Reading Like the Dickens

One of my resolutions for 2010 was to write down everything I read. Whether it was pleasure reading, school reading, classic literature, or chick lit–it was all to be written down. I am extremely proud to note that I managed to do so, even including the date on which I finished it, and how many books I read a month. My grand total was 73. (My goal for 2011 is to read 80.) Here is the listing for 2010:

1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  (1-7-10)
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1-8-10)
3. Tracks by Louise Erdrich (1-10-10)
4. Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie (1-15-10)
5. The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice (1-19-10)
6. Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets (1-24-10)
7. The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill (1-28-10)
8. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum (1-29-10)
9. The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (2-2-10)
10. Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill (2-6-10)
11. The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable (2-9-10)
12. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill (2-14-10)
13. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (2-14-10)
14. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (3-2-10)
15. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (3-9-10)
16. Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams (3-9-10)
17. Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner (3-10-10)
18. The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams (3-11-10)
19. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (3-14-10)
20. Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (3-15-10)
21. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (3-21-10)
22. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (3-23-10)
23. Richard III by William Shakespeare (3-24-10)
24. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (3-26-10)
25. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella (3-28-10)
26. Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella (3-30-10)
27. Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella (3-31-10)
28. The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (3-31-10)
29. Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella (4-1-10)
30. Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (4-12-10)
31. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (4-13-10)
32. ‘Night, Mother by Marsha Norman (4-15-10)
33. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (4-17-10)
34. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (4-24-10)
35. Leaves of Parchment by Silas House (4-26-10)
36. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines (5-11-10)
37. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (5-17-10)
38. All’s Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare (5-22-10)
39. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (5-31-10)
40. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (6-1-10)
41. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll(6-2-10)
42. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (6-17-10)
43. Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray (6-22-10)
44. Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert (6-29-10)
45. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (7-5-10)
46. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (7-6-10)
47. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (7-22-10)
48. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (7-27-10)
49. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (8-2-10)
50. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (8-12-10)
51. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles (8-13-10)
52. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8-23-10)
53. Light in August by William Faulkner (8-29-10)
54. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (8-31-10)
55. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (9-7-10)
56. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (9-11-10)
57. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (9-20-10)
58. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (9-20-10)
59. The Contrast by Royall Tyler (9-30-10)
60. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (10-4-10)
61. White Noise by Don DeLillo (10-6-10)
62. King Lear by William Shakespeare (10-27-10)
63. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (11-4-10)
64. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (11-5-10)
65. Native Son by Richard Wright (11-14-10)
66. Generation X by Douglas Coupland (11-15-10)
67. The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (11-22-10)
68. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (11-23-10)
69. A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert (12-4-10)
70. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (12-9-10)
71. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (12-10-10)
72. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens (12-24-10)
73. Black Beauty by Anna Sewall (12-30-10)

A few final stats:

Month in which I read the most: March, 15.

Month in which I read the least: October, 3.

Average number of works per month:6

Number of New Reads (Never read before):55

Number of Books Re-Read: 18

Average number of works per week:  1.4

Here’s to another year of re-reading old favorites, and discovering new treasures.

Edited to Add: I’ve been blogging (off and on) for two years. Happy blogoversary to me!

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