2017 in books

Where will the pages take me now?

1. Everything Leads to You, Nina La Cour
2. We Could Be Beautiful, Swan Huntley
3. Today Will Be Different, Maria Semple
4. Hold Still, Nina La Cour
5. The Red Car, Marcy Dermansky
6. The Baker's Daughter, Sarah McCoy
7. Frog Music, Emma Donoghue 
8. Comet in Moominville, Tove Jansson 
9. Jane Steele, Lyndsay Faye
10. Commonwealth, Ann Patchett
11. Raymie Nightingale, Kate DiCamillo
12. Girls on Fire, Robin Wasserman
13. Disclaimer, Renee Knight
14. The Portable Veblen, Elizabeth Mckenzie
15. The Real Liddy James, Anne-Marie Casey
16. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith
17. The Assistants, Camille Perri
18. The Dollhouse, Fiona Davis
19. The Excellent Lombards, Jane Hamilton 
20. Be Frank With Me, Julia Claiborne Johnson
21. When We Meet Again, Kristin Harmel
22. The Imperial Wife, Irina Reyn
23. The Regulars, Georgia Clark
24. Private Citizens, Tony Tulathimutte
25. This Must Be The Place, Maggie O'Farrell
26. The Clairvoyants, Karen Brown
27. Saints and Misfits, S. K. Ali
28. The Queen of the Night, Alexander Chee
29. Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty
30. The Mothers, Brit Bennett
31. The Wangs vs. the World, Jade Chang
32. What She Left Behind, Ellen Marie Wiseman
33. Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
34. We Were Liars, E. Lockhart
35. Still Life With Tornado, A. S. King
36. Small Admissions, Amy Poeppel

2016 in books

It's always good to read.

1. A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin 
2. The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession, Edmund de Waal
3. Anne of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery
4. Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg
5. Cultural Amnesia, Clive James
6. Pretty Is, Maggie Mitchell
7. The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
8. The Improbability of Love, Hannah Rothschild
9. Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own, Kate Bolick
10. Mislaid, Nell Zink
11. Outline, Rachel Cusk
12. The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henriquez
13. A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World, Rachel Cantor 
14. Positive Discipline, Jane Nelson
15. Forty Rooms, Olga Grushin
16. Springtime: A Ghost Story, Michelle de Kretser
17. Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward
18. In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India, Edward Luce
19. The Royal We, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
20. A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson
21. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin
22. American Housewife, Helen Ellis
23. The Lost Time Accidents, John Wray
24. Mythologies, Roland Barthes
25. The Arrangement, Ashley Warlick
26. Little Labors, Rivka Galchen
27. Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Diane Williams
28. A Cure for Suicide, Jesse Ball
29. The Association of Small Bombs, Karan Mahajan 
30. A Book of Simple Living, Ruskin Bond
31. The Bling Ring, Nancy Jo Sales
32. In the Unlikely Event, Judy Blume
33. The Folded Clock, Heidi Julavits
34. Edinburgh, Alexander Chee 
35. We Are Our Brains, D. F. Swaab
36. Joe Gould's Teeth, Jill Lepore
37. The Lonely City, Olivia Laing
38. The Children's Home, Charles Lambert
39. The Girls, Emma Cline
40. Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett
41. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion 
42. Second Nature, Alice Hoffman
43. One Hundred Twenty-One Days, Michele Audin
44. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell
45. Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace
46. The Book of Speculation, Erika Swyler 
47. Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Maud Hart Lovelace
48. Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, Maud Hart Lovelace
49. Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Maud Hart Lovelace
50. Ways to Disappear, Idra Novey
51. Outside Lies Magic, John Stilgoe
52. Some of my Lives, Rosamond Bernier
53. The Tumbling Turner Sisters, Juliette Fay
54. Hold Still, Sally Mann
55. The Gilded Years, Karin Tanabe
56. The After Party, Anton DiSclafani

