Books Read 2011

January:
1. If on a winter’s night a traveler- Italo Calvino (1979)
2. The Book of Lost Things- John Connolly (2006)
3. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen (1813)
4. The Big Sleep- Raymond Chandler (1939)
5. Cities of the Plain- Cormac McCarthy (1998)
6. Before the Fact- Francis Iles (1932)
7. Story of the Eye- Georges Bataille (1928)

February:
8. Difficult Loves- Italo Calvino (1949/1958)

March:
9. Play It As It Lays- Joan Didion (1970)
10. The Story of a Novel- Thomas Wolfe (1936)
11. Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History- Art Spiegelman (1986)
12. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake- Aimee Bender (2010)

May:
13. The Bad Beginning- Lemony Snicket (2000)
14. No Impact Man- Colin Beavan (2009)
15. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf (1925)
16. Just Kids- Patti Smith (2010)
17. The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

June:
18. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain (1876)
19. The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins (2008)
20. Catching Fire- Suzanne Collins (2009)
21. Slouching Towards Bethlehem- Joan Didion (1968)
22. Mockingjay- Suzanne Collins (2010)
23. Sappho- Sappho; translated by Mary Barnard

July:
24. Cosmicomics- Italo Calvino (1965)
25. We Always Treat Women Too Well- Raymond Queneau (1971)
26. Bossypants- Tina Fey (2011)

August:
27. The House on Mango Street- Sandra Cisneros (1984)
28. The Waves- Virginia Woolf (1931)

September:
29. The Rise of Silas Lapham- William Dean Howells (1885)
30. Johnny Got His Gun- Dalton Trumbo (1939)
31. Anthem- Ayn Rand (1938)
32. The Jungle- Upton Sinclair (1906)

October:
33. Ron Carlson Writes a Story- Ron Carlson (2007)
34. The Call of the Wild- Jack London (1903)
35. The Awakening- Kate Chopin (1899)
36. My Ántonia- Willa Cather (1918)

November:
37. A Shattering of Silence- Farida Karodia (1993)
38. In Dubious Battle- John Steinbeck (1936)
39. Amphigorey- Edward Gorey (1972)
40. Amphigorey Also- Edward Gorey (1983)
41. Making Shapely Fiction- Jerome Stern (1991)
42. Slaughterhouse- Five- Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

December:
43. Six Memos for the Next Millennium- Italo Calvino (1988)
44. Illuminations- Arthur Rimbaud (1875) (trans. Louse Varèse)
45. Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy (1877)
46. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- Steig Larsson (2005)
47. The Complete Stories- Flannery O’Connor (1971)
48. The Tiger’s Wife- Téa Obreht (2011)