1) The Island of Missing Trees. Completed: 04/01/22
2) The Cat Who Saved Books. Completed: 05/01/22
3) 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Completed: 11/01/22
4) Build Your House Around My Body. Completed: 20/01/22
5) Klara and the Sun. Completed: 23/01/22
6) The Silmarillion. Completed: 20/02/22
7) The God of Lost Words. Completed: 06/03/22
8) Deeplight. Completed: 14/03/22
9) Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before. Completed:
10) The Mercies. Completed: 21/03/22
11) The Doll Factory. Completed: 25/03/22
12) Man, Fuck This House. Completed: 06/04/22
13) The Giver of Stars. Completed: 10/05/22
14) The Lighthouse Witches. Completed: 17/05/22
15) The Map of Salt & Stars. Completed: 04/06/22
16) Starve Acre. Completed: 05/06/22
17) The House Without Windows. Completed: 17/06/22
18) Circus of Wonders. Completed: 23/06/22
19) The Dance Tree. Completed: 29/06/22
20) Afterwards. Completed: 04/07/22
21) Pilgrims. Completed: 18/07/22
22) Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Completed: 24/07/22
23) Shuggie Bain. Completed: 26/07/22
24) That Bonesetter Woman. Completed: 08/08/22
25) Upgrade. Completed: 12/08/22
26) Momenticon. Completed: 25/08/22
27) Hare House. Completed: 03/09/22
28) Unraveller. Completed: 08/09/22
29) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Completed: 24/09/22
30) Project Hail Mary. Completed: 26/09/22
31) Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Completed: 26/09/22
32) A Winter’s Promise (The Mirror Visitor Quartet #1). Completed: 28/09/22
33) The Missing of Clairdelune (The Mirror Visitor Quartet #2). Completed: 30/09/22
34) The Way Past Winter. Completed: 01/10/22 (less)

1) The Island of Missing Trees. Completed: 04/01/22
2) The Cat Who Saved Books. Completed: (...more)

Week 1 A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
Week 2 Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Week 3 The Anti-Slavery Alphabet by Hannah and Mary Townsend
Week 4 Let Her Fly by Louise Carpenter and Ziauddin Yousafzai
Week 5 The Asylum of Dr. Caligari by James K. Morrow
Week 6 We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman
Week 7 Daisy Miller by Henry James
Week 8 The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Week 9 Elizabeth and Mary by Jane Dunn
Week 10 Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar Schein
Week 11 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Week 12 A History of Canada in Ten Maps by Adam Shoalts
Week 13 An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield
Week 14 Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughan
Week 15 Second Summer of War by Cheryl Cooper
Week 16 Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder (Editor)
Week 17 Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
Week 18 The Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat
Week 19 The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Week 20 The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton
Week 21 State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda by Steven Luckert and Susan D. Bachrach
Week 22 Be My Guest by Priya Basil
Week 23 The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Week 24 Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
Week 25 Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
Week 26 Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
Week 27 Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Week 28 Hostage to History: The Cultural Collapse of the 21st Century Arab by Elie Mikhael Nasrallah
Week 29 Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Week 30 1984 by George Orwell
Week 31 Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine by Joanna Jolly
Week 32 In Pieces by Sally Field
Week 33 Dancing With A Ghost: Exploring Aboriginal Reality by Rupert Ross
Week 34 Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
Week 35 Last First Crush by Anna Michael
Week 36 Roomies by Christina Lauren
Week 37 Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Week 38 The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Week 39 Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Week 40 Playing the Whore by Melissa Gira Grant
Week 41 So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Week 42 Sapphire and Steel by Violet Froste
Week 43 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Week 44 The Girl With Seven Names by Lee Hyeon-seo
Week 45 The Making of You: A Journey from Cell to Human by Katharina Vestre
Week 46 Field Notes From A Pandemic: A Journey Through A World Suspended by Ethan Lou
Week 47 Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis
Week 48 The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Week 49 One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Week 50 Enter at Your Own Risk by Sandra Alex
Week 51 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Week 52 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
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Week 1 A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
Week 2 Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Week (...more)

1. the austere academy, lemony snicket

2. the ersatz elevator, lemony snicket

3. the vile village, lemony snicket (look these all count ok)

4. hamlet, william shakespeare

5. trainspotting, irvine welsh

6. mrs dalloway, virginia woolf

7. richard iii, william shakespeare

8. the waves, virginia woolf

9. the tenth man, graham greene

10. cold comfort farm, stella gibbons

11. porno, irvine welsh

12.the vanishing futurist, charlotte hobson

13. senlin ascends, josiah bancroft

14. the sworn sword, george r r martin

15. the mystery knight, george r r martin

16. foe, j.m. coetzee

17. the arm of the sphinx, josiah bancroft

18. frog music, emma donoghue

19. possession, a.s. byatt

20. (less)

1. the austere academy, lemony snicket

2. the ersatz elevator, lemony snicket

3. the vile v (...more)

Bonus Goal: Read 100 books before I leave the country



The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

The Last Girls by Lee Smith

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard

Jazz by Toni Morrison

State of Fear by Michael Crichton

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus

David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges

The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges

No Exit and three other plays by Jean-Paul Sartre

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino

Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates

Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius

The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf

Passing by Nella Larson

Financially Fearless by Alexa Von Tobel

Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino

On Love by Alain de Botton

Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

Survival of the Prettiest by Nancy Etcoff

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

Bel Canto by Ann Pratchett

The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

A Week at the Airport by Alain de Botton

The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

Night by Elie Wiesel

Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close

Day by Elie Wiesel

The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

Dawn by Elie Wiesel

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Transformations by Anne Sexton

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Vagabonding by Rolf Potts

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Not Quite What I Was Planning by various

Fragments by Marilyn Monroe

The Oxford Project by Peter Feinstein and Stephen Bloom

Unholy Ghost edited by Nell Casey

Art of the Cemetery by David Robinson

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Death Notebooks by Anne Sexton

Twilight Zone edited by Carol Serling

The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates

The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost

Russian Fairy Tales by Gillian Avery

The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Mindsight by Daniel J . Siegel

Religion for Athests by Alain de Botton

Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich

The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson

Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat

Who Moved my Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Becoming Enlightened by Dalai Lama XIV

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang

The Wild Iris by Louis Gluck

What I Eat by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What We Carry by Dorianne Laux

Women in the Material World by Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel

Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar

Death's Acre by Bill Bass

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Saved by Ben Hewitt

The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson

The Diary of a Young Girl, the Definitive Edition by Anne Frank

Undercurrents by Martha Manning

Evil Eye by Joyce Carol Oates



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Bonus Goal: Read 100 books before I leave the country



The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atw (...more)