Adam Gnade

I’m not big on resolutions but I like the structure of lists. Last year my non-resolution resolution was to keep track of all the books I read. Here’s 2011…

January 2011
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
Nebraska, Ron Hansen
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Daisy Fried
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzgerald (re-read)
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Stephen Hawking, The History of Everything
Paper Dance, Leroy V. Quintana, Victor Hernandez Cruz, and Virgil Suarez

February
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
Youngblood Hawke, Herman Wouk
Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster

March
Last Evenings on Earth, Roberto Bolano (re-read)
Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac
O Pioneers, Willa Cather

April
Green is the New Red, Will Potter
Call of the Wild, Jack London

May
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson

July
Amulet, Roberto Bolano
1984, George Orwell
Night, Elie Wiesel
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)

August
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (re-read)
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Bloom
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway (re-read)
Diario de Oaxaca, Peter Kuper

September
Kettledrum, Andrew Mears

October
The Green and the Gold, Bart Schaneman
Look Homeward Angel, Thomas Wolff
Don’t Stop the Carnival, Herman Wouk
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Billy Budd Foretopman, Herman Melville
Sons and Fathers, Ivan S. Turgenev
Deliverance, James Dickey
Sons of the Rapture, Todd Dills

December
The Third Reich, Roberto Bolano
Dubliners, James Joyce (re-read)
By Night in Chile, Roberto Bolano
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky