Goal #5: Read one book every week for a year

September 2007-September 2008

1. Sept. 2: Daughter of Fortune, Isabelle Allende 3/5 stars
2. Sept. 5: Franny & Zooey, J.D. Salinger 5/5 stars
3. Sept. 12: The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd 1/5 stars
4. Sept. 13: Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 3/5 stars
5. Sept. 16: Dave Barry Does Japan, Dave Barry 2/5 stars
6. Sept. 19: Collages, Anais Nin 4/5 stars
7. Sept. 21: Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon 3/5 stars
8. Sept. 25: Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser 3/5 stars
9. Sept. 30: Bel Canto, Ann Patchett 2/5 stars
10. Oct. 2: Life of Pi, Yann Martel 4/5 stars
11. Oct. 9: Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins 5/5 stars
12. Oct. 9: Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov 4/5 stars
13. Oct. 14: A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess 4/5 stars
14. Oct. 18: The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith 2/5 stars
15. Oct. 21: A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters, Julian Barnes 2/5 stars
16. Oct. 27: Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami 4/5 stars
17. Oct. 30: Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky 5/5 stars
18. Nov. 5: Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut 3/5 stars
19. Nov. 13: Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder 3/5 stars
20. Nov. 19: Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf 3/5 stars
21. Nov. 26: For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander —
22. Nov. 31: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 3/5 stars
23. Dec. 6: The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx 3/5 stars
24. Dec. 13: A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines 3/5 stars
25. Dec. 15: The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie 5/5 stars
26. Dec. 24: Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom 3/5 stars
27. Dec. 29: How to Grow Fruit Trees —
28. Jan. 2: God’s Bits of Wood, Ousmane Sembène 4/5 stars
29. Feb. 26: In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan 4/5 stars
30. Mar. 2: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers 3.5/5 stars
31. Mar. 29: Catch-22, Joseph Heller 4/5 stars
32. Apr. 6: Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut 3/5 stars
33. Apr. 7: Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri 3/5 stars
34. Apr. 23: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4/5 stars
35. Apr. 28: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006, Edited by Dave Eggers 4/5 stars
36. May 2: A Friend of the Earth, T. C. Boyle 3.5/5 stars
37. May 6: Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin 4/5 stars
38. May 15: What Now? Ann Patchett 3/5 stars
39. May 15: Mary, Vladimir Nabokov 4/5 stars
40. May 23: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race & Inheritance, Barack Obama 3.5/5 stars
41. May 27: Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough & Michael Braungart 4/5 stars
42. June 1: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 3.5/5 stars
43. June 3: Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart 4/5 stars
44. June 6: Always Running, Luis J. Rodriguez 5/5 stars
45. June 15: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 5/5 stars
46. June 17: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe 2.5/5 stars
47. July 26: A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut 3.5/5 stars
48. July 29: The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch 3/5 stars
49. Aug. 1: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer 5/5 stars
50. Aug. 11: Without Feathers, Woody Allen 4/5 stars
51. Aug. 14: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan 4/5 stars
52. Aug. 24: Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris 4/5 stars

Unfinished Books

1. The Archaeology of War: Human Conflict Since the Dawn of Civilization, Archaeology Magazine
2. Cosmos, Witold Gombrowicz
3. Destination: Morgue! LA Tales, James Ellroy
4. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Barack Obama
6. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

1/5 stars: Just plain awful
2/5 stars: Not worth reading
3/5 stars: It’s okay
4/5 stars: Notable
5/5 stars: Must read