My 2011 Reads

Not quite the 75 books that I hoped to read in 2011, but that was probably unrealistic to begin with. :) Next year I'm going to aim for 52.

1. The Soldiers' Wife by Margaret Leroy
2. The Slap by Chistos Tsiolkas*
3. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (re-read)
5. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (re-read)
6. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (re-read)
7. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
8. Room by Emma Donoghue
9. Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life by Sandra Beasley
10. One Day by David Nicholls
11. When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenwaldt
12. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
13. Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
14. Around the Bloc: My life in Moscow, Beijing and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
15. Female Nomad and Friends by Rita Golden Gelman
16. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
17. Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by Maarten J Troost
18. Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why by Tim Cahill
19. Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
20. The Risks of Sunbathing Topless: And Other Funny Stories from the Road by Kate Chynoweth
21. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen*
22. On the Beach by Nevil Shute
23. Ape House by Sara Gruen
24. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
25. Band of Angels by Julia Gregson
26. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
27. Lost on Planet China: Or How I Learned to Love Squid by Maarten J Troost
28. The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 edited by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
29. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

* The two best books I read this year:

 

What are the best books you read? What should I read in 2012?

My 2010 Reads

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella
Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai
God of Small Things by Arundati Roy*
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough*
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller*
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins*
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig*
House of Daughters by Sarah-Kate Lynch

Started but didn’t finish:
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Half the Sky by Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

* Best books I read this year!

My 2009 Reads

Washington Square by Henry James
Many lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss
Candide by Voltaire
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (I may admit that I actually read the Twilight series 3 times this year. But only if you promise not to judge.)
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Night Watch by Sarah Waters*
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux*
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli*
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood*
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (again) by J.K. Rowling
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
The Movie Goer by Walker Percy
Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin*
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

* Top 5 books I recommend.