- Nothing: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
- Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
- The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
- The Lives of Margaret Fuller by John Matteson part one and part two
- Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
- The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
- Kill Shakespeare: A Sea of Troubles by Conor McCreery, Andy Belanger, Anthony Del Col
- A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
- Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
- Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions by Sandra M. Gilbert
- War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art by Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler
- Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books by Leah Price
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Summer by Edith Wharton
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
- The Pleasures of Reading in and Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
- Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life by Stephanie Staal
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
- Q’s Legacy by Helene Hanff
- Fly Away Peter by Davod Malouf
- Map of Time by Felix Palma (abandoned)
- On Rereading by Patricia Meyer Spacks
- A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
- Ninepins by Rosy Thornton
- The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
- All Men Are Liars by Alberto Manguel
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay by Carl H. Klaus
- Beautiful No-Mow Yards by Evelyn J. Hadden
- The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
- The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Orestes by Euripides, translated by Anne Carson
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
- Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt
- The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
- Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
- The City and the City by China Mieville
- The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- My Poets by Maureen McLane
- The Nine Princes of Amber by Roger Zleazny
- Memoir of a Debulked Woman by Susan Gubar (Did not finish)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
- This New & Poisonous Air by Adam McOmber
- Electra by Euripides
- The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
- Affinity by Sarah Waters
- Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
- World Enough by Maureen McLance
- An Introduction to Greek Tragedy by Ruth Scodel
- The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
- A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
- The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay
- On Being Ill and Notes From Sick Rooms by Virginia Woolf and Julia Sephen
- The Phoenician Women by Euripides
- The Bacchae by Euripides
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Perla by Carolina de Robertis
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
- Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
- Attack of the Difficult Poems by Charles Bernstein
- Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
- More Baths Less Talking by Nick Hornby
- To Write Like a Woman by Joanna Russ
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Wow! You’ve read all these book already this year! Good grief! What a nice collection. I’m making notes to see what I want to put on my reading list. I just finished O Pioneers! and loved it. Can’t believe I’ve never read Willa Cather. What’s next on your list?
I’m really enjoying your site. Don’t remember how I found, but I’m glad I did!
Thanks for your wonderful comment Verna! Yes, and I am actually behind on adding a few m ore I’ve read. some of them are rather short and quick and easy so it isn’t as lengthy in terms of effort and time as it might appear
O Pioneers is one I haven’t read yet. As to what’s next? We’ll see where my whims take me!
Hi,
I am making serious effort into reading books (as I love reading) but one thing that really makes it hard is my poor vocabulary. I mean I am currently reading “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Marquez and to be honest there are at least 2 or 3 words in every page that I have never heard of or don’t know the meaning.
How do I improve my vocabulary? keenly waiting on your response. Thanks.
Saw this browsing the site, hope you don’t mind if I respond with my two cents! As a fellow bookworm, I would say read through the difficult words. The more you read, the more your vocabulary will expand, as words begin to make sense in context. If you’re really stuck, just have a dictionary with you (or a laptop with an online dictionary…). BTW One Hundred Years of Solitude is an old favorite… good choice!
Thanks a lot Liz, really appreciate your advice.
You know what helps? Context clues. Use the other words in the sentence to kind of get an idea of what that words means. Trust me that is how I learned most of the works in my vocublary. Also my mother was an English major in college so she helped out to. “Sound it out, look up the definition in the dictionary.” She never once told me what the word was.
helps me to this day with words I have no clue what they are.
Love your blog! The reading list is a great idea, not to mention the fact that your list is quite impressive– that many books in less than 6 months?! And as for your reading plan, Lolita is fantastic, I think you’ll enjoy it. I am a devout Nabokovian
Liz, thanks! Just finished Lolita and liked it quite a lot! As for the number of books I have read, I read whenever I get the chance so it adds up
hey stephanie! i just wanted to know do you have a reading schedule? I am bogged down with books. And I’m still reading Hugh Laurie’s book. It’s taking me forever!
Regina, a reading schedule? Do you mean like a reading plan for what books I am going to read? I don’t really. I have a short list of books or authors I’d like to get to during the year but it is only “suggested” reading. If you mean do I have a schedule for reading X amount of pages everyday or for Y length of time I definitely don’t have one of those. I do take public transit and read to and from work, I read during my lunch break at work, and I read a little before bed. I read a lot of weekends and whenever else I can squeeze it in!
Sorry Laurie’s book is taking so long to get through!
Like, I try to do a book a week. I no longer take public transportation so that drastically cuts my reading time. During my vacation, I failed to attack my TBR pile. I spent most of it sleeping and playing video games. A pastime that I missed desperately. But yea, you just read. I should read before I go to bed as well. It would help if I didn’t fall asleep though.