The Final Tally

Obviously, due to the drop-off in number of items added to the list and of postings posted over the last three months, life has been busy. Teaching is a job to love for the holidays and summers off, but it is a relentless beast during the actual working days. Even though it's break, I spent the last two days grading papers. I do, however, have a couple of books to add to the List, therefore completing it for 2011.

Books I've read this year

1. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
2. White Noise by Don DeLillo
3. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
4. American Tabloid by James Ellroy
5. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
6. Babel-17 by Samuel Delaney
7. Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
8. Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
9. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
10. Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
12. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
13. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
14. The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
15. Austenland by Shannon Hale
16. Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
17. Daisy Miller by Henry James
18. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
19. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
20. The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
21. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
22. Just After Sunset by Stephen King
23. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
24. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
25. Bossypants by Tina Fey
26. The Group by Mary McCarthy
27. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile McCoy
28. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
29. The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Anthony Horowitz

So, I guess the grand total has to be 29. I was hoping for 40, but maybe in 2012!

Just for fun, a few of the YA books I read (though I can't say I honestly remember if this was all of them)

1. Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
2. Peeled by Joan Bauer
3. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
4. Heist Society by Ally Carter

And, a preview of my to-read list for 2012:

1. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (reading now)
2. His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Wildwood by Colin Meloy
4. Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
5. The Marriage Plot by Jeffery Eugenides

Happy New Year!