It seems like a good time to do a recap of the books I’ve read this year.  Unfortunately, because I took some online professional development courses in the early part of the year and returned to grad school in August, I have not had much time to read.  I finished the following books this year (links take you to either my review or the Goodreads page).

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
• The Commoner by John Burnam Schwartz (great book)
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
  
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley
• Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess
• The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber (bleh)
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheimer
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

So that’s 22 books this year, which is better than last year’s total of 14 by 8 books.

Of course, I’ve started others and set them aside, but the only one I have a shot at finishing before New Year’s Day arrives is Neil Gaiman’s Stardust.

Considering how busy I was, I guess I shouldn’t feel too bad, but I do need to make more time to read.  As I have said before, it feeds my soul.