Because I am 99% certain that I will not finish the book that I am currently reading by tomorrow night at midnight, I think it is safe to post my books completed in 2011 list.
| Title | Author | Date Completed | No. of Pages | |
| 1 | Dead Until Dark | Harris, Charlaine | 01.01.11 | 292 |
| 2 | Lick Your Neighbor | Genoa, Chris | 01.07.11 | 304 |
| 3 | A Gate At the Stairs | Moore, Lorrie | 01.14.11 | 322 |
| 4 | An Object of Beauty | Martin, Steve | 01.19.11 | 295 |
| 5 | HELP! A Bear Is Eating Me | Hansen, Mykle | 01.20.11 | 132 |
| 6 | Bad Mother | Waldman, Ayelet | 01.25.11 | 224 |
| 7 | When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man | Weintraub, Jerry | 01.27.11 | 304 |
| 8 | Betrayal | Alvtegen, Karin | 02.13.11 | 304 |
| 9 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* | Rowling, J.K. | 02.18.11 | 870 |
| 10 | Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages | Holt, Tom | 02.18.11 | 378 |
| 11 | Mr. Funny Pants | Showalter, Michael | 03.05.11 | 288 |
| 12 | Stalking Susan | Kramer, Julie | 03.16.11 | 240 |
| 13 | Half Baked | Stevenson, Alexa | 03.20.11 | 304 |
| 14 | Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince* | Rowling, J.K. | 03.22.11 | 652 |
| 15 | Missing | Alvtegen, Karin | 03.25.11 | 289 |
| 16 | Missing Mark | Kramer, Julie | 03.30.11 | 288 |
| 17 | Two Kisses for Maddy | Logelin, Matt | 04.05.11 | 256 |
| 18 | One of Our Thursdays is Missing | Fforde, Jasper | 04.15.11 | 362 |
| 19 | I Drink For a Reason | Cross, David | 04.22.11 | 236 |
| 20 | The Imperfectionists | Rachman, Tom | 04.30.11 | 269 |
| 21 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows* | Rowling, J.K. | 05.06.11 | 759 |
| 22 | Heart of the Matter | Giffin, Emily | 05.10.11 | 352 |
| 23 | Shame | Alvtegen, Karin | 05.14.11 | 343 |
| 24 | The Interview | Leigh, James | 05.21.11 | 228 |
| 25 | Shadow | Alvtegen, Karin | 06.05.11 | 320 |
| 26 | Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? | Moore, Lorrie | 06.09.11 | 160 |
| 27 | Hater | Moody, Douglas | 06.09.11 | 244 |
| 28 | Strange Bedpersons | Crusie, Jennifer | 06.11.11 | 256 |
| 29 | The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes | Crusie, Jennifer | 06.23.11 | 384 |
| 30 | The Mysterious Benedict Society | Stewart, Trenton Lee | 06.24.11 | 485 |
| 31 | Certain Girls | Weiner, Jennifer | 06.27.11 | 386 |
| 32 | Best Friends Forever | Weiner, Jennifer | 07.02.11 | 368 |
| 33 | What the Lady Wants | Crusie, Jennifer | 07.04.11 | 256 |
| 34 | Maybe Next Time | Crusie, Jennifer | 07.08.11 | 342 |
| 35 | The No Cry Sleep Solution | Pantley, Elizabeth | 07.10.11 | 208 |
| 36 | Travels in the Scriptorium | Auster, Paul | 07.10.11 | 160 |
| 37 | Gunn’s Golden Rules | Gunn, Tim | 07.17.11 | 255 |
| 38 | Baby Led Weaning | Rapley, Gill | 07.18.11 | 226 |
| 39 | Room | Donoghue, Emma | 07.21.11 | 321 |
| 40 | Great House | Krause, Nicole | 08.02.11 | 291 |
| 41 | Everything Matters! | Currie Jr., Ron | 08.12.11 | 302 |
| 42 | The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey | Stewart, Trenton Lee | 08.21.11 | 440 |
| 43 | A Game of Thrones | Martin, George R. R. | 09.05.11 | 807 |
| 44 | The Redbreast | Nesbo, Jo | 09.13.11 | 368 |
| 45 | Nemesis | Nesbo, Jo | 09.20.11 | 478 |
| 46 | The Devil’s Star | Nesbo, Jo | 09.30.11 | 368 |
| 47 | The Hunger Games | Collins, Suzanne | 10.04.11 | 374 |
| 48 | Catching Fire | Collins, Suzanne | 10.08.11 | 391 |
| 49 | The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma | Stewart, Trenton Lee | 10.08.11 | 391 |
| 50 | Mockingjay | Collins, Suzanne | 10.10.11 | 391 |