2015 in books

What's on my shelf this year? Here's a glimpse at the titles I've read:

1. Rainey Royal, Dylan Landis
2. Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg
3. Perfect Madness, Judith Warner
4. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, Andrew Sean Greer 
5. The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink 
6. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, Anton DiSclafani
7. City of Ash, Megan Chance
8. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
9. The Word Exchange, Alena Graedon
10. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
11. Ugly Girls, Lindsay Hunter 
12. Love Slave, Jennifer Spiegel
13. After Birth, Elisa Albert
14. Smart Girls Get What They Want, Sarah Strohmeyer 
15. Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan
16. The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert
17. Never Mind, Edward St Aubyn
18. Bad News, Edward St Aubyn
19. Some Hope, Edward St Aubyn
20. Mother's Milk, Edward St Aubyn 
21. At Last, Edward St Aubyn
22. Follow Me, Joanna Scott
23. Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
24. Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh 
25. The Sellout, Paul Beatty
26. A Guide to Being Born, Ramona Ausubel 
27. 1913: The Year Before the Storm, Florian Illies 
28. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, Helen Grant 
29. Almost Famous Women, Megan Mayhew Bergman 
30. Adam, Ariel Schrag 
31. The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
32. The Heiresses, Sara Shepard
33. Help for the Haunted, John Searles
34. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon---And the Journey of a Generation, Sheila Weller 
35. Dark Rooms, Lili Anolik 
36. Five Women, Rona Jaffe
37. The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott
38. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
39. Bringing Up Bebe, Pamela Druckerman
40. Turtle Diary, Russell Hoban
41. Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson
42. Raising Demons, Shirley Jackson
43. Mind in the Making, Ellen Galinsky 
44. On Immunity, Eula Biss 
45. This One Is Mine, Maria Semple 
46. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
47. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante
48. 10:04, Ben Lerner
49. Happily Ever After, Harriet Evans
50. Dear Daughter, Elizabeth Little
51. The Bad Seed, William March
52. A History of Food in 100 Recipes, William Sitwell
53. Comet in Moominland, Tove Jansson
54. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak 
55. Nurture Shock, Po Bronson 
56. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara 
57. Unbecoming, Rebecca Scherm
58. Hausfrau, Jill Alexander Essbaum
59. Between Lives, Dorothea Tanning
60. The Star Side of Bird Hill, Naomi Jackson 
61. Between You and Me, Mary Norris
62. Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon 
63. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
64. Bluets, Maggie Nelson
65. Ana of California, Andi Teran 
66. The Suicide of Claire Bishop, Carmiel Banasky
67. Love and Other Way of Dying, Michael Paterniti
68. Find Me, Laura van den Berg
69. Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh
70. Dietland, Sarai Walker
71. Founding Grammars, Rosemarie Ostler
72. This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, Jonathan Evison
73. Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
74. Local Girls, Caroline Zancan
75. The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, Anna North 
76. Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper, Hilary Liftin
77. Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins

2014 in books

The titles I read, as I read them.

1. Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary
2. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Kathy Peiss
3. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, William Dalrymple
4. Glaciers, Alexis M. Smith
5. Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger
6. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Horace McCoy
7. The Red Leather Diary, Lily Koppel
8. The Oracle of Stamboul, Michael David Lukas
9. The Listeners, Leni Zumas
10. Imperfect Birds, Anne Lamott
11. Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
12. Machine Dreams, Jayne Anne Phillips
13. Notes from No Man's Land, Eula Biss
14. It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, Lisa Pearson, ed.
15. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
16. Women Against Men, Storm Jameson
17. Behind the Burly Q, Leslie Zemeckis and Blaze Starr
18. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell
19. Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner
20. The True Deceiver, Tove Jansson
21. Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
22. Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
23. The Crack-Up with Other Pieces and Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. West with the Night, Beryl Markham 
25. Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link
26. My Life in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead
27. The Maytrees, Annie Dillard
28. Twins, Marcy Dermansky
29. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
30. I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
31. Save Yourself, Kelly Braffet
32. Wide Eyed, Trinie Dalton
33. Music for Torching, A. M. Homes 
34. Practical Jean, Trevor Cole 
35. A Book of One's Own: People and their Diaries, Thomas Mallon
36. The Mammoth Book of Street Art, JAKe (ed.)
37. Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
38. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos & Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures, Dona M. Wong
39. The Locusts Have No King, Dawn Powell
40. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
41. The Odditorium, Melissa Pritchard
42. Bark, Lorrie Moore
43. Varieties of Disturbance, Lydia Davis
44. Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson  
45. Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
46. Fair Play, Tove Jansson 
47. Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth 
48. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler 
49. The Bachelor of Arts, R. K. Narayan
50. Please Ignore Vera Dietz, A. S. King
51. Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
52. The Lady in Gold, Anne-Marie O'Connor 
53. Every Day is for the Thief, Teju Cole
54. Me and Fat Glenda, Lila Perl
55. Mr. Fortune's Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warner
56. The Salutation, Sylvia Townsend Warner
57. Wildmen, Wobblies, and Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest, ed. Brian Booth
58. The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
59. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
60. Serve it Forth, MFK Fisher
61. Consider the Oyster, MFK Fisher
62. The Gastronomical Me, MFK Fisher
63. Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill
64. Stoner, John Williams
65. The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
66. A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg
67. A Dark Adapted Eye, Ruth Rendell 
68. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg
69. The Blue of Her Body, Sara Greenslit 
70. Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle, Murray Morgan
71. Artful, Ali Smith
72. The Fig Eater, Jody Shields
73. Expecting Better, Emily Oster
74. The Borrower, Rebecca Makkai
75. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
76. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
77. O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
78. The Stranger, Albert Camus
79. Dramarama, E. Lockhart
80. Green Girl, Kate Zambreno
81. The Art Forger, B. A. Shapiro
82. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
83. The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
84. 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas, Marie-Helene Bertino
85. Tortoise by Candlelight, Nina Bawden
86. A Partial History of Lost Causes, Jennifer duBois
87. Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace
88. Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
89. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart
90. The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals, Elizabeth Smart
91. Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Maud Hart Lovelace
92. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders
93. Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, Maud Hart Lovelace
94. Landline, Rainbow Rowell 
95. Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Maud Hart Lovelace
96. Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott
97. The Talented Miss Highsmith, Joan Schenkar
98. Crapalachia, Scott McClanahan
99. Heaven to Betsy, Maud Hart Lovelace 
100. A Girl Named Zippy, Haven Kimmel
101. The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison
102. California, Edan Lepucki

103. The Fallback Plan, Leigh Stein

104. Provence, 1970: MFK Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste, Luke Barr

105. Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell

106. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, Steven Pinker

107. Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell 

108. Lizard Music, Daniel Pinkwater

109. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
110. 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
111. Almost No Memory, Lydia Davis
112. Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
113. Ask the Passengers, A. S. King
114. What Was Lost, Catherine O'Flynn
115. The Life in the Studio, Nancy Hale
116. Attachments, Rainbow Rowell
117. The Home-Maker, Dorothy Canfield Fisher
118. The Mistress's Daughter, A. M. Homes 
119. Saturn's Return to New York, Sara Gran
120. Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, A. S. King
121. An Invisible Sign of My Own, Aimee Bender
122. How to Get Into the Twin Palms, Karolina Waclawiak
123. Wolf in White Van, John Darnielle
124. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
125. The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown
126. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
127. The Happiest Baby on the Block, Harvey Karp
128. Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes
129. The Fever, Megan Abbott 
130. Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood
131. Daughters of the North, Sarah Hall
132. The Transcriptionist, Amy Rowland 
133. Betsy in Spite of Herself, Maud Hart Lovelace
134. Amy Falls Down, Jincy Willett
135. The Girls from Corona Del Mar, Rufi Thorpe
136. The Hundred-Year House, Rebecca Makkai 
137. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, Tove Jansson
138. Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis
139. Black Dahlia, James Ellroy

Miles, 2014

A running log of the miles I've walked, jogged, etc., in 2014.

