2011 in books

I’m going to go ahead and put this here. These are all the books I read cover to cover in 2011.

Presented without any comment! Other than to say that 6 were especially horrible and I read them with growing dread. I will leave it up to you to guess which ones.

1. Life of Pi, Yann Martel 

2. The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl (re-read)

3. Beatrice & Virgil, Yann Martel

4. When Everything Changed, Gail Collins

5. Weight, Jeanette Winterson

6. Lady Chatterly’s Lover, D.  H.  Lawrence

7. Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)

8. The Shallows, James Fallows

9. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell

10. Right Ho, Jeeves, PG Wodehouse

11. American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson

12. The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket

13. Machine of Death, Various

14. The Imperfectionists, Tom Rathman

15. The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan

16. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

17. The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket

18. The Wide Window, Lemony Snicket

19. Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

20. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins

21. My Horizontal Life, Chelsea Handler

22. The Miserable Mine, Lemony Snicket

23. Bossypants, Tina Fey

24. Unbearable Lightness, Portia di Rossi

25. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett

26. Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde

27. The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart

28. Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett

29. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

30. Packing for Mars, Mary Roach

31. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender

32. Mort, Terry Pratchett (re-read)

33. Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

34. Wyrd Systers, Terry Pratchett

35. Sourcery, Terry Pratchett

36. Moving Pictures, Terry Pratchett

37. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Christopher Moore

38. Guards, Guards!, Terry Pratchett

39. I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson

40. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (re-read)

41. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (re-read)

42. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (re-read)

43. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Trenton Lee Stewart

44. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

45. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut

46. Eric, Terry Pratchett

47. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

48. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

49. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma, Trenton Lee Stewart

50. New Moon, Stephanie Meyer

51. The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

52. I Was Told There’d Be Cake (audio), Sloane Crosley

53. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett

54. House of Tomorrow, Peter Bognanni

55. Quiet, Susan Cain

56. The Magicians, Lev Grossman

57. Enough About Love, Herve Le Tellier

58. Oh My Gods, Tera Lynn Childs

59. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

60. The Professor’s House, Willa Cather (re-read)

61. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, M.  T.  Andersen

62. A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend, Emily Horner

63. Swamplandia!, Karen Russell

64. The Magician King, Lev Grossman 

65. The Last Nude, Ellis Avery (ARC)

66. Situations Matter, Sam Sommers (ARC)

67. The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket

68. The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket

69. The Vile Village, Lemony Snicket

70. The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket

71. The Carnivorous Carnival, Lemony Snicket

72. The Slippery Slope, Lemony Snicket

73. The Grim Grotto, Lemony Snicket

74. The Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket

75. The End, Lemony Snicket

Clearly I chose to end the year on a high note.