Books I read in 2011
01. The Seducer's Diary - Soren Kierkegaard
02. 101 Things I Learned in Culinary School - Louis Eguaras
03. Derailed: Lessons Learned from Leaders Who Failed - Tim Irwin
04. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
05. Jackson falls - Terry Bowman
06. The Humbling - Philip Roth
07. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
08. My Friend Leonard - James Frey
09. Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child - Ron Hunter
10. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
11. Pink Moon - Amanda Petrusich
12. This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Slam - Nick Hornby
14. Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter - Steve Dublanica
15. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
16. House of Leaves - Mark. Z. Danielewski
17. Achieving 100% Compliance of Policies and Procedures - Stephen Page
18. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
19. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
20. How Did You Get This Number - Sloane Crosley
21. Creative Strategy: Reconnecting Business and Innovation - Chris Bilton
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
23. Never Stop Learning - Fifty Lessons
24. A Worldly Country - John Ashbery
25. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
26. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
27. Columbine - Dave Cullen
28. Dry - Augusten Burroughs
29. A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher - William A. Cohen
30. The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
31. Oh the Glory of it All - Sean Wilsey
32. Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala
33. Psalm Sunday - Kurt Vonnegut
34. Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game - Paul Midler
35. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
36. The Tent - Margaret Atwood
37. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
38. How I Became a Famous Novelist - Steve Hely
39. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
40. The Magicians - Lev Grossman
41. The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
42. Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Beer from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery - Sam Calagione
43. The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
44. Loveless - Mike McGonigal
45. Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
46. The Grass Harp - Truman Capote
47. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Kim Cooper
48. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
49. Crackpot: The Obsessions of - John Waters
50. The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories - Davy Rothbart
51. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America - Thomas L. Friedman
I guess I didn't read much in 2011. I need to step up my game for 2012.
STATS:
Total number of books read: 51
New (read for the first time): 50
Rereads: 1 (Dry)
Most read author: Philip Roth (for the second year in a row)
Authors read more than once: McCarthy (2), Roth (3)
Number of books that feature vampires: 0 (for the third year in a row)
Fastest read: The Lottery, A Worldly Country
Slowest read: All the Pretty Horses, The Tin Drum
Favorite: Brewing Up a Business, The Crossing, East of Eden, Poorly Made In China
Least favorite: Achieving 100% Compliance of Policies and Procedures, Hot, Flat and Crowded