So…in 2007 I resolved to read 100 books. Mostly because I felt like I was becoming stupid in 2006. I got to employ some of my old college speed reading skillz, which got me through the month and a half of Harry Potter. But here’s the list below. It’s funny to look at it and know why at each particular moment during the year I picked a certain book. Let me know if you want a recommendation… a lot were great, a lot were okay, and others were like…whatever Penguin Classics, right you know? HA! Yeah good.
Right, I’m like wicked smart now?
* = rereads.
1. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller*
2. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
3. The Second City by Sheldon Patinkin*
4. After The First Death by Robert Cormier*
5. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
6. At Home With the Marquis de Sade by Francine Du Plessix Gray
7. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
8. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
9. A Night Of Serious Drinking by Rene Daumal
10. To the Best of My Ability Edited by James M. McPherson
11. Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
12. The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
13. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor*
14. Founding Brothers The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J Ellis*
15. Arcadia: A Play by Tom Stoppard
16. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
17. Nine Stories by JD Salinger*
18. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
19. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse*
20. Getting Even by Woody Allen*
21. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis
22. Foop! by Chris Genoa
23. Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
24. 8 Plays by Moliere by Moliere
25. The Wilco Book by Wilco*
26. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
27. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
28. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris*
29. Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett
30. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
31. Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
32. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell*
33. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
34. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
35. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
36. Fade by Robert Cormier*
37. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
38. Nada by C. Laforet
39. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose*
40. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis*
41. Her by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
42. Haunted: A Novel of Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
43. Who Do You Love by Jean Thompson
44. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut*
45. Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
46. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*
47. Truman by David McCullough
48. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
49. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
50. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov*
51. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera*
52. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
53. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
54. The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
55. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
56. Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris
57. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J K Rowling*
58. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling*
59. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling*
60. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling
61. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling
62. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling
63. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
64. Fiasco The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E Ricks
65. Oranges by John McPhee
66. The Plague by Albert Camus
67. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby*
68. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby*
69. Atonement by Ian Mcewan
70. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak*
71. Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W Loewen
72. Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
73. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
74. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow*
75. A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
76. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
77. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
78. Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
79. The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Tim Egan
80. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett*
81. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
82. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer*
83. The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
84. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young
85. Bears A Brief History by Lori Lantz and Bernd Brunner
86. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino*
87. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
88. What Is What by Dave Eggers
89. Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The Onion
90. Flavors by Mason Williams
91. The Mason Williams Reader by Mason Williams
92. The World Is Flat A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman
93. I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert
94. Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman
95. Marathoning for Mortals by John Bingham and Jenny Hadfield
96. Chronicles by Bob Dylan*
97. Henderson The Rain King by Saul Bellow
98. Love Is a Mix Tape Life, Loss, And What I Listened To by Rob Sheffield
99. Wonderful Town New York Stories from the New Yorker Edited by David Remnick
100. Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
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