2010 reading challenge completed, bring it on 2011!

I keep a log of all the books I read. Every time I finish one I write it down, that way I can see how many books I average per year. In December of 2009 I looked back and saw that I had read a measly 28 books. I've always wanted to hit between 50-60 books a year and challenged myself to do just that in 2010, starting January 1 I was determined to hit 50 books. I only had to read 4-5 books a month, (which was not hard having still been pursuing my BA in English at the time). I don't know how I managed to read as much as I did with all the knitting I've done, but I somehow managed to hit 50 books without trying very hard.

The 50 Books I read in 2010

The Sweetgum Ladies Knit for Love by Beth Pattillo

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Turn Coat by Jim Butcher

Knit Two by Kate Jacobs

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Metamorphosis by Kafka

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Brave New World by Alduous Huxley

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

The Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt

Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The Betrayal by R.L. Stine

The Secret by R.L. Stine

The Burning by R.L. Stine

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Dead to the Word by Charlaine Harris

Hollywood Knits Styles by Suss Cousins

Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris

Things I Learned from Knitting by Stephanie Pearl McPhee

Yarn Harlot by Stephanie Pearl McPhee

From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

Gwenhwyfar by Mercedes Lackey

The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind

Sides Jobs by Jim Butcher

Monster Vol 1 by Naoki Urasawa

Vampire Knits by Genevieve Miller

Not a bad year of reading! So now that I know I can hit 50 books in one year, in 2011 I am challenging myself to read 75 books. Wish me luck!