According to my Goodreads account, I finished 10 books in 2010 — a nice round number, don’t you think? (All of which I reviewed and posted here, by the way). After I saw that, I got to thinking — wouldn’t it be nice to finish 11 book for 2011? I already have a ‘to-read’ list twice that long, and of course, there will certainly be additions along the way, but for now, here’s my list of books for 2011:
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Robert Enke: Ein allzu kurzes Leben by Ronald Reng
Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume I by Mark Twain
Eine Frau in Berlin: Tagebuch Aufzeichnungen vom 20. April bis 22. Juni 1945 by Anonyma
Complications: A Surgeon’s Note on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
When They Come for Us, We”ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckerman
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse by Steve Bogira
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
Sommerlügen by Bernhard Schlink
Any thoughts or comments on these books? What is on your ‘to-read’ list this year? Do you have an ‘must-read’ recommendations to share?
Ooo, I love posts about what people have read each year. I did one this year too here, if you like seeing other people’s lists too: http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2010/12/30/the-year-in-books-2/
My only specific reading goal for this year is to finally read the book of Kafka short stories I picked up when I first moved here (cough six years ago, I guess you could say I’ve been putting it off) as I’ve always wanted to read his work in the original. So much gets lost in translation. Which of these books was your favorite on this list?
Oooh, my favorites from 2010? Now that’s a hard question! But if I had to pick, I guess I would have to choose two — one fiction and on nonfiction: Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was stellar, and Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder was super inspiring.