| 51 | The Redeemer | Nesbo, Jo | 10.21.11 | 561 |
| 52 | Red Hook Road | Waldman, Ayelet | 10.30.11 | 373 |
| 53 | The Search for WondLa | DiTerlizzi, Tony | 11.13.11 | 468 |
| 54 | Little, Big | Crowley, John | 11.25.11 | 538 |
| 55 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Selznick, Brian | 11.27.11 | 533 |
| 56 | The Snowman | Nesbo, Jo | 12.04.11 | 400 |
| 57 | The Leopard | Nesbo, Jo | 12.17.11 | 624 |
| TOTAL: | 20760 |
57 books. Not too shabby!
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nice! I have mine all ready to post but I am waiting till tomorrow
So – what were your favs and least favs for the year??
It’s always fun to look back, isn’t it? A year in books. I love it.
Favorites:
Bad Mother – this collection of essays by Ayelet Waldman helped me to realize that no one is a perfect mother and that there probably is no such thing. I don’t know about you, but even after all these years as a mother to Rowan, I worry about being a good parent to her. It’s good to remember that it is okay to be “good enough” – the best you can be on any given day.
Betrayal – a very weird Danish crime book. Very creepy and stuck with me for a while (this was the year of Nordic crime books, apparently, if you look at all the Jo Nesbo I read!)
The Imperfectionists – 14 or so intertwined tales of people working at a newspaper in Rome. I thought this book was entrancing and I loved it.
Everything Matters! – I didn’t even like this book that much when I was reading it, but then I got to the last 30 pages and they were amazing. Really a good reminder that everything DOES matter. The little things. The relationships that we have.
The Hunger Games books – mostly because they were just really fun more than anything else
The Search for WondLa – Rowan and I read this together and I thought that it was really well-written and paced. I could picture everything in my head like a movie and I really like books like that.
Red Hook Road – a fiction book by Ayelet Waldman. It’s a story that starts with tragedy and follows two families as their lives unfold after that.
Least Faves:
Lick Your Neighbor – nonsensical. I really liked the author’s first book, FOOP!, but this was just dumb.
Great House – such a disappointment after Nicole Karuse’s book “This History of Love”. I just kept hoping that something magical or wonderful would happen and it didn’t. It was boring and blahhhh.
Gunn’s Golden Rules – I love Tim Gunn, but this book is just kind of boring. It was fun to read with a Tim Gunn voice in my head, though!
The Invention of Hugo Cabret – another book read with Rowan. I thought that it would be magical and wonderful, but it was just okay. I have heard that the movie is really good, though, so maybe we’ll like that more?
I just published my list! I read the Hunger games this year, too. did you know there’s a nailpolish collection that’s coming out, named after the different districts? I’m weirdly excited for it
Bad Mother & Betrayal sound especially interesting, and I saw The Invention of Hugo Cabret somewhere and was wanting to read it…too bad it was a let down!
I did NOT know that about the District nail polish. That is weirdly exciting!
I think that the Invention of Hugo Cabret would have been good had it not been hyped and had I not just read “The Search for WondLa” with Rowan, which entranced me in a way that Hugo just did not. It’s worth reading, because you will read it in like an hour – it is like a movie, in a book. I just wanted a little bit MORE from it. We have “another book by Brian Selznick, too, and I am hoping that it is a little better.