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January 4, 2004
52 Books In 52 Weeks
Kottke is reading a different magazine each week, Vegard is listening to a different album every seven days, and I'm jumping on the meme-wagon by committing to reading a book a week this year.
I'm an avid reader. Books, magazines,newspapers, toothpaste tubes... anything I can get my hands on. In the past couple of years, though, I've become enamored with the availability of online information, and my reading habits have slacked. To remedy this, I'm resolving to read a book every week, fiction and non-fiction, to hopefully reinvigorate the passion I have for the written word and learn a thing or two along the way.
I'm open to fascinating titles contributed by the interactive peanut gallery. I'm looking for the fascinating and enlightening, in a wide variety of subjects. Any suggestions?
The books:
#1/52:
From Beirut To Jerusalem, by Thomas Friedman
#2/52:
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
#3/52:
The Color Of Water, A Black Man's Tribute To His White Mother, by James McBride
#4/52:
Girl With A Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
#5/52:
Carter Beats The Devil by Glen Gold
#6/52:
As Nature Made Him, The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl, by John Colapinto
#7/52:
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
#8/52
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
Oliver Sacks
#9/52
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
#10/52
Our Cancer Year
Harvey Pekar, Frank Stack, with Joyce Brabner
#11/52
The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
Joe McGinnis
#12/52
The General In His Labirynth
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#13/52
Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir In Books
Azar Nafisi
#14/52
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
#15/52
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
Jane Leavy
#16/52
Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories
Jincy Willett
#17/52
Small Wonder: Essays
Barbara Kingsolver
#18/52
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Lynne Truss
#19/52
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
#20/52
Art and Ardor
Cynthia Ozick
#21/52
The Namesake: A Novel
Jhumpa Lahiri
#22/52
Candyfreak
Steve Almond
#23/52
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel
Haruki Murakami
#24/52
Perdido Street Station
#25/52
Designing With Web Standards
Jeffrey Zeldman
#26/52
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
#27/52
Shanghai Baby
Wei Hui
#28/52 (three in one)
The Smiths' Meat Is Murder
Joe Pernice
The Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society
Andy Miller
#29/52
Yamuna's Table: Healthful Vegetarian Cuisine Inspired by the Flavors of India
Yamuna Devi
#30/52
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
Michael Azerrad
#31/52
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson
#32/52
Bringing Down the House
Ben Mezrich
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