Read 150+ Books a Year discussion

This is a lofty goal since I am starting this so late in the year,, but I'm up for the challenge!

Here is what I have read so far in 2009 (not in order read):

1. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
2. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
3. Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
6. Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
7. Beast in the Jungle, The & Other Stories - Henry James
8. Breaking Dawn - Stepenie Meyer
9. Broken Open - Elizabeth Lesser
10. A Child Called "It" - David Pelzer
11. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
12. The Dark Bride - Laura Restrepo
13. Devil in the White City - Erik Larsen
14. Eat, Love, Pray - Elizabeth Gilbert
15. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
16. Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
17. Fireproof - Stephen Kendrick
18. Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
20. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
21. Gone to the Dogs - Mary Guterson
22. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
23. How to Heal a Painful Relationship - Bill Ferguson
24. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
25. The Journey to the East - Herman Hesse
26. The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
27. The Love Dare - Stephen Kendrick
28. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28. Madame de Treymes - Edith Wharton
29. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
30. Midnight Sun - Stephenie Meyer
31. My Mortal Enemy - Willa Cather
32. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
33. Night - Elie Wiesel
34. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
35. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies - Seth Grahame Smith
36. The Reader - Bernard Schlink
37. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
38. The Shack - William P. Young
39. The Stranger - Albert Camus
40. Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo
41. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
42. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
43. Time Machine, The - H.G. Wells
44. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
45. Vinegar Hill - A. Manette Ansay
46. Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts
47. Women, The - Clare Booth Luce

48. For One More Day - Mitch Albom
49. A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks

50. Crossroads by Belva Plain


1/3 of the way there!!!!!! But over halfway through the year - yikes - I need to get busy!

Erin, I LOVED that book! One of my all-time favorites. It is definitely inspiring!

51. Pride and Pejudice by Jane Austen
52. Iris & Ruby by Rosie Thomas

53. Code to Zero by Ken Follett

54. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
55. Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline

56. Japanese Inn by Oliver Statler

57. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
58. Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

59. Hannah's Dream by Diane Hammond
60. Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America by Kathleen Rooney

61. Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
62. Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen without a Country by Kathryn Lasky

63. America's Best Short Stories 1995 Edition
64. The Body Artist by Don Delillo
65. Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen

66. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
67. Dead Heat by Dick Francis

68. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
69. The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip

70. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
71. When Character Was King A Story of Ronald Reagan by Peggy Noonan
72. Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
73. The Double Image by Helen MacInnes

74. Anthem by Ayn Rand
75. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

76. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
77. War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
78. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
79. First Love and Other Stories by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
80. Invasion of the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6! by James Howe
81. Stonewall's Gold A Novel of the Civil War by Robert J. Mrazek

82. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
83. Dance of the Scarecrows A Jonathan Wilder Mystery by Ray Sipherd
84. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
85. Screaming Mummies of the Pharoah's Tomb II by James Howe

86. The Defining Moment FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter
87. The Bears and I Raising Three Cubs in the North Woods by Robert Franklin Leslie
88. How I Got to Be Perfect by Jean Kerr
89. Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel

90. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
91. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
92. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen

93. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
94. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

95. Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson

96. Benjamin Franklin Autobiography, Poor Richard Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings by Benjamin Franklin
97. Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne
98. The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

99. Bad Blood A Novel by Linda Fairstein
100. Summer by Edith Wharton

101. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
102. The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs by Cynthia DeFelice
103. The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella

104. So This Is What Happened to Charlie Moe by Douglass Wallop
105. He's Just Not That Into You (The Newly Expanded Edition) The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

106. Bless the Beasts and Children by Glendon Swarthout
107. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
108. Kim: A Gift from Vietnam by Frank W. Chinnock
109. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

110. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
111. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
112. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
113. The Long Walk Home A Novel by Will North

114. Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas

115. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
116. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
117. Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
118. Malinche A Novel by Laura Esquivel

119. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
120. Marley & Me Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan

121. The Inner Game of Stress Outsmart Life's Challenges and Fulfill Your Potential by W. Timothy Gallwey
122. The Devil and Miss Prym A Novel of Temptation by Paulo Coelho

123. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
124. The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne

125. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
126. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

127. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
128. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

129. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

130. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
131. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
132. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

133. The Kennedy Curse Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years by Edward Klein

134. The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
135. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

136. Julie and Julia My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

137. One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

138. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
139. History of Love by Nicole Krauss
140. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
141. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
142. True Believer by Nicholas Sparks
143. At Fist Sight by Nichoas Sparks
144. The Courage of Fear by Barbara Boyer
145. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

146. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

147. Civil Blood A Civil War Mystery by Ann McMillan

148. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
149. A Pale View of the Hills bt Kazuo Ishiguro
150. Vathek by William Beckford
151. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
152. A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
153. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by John William Polidori
154. Candide by Voltaire
155. The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
156. The Secret Sharer and Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
157. A Time to Speak by Helen Lewis
158. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
159. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

160. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
161. Watchmen by Alan Moore
162. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
163. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston