52 Books, 52 Weeks

There are few things in this world I love more than curling up and losing myself in a great novel.  While in college, I rarely took the time to read for pleasure — but that didn’t stop me from adding new books to my collection nearly every time I set foot in Borders.  Woops.  After graduation, I got back into the habit and managed to finish around 30 books last year.

I wanted to push myself (and give myself permission to set aside time to read), so I’ve set a goal to read a book each week in 2010, and will be keeping track of my progress here.  I’m also trying to read more foreign authors whose works have been translated into English.

1. Infidel** – Ayaan Hirsi Al
2. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
3. The Princess of Burundi – Kjell Eriksson
4. Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society** – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
8. The Gospel According to Coco Chanel – Karen Karbo
9. The Sun Also Rises** – Ernest Hemingway
10. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us – Seth Godin
11. Horns – Joe Hill
12. The Man from Beijing – Henning Mankell
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
15. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Steig Larsson
16. The Handmaid’s Tale** – Margaret Atwood
17. The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag – Alan Bradley

Titles followed by ** are selections from the Madison Brazen Book Club that I started in November.  If you’re in the Madison area and would like to join, check out our page on BrazenCareerist.com. We meet once a month, and it’s a great opportunity to meet some fellow 20-something book lovers.