So, we’re sitting two-thirds of the way through 2012. It’s time to revisit our reading resolutions. You can find mine here. And here’s what I’ve read so far this year:
- The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro
- A Bell for Adano, John Hersey
- Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta
- Wasatch, Douglas Thayer
- The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
- Curtain, Agatha Christie
- Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
- The Vegetable, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Fifth Column & Four Unpublished Stories of the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway
- The Death of a Disco Dancer, David Clark
- State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
- The Dead, James Joyce
- Blue Nights, Joan Didion
- Swamplandia, Karen Russell
- Silas Marner, George Eliot
- Home, Toni Morrison
- To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
- The Human Comedy, William Saroyan
- Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
- The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
And currently vying for attention on my nightstand are:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Blue Highways, William Least Heat Moon
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
That’s 14 women and 15 men (with one gentleman showing up twice). But what really blows me away is that 24 of these authors were brand-spanking new to me. I feel like I’m tearing through new authors like they’re going out of style (some of them are!), and I’m still only scratching the surface.
But back to my goals. I’m clearly reading more women, I’ve knocked off an Agatha Christie, and all I need to do in the next four months is read a foreign language book in the original. Not too shabby.
What about you? How is your reading year coming along?
