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That Reading Challenge and My Very Own Year’s Best List
Yesterday I completed the reading challenge I’ve been working on all year but had only mentioned here once because I didn’t think I’d actually complete it.
I still can’t quite believe I read 52 books this year….but I did….I really did! (My year’s reading choices are pictured at the bottom of this post in reverse chronological order.)
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t recommend all of the books I read this year (which is why I made their pictures kind of tiny). I found that for me to read an average of one book per week I had to sometimes read books that wouldn’t usually pass the “rule of fifty” test but that I knew I could read quickly. Yet, I did end up reading more books I liked than didn’t like.
Of the 52 books I read in 2011, my favorites are…
- “Got Fight?” by Forrest Griffin
- “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader” by Anne Fadiman
- “Proust’s Overcoat” by Lorenza Foschini
- “Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse” by Victor Gischler
- “Farewell My Subaru” by Doug Fine
- “Moonwalking with Einstein” by Joshua Foer
- “It’s All About the Bike” by Rob Penn
- “The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady” by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
- “Thoughts Without Cigarettes” by Oscar Hijuelos
- “The Thieves of Manhattan” by Adam Langer
- “Heads You Lose” by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward
What were your favorite books of the year?
