2011 Books

So here was the reading list for 2011… mostly books, but also some novellas or essays.  None of them had been read (or at least finished) by me before then.

Not the most impressively long list, but I do have a job and a wife and multiple pets which all require attention.

  • Mostly Harmless (Douglas Adams), began in December, finished 1/3/11
  • The Invisible Man (HG Wells), 1/5/11
  • The Time Machine (HG Wells) 1/6/11
  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (RL Stevenson) 1/7/11
  • The War of The Worlds (HG Wells) 1/10/11
  • The Communist Manifesto (Marx/Engels) 1/10/11
  • Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) 1/10/11
  • On The Decay of The Art of Lying (Twain) 1/10/11
  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Larsson) 1/14/11
  • Brave New World (Huxley) 1/16/11
  • 1984 (Orwell) 1/18/11
  • The Lovely Bones (Sebold) 1/21/11
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) 1/24/11
  • The First Men in The Moon (Wells) 1/27/11
  • Coraline (Gaiman/McKean) 1/28/11
  • The Stranger (Camus) 1/30/11
  • Anarchism and Other Essays (Goldman) 1/31/11
  • The Girl Who Played With Fire (Larsson) 2/7/11
  • Choke: A Novel (Palahniuk) 2/10/11
  • Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut) 2/11/11
  • Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (Sedaris) 2/12/11
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris) 2/14/11
  • Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim (Sedaris) 2/17/11
  • Naked (Sedaris) 2/22/11
  • Treasure Island (Stevenson) 3/1/11
  • Catch Me If You Can (Abagnale) 3/3/11
  • Fight Club: A Novel (Palahniuk) 3/4/11
  • Fugitives and Refugees: a walk in Portland, Oregon (Palahniuk) 3/5/11
  • Ender’s Game (Card) 3/14/11
  • Frankenstein (Shelley) 3/18/11
  • In the Year 2889 (Verne, Verne) 3/18/11
  • Dracula (Stoker) 3/30/11
  • Pygmy (Palahniuk) 4/4/11
  • Lullaby: A Novel (Palahniuk) 4/6/11
  • Diary: A Novel (Palahniuk) 4/14/11
  • Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Adams) 4/17/11
  • Tell-All (Palahniuk) 4/21/11
  • Under The Dome: A Novel (King) 4/30/11
  • The Long Dark Tea Time of The Soul (Adams) 5/6/11
  • Moby Dick (or The Whale) (Melville) 5/22/11
  • Lisey’s Story (King) 6/2/11
  • Bluebeard (Vonnegut) 6/9/11
  • Galapogos (Vonnegut) 6/16/11
  • Zachary Zombie and the Lost Boy, A Story for Demented Children  (Carroll) 6/19/11
  • The Emo Bunny that Should – A Story for Demented Children (Carroll) 6/20/11
  • God Bless You, Mr Rosewater (Vonnegut) 7/2/11
  • Invisible Monsters (Palahniuk) 7/21/11
  • The Salmon of Doubt (Adams) 7/24/11
  • Snuff (Palahniuk) 7/27/11
  • The Red Badge of Courage (Crane) 7/31/11
  • Neuromancer (Gibson) 8/14/11
  • No Cure For Cancer (Leary) 8/22/11
  • Naked Lunch (Burroughs) 8/26/11
  • Dissecting the Hack- The F0rb1dd3n Network (Street/Nabors/Baskin/Carey) 9/1/11
  • The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (Larsson) 9/2/11
  • Atlas Shrugged (Rand) 9/21/11
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Lindsay) 9/24/11
  • Dearly Devoted Dexter (Lindsay) 9/30/11
  • Dexter in the Dark (Lindsay) 10/23/11
  • Following Through (Greider/Levinson) 10/26/11
  • Dexter By Design (Lindsay) 10/26/11
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Selznick) 10/27/11
  • Steve Jobs (Isaacson) 11/5/11
  • Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Dahl) 11/5/11
  • Barrel Fever (Sedaris) 11/9/11
  • 11/22/63 (King) 11/14/11
  • Damned (Palahniuk) 11/17/11
  • Mile 81 (King) 11/18/11
  • A Modest Proposal (Swift) 11/24/11
  • The Hobbit (Tolkien) 11/26/11
  • UR (K/ing) 11/27/11
  • Dexter Is Delicious (Lindsay) 12/1/11
  • Blink- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Gladwell) 12/6/11
  • Double Dexter (Lindsay) 12/8/11
  • The Hunger Games (Collins)  12/10/11
  • Catching Fire (Collins) 12/15/11
  • Tulipomania (Dash) 12/29/11