I’m probably not going to make it to 100. I can be honest about it. It’s the last week of October and I’m halfway through my 61st book. I should be in the 80’s by now! Ack!
We’ll of course see what happens and I’m by no means throwing in the towel. But I definitely noticed a slowing down of my reading schedule and no matter what I do, a book that should take me only a couple of days to read, tops, is somehow taking me a week. I’m dragging it out and I’m not sure why. I’m hoping writing about it will help, and writing about anything always helps everything else, so it’s a win win.
If you’re interested, here’s what I’ve read so far on my insane book journey. I started on January 1st, 2016.
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
- Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
- Working: People talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
- My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- Tenth of December by George Saunders
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood
- A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Americanah by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Helsinki Noir edited by James Thompson
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
- The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- M Train by Patti Smith
- The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Too Much Happiness by Alice Munroe
- Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
- A General Theory of Love by Drs. Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
That’s my reading list so far. Hope you can possibly get some ideas from that, ponder a bit, and figure out what you should read next. So, what are you reading right now?