I feel like I had a good reading year last year. In total I read 72 books, however, that 72nd book I am still reading at the moment and so I can’t say I actually finished 72 books 
I managed to fit in a bit more personal reading last year instead of just reading books for review and I have to say it did refresh me. I love reading books for review, I find some of my favourites in amongst them and I am grateful to the authors for providing those as I may not have picked them up to begin with. It was nice to get back to reading some of my old comfort authors though and also some new ones I had been meaning to try out for some time. In total I read 46 books for personal reading (including the one I am currently completing) and 26 books for review.
I have included my list below of what I read last year. You will see I also had a 10 books I want to read list – I managed to knock those out and am quite chuffed about that. These were books which I had been wanting to read and had been sitting on my shelf to be read but didn’t find themselves in my hands actually being read until last year. I have made a similar list this year and will post those soon. I find it keeps me focussed, reminds me hey, at the start of the year I said I wanted to read this – it’s on the list – I have to read it! I work well with lists and if something is on a list I must mark it off. Due to the success of this I didn’t hesitate in creating a list for this year.
Apart from the 10 books I want to read this year I don’t have any other goals as to how many books I want to read, specific genres I want to read, et cetera. This year, I hope, will be similar to the last, a mix between personal reading and review reading. Here’s to another good year of reading!!!
Books Read in 2011
1. Worth Dying For – Lee Child (personal reading)
2. The Distant Hours – Kate Morton (review reading)
3. Gourmet Rhapsody – Muriel Barbery (personal reading) (10 books I want to read list)
4. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins (personal reading) (10 books I want to read list)
5. War Dances – Alexie Sherman (review reading)
6. The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason (personal reading)(10 books I want to read list)
7. Drama Queens with Love Scences – Kevin Klehr (review reading)
8. Jumble Tales – Steve Morris (review reading)
9. Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn (personal reading)(10 books I want to read list)
10. An Italian Affair – Laura Fraser (personal reading)(10 books I want to read list)
11. The Other End of the Leash – Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs – Patricia B. McConnell (personal reading)
12. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali – Gil Courtemanche (personal reading)
13. Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe – Bill Bryson (personal reading)
14. The Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella (personal reading)
15. The Broken Shore – Peter Temple (personal reading)
16. Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think – Brian Wansink (personal reading)
17. Amandine – Marlena de Blasi (review reading)
18. God, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World – Rebecca Foust and Lorna Stevens (review reading)
19. All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song – Rebecca Foust (review reading)
20. Dragon’s Heart – Nicki J Markus (review reading)
21. Indefensible – Pamela Callow (review reading)
22. The Enchanted April – Elizabeth Von Arnim (personal reading)
23. Searching for Grace – Carol Henderson & Heather Tovey (review reading)
24. Room – Emma Donoghue (personal reading)
25. Spoilt – Joanne Ellis (review reading)
26. Swimsuit – James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (personal reading)
27. Seaview Terrace – Kate Rigby (review reading)
28. A Century of November – W.D. Wetherell (personal reading)
29. Beatrice Munson – Lorena Bathey (review reading)
30. I Am a Cat – Volume One – Soseki Natsume (personal reading)
31. Sucka! – Kate Rigby (review reading)
32. Six Clicks Away – Bonnie Rozanski (review reading)
33. Letters to Juniper – Peggy Tibbetts (review reading)
34. Stop Looking for a Husband: Find the Love of Your Life – Marina Sbrochi (review reading)
35. Legacies – F. Paul Wilson (personal reading) (10 books I want to read list)
36. Hidden – Shalini Boland (review reading)
37. The Memory of Running – Ron McLarty (personal reading)
38. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach (personal reading)
39. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins (personal reading)
40. Hunting and Gathering – Anna Gavalda (personal reading) (10 books I want to read list)
41. Where’s Unimportant – Daniel Shortell (review reading)
42. One For My Baby – Tony Parsons (personal reading) (10 books I want to read list)
43. The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell (personal reading) (10 books I want to read list)
44. Voice – Joseph Garraty (review reading)
45. The Gamble of the Godless – David Maine (review reading)
46. Across Eternity – Aris Whittier (review reading)
47. The Buried Covenant – Shawn P Keenan (review reading)
48. The Chicken Thief – Fiona Leonard (review reading)
49. Clutter – Donna Butler (review reading)
50. Forever – Judy Blume (personal reading)
51. A Mighty Heart – Mariane Pearl with Sarah Crichton (personal reading) (10 books I want to read list)
52. Sworn to Silence – Linda Castillo (personal reading)
53. Can You Keep a Secret? – Sophie Kinsella (personal reading)
54. Shopaholic & Sister – Sophie Kinsella (personal reading)
55. To Love, Honour and Betray (Til Divorce Us Do Part) – Kathy Lette (personal reading)
56. Shopaholic & Baby – Sophie Kinsella (personal reading)
57. Sammy’s Hill – Kristin Gore (personal reading)
58. Twenties Girl – Sophie Kinsella (personal reading)
59. The Candlestickmaker – Dennis McDougal (review reading)
60. The Toss of a Lemon – Padma Viswanathan (personal reading)
61. The Affair – Lee Child (personal reading)
62. A Long Way Down – Nick Hornby (personal reading)
63. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins (personal reading)
64. Guantanamo Boy – Anna Perera (personal reading)
65. Death of an Ordinary Man – Glen Duncan (personal reading)
66. The Stupidest Angel – Christopher Moore (personal reading)
67. The Christmas Wedding – James Patterson and Richard Dilallo (personal reading)
68. Why We Read What We Read – Lisa Adams and John Heath (personal reading)
69. The Thomas Berryman Number – James Patterson (personal reading)
70. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus – L. Frank Baum (personal reading)
71. Witch Stories for Bedtime – Various (personal reading)
72. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (personal reading) 383 pages read in 2011
