I usually read 100 new books (or more) a year, but each year I wonder if it will be the year that I don't make it. I am glad to post to a list in a place where other readers are encouraging and offer suggestions (as opposed to looking at me like I'm crazy!). For my own purposes, I only count things I'm reading for the first time.

So far I've read in 2008:

1. Thomas Jefferson (Christopher Hitchens)
2. Wounded Prophet (Michael Ford)
3. Shakespeare (Bill Bryson)
4. When I Knew (Trachtenberg)
5. I'm Looking Through You (Boylan)
6. Let My People Go Surfing (Chouinard)
7. What's that Pig Outdoors? (Kisor)
8. Losing Moses on the Freeway (Hedges)
9. Whose Panties are These? (ed. al)
10. Escape (Jessop)
11. Confessions of a Serial Egg Donor (Derek)
12. A Prison Diary (Vol. 1) (Archer)
13. Purgatory (Prison Diary, 2) (Archer)
14. Heaven (Prison Diary, 3) (Archer)
15. Magical Thinking (Burroughs)
16. Rhett Butler's People (McCaig)
17. Reclaiming the L Word (Fryor)
18. The Rapture Exposed (Rossing)

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Recent additions to the completed reading list:

19. Maus (Spiegleman)
20. Everything I need to know about Life I learned from Judy Blume (O'Connell)
21. My Lobotomy (Dully)
22. A Good Dog (Katz)
23. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Bauby)
24. Take This Bread (Miles)

Message edited by its author, Apr 5, 2008, 8:05pm.

This is a wonderful list, very impressive. Do you know about how to use touchstones? If you put brackets around the title, and double brackets around the author the book title becomes highlighted and enables the person reading your post to be able to click on it and have an instant connection to information on the book, for instance I am reading Outlander and it is written by Diana GabaldonThe instructuions will be on the right hand side of the page when you hit post a message. I apologize if you knew that,chose not to do it or it did not work for you, but I just wanted to give you a heads up in case. It's fun to play with all this stuff. Mary beth PS I will probably be reading many of the books you have on your list. Night now!

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25. The Invisible Wall (Bernstein)
26. Grace (Eventually) (Lamott)
27. Maus II (Spiegelman)
28. Our Lord and His Prayer (N.T. Wright)
29. A Year without Made in China (Bongiorni)
30. Secret Daughter ( June Cross)
31. Nanny State (Harsanyi)

32. Change of Heart (Jodi Picoult)
33. Forever on the Mountain (Tabor)
34. Seminary Boy (Cornwell)
35. April Fool's Day (Courtenay))

36. Necessary Sins (Darling)
37. Exposed (Claire Lewis)
38. Dangerous Book for Dogs
39. Two-Part Invention (L'Engle)

You have a great list! Several of these are on my TBR list or wishlist. How did you like Losing Moses on the Freeway?

I loved it. I thought the author was reflective and realistic about what he was writing and his own experience. The book didn't feel "preachy" to me, but then, I wasn't expecting that it would.

40. Jonah (Jack Sasson)
41. The Imaginary Girlfriend (John Irving)
42. Be Sweet (Roy Blount Jr)
43. There is nothing in this book that I meant to say (Poundstone)
44. 700 Sundays (Billy Crystal)
45. Book of Vice (Peter Sagal)
46. Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South (Blount, Jr.)
47. A Wolf at the Table (Burroughs)
48. Home (Julie Andrews)
49. Enter Whining (Fran Drescher)
50. Nobody's Family is Going to Change (Fitzhugh)