Books

Last year, I realized that I could probably count the number of books I’d read in previous years on one hand. It seemed pathetic that I could sit through 4 hours or more of America’s Next Top Model, but I couldn’t finish F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tumultuous Tender Is the Night. So on January 1st, I made my New Year’s Resolution to keep a log of the books I read- an idea that was inspired by Art Garfunkel’s list. And, hey, check it out- it looks like it worked!

Let’s see if I can do it again this year:

January 2008

• Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (1817)
• Juliet B. Schor - The Overspent American (1998 )

February

• Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West - Revolting Librarians Redux (2003)
• Jane Austen - Mansfield Park (1814)
• Howard Zinn - The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace (2002)
• Michael Pollan - The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006)

March

• Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
• Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl (2001)
• Eboo Patel - Acts of Faith (2007)

April

• Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy (2006)
• Antoine de Saint Exupéry - The Little Prince (1943)
• Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild (1997)

May

• Alice Hoffman - Practical Magic (1995)
• Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet (1953)
• Joanne Harris - Chocolat (1999)

June

• Karen Nakamura - Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity (2006)
• Josh Swiller - The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa (2007)
• Ian McEwan - Atonement (2001)

If you’re wondering: the book titles with hyperlinks take you to whatever/whoever it was that inspired me to start reading that book.