75 Books...More or Less! discussion

I realized I have a reasonable shot at 50 books this year, so I'm going to go for it! I doubt I'll make 75, but we'll see...

Here's what I've read so far. Full reviews via my 'read in 2011' page here. I'll bold the 5 five star books. :)

1. The Graveyard Book, 5/5 (reread)
2. The Hunger Games, 4/5
3. Coraline, 5/5
4. The Woman in White, 5/5 <--a new favorite!
5. The Keeper, 4/5
6. The House Next Door, 3/5
7. The Maze Runner, 2/5
8. The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker, 5/5
9. The Forest of Hands and Teeth, 4/5
10. Stonewords: A Ghost Story, 3/5
11. The Book of Three, 4/5
12. Winter's Bone, 4/5
13. People of the Book, 3/5
14. The Dollhouse Murders, 4/5
15. In the Miso Soup, 4/5
16. Catching Fire, 3/5
17. Mockingjay, 4/5
18. Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival, 4/5
19. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, 4/5
20. Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way, 4/5
21. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, 3/5
22. Norwegian Wood, 5/5
23. Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, 4/5
24. Shakespeare Wrote for Money, 3/5
25. A Death in Belmont, 4/5
26. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, 5/5
27. Let the Right One In, 5/5
28. Writing the Breakout Novel, 4/5
29. The Alchemyst, 3/5
30. Writers Workshop of Horror, 3/5
31. The Rule of Four, 2/5
32. Bossypants, 4/5
33. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, 4/5
34. The Witches, 5/5

35. The Prince of Mist, 4/5
36. Them: Adventures with Extremists, 4/5

Suzanne, 50 should be doable!

Thanks, Andrea! I hope I can keep up the pace. :)

It's about a book a week hun!

37. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, 5/5
38. Uncle Silas, 4/5

That's true -- as long as I don't choose a bunch of epic fantasy next, I'll probably be fine. :D

39. The Dead-Tossed Waves, 3/5
40. The House With a Clock in Its Walls, 3/5

Getting closer... :)

41. The Men Who Stare at Goats, 3/5
42. The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall, 2/5
43. Books of Blood 1-3, 4/5

44. A Modest Proposal, 3/5
45. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, 4/5
46. The Monster of Florence, 3/5

Suzanne wrote: "
46. The Monster of Florence, 3/5"

Suzanne, I read The Monster of Florence, too - I think I agree with you on your rating.

Kay wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "Suzanne, I read The Monster of Florence, too - I think I agree with you on your rating."

Yeah, sort of a middle of the road true crime book, eh?


47. The Children of Men, 4/5
48. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary, 4/5

49. Writing for Emotional Impact, 3/5

50. Psycho, 5/5

And that's 50! The official GR counter isn't including my rereading of The Graveyard Book, so I'm still going to read at least one more. I would have anyway, I think. What, am I not going to read for the next couple weeks? Hehe...

This has been fun. :D

Yay Suzanne! How nice to finish with a couple weeks to spare :)

Thanks, Andrea! Things got very busy just before the holidays, so I'm glad I'd gotten ahead a bit. :D

And here is one more for the "official" GR book count:

51. Odd and the Frost Giants, 4/5

Woohoo!