Reading

January 2012 – Last year I wanted to read 75 books, but due to studies and other commitments I only managed 57. These books are listed below. This year to bring some focus to my reading I’ve signed up for a number of reading challenges. These challenges are listed elsewhere on this blog and the total of books I’ve committed to read for these challenges is 48, but I anticipate reading others outside of this. This means I hope to read about 60 books, which should be fairly realistic.

This years reading is as follows:

1. ‘The Sisters Brothers’ – Patrick deWitt (January 5)
2. ‘We All Fall Down’ – Eric Walters (January 6)
3. ‘Watch For the Light: Readings for advent and Christmas’ – Plough Publishing House (January 7)
4. ‘No Country For Old Men’ – Cormac McCarthy (January 10)
5. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ – Ernest Hemingway (January 12)
6. ‘The Invention of Hugo Cabret’ – Brian Selznick (January 15)
7. ‘Robopocalypse’ – Daniel H. Wilson (January 20)
8. ‘Wonderstruck’ – Brian Selznick (January 22)
9. ‘Prince Caspian’ – C.S. Lewis (January 23)
10. ‘Greenvoe’ – George Mackay Brown (January 30)
11. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ – Oscar Wilde (February 1)
12. ‘A Complicated Kindness’ – Miriam Toews (February 18)
13. ‘The Sign of the Four: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel’ – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/I.N.J. Culbard/Ian Edginton (February 22)
14. ‘Leviathan’ – Scott Westerfeld (February 24)
15. ‘The Last Lecture’ – Randy Pausch (February 26)
16. ‘The Practice of the Presence of God’ – Brother Lawrence (February 29)
17. ‘When True Simplicity is Gained’ – Martin E. Marty, Micah Marty (March 4)
18. ‘Surfacing’ – Margaret Atwood (March 7)
19. ‘Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1′ – Stephenie Meyer, Young Kim (March 11)
20. ‘Mudhouse Sabbath’ – Lauren F. Winner (March 16)
21. ‘The Stranger’ – Albert Camus (March 18)
22. ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’ – Ransom Riggs (March 20)
23. ‘The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories’ – Tim Burton (March 22)
24. ‘The Hunger Games’ - Suzanne Collins (March 30)
25. ‘Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation’ – Tim Hamilton (April 2)
26. ‘The Last Eyewitness: The Final Week’ – Chris Seay and David Capes (April 8)
27. ‘How To Make An American Quilt’ – Whitney Otto (April 17)
28. ‘Behemoth’ – Scott Westerfeld (April 21)
29. ‘The Martian Chronicles’ – Ray Bradbury (April 23)
30. ‘The 39 Steps’ – John Buchan (April 26)
31. ‘The Book Thief’ – Markus Zusak (May 2)
32. ‘Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter’ – Plough Publishing House (May 3)
33. ‘The Orkney Scroll’ – Lyn Hamilton (May 4)
34. ‘The Earthquake Machine’ – Mary Pauline Lowry (May 10)
35. ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ – Seth Grahame-Smith (May 19)
36. ‘Never Let Me Go’ – Kazuo Ishiguro (May 22)
37. ‘Goliath’ – Scott Westerfeld (May 27)

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January 2011 – On my 43Things for 2011 one of the things I have committed to do is to read 75 books in 2011. Hopefully I can do it! Time will tell, but I’m sure I’ll have fun trying. So here’s the list (with the date of completion in brackets):

1. ‘Silversmith’ – Neil Drysdale (January 1)
2. ‘Souness – The Management Years’ – Graeme Souness (January 13)
3. ‘Skeleton Crew’ – Stephen King (January 28)
4. ‘The Man Who Loved Books Too Much’ – Allison Hoover Bartlett (January 30)
5. ‘Five by Endo’ (February 25)
6. ‘The Adventures of Tom Bombadil’ – J.R.R. Tolkien (February 28)
7. ‘The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts, volume 1′ – Robert C. Tannehill (March 2)
8. ‘The Return of Sherlock Holmes’ – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (March 12)
9. ‘M is for Magic’ – Neil Gaiman (March 16)
10. ‘The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts, volume 2′ – Robert C. Tannehill (March 31)
11. ‘Love Wins’ – Rob Bell (April 3)
12. ‘The Life and Ministry of William Booth’ – Roger Green (April 21)
13. ‘A Preface to Paradise Lost’ – C.S. Lewis (May 1)
14. ‘Paradise Lost’ – John Milton (May 12)
15. ‘The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier’ – Tony Jones (May 13)
16. ‘Night’ – Elie Wiesel (May 20)
17. ‘Origins of the Salvation Army’ – Norman H. Murdoch (May 22)
18. ‘The Voice From On High’ – Chris Seay, Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet, Lauren Winner (May 28)
19. ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ – C.S. Lewis (May 29)
20. ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ – C.S. Lewis (May 30)
21. ‘The Horse and His Boy’ – C.S. Lewis (May 31)
22. ‘Prince Caspian’ – C.S. Lewis (June 2)
23. ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’ - C.S. Lewis (June 6)
24. ‘The Silver Chair’ – C.S. Lewis (June 10)
25. ‘Lost and Found’ – Shaun Tan (June 10)
26. ‘The Last Battle’ – C.S. Lewis (June 12)
27. ‘Football Against the Enemy’ - Simon Kuper (June 17)
28. ‘Ug’ – Raymond Briggs (June 17)
29. ‘Supersized’ – Morgan Spurlock and Jeremy Barlow (June 19)
30. ‘Prufrock and Other Observations’ – T.S. Eliot (June 20)
31. ‘The Screwtape Letters’ – C.S. Lewis (June 22)
32. ‘Ten Tales Tall and True’ – Alasdair Gray (June 27)
33. ‘The Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackham’s Treasure’ – Herge (July 17)
34. ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ – J.R.R. Tolkien (July 26)
35. ‘The Hobbit (graphic novel)’ – J.R.R. Tolkien, illustrated by David Wenzel (August 21)
36. ‘Albert Camus and the Minister’ – Howard Mumma (September 1)
37. ‘The Earth Hums in B Flat’ – Mari Strachan (September 4)
38. ‘The Help’ – Kathryn Stockett (September 11)
39. ‘The Man Who Created Narnia: The Story of C.S. Lewis’ – Michael Coren (September 20)
40. ‘Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood’ – Marjane Satrapi (September 28)
41. ‘Animal Farm’ – George Orwell (October 1)
42. ‘Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return’ – Marjane Satrapi (October 3)
43. ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ - C.S. Lewis (October 7)
44. ‘A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian’ – Marina Lewycka (October 9)
45. ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ - C.S. Lewis (October 25)
46. ‘The Last Summer’ – Boris Pasternak (October 25)
47. ‘NIV Application Commentary: Ezekiel’ – Iain M. Duguid (November 12)
48. ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ – Ray Bradbury (November 13)
49. ‘Stories’ – edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (November 13)
50. ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief’ – Rick Riordan (November 21)
51. ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters’ – Rick Riordan (November 22)
52. ‘The Horse and His Boy’ – C.S. Lewis (November 27)
53. ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse’ – Rick Riordan (November 29)
54. ‘Wishful Drinking’ – Carrie Fisher (December 3)
55. ‘The Little Book of Canadian Political Wisdom’ (December 3)
56. ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth’ (December 21)
57. ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian’ (December 26)