What I’m Reading {100 Books in 2011}

I love reading. Love. Love. Love.

I also love setting goals.

I also am a tiny bit obsessive.

This winning combination has led me to an annual tradition of aiming to read 100 books per year. This will be my fourth year setting this lofty number. (To get to 100, this typically means that I start about 115, and don’t finish about 15 of them. This, because a few years ago I made a pact with myself to stop finishing bad books. Finishing every book used to be my other obsession.)

I keep a running list of the books and what I think of them in my journal, and this bright shiny 2011 I’m going to write them here to bore you all.

Here goes…

Books Read in 2011:

1. The Message
2. A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
3. Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back…And How You Can Too
4. Falling Apart in One Piece
5. Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness
6. Healthy Homemaking
7. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
8. Room
9. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession
10. The New Good Life: Living Better in an Age of Less
11. In A Perfect World
12. Mutant Message Down Under
13. Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land
14. Women, Food and God
15. The Raw Diet (Jordan Rubin)
16. Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny:
17. Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam (Zainab Salbi)
18. The Middle-Class Millionaire: The Rise of the New Rich and How They Are Changing America
19. Time Management 101
20. Nourishing Traditions
21. It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace
22. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse
23. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen
24. Conversations with God: 1
25. Conversations with God: 2
26. Conversations with God: 3
27. Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke
28. Health Book
29. Everything I Know About Business Books
30. Calm My Anxious Heart
31. Re-Work
32. Share This!
33. The Winter of Our Disconnect
34. One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where you Are
35. This Life is In Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and A Life Undone
36. Hunting Eichmann
37. Millionaire Messenger
38. Quakebook 2:46
39. Share This!
40. Born To Run
41. 3 Cups of Deceit
42. The Simple Dollar
43. The Hundred Thing Challenge
44. Hiroshima In The Morning
45. Eichmann In My Hands
46. The Samurai’s Garden
47. The Lost City of Z
48. No Biking In The House Without A Helmet
49. Skeletons On The Zahara
50. Difficult Conversations
51. Power Sleep
52. A Place Of Yes
53. The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working
54. Health Book
55. Health Book (as I’ve mentioned before, I choose not to disclose the names of all the health books I read!)
56. Queen Of The Sun
57. Move Your Shadow
58. Crush It!
59. Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way
60. Half the Sky
61. Wanderlust
62. Acedia & Me
63. Health Book
64. Health Book
65. The Dressmaker of
66. The Long Goodbye
67. On Persephone’s Island
68. Blood, Bones & Butter
69. An Unexpected Light
70. Catfish and Mandala
71. On a Shoestring to Coorg
72. The Waiting Land
73. Unlikely Destinations
74. The Quiet American
75. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
76. First They Killed My Father
77. The Venice Experiment
78. The Last Resort
79. The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
80. Death in a Prairie House
81. Crossing the Heart of Africa
82. EntreLeadership
83. Kisses from Katie
84. Tweet If You (Heart) Jesus
85. The Last Empress
86. Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean
87. Made to Crave
88. Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
89. Grace for the Good Girl
90. {health book}
91. The Power of Miracles
92. A Confident Heart
93. Debt Free University
94. Nightwoods
95. Thy Kingdom Connected
96. Love Has A Face: A Mascara, A Machete, and One Woman’s Miraculous Journey with Jesus in Sudan
97. Happy Chaos
98. The Overload Syndrome
99. For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question
100. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years