100 books within the year.
Starting January 1, 2011.
Ending December 31, 2011.
That’s 365 days, so about 3.65 days per book.
Lofty? Yes.
Worth it? Also yes.
The rule is that it cannot be a book that I’ve already read.
As for the title, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of my favorite books, and I figured that reading 100 books in only a year will wind up providing me with a great deal of solitude. Please allow me to toot my own horn for being so clever.
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One Hundred Books in 365 Days
At long last, here is the list of the 100 books that I will read between January 1st and December 31st. Bring it on, 2011!
1. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
4. Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov
5. Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
6. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
7. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson
8. The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
9. The Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff
10. Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts - David Baggett
11. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science - Charles Wheelan and Burton G. Malkiel
12. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
13. Anthem - Ayn Rand
14. Helping Yourself Help Others - Rosalyn Carter
15. I Hate You-Don’t Leave Me - Jerold J. Kreisman
16. Strong at the Broken Places - Richard M. Cohen
17. Getting Things Done - David Allen
18. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
19. The Ice Storm - Rick Moody
20. The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
21. Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper - Stephen J. Dubner
22. A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide - Samantha Power
23. Eating the Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman
24. The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist - Mary H. Manheim
25. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
26. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
27. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
28. The House of Blue Leaves - John Guare
29. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
30. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
31. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
32. Agamemnon - Aeschylus
33. The Libation Bearers - Aeschylus
34. The Eumenides - Aeschylus
35. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
36. Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story - Carolyn Turgeon
37. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
38. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
29. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
30. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
31. The Wanting Seed - Anthony Burgess
32. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
33. About a Boy - Nick Hornby
34. The Body Artist - Don Delillo
35. Blindness - Jose Saramago
36. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? - Dave Eggers
37. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
38. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
39. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession - Daniel J. Levitin
40. Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby, Jr.
41. Serena - Ron Rash
42. World War Z - Max Brooks
43. Pride and Prejudice & Zombies - Seth Grahame Smith
44. Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead - Jonathan Marberry
45. Gandhi: An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth
46. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
47. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun - Gretchen Rubin
48. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
49. A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
50. The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
51. The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
52. The Winter’s Tale - William Shakespeare
53. King John - William Shakespeare
54. Richard II - William Shakespeare
55. Henry IV, Part I - William Shakespeare
56. Henry IV, Part II - William Shakespeare
57. Henry V - William Shakespeare
58. Henry VI, Part I - William Shakespeare
59. Henry VI, Part II - William Shakespeare
60. Henry VI, Part III - William Shakespeare
61. Henry VIII - William Shakespeare
62. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
63. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
64. The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
65. Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde
66. The Atheist Camel Chronicles: Debate Themes & Arguments for the Non-Believer (and those who think they might be) - Dromedary Hump
67. How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life - Melissa Hellstern
68. Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
69. Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides
70. What French Women Know: About Love, Sex, and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind - Debra Ollivier
71. Candide - Voltaire
72. And Tango Makes Three - Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson
73. Narrative of Arthur Gordan Pym - Edgar Allan Poe
74. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
75. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
76. American Hardcore: A Tribal History - Steven Blush
77. Anarchy Evolution - Greg Graffin
78. Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
79. The Power of Myth - Josh Campbell
80. Letters to a Young Novelist - Mario Vargas Llosa
81. Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
82. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
83. The Republic - Plato
84. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
85. Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
86. Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
87. The End of the Road - John Barth
88. The Floating Opera - John Barth
89. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest - Steig Larsson
90. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Steig Larsson
91. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
92. The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
93. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home - Rhoda Janzen
94. In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom - Qanta Ahmed
95. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
96. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
97. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
98. The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
99. How It Is - Samuel Beckett
100. Going Rouge: An American Nightmare - Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
