As I’ve said before, for the last four (five?) years I’ve set a goal to read 100 books a year. In 2011, I hit the goal (yay!) and have finally gotten around to updating the final list. I’ve also started my new 2012 list here. (And, and as amazing new addition — In 2012 I’ll actually be rating them. Huzzah!)
Later this week I’ll do a post highlighting some of my absolute favorites.
Books Read in 2011:
(note that I’ve for the 2011 list I’ve highlighted by top 10-15 favorites with handy stars)
- The Message
- A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table *****
- Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back…And How You Can Too *****
- Falling Apart in One Piece
- Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness
- Healthy Homemaking
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
- Room
- Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession
- The New Good Life: Living Better in an Age of Less
- In A Perfect World
- Mutant Message Down Under
- Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land
- Women, Food and God
- The Raw Diet (Jordan Rubin)
- Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny
- Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam (Zainab Salbi) *****
- The Middle-Class Millionaire: The Rise of the New Rich and How They Are Changing America
- Time Management 101
- Nourishing Traditions *****
- It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace
- Alice Waters and Chez Panisse *****
- The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen
- Conversations with God: 1
- Conversations with God: 2
- Conversations with God: 3
- Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke *****
- Health Book
- Everything I Know About Business Books
- Calm My Anxious Heart
- Re-Work *****
- Share This!
- The Winter of Our Disconnect
- One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where you Are *****
- This Life is In Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and A Life Undone *****
- Hunting Eichmann *****
- Millionaire Messenger
- Quakebook 2:46
- Share This!
- Born To Run *****
- 3 Cups of Deceit
- The Simple Dollar
- The Hundred Thing Challenge
- Hiroshima In The Morning
- Eichmann In My Hands
- The Samurai’s Garden*****
- The Lost City of Z*****
- No Biking In The House Without A Helmet*****
- Skeletons On The Zahara
- Difficult Conversations
- Power Sleep
- A Place Of Yes
- The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working*****
- Health Book
- Health Book (as I’ve mentioned before, I choose not to disclose the names of all the health books I read!)
- Queen Of The Sun
- Move Your Shadow
- Crush It
- Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way
- Half the Sky*****
- Wanderlust
- Acedia & Me
- Health Book
- Health Book
- The Dressmaker
- The Long Goodbye
- On Persephone’s Island
*****
- Blood, Bones & Butter*****
- An Unexpected Light
- Catfish and Mandala
- On a Shoestring to Coorg
- The Waiting Land
- Unlikely Destinations
- The Quiet American
- Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
- First They Killed My Father
- The Venice Experiment
- The Last Resort
- The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
- Death in a Prairie House
- Crossing the Heart of Africa
- EntreLeadership
- Kisses from Katie
- Tweet If You (Heart) Jesus
- The Last Empress
- Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean
- Made to Crave
- Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic*****
- Grace for the Good Girl
- {health book}
- The Power of Miracles
- A Confident Heart
- Debt Free University
- Nightwoods
- Thy Kingdom Connected
- Love Has A Face: A Mascara, A Machete, and One Woman’s Miraculous Journey with Jesus in Sudan
- Happy Chaos
- The Overload Syndrome
- For Us, Surrender is Out of the Question*****
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years*****
I have made it my goal to read more books year after year and still find myself only getting through 5-10. *sigh* Would love to hear which of these were your favorites!
You ask, I answer. Just updated my top 10-15 with stars. And you just wait — in 2012 I’ve got a new, star-studdedly complex rating system I’ll be implementing!
We shared several books on our list of 100 this year, especially loved Ann’s One Thousand Gifts and Entreleadership http://skipperclan.com/2012/01/03/the-year-i-read-100-books/
Yes LOVE Ann and Dave! Also love reading any author that I can then follow on Twitter;)
Wow. Wow. You’re my hero. I love, love, love to read, but I also love movies and a few select cable series that I catch on Netflix. I probably read 20 books a year. But I’d love to double or triple that. Now I have a role model to emulate, to a lesser extent.
Yeah I’m really bad with movies. I get bored quickly and can’t tell characters apart…So…yeah…
Impressive list!! Thanks for sharing, you have inspired many readers I’m sure! Do you read with an e-reader or “printed” books, or a mix of both?
I got through 25 books in 2011. I think I could double that number if I could get into e-reading, but I just haven’t yet. I need the concrete delineation of chapters, which is probably silly.
Mix of both. I LOVE my kindle (it’s two years old though, not a fancy touch-screen one!), HATE reading on an ipad (but do for ebooks occasionally), and LOVE real, thick, heavy books. I find if I love something on Kindle I then buy it in “real” book form!
Awesome list. God bless you richly. I love to read and do so daily. I never thought to count the number of books I read in a year. I spend most of my time proofing and editing and writing my own stuff so I scatter shot read and often end up starting a book one year and finishing it in another. The amazing thing is most of the books are so well written and impressive that it feels like I never stopped reading them.
Thank you for this list and this article.
What do you write?
What do you write?
Is this list in serial order of how you read through or just your picks?
Hello I’m just now finding your site! It’s very inspiring to read about how much you read 🙂 I find that I’m overwhelmed with (probably an addiction, though the world wouldn’t see it this way) of media ie: Facebook, pinterest, blogs, tv and movies. I’ve had a goal this year to read through the whole bible and a couple CS Lewis books, though I’m very behind because I spend so much wasted time on pinning and tv! Lol. What do you do to manage these other outlets? How much would you estimate you spend on books per year? And lastly, how do you pick new books to read? I’d appreciate your reply on an older post! 🙂