First thing's first. For my own personal archives, here's my list of the books I've read in the past two years.
[Start Date - End Date: Title, Author]
22 August 2008 - 27 September 2008: 1984, George Orwell
28 September 2008 - 17 December 2008: The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
18 December 2008 - 24 December 2008: Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver
24 December 2008 - Unfinished: Song of Solomon, Toni Morrisson
1 January 2009 - 9 January 2009: The Commitments, Roddy Doyle
22 January 2009 - Unfinished: The Snapper, Roddy Doyle
11 April 2009 - Unfinished: Lavinia, Ursula Leguin
9 May 2009 - 18 May 2009: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
18 May 2009 - 19 May 2009: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
21 May 2009 - 31 May 2009: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
1 June 2009 - 10 June 2009: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
10 June 2009 - 15 June 2009: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
16 June 2009 - Unfinished: Catch-22, Joseph Heller
11 July 2009 - 13 July 2009: Look Me In The Eye, John Elder Robison
14 July 2009 - 18 August 2009: Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
19 August 2009 - 24 August 2009: Perforated Heart, Eric Bogosian
24 August 2009 - 4 September 2009: The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
14 September 2009 - 29 November 2009: Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
2 December 2009 - 28 December 2009: Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
3 January 2010 - 11 May 2010: Riding the Bus with my Sister, Rachel Simon
4 January 2010 - 10 January 2010: Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods - My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine, Noelle Howey
11 January 2010 - 14 January 2010: Jarhead, Anthony Swofford
11 May 2010 - 13 May 2010: The Stranger, Albert Camus
14 May 2010 - 26 May 2010: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
26 May 2010 - 2 June 2010: The Soloist, Steve Lopez
13 June 2010 - 28 July 2010: The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
20 December 2010 - 21 December 2010: The Snapper, Roddy Doyle
21 December 2010 - 22 December 2010: The Van, Roddy Doyle
22 December 2010 - 23 December 2010: Down and Out on the Murder Mile, Tony O'Neill
24 December 2010 - 25 December 2010: Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
27 December 2010 - 28 December 2010: On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction, Karl Iagnemma
28 December 2010 - 18 March 2011: The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
April 2010 - 22 May 2011: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell
22 May 2011 - 23 May 2011: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
24 May 2011 - 31 May 2011: Star Island, Carl Hiaasen
1 June 2011 - 30 June 2011: When Mortals Sleep, Kurt Vonnegut
2 July 2011 - 11 July 2011: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
13 July 2011 - 25 August 2011: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
25 August 2011 - 28 December 2011: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barberry
30 December 2011 - 22 January 2012: Skin Tight, Carl Hiaasen
23 January 2012 - 1 February 2012: BossyPants, Tina Fey
2 February 2012 - 21 February 2012: Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult
24 February 2012 - 4 March 2012: House Rules, Jodi Picoult
4 March 2012 - 6 March 2012: American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
7 March 2012 - 13 May 2012: Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance, Richard Powers
13 May 2012 - 13 May 2012: Pretty Theft, Adam Szymkowicz
14 May 2012 - 27 May 2012: Basket Case, Carl Hiaasen
28 May 2012 - 26 June 2012: My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
2 July 2012 - 15 October 2012: The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults, James C. McKinney
16 October 2012 - 21 November 2012:
Sick Puppy, Carl Hiaasen
24 November 2012 - :
The Naked Voice: A Wholistic Approach to Singing, W. Stephen Smith
12 December 2012 - 2 January 2013:
The Soloist, Mark Salzman
22 December 2012 - 25 December 2012:
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Mindy Kaling
25 December 2012 - 26 December 2012:
Filthy Rich, Dorothy Samuels
8 January 2013 - 2 February 2013:
Gertrude and Claudius, John Updike
4 February 2013 - 4 March 2013:
Look at the Birdie, Kurt Vonnegut
16 June 2013 - 18 June 2013:
Dog On It, Spencer Quinn *
19 June 2013 - 21 June 2013:
Remember Me?, Sophie Kinsella *
19 June 2013 - 25 June 2013:
The Van Gogh Affair, Alan S. Mosier
23 June 2013 - 27 June 2013:
Life of Pi, Yann Martel *
25 June 2013 - 19 July 2013:
Lucky You, Carl Hiaasen
3 July 2013 - 13 July 2013:
Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella *
14 July 2013 - 28 July 2013:
Sacré Bleu, Christopher Moore *
19 July 2013 - 24 December 2013:
Bad Monkey, Carl Hiaasen
29 July 2013 - 28 November 2013:
2103 C.E., Alan S. Mosier
23 September 2013 - :
Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar
2 October 2013 - 3 October 2013:
Light on Life, B.K.S. Iyengar *
16 December 2013 - 31 December 2013:
The Happiness Project - Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Gretchen Rubin
1 January 2014 - 7 January 2014:
The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman
8 January 2014 - 14 January 2014:
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler
15 January 2014 - 27 March 2014:
The Time of Our Singing, Richard Powers
29 March 2014 - 22 April 2014:
Alexandria, Lindsey Davis
23 April 2014 - 30 May 2014:
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
6 June 2014 - 20 September 2014:
DRiVE, Daniel Pink
1 July 2014 - 16 July 2014:
Teaching English Language Learners: Across the Content Areas, Judie Haynes, Debbie Zacarian
10 July 2014 - 17 July 2014:
Cell, Stephen King *
18 July 2014 - 20 July 2014:
I've Got Your Number, Sophie Kinsella *
14 September 2014 - October 5 2014: Classroom Management for PE, Music, and Art Teachers, Michael Linsin
20 September 2014 - :
Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, Nick Offerman
24 December 2014 - 29 December 2014:
Diary of an American Au Pair, Marjorie Leet Ford
29 December 2014 - 31 December 2014:
Skink No Surrender, Carl Hiaasen
3 January 2015 - 31 May 2015:
J, Howard Jacobson
31 May 2015 - 3 June 2015:
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, Allie Brosh
3 June 2015 - 19 June 2015:
Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen
20 June 2015 - 9 July 2015:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
9 July 2015 - 19 July 2015:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
22 July 2015 - 28 August 2015:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
8 September 2015 - 11 October 2015:
A Death In China, Carl Hiaasen
11 October 2015 - :
Trap Line, Carl Hiaasen
27 October 2015 - 6 November 2015:
The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
8 November 2015 - :
The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
23 November 2015 - 12 December 2015:
The Devil In The White City, Erik Larson
16 February 2016 - 22 June 2016:
Double Whammy, Carl Hiaasen
22 June 2016 - 25 June 2016 :
Getting Mother's Body, Suzan-Lori Parks
29 June 2016 - :
The Naked Voice
21 July 2016 - 21 August 2016:
Flush, Carl Hiaasen
21 August 2016 - 20 September 2016:
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany
7 September 2016 - :
the life-changing magic of tidying up, marie kondo
28 September 2016 - 31 December 2016:
Buck Fever, Ben Rehder
4 January 2017 - 1 February 2017:
Bone Dry, Ben Rehder
4 February 2017 - 19 March 2017:
Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
20 March 2017 - 15 June 2017:
Native Tongue, Carl Hiaasen
16 June 2017 - 17 July 2017:
Celebrity Run-Ins, Kathy Griffin
18 July 2017 - 25 July 2017:
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
18 July 2017 - 4 October 2017:
Razor Girl, Carl Hiaasen
8 October 2017 - 8 December 2017:
Sing For Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family, Daniel Bergner
13 December 2017 - 9 January 2018:
The Circle, Dave Eggers
8 March 2018 - 24 March 2018:
The Rosie Effect, Graeme Simsion
I'm ashamed of the books I didn't finish, and because I started them I WILL finish them one day. I am also ashamed of how little I read during the year! I try to make up for it by reading obsessively during my summer and winter vacations.
* denotes audiobook
That's all for now!
-A.
