2011 Resolution List

For 2011 I had three reading goals:

Complete unfinished novel series.

1. DONE - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) - Rowling, J.K.
2. DONE - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) - Rowling, J.K.
3. DONE - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) - Rowling, J.K.
4. DONE - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) - Rowling, J.K.
5. DONE - Chainfire (Sword of Truth, #9) - Terry Goodkind
6. DONE - Phantom (Sword of Truth, #10) - Terry Goodkind
7. DONE - Confessor (Sword of Truth, #11) - Terry Goodkind
8. DONE - Children of the Mind (Ender’s Saga, #4) - Orson Scott Card
9. DONE - A War of Gifts (Ender’s Saga, #5) - Orson Scott Card
10. DONE - Ender in Exile (Ender’s Saga, #6) - Orson Scott Card
11. DONE - Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow Series, #2) - Orson Scott Card
12. DONE - Shadow Puppets (Shadow Series, #3) - Orson Scott Card
13. DONE - Shadow of the Giant (Shadow Series, #4) - Orson Scott Card
14. DONE - The Harsh Cry of the Heron (Tales of the Otori, #4) - Hearn, Lian
15. DONE - Heaven’s Net is Wide (Tales of the Otori, #5 Prequel) - Hearn, Lian
16. DONE - Prelude to Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, #1) - Asimov, Isaac
17. DONE - Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, #2) - Asimov, Isaac
18. DONE – Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2) - Asimov, Isaac
19. DONE - Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)  - Asimov, Isaac
20. DONE - Foundation’s Edge (Foundation, #4) - Asimov, Isaac
21. DONE - Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5) - Asimov, Isaac
22. DONE - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #2) - Douglas Adams
23. DONE - Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #3) - Douglas Adams
24. DONE - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #4) - Douglas Adams
25. DONE - Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #5) - Douglas Adams

Complete the first 25 of the BBC The Big Read Top 100.

1. DONE - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. DONE - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
3. DONE - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
4. DONE - Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
5. DONE - Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
6. DONE - Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
7. DONE - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
8. DONE - The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
9. DONE - Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
10. DONE – Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
11. DONE - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
12. GAVE UP - War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
13. DONE - Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

Goodreads 2011 Reading Challenge: Read 52 books.  (Raised from 50 to 52 on Oct 21) Read 56.

Not Your Oprah’s Book Club (Facebook, Goodreads) selections:
(Facebook page for Athens book club)

1. DONE January- True Grit - Charles Portis
2. DONE February - As She Climbed Across the Table - Jonathan Lethem
3. DONE March - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
4. DONE March - Then Again, Maybe I Won’t - Judy Blume
5. DONE April - No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
6. DONE May - Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story - Isabel Gillies
7. July also in BBC list above Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
8. DONE August - And Then There Were None - Christie, Agatha
9. DONE September - The Floatplane Notebooks - Clyde Edgerton
10. DONE November - The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly

Offlist:

1. A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
2. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
3. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
4. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education - Anya Kamenetz
5. Being Geek - Michael Lopp
6. The Next Fifty Years - Brockman, John
7. The Road - McCarthy, Cormac
8. Native Son - Richard Wright
9. Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson