So, the reason I started this 50 books thing was because I had so many unread books that I had obtained in one way or another that I really wanted to read and that I hadn’t made time for. There were, as of January, probably 80 unread books in my house. Due to me being insane, there are now over that, though they’re not all on my reading list. It only has 78 unfinished and unread books (I was guesstimating 55 earlier…), not including stuff I have and have no intention of reading or I’ve forgotten to include.
What follows is a list of everything I’ve read in 2010, what I’m currently at least halfway through or have from the library, and what is on my list for the future. Any thoughts, like if you think a book is awesome or you want to hear my opinion on it so I should read it, are welcome. Mostly, I just made a list and don’t want it to go to waste just sitting in my Google Tasks.
Finished
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Searching for Dragons (library)
- Dealing with Dragons (library)
- 23. Carpe Jugulum
- 22. Last Continent
- 21. Jingo
- 20. Hogfather
- 19. Feet of Clay
- Asimov’s Guide to Old Testament
- 18. Maskerade
- 17. Interesting Times
- 16. Soul Music
- The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell 2)
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (Mary Russell 1)
- 15. Men at Arms
- Godless
- 14. Lords and Ladies
- 13. Small Gods
- 12. Witches Abroad
- Snow White, Blood Red
- Ordinary Princess
- 11. Reaper Man
- 10. Moving Pictures
- 9. Eric
- 8. Guards Guards
- Tricks of the Mind
- 7. Pyramids
- 6. Wyrd Sisters
- 5. Sourcery
- 4. Mort
- The Porn Trap
- 3. Equal Rites
- 2. Light Fantastic
- 1. Colour of Magic
- Scopes Transcript
- Religious Orgy Tennessee
Currently Reading
- The Female Brain
- Freethinkers (library)
- Lyra’s Oxford (library)
- Spindle’s End (library)
- Demon Haunted World
- Flim-Flam!
- 24. The Fifth Elephant
To Read
- the thousand autumns of jacob de zoet (don’t own)
- A Study in Scarlet (started)
- Law 101 (started)
- Stranger Beside Me (started)
- 25. The Truth
- 26. Thief of Time
- 27. The Last Hero
- 28. Amazing Maurice
- 29. Night Watch
- 30. Wee Free Men
- 31. Monstrous Regiment
- 32. A Hat Full of Sky
- 33. Going Postal
- 34. Thud
- 35. Wintersmith
- 36. Making Money
- The Brethren
- Incest
- Let the Right One In
- My Life in France
- Heartsick
- The Informant
- The Lady Elizabeth
- The God Virus
- The Professor and the Madman
- The Age of American Unreason
- The Family
- Innocent Traitor
- One L
- The Politician
- Julia Child
- Eragon
- Reading the OED
- Virgin Suicides
- Prozac Nation
- Irreligion
- Coraline
- His Dark Materials Reread (3 books)
- Nixonland
- Asimov’s Guide to the New Testament
- The Mind of the Market
- Emerging Epidemics
- The New Atheism
- Good Natured
- Evil in Modern Thought
- Creationism’s Trojan Horse
- Hitch 22
- Additional Sherlock Holmes (8)
- Works of Jane Austen (6)
- Additional Mary Russell (8, only own 2)
If I somehow got through 58 this year (21 more over the next 20 weeks, which is below my average which predicts 62 total) and do the same next year, without adding any additional books to the list (unlikely as I’m already remembering things I haven’t added and know several coming out that I will have to add), I will have just gotten through all of it.
All of this makes my “50 book challenge” feel kind of pathetic, like so what if I’ve accomplished it, I’m approaching an obviously Sisyphean task. The books are judging me, I can tell. It will never be enough for you people!