It's that time of year again. I could wait until the 31st to post this, but I doubt I'll finish another book before then. And if I do, I'll just ammend the list. As always, books I recommend will have an asterisk next to them. And just because something doesn't have an asterisk next to it doesn't mean I didn't like it.
My goal for this year was to read 50 books, and I'm pleased as punch to announce I surpassed my goal.
1. Illumination Night - Alice Hoffman*
2. Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind
3. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
4. Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill
5. Take the Cannoli - Sarah Vowell
6. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson*
7. Empire Falls - Richard Russo
8. The Beans of Egypt, Maine - Carolyn Chute
9. Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott*
10. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
11. Selected Stories - Andre Dubus
12. Elizabeth Bishop the Complete Poems*
13. The Early Church - Henry Chadwick
14. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald*
15. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
16. Poetic Form: An Introduction - David Kaplan
17. The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry - Kevin Clark
18. 100 Great Poets of the English Language - Dana Gioia
19. One Art: Elizabeth Bishop Letters
20. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya*
21. The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery***
22. The BFG - Roald Dahl*
23. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
24. Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughan
25. Blankets - Craig Thompson*
26. World War Z - Max Brooks*
27. The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
28. On Writing - Stephen King*
29. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker*
31. Lord of the Flies - William Golding*
32. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
33. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
34. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro*
35. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
36. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett*
38. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck*
39. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
40. The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle*
41. Howl's Moving Castle - Dianna Wynne Jones*
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey*
43. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
44. Did You Say Chicks?! - Ed. Esther Friesner
45. Stardust - Neil Gaiman*
46. Push - Sapphire
47. King Rat - China Mieville
48. A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore*
49. The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman*
50. Dog Blood - David Moody
51. Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
52. Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
53. Mythology - Eith Hamilton
54. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris*
55. Tent Number Eight - Gloyd McCoy
56. Lamb - Christopher Moore*
57. Night - Elie Wiesel
58. A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