January: 202

February: 220

March: 260

April: 301

May: 280

June: 246

July: 245

August: 233

September: 213

October: 245

November: 227

December: 208

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2014 total: 2,880

2013 in books

What I read, as I read it. (Note: 2013 is "the Year of Reading Proust," and I'm playing along on Goodreads; this will likely drastically reduce the number of books I read on the whole, but I'm psyched to finally go In Search of Lost Time.)

1. Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple
2. Blindness, Henry Green
3. Monsieur Proust's Library, Anka Muhlstein
4. The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell
5. Tenth of December, George Saunders
6. This is Running for Your Life, Michelle Orange
7. Orchids on Your Budget, Marjorie Hillis
8. The Book of Blood and Shadow, Robin Wasserman
9. Nine Months, Paula Bomer
10. Zazen, Vanessa Veselka
11. It's Kind of a Funny Story, Ned Vizzini
12. Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
13. Witch Baby, Francesca Lia Block
14. Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Francesca Lia Block
15. Missing Angel Juan, Francesca Lia Block
16. Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
17. The Fifty Year Sword, Mark Z. Danielewski
18. Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
19. How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
20. HHhH, Laurent Binet
21. Battleborn, Claire Vaye Watkins
22. Stream of Life, Clarice Lispector
23. How Literature Saved My Life, David Shields
24. Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell
25. School for Love, Olivia Manning
26. May We Be Forgiven, A. M. Homes
27. Dora, Lidia Yuknavitch
28. Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross
29. Fever, Mary Beth Keane
30. Baby Be-Bop, Francesca Lia Block
31. Wallflower at the Orgy, Nora Ephron
32. Turn, Magic Wheel, Dawn Powell
33. Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
34. Vaclav and Lena, Haley Tanner
35. A Thousand Morons, Quim Monzo 
36. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
37. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain
38. Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
39. Mary Coin, Marisa Silver
40. If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland
41. Bitter Bitch, Maria Sveland
42. Dare Me, Megan Abbott
43. Within a Budding Grove, Marcel Proust
44.  Bright's Passage, Josh Ritter 
45. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler
46. Errantry, Elizabeth Hand
47. Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson
48. Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods, Christine Byl
49. Where I Was From, Joan Didion
50. The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals, Elizabeth Smart
51. The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley
52. The Cove, Ron Rash
53. The Magic Circle, Jenny Davidson
54. Speedboat, Renata Adler
55. Loitering With Intent, Muriel Spark
56. The Lost Art of Walking, Geoff Nicholson 
57. Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing, Elaine Showalter  
58. Matilda, Roald Dahl
59. The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets, Kathleen Alcott
60. Threats, Amelia Gray
61. Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg
62. Giving Up the Ghost, Eric Nuzum
63. The Cranes Dance, Meg Howrey
64. Pitch Dark, Renata Adler
65. The Fat Woman's Joke, Fay Weldon
66. The Vanishers, Heidi Julavits 
67. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
68. The Guermantes Way, Marcel Proust 
69. Black Light, Elizabeth Hand
70. Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored, Mary Gabriel 
71. Big Brother , Lionel Shriver
72. Ghana Must Go, Taiye Selasi
73. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner
74. Stay Awake, Dan Chaon
75. State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
76. Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones
77. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
78. Tampa, Alissa Nutting 
79. The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit
80. Schroder, Amity Gaige 
81. The Faster I Walk The Smaller I Am, Kjersti A. Skomsvold 
82. Inside, Alix Ohlin
83. The Panopticon, Jenni Fagan
84. The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer  
85. The Universe Versus Alex Woods, Gavin Extence 
86. Understood Betsy, Dorothy Canfield
87. We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
88. The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes 
89. The Zodiac Arch, Freya Stark  
90. Sodom and Gomorrah, Marcel Proust  
91.  Night Film, Marisha Pessl
92. Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks
93. The Lola Quartet, Emily St. John Mandel
94. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector 
95. Alice Fantastic, Maggie Estep
96. A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit 
97. The Heart Broke In, James Meek
98. The Book Borrower, Alice Mattison 
99. Manifestoes of Surrealism, Andre Breton
100. Gods Without Men, Hari Kunzru
101. The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
102. Passing, Nella Larsen
103. The Color Master, Aimee Bender
104. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
105. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
106. The Residue Years, Mitchell S. Jackson
107. The Captive, Marcel Proust
108. Moonwalking With Einstein, Joshua Foer  
109. People Round the Corner, Thyra Samter Winslow 
110. Blood in the Parlor, Dorothy Dunbar 
111. Five Star Billionaire, Tash Aw 
112. The Narrow House, Evelyn Scott
113. White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi 
114. Anarchism is Not Enough, Laura Riding 
115. Sleeveless Errand, Norah C. James 
116. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson 
117. Run, Ann Patchett
118. The Fugitive, Marcel Proust  
119. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
120. Come Closer, Sara Gran
121. The Assassin from Apricot City: Reportage from Turkey, Witold Szablowski
122. The Complete Short Stories, Agnes Owens 
123. Winner of the National Book Award, Jincy Willett
124. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
125. Looking for Alaska, John Green
126. Dope, Sara Gran
127. The Box Garden, Carol Shields
128. You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Katharine Harmon
129. Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran
130. An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
131. Time Regained, Marcel Proust 
132. How to Talk to Practically Anybody About Practically Anything, Barbara Walters
133. Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
134. Lucretia and the Kroons, Victor LaValle
135. Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
136. The Tracey Fragments, Maureen Medved
137. The Lifted Veil, George Eliot
138. Serena, Ron Rash

Miles, 2013

A neurotic listing of miles run, walked, ellipticalled, what have you, in 2013.

January: 206

February: 214

March:  267

April: 301

May:  253

June: 286

July: 263

August: 267

September: 284

October: 318

November: 249

December: 207

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Total: 3,110

2012 in books

Books that I've read, as I read them! So many books, so little time.

1. The Effect of Living Backwards, Heidi Julavits
2. Betsy in Spite of Herself, Maud Hart Lovelace
3. What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, Damion Searls
4. Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta
5. The Colossus of New York, Colson Whitehead
6. The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West 
7. Betsy and Joe, Maud Hart Lovelace
8. I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck
9. Silas Marner, George Eliot
10. Betsy and the Great World, Maud Hart Lovelace
11. Betsy's Wedding, Maud Hart Lovelace
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
13. Carney's House Party, Maud Hart Lovelace
14. No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
15. Winona's Pony Cart, Maud Hart Lovelace
16. The Map of Time, Felix J. Palma 
17. Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
18. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
19. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane
20. The Deepening Stream, Dorothy Canfield
21. Treasure Island!!!, Sara Levine
22. Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
23. The Colors of Infamy, Albert Cossery
24. Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, Sara Vowell
25. The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
26. Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan
27. Phases of an Inferior Planet, Ellen Glasgow
28. The Magician King, Lev Grossman 
29. The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal
30. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner 
31. Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
32. Pointed Roofs, Dorothy Richardson
33. The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman
34. Amsterdam Stories, Nescio
35. My Next Bride, Kay Boyle 
36. The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Potsch
37. Mary Olivier: A Life, May Sinclair
38. Marking the Sparrow's Fall, Wallace Stegner 
39. The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them, Elif Batuman
40. The Luminist, David Rocklin 
41. New Grub Street, George Gissing
42. The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, J. S. Holliday
43. Half Empty, David Rakoff 
44. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
45. When I Was A Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson 
46. Hope: A Tragedy, Shalom Auslander 
47. Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
48. Adam Bede, George Eliot
49. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates 
50. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
51. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
52. Miss Lulu Bett, Zona Gale 
53. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katherine Boo 
54. Friendship Village, Zona Gale
55. The Newlyweds, Nell Freudenberger
56. The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
57. Best Russian Short Stories, various authors 
58. In the Mountains, Elizabeth von Arnim
59. The Children's Book, A. S. Byatt
60. Talion, Mary Maddox 
61. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, Diana Athill 
62. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender
63. Howards End, E. M. Forster 
64. The Artist of Disappearance, Anita Desai 
65. The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold, Kate Bernheimer
66. Miss Fuller, April Bernard
67. The Californians, Gertrude Atherton 
68. As If A Bird Flew By Me, Sara Greenslit
69. What Dreams May Come, Gertrude Atherton
70. My Ears Are Bent, Joseph Mitchell
71. Anywhere But Here, Mona Simpson
72. Queen Lucia, E. F. Benson 
73. As a Friend, Forrest Gander
74. Ayiti, Roxane Gay 
75. Emily of Deep Valley, Maud Hart Lovelace 
76. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett
77. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain 
78. The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
79. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot 
80. The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson 
81. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector 
82. A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers
83. On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet, Luree Miller
84. Household Stories, Brothers Grimm (trans. Lucy Crane) 
85. The Raising, Laura Kasischke 
86. Maida's Little Shop, Inez Haynes Gillmore 
87. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
88. Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
89. The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy
90. Light Woman, Zona Gale
91. Dracula, Bram Stoker 
92. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
    
93. Angel Island, Inez Haynes Gillmore
    
94. Wild, Cheryl Strayed
95. Mosses from an Old Manse, Nathaniel Hawthorne
96. Selected short stories, Edgar Allan Poe
97. The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
98. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells 
99. The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe 
    
100. The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker
     
101. Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
102. Champagne Days of San Francisco, Evelyn Wells
103. Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
104. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury 
105. Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter 
106. The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson
107. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
108. Little Brother, Cory Doctorow 
109. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Mindy Kaling
110. Sorry Please Thank You, Charles Yu 
     
111. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce
112. The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken, Terry Teachout
113. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
114. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville 
115. The House Without Windows, Barbara Newhall Follett 
116. A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man and Beast, MFK Fisher
117. Arcadia, Lauren Groff
118. How to Cook a Wolf, MFK Fisher
119. Swim for the Little One First, Noy Holland
120. Love in a Dish, MFK Fisher
121. The Brimming Cup, Dorothy Canfield Fisher
122. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Book Store, Robin Sloan
     
123. Hong Kong, Jan Morris 
124. How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti
125. The Most Dangerous Thing, Laura Lippman
126. Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett
127. The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
128. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
129. The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
130. The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin, Idries Shah
131. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

Miles to go before I sleep, 2012

An obsessive listing of the miles run/jogged/ellipticalled/etc. for 2012.

January: 135

February: 133

March: 143

April: 173

May: 145

June: 130

July: 190

August: 131

September: 159

October: 131

November: 116

December: 136

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Total: 1,722

2011 in books

Watch it grow, watch it change!

1. The Modulor, Le Corbusier
2. The Metropolis Case, Matthew Gallaway
3. Various Antidotes, Joanna Scott
4. American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee, Karen Abbott
5. The Outward Room, Millen Brand
6. The Book of Happiness, Nina Berberova, trans. Marian Schwartz
7. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
8. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester 
9. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
11. Tourmaline, Joanna Scott
12. Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead
13. What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Laura van den Berg
14. The Taste of Penny, Jeff Parker
15. Hackenfeller's Ape, Brigid Brophy
16. Further Adventures in Our Restless Universe, Dawn Raffel
17. Skippy Dies, Paul Murray
18. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson
19. A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
20. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo 
21. The Lodger, Marie Belloc-Lowndes
22. Naked Sleeper, Sigrid Nunez
23. The Entire Predicament, Lucy Corin
24. Girl From Yamhill, Beverly Cleary
25. You Lost Me There, Rosencrans Baldwin
26. Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, Deb Olin Unferth
27. Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
28. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
29. Tiger, Tiger, Margaux Fragoso
30. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Benjamin Hale
31. Other People We Married, Emma Straub
32. The Clash of Images, Abdelfattah Kilito
33. Visitation, Jenny Erpenbeck
34. The Jokers, Albert Cossery
35. Half A Life, Darin Strauss
36. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
37. Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
38. The Sleepwalker, Margarita Karapanou
39. Old New York, Edith Wharton
40. The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
41. 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Maureen Johnson
42. There Is No Year, Blake Butler
43. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Terry Ryan
44. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Lorrie Moore
45. The Last Little Blue Envelope, Maureen Johnson
46. Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue
47. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
48. The Girl With the Brown Fur, Stacey Levine
49. Pirate Talk or Mermalade, Terese Svoboda
50. Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
51. Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
52. The Great Frustration, Seth Fried
53. The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, Alina Bronsky
54. The Singer's Gun, Emily St. John Mandel
55. Just Kids, Patti Smith
56. The Quality of Life Report, Meghan Daum
57. The Consequence of Skating, Steve Gillis
58. Shoplifting From American Apparel, Tao Lin
59. Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee
60. So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman
61. Girl Factory, Jim Krusoe
62. Open City, Teju Cole
63. Us, Michael Kimball
64. Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott
65. I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Sloane Crosley
66. I'd Know You Anywhere, Laura Lippman
67. Model Home, Eric Puchner
68. The Information, James Gleick
69. The Magicians, Lev Grossman
70. Personal Days, Ed Park
71. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
72. The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
73. The Distance Between Us, Masha Hamilton
74. The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, Jessica Anya Blau
75. The Fates Will Find Their Way, Hannah Pittard
76. Postcards from a Dead Girl, Kirk Farber
77. Horse, Flower, Bird, Kate Bernheimer
78. Daughters of the Revolution, Carolyn Cooke
79. The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters, Timothy Schaffert
80. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
81. Heaven to Betsy, Maud Hart Lovelace
82. Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms, Carmela Ciuraru
83. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
84. On Elegance While Sleeping, Viscount Lascano Tegui (trans. Idra Novey)
85. The Money Class, Suze Orman
86. A Little Book of Language, David Crystal
87. Once Upon A River, Bonnie Jo Campbell
88. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
89. Lamb, Bonnie Nadzam
90. We the Animals, Justin Torres
91. After Claude, Iris Owens
92. Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language, Robert McCrum
93. The Journey's Echo, Freya Stark
94. The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
95. The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht
96. The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
97. Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi
98. The Story-Teller, Patricia Highsmith
99. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, Allison Hoover Bartlett
100. The Wandering Falcon, Jamil Ahmad 
101. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
102. Middlemarch, George Eliot
103. The Private Lives of Trees, Alejandro Zambra
104. Candide, Voltaire
105. Betsy Was a Junior, Maud Hart Lovelace
106. The Wilder Life, Wendy McClure
107. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither, Isabella Bird
108. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
109. The Scholar and the Dragon, Stella Kon
110. Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Richard Rhodes 
111. Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace
112. Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Maud Hart Lovelace
113. Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor
114. Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, Maud Hart Lovelace
115. Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Maud Hart Lovelace
116. Suicide, Edouard Levé (trans. Jan Steyn)
117. The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson
118. Mystery and Manners, Flannery O'Connor

Sweating it out, or 2011 in fitness

Making this list dynamic as well: will update miles run/ellipticalled/etc. after each go at the