I. Declare. BANKRUPTCY!
Okay, not really, but I declare time bankruptcy.
Here's what I'm reading next this year:
January:
1) World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
2) Eden Close by Anita Shreve
3) Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
4) Knit Two by Kate Jacobs
5) Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
6) Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka
7) The Lit Report by Sarah N. Harvey
8) Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
9) Dewey by Vicki Myron
10) Marley and Me by Josh Grogan
11) The Summer of Naked Swim Parties by Jessica Anya Blau
12) Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
13) Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
14) A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow
15) The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
16) 3 Willows by Ann Brashares
17) The Secret Circle by L.J. Smith
18) Books by Larry McMurtry
19) I Love You Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
20) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
21) March by Geraldine Brooks
22) Do Hard Things by Alex & Brett Harris
23) Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
24) You are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay
25) Night World #2 by L.J. Smith
26) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
27) Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
28) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
29) Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
30) Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King
31) Who By Fire by Diana Spechler
February:
1) I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
2) Hell House by Richard Matheson
3) Run For Your Life by James Patterson
4) The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
5) The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
6) Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
7) The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
8) Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
9) Newes From the Dead by Mary Hooper
10) The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
11) The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
12) Rumors by Anna Godbersen
13) Envy by Anna Godbersen
14) North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
15) Not Much, Just Chillin' by Linda Perlstein
16) The Vampire Diaries: The Return--Nightfall by L.J. Smith
17) Artichoke's Heart by Suzanne Supplee
18) Everything Beautiful by Simmone Howell
19) Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell
20) The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
21) Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
22) Unwind by Neal Shusterman
23) The School For Dangerous Girls by Eliot Schrefer
24) Invisible Touch by Kelly Parra
25) Need by Carrie Jones
26) Evermore by Alyson Noel
27) The September Sisters by Jillian Cantor
28) Shelter Me by Alex McAulay
March:
1) Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
2) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3) Would You by Marthe Jocelyn
4) Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
5) City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
6) City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
7) Bliss by Lauren Myracle
8) Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
9) Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
10) Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith
11) Life Sentences by Laura Lippman
12) The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
13) Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
14) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
15) The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
16) The Seance by John Harwood
17) Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine by Ann Hood
18) Say When by Elizabeth Berg
19) Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols
20) Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
21) The Season by Sarah MacLean
22) Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle
23) The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
24) Goldengrove by Francine Prose
25) City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
26) Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
27) Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
28) Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
29) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
30) Good Book by David Plotz
31) Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
April:
1) The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
2) If I Stay by Gayle Forman
3) Long Lost by Harlan Coben
4) Jesus in the Margins by Rick McKinley
5) Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
6) Deadline by Chris Crutcher
7) Girl Meets God by Lauren F. Winner
8) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
9) Between Here and April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
10) Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty
11) Willow by Julia Hoban
12) Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors
13) Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott
14) Shift by Charlotte Agell
15) The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
16) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
17) Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell
18) The Reason For God by Timothy Keller
19) Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
20) The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
21) The 8th Confession by James Patterson
May:
1) Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
2) Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
3) I Know It's Over by C.K. Kelly Martin
4) Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
5) Bass Ackwards and Belly Up by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain
6) Foot Free and Fancy Loose by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain
7) The Help by Kathryn Stockett
8) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
9) Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle by Nan Marino
10) The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha
11) The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
12) Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton
June:
1) The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
2) The Real Real by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
3) Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies
4) The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
5) Fragment by Warren Fahy
6) Gifts of War by Mackenzie Ford
7) Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
8) Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen
9) The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner
10) Plea of Insanity by Jilliane Hoffman
11) Dune Road by Jane Green
12) This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman
13) Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett
14) The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
July:
1) Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay
Comments
You'll have to watch less TV.
Yeah--but I threw in the ones that I knew about (Jodi Picoult, Laura Lippman, Elizabeth Berg, etc.).
I thought of you the other night. This lady at work brought three giant boxes of books she'd read. I grabbed five. I love when people do that. It's not about getting money or anything, it's about making sure the books get read.
Well, and that you don't trip over them any longer. ;-)
I think I read the Cold 6000 already. Oops.
I read The Black Dahlia and really liked it.
What books did you grab? I love books. As you know. :)
Should you make it up to Baltimore (in a real or imaginary trip like your dream visit to LA), we will have to go to Book Thing, which is an awesome bookstore where the books are free and you can take as many as you want--like a library, except they are yours forever.
I should make a roadtrip up to Baltimore/DC next year. My best friend lives in Columbia, and little brother is in DC. As long as gas keeps getting cheaper, it might just happen. :-)
Lisey's Story is awesome.
I keep trying to read Temperence Brennan novels and they don't work for me. I've read two so far and I haven't liked either,