The Western Wind

Since 2005 I have  been trying to read 52 books in a year. Here is a list documenting all that I have read so far…

**** means something is great!

*** means it is just okay.

* means avoid like the plague!

Currently Reading

The Hunger Games
Oxford American: Best of the South 

2011

1. Awesome by Jack Pendarvis ***
2. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby**** 1/2 (but did not like the ending!)
3. The Areas of My Expertise by Jon Hodgman *** 1/2
4. The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell **** (interesting ideas)
   
5. The Passage by Justin Cronin ***** (really, really, really entertaining!!!!)
   
6. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris **** (way better than his first book)

2010

1. Sparrow Nights by David Gilmour**
2. The Year I Got Everything I Wanted by Cameron Contant**
3. Beginners Greek (a novel) by James Collins**
4. Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann***
5. Why We Hate Us by Dick Meyer**
6. The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux***
7. The Oxford American: Food Issue-*****
8. The Pinch: Volume 29, Issue 1 ***
9. The Best Non-Required Reading 2006: Dave Eggers ****
10. Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear ***
11. Love is a Mixed Tape by Rob Sheffield *****
12. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell***1/2
13. Oxford American (Best of the South edition)*****
14. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling***
15. M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman****
16. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk***
17. The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) ****
18. Odd and The Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman ***
19. Your Body is Changing by Jack Pendarvis *****
20. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (2nd time) ****
21. Catching Up or Leading the Way (educational book) ****
22. Oxford American Music Issue: Alabama ****
    

2009

1. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson****
2. Fletch, Too by Gregory McDonald**
3. Yellow Fever by James Dickerson**
4. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prackett***
5. Opie Read (1880’s) 3 Books found/read online*
6. Dark Midnight: Fisk Jubilee Singers by Andrew Ward***
7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince by J.K. Rowling (2^nd time)***
8. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore***
9. The Book of Guys by Garrison Kellior****
10. The Ruins by Scott Smith***
11. A&R by Bill Flanagan**
12. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman****
13. The School and Society by John Dewey***
14. Schools for the New Century by Dwight W. Allen**
15. Just After Sunset by Stephen King***
16. Martin Van Buren Biography by Ted Widmer***
17. I’m Down by Mishna Wolff****
18. 2009 Issues of Oxford American****
19. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett****
20. I Know You’re Out There by Michael Beaumier**
21. Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence**
22. The Wide Net and other short stories by Eudora Welty***
23. Best Non-Required Reading: 2008***
24. Best Music Writing 2005 edited by J.T. LeRoy**
25. 33 and 1/3 Greatest Hits v.1 edited by Barker***
26. The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe****
27. Literary Nashville ed. By Patrick Allen**
28. A Year With C.S. Lewis –excerpts from Lewis’s work***
29. Judas Kiss by J.T. Ellison**
30. The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg****
31. Balkans Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan***
32. A Million Miles and A Thousand Years by Donald Miller****
33. A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs***
34. Heat Wave by Richard Castle (fake writer)**
35. Ava’s Mann by Rick Bragg***
36. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer**
37. Dialogues with Silence by Thomas Merton***
38. How Not to Write a Screenplay by Denny Martin Flinn*
39. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury****
40. Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr.***

2008

1. I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
2. Best Non-Required Reading 2007by Dave Edgars
3. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
4. Dog of the South by Charles Portis
5. Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
6. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
7. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
9. Dubliners by James Joyce
10. Eight Great Short Stories by Mark Twain
11. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
12. 5 Issues of the Oxford American
13. Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
14. The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen
15. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
16. Learning to Bow by Bruce Feiler
17. The Era of Reconstruction by Kenneth Stamp
18. The Mind of the South by W.J. Cash
19. I’m With Stupid by Elaine Szewczyk
20. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
21. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
22. Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundrea
23. Duma Key by Stephen King
24. Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (3^rd time)
25. American Plague by Molly Crosby

2007

1. Three Weeks with my Brother- Nicholas Sparks
2. Lessons Taught On and Off the Court by John Wooden
3. Chronicles by Bob Dylan
4. Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane
5. Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
6. Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
7. Old myths and New Realities by J.W. Fulbright
8. Flynn’s In by Gregory McDonald
9. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (book 7)
11. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
13. Alexander Hamilton: A Biography by Ron Chernow
14. The Alienest by Caleb Carr
15. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
16. The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Rahl Dahl
17. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
18. This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Holmes
19. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
20. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
21. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
22. How to Be Alone by Jonathon Franzen
23. A Widow for a Year by John Irving
24. Sharing Good Times by Jimmy Carter

2006

1. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
2. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. God on Earth by Doug Banister
5. Wild at Heart by John Eldrigde
6. Bel Canto by Anne Patchett
7. Maximum Ride by James Patterson
8. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
9. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
10. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
11. Being Your Friend by Rick Lavoie
12. Short Stories by Truman Capote
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

2005

1. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk***
2. Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk**
3. Abraham by Bruce Feiler**
4. On Writing by Stephen King****
5. Song of Susannah by Stephen King (book 6)***
6. The Dark Tower by Stephen King (book 7)*****
7. Younger Than That Now: Interviews with Bob Dylan***
8. A Death in the Family by James Agee**
9. The Years of Lydon B. Johnson: Volume 2***
10. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean***
11. Republic by Plato***
12. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis***