The Books I Read in 2011

These are the 62 books I read this year (3 less than last year):

1. Les Misérables—Victor Hugo

2. Exposing the Real Che Guevara—Humberto Fontova

3. Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale Hurston

4. The Girl Who Played with Fire—Stieg Larsson

5. Inquisition—Toby Green

6. War and Peace—Leo Tolstoy

7. Guilty—Ann Coulter

8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest—Stieg Larsson

9. How to Reach and Teach All Students—Simplified—Elizabeth Breaux

10. Mint Condition—Dave Jamieson

11. Righteous Indignation—Andrew Breitbart

12. The Complete Maus—Art Spiegelman

13. The Pale King—David Foster Wallace

14. Into Thin Air—Jon Krakauer

15. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People—Stephen R. Covey

16. Heaven Is for Real—Todd Burpo

17. I’d Go with the Helmet, Ray: A Doonesbury Book—G. B. Trudeau

18. American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar—Harvey Pekar

19. Persepolis—Marjane Satrapi

20. Demonic—Ann Coulter

21. The Recognitions—William Gaddis

22. Parrot and Olivier in America—Peter Carey

23. Persepolis 2—Marjane Satrapi

24. Falling Man—Don DeLillo

25. A Reliable Wife—Robert Goolrick

26. Wisconsin Death Trip—Michael Lesy

27. Primetime Propaganda—Ben Shapiro

28. Frindle—Andrew Clements

29. Don’t Cry—Mary Gaitskill

30. A Visit from the Goon Squad—Jennifer Egan

31. The Uncoupling—Meg Wolitzer

32. The Stoning of Sally Kern—Sally Kern

33. The Discomfort Zone—Jonathan Franzen

34. Riding toward Everywhere—William T. Vollmann

35. In My Time—Dick Cheney

36. Prince Caspian—C. S. Lewis

37. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader—C. S. Lewis

38. Troublemaker—Christine O’Donnell

39. Arguing with Idiots—Glenn Beck

40. The Invention of Hugo Cabret—Brian Selznick

41. Complete Plays 1913-1920—Eugene O’Neill

42. Salvage the Bones—Jesmyn Ward

43. Binocular Vision—Edith Pearlman

44. Flush—Carl Hiaasen

45. The Sojourn—Andrew Krivak

46. The No Spin Zone—Bill O’Reilly

47. The Buddha in the Attic—Julie Otsuka

48. Teacher Man—Frank McCourt

49. Bone Palace Ballet—Charles Bukowski

50. When You Reach Me—Rebecca Stead

51. The Help—Kathryn Stockett

52. The Angel Esmeralda—Don DeLillo

53. Americana—Don DeLillo

54. Savvy—Ingrid Law

55. The Tiger’s Wife—Téa Obreht

56. End Zone—Don DeLillo

57. Scumble—Ingrid Law

58. Mockingbird—Kathryn Erskine

59. Great Jones Street—Don DeLillo

60. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets—Stephen Crane

61. Ratner’s Star—Don DeLillo

62. Quartet—Jean Rhys

My top 10 books that I read this year:

1. The Help—Kathryn Stockett

2. Demonic—Ann Coulter

3. The Discomfort Zone—Jonathan Franzen

4. American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar—Harvey Pekar

5. A Visit from the Goon Squad—Jennifer Egan

6. The Angel Esmeralda—Don DeLillo

7. Heaven Is for Real—Todd Burpo

8. The Complete Maus—Art Speigelman

9. Righteous Indignation—Andrew Breitbart

10. Falling Man—Don DeLillo

For 2012, I plan to read mostly non fiction books. I have class coming up where I will have to read some Young Adult literature, but other than that it will be all non fiction. My plan for the next three years is to spend each year reading only a certain genre of literature. In 2012, it will be non fiction; in 2013, it will be poetry and drama; and in 2014, it will be novels and short stories. I plan to start of the year reading Barbara Ravage’s Burn Unit.