I love this post and I'm mad about lists! I started an excel spreadsheet a couple of years ago, amazed at how my books were piling. Will edit this post later to add my titles, as well as my current stats for this year. Too bad I discovered you guys in October! But still almost three months of reading ahead, so hope I'll find another list motivating enough
After my first count, I'm at 40 books, registered by others, currently left to read.
Here goes nothing!
2011:
1.
Best (Romanian) Poems of 2010 - I completely forgot about this one
21.05
2012:
2.
Home, by Marilynne Robinson 25.06
3.
Murder in Moscow (Murder, She Wrote) 23.07
4.
Plum Lovin', by Janet Evanovich 8.08
5.
Scar Tissue, by Anthony Kiedis [RHCP!] 14.08
6.
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, 15.08
7.
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi, 11.09
8.
The Lover, by Marguerite Duras, 13.09
9. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid, 3.10
10.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams, 17.10
11.
The Heart of Redness, by Zakes Mda, 17.10
12.
Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges, 1.11 - currently on the office shelf
13. Holiday in Death, by J.D. Robb, 5.11
14.
The Colour Purple, by Alice Walker, 17.11
15.
Wild Harbour, by Ian MacPherson, 29.11
16.
From Notting Hill With Love .. Actually, by Ali McNamara, 29.11
17.
The Clothes on Their Backs, by Linda Grant, 5.12
18. Watership Down, by Richard Adams, 8.12
19.
One for the Money, by Janet Evanovich, 20.12
2013:
20.
Rum&Razors (Murder, She Wrote), 8.01
21. Beloved, by Toni Morrison, 8.01
22.
Q is for Quarry, by Sue Grafton, 6.03
23.
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, 16.03
24.
The Kalahari Typing School for Men, by Alexander McCall Smith, 16.03
25. The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick DeWitt, 21.03
26.
Jazz, by Toni Morrison, 21.03
27.
The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, 8.05
28.
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, 17.05
29.
Echoes of the Great Song, by David Gemmell, 20.05
30.
On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan, 7.06 - sadly, this book was literally eaten by a dog, but I will eventually find a replacement copy and actually read it this time..
31.
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy, 7.06
32.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards, 7.06
33.
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon, 29.06
34.
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, 6.07
35. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer, 12.07
36.
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby, 20.07
37.
Belgariad I: The Pawn of Prophecy, by David Eddings, 7.09
38.
Hunger, by Knut Hamsun, 17.09
39.
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, 17.09
40.
State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett, 4.10
41. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson [BR] 5.10
.. and who knows what might happen until the end of the year?
2013 Stats before this post (up to
11.10):
2011 BC: 3
2012 BC: 13
2013 BC: 16
Received lately:
42. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows 24.10
43.
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates 24.10
44.
The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson 19.11
45.
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky 19.11
46.
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes 7.12
47.
La Casa de los Espiritus, by Isabel Allende 7.12
48.
Fatherland, by Robert Harris 7.12
