A Reading Check-up

It’s hard to believe, but we’ve already put a third of the year behind us. Time to check in on our reading resolutions, no? Below is my quick progress report; you can add your own in the comments.

Goal #1 Read more women:  So far so good. I’ve been hovering right around 50% women authors all year, and I imagine I’ll end up somewhere north of 50% by the end of 2012.

Goal #2 Read an Agatha Christie novel before I see it adapted on screen: Check. Review can be found here.

Goal #3 Read a foreign language novel in the original: No progress yet, but then again, it’s only April. Get off my back, dude.

Now for the tallies:

Books read so far:  13   (on pace to beat last year’s 32)

Pages read so far: 3,701  (current pace puts me 250 pages below last year’s 11,358)

They break down something like this: eight novels and one novella (73% of total), two short story collections (18% of total), one play, and one play-short story combo (9% of total). All of it classic or contemporary literary fiction.

And here’s the list:

1. The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro 
2. A Bell for Adano, John Hersey 
3. Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta 
4. Wasatch, Douglas Thayer 
5. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James 
6. Curtain, Agatha Christie  
7. Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust  
8. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte  
9. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte   
10. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan   
11. The Vegetable, F. Scott Fitzgerald  
12. The Fifth Column & Four Unpublished Stories of the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway  
13. The Death of a Disco Dancer, David Clark

What about you? What have you read this year? Which books have  knocked your socks off?