №21
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Love, Poverty, and War - Publisher: Nation Books
- Year: 2004
- Pages: 475
- №22
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses - Publisher: Walker & Company
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 320
- №23
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The Corrections - Publisher: Picador
- Year: 2002
- Pages: 576
- №24
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The Buried Book - Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 336
- №25
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Boomsday - Publisher: Twelve
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 336
- №26
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It's Superman! - Publisher: Chronicle
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 384
- №27
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Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel - Publisher: Collins
- Year: 2003
- Pages: 368
- №28
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Love and Other Near-Death Experiences - Publisher: Villard
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 368
- №29
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The Testament of Gideon Mack - Publisher: Viking
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 400
- №30
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Mere Anarchy - Publisher: Random House
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 160
- №31
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Publisher: Arthur A. Levine
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 784
- №32
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From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain - Publisher: Del Ray
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 390
- №33
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The Beautiful Miscellaneous - Publisher: Atria
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 352
- №34
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The Raw Shark Texts - Publisher: Canongate U.S.
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 448
- №35
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The God Delusion - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 406
- №36
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The Cross-Time Engineer - Publisher: Del Rey
- Year: 1986
- Pages: 272
- №37
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The High-Tech Knight - Publisher: Del Rey
- Year: 1989
- Pages: 247
- №38
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The Radiant Warrior - Publisher: Del Rey
- Year: 1989
- Pages: 282
- №39
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The Flying Warlord - Publisher: Del Rey
- Year: 1990
- Pages: 232
- №40
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Lord Conrad's Lady - Publisher: Del Rey
- Year: 1990
- Pages: 296
- №41
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When You Ride Alone, You Ride With Bin Laden - Publisher: Phoenix Books
- Year: 2003
- Pages: 132
- №42
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Conrad's Quest for Rubber - Publisher: Del Rey
- Year: 1998
- Pages: 304
- №43
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Lord Conrad's Crusade - Publisher: Great Authors Online
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 230
- №44
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Publisher: W.W. Norton
- Year: 1997
- Pages: 350
- №45
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Show Stopper! - Publisher: Free Press
- Year: 1994
- Pages: 312
- №46
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Chuck Klosterman IV - Publisher: Scribner
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 384
- №47
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Soon I Will Be Invincible - Publisher: Pantheon
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 288
- №48
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Microserfs - Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Year: 1996
- Pages: 384
- №49
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The Braindead Megaphone - Publisher: Riverhead
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 272
- №50
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I Am America (And So Can You!) - Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 240
- №51
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Publisher: Del Rey
- Year: 1995
- Pages: 320
- №52
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Publisher: Del Rey
- Year: 1995
- Pages: 240
- №53
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Elephants on Acid - Publisher: Harvest Books
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 304
- №54
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The New Time Travelers - Publisher: W.W. Norton
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 320
- №55
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The Undertaking - Publisher: W.W. Norton
- Year: 1998
- Pages: 224
- №56
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Shakespeare: The World As Stage - Publisher: Harper Collins
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 208
- №57
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Life, the Universe, and Everything - Publisher: Del Ray
- Year: 1995
- Pages: 220
- №58
I see you’ve got World War Z planned. Awesome book. I bought it a few weeks ago and just got around to finishing it. If you’ve never read his Zombie Survival Guide I’d recommend that too. :D
If I like World War Z, I’ll definitely think about it.
Just thought I’d let you know that I”m going to try and do this this year as well. Hopefully it’ll help me break my bad habit of attempting to read 15 books at once.
What is the best way to do this and still keep up with your business/career based reading (and love of magazines!)
Or do you count books that are part of your career based learning (including textbooks, which we all know are difficult to devour in 1 week!)
I’ve never really had a problem, as my particular field doesn’t require too much book reading. For the occasional English course which requires me to read novels, I do count those, yes—I’ve never seen the point in the rule which says that only voluntary books can be counted.
There’s no easy answer as to how you can best balance your workload and/or family life with a reading meme like this. It really just depends on your situation. My suggestion to you, however, would be to set a goal that’s realistic: it isn’t necessary to read 52 books a year if you’re really too busy to do so, and you read other material as well. Start with a number that’s more than you currently read—perhaps a book every two weeks—and spend the year doing that. If it’s a success, you can increase it next year, if you feel like it.
Remember, too, that this meme isn’t simply about reading the books. It’s also about reviewing them, meaning part of the goal is to do a bit of writing as well, putting your thoughts about the book down in permanent form. It’s a double-whammy.
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Dave – I’m in! This sounds like just the thing to get me writing more… reading I do – usually can knock off a book in a couple of nights! This sounds just super cool.
Can’t promise they’ll be literature worth reading – my tastes run to some pretty weird and wonderful!
Thanks for the inspiration!
Sorry – I called the site owner Dave… :( How embarrassing. Sorry – it’s early where I am and I’m reading cross-eyed… not a good way to start! LOL
Thanks again!
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