As of the beginning of 2007, I started a goal to read 50 books by January 1st, 2008. Unfortunately, I missed the mark by only four measly books, which is disappointing. At least I read about 40 more books in 2007 than I did in 2006 (textbooks don't count). Books that have an asterisk next to them are the ones I would highly recommend. Then again, I read a lot of "boring" books. :)
* = good book
** = my favorites
1- nickel and dimed by barbara ehrenreich **
2- nothing's sacred by lewis black
3- the giver by lois lowry *
4- the glass castle by jeannette walls
5- blue like jazz by donald miller *
6- confessions of a teenage baboon by paul zindel
7- one for the money by janet evanovich **
8- full tilt by janet evanovich and charlotte hughes
9- two for the dough by janet evanovich **
10- hello to all that: a memoir of war, zoloft and peace by john falk *
11- the nanny diaries by emma mclaughlin and nicola kraus
12- ya-ya's in bloom by rebecca wells
13- the diving bell and the butterfly by jean-dominique bauby
14- stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach *
15- the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom *
16- the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by mark haddon
17- you are not a stranger here by adam haslett *
18- the higher power of lucky by susan patron
19- bobos in paradise; the new upper class and how they got there by david brooks *
20- night by elie weisel
21- brothel; mustang ranch and its women by alexa albert **
22- eat, pray, love by elizabeth gilbert
23- strong survival: the life and times of a mountain woman by cliffie strong
24- the cay by theodore taylor
25- the lovely bones by alice sebold
26- coroner's journal; stalking death in louisiana by louis cataldie *
27 - the rez road follies: canoes, casinos, computers and birch bark baskets by jim northrup *
28 - darker than night: the true story of a brutal double homicide and an 18-year long quest for justice by tom henderson **
29 - the surrender: an erotic memoir by toni bentley
30 - many lives, many masters: the true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient and past-life therapy that changed both their lives by brian weiss
31 - female chauvinist pigs: women and the rise of raunch culture by ariel levy
32 - my life on the street: memoirs of a faceless man by joe homeless
33 - animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life by barbara kingsolver **
(this book makes me feel like a terrible person every time i walk into a grocery store, but it is still an amazing book)
34 - lost...and never found by anita larsen
35 - zlata's diary; a child's life in sarajevo by zlata filipovic
36 - save karyn; one shopaholic's journey to debt and back
37 - an ordinary man: an autobiography of the man who inspired the film hotel rwanda by paul rusesabagina
38 - don't kiss them goodbye by allison dubois
39 - the bell jar by sylvia plath
40 - mortician diaries by june nadle
41 - invasion of the body snatchers by jack finney
42 - devil in the details; scenes from an obsessive girlhood by jennifer traig
43 - wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west by gregory maguire
44 - god on a harley by joan brady
45 - the green book by elizabeth rogers and thomas kostige
46 - freakonomics; a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by steven levitt and stephen dubner
Let me know if you have any other recommendations for me. Thanks!
I knew two of the books: Night and The Giver.
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are amazing. I read Night and Tuesdays With Morie for my English 2 class last year and I just could not put them down. My suggestion is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, even though I'm sure you've already read it. I must admit that I admire the fact that you made reading a goal. It's hard to find people that into reading these days. Most would just watch T.V. Brava.
I've read a lot on that list, or have heard of them and they are also on my list of want-to-read... so, since we may have somehow similar reading preferences, here's a few I enjoyed:
-Life of Pi by Yann Martel
-The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury (nonfiction)
-Deep River by Shusaku Endo
-Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (I haven't finished this one yet)
-The Plague by Albert Camus (or anything by him)
-Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (or anything by her)
-Horses Make the Landscape More Beautiful by Alice Walker (poetry)
-Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
-Wit by Margaret Edson (play)
-Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
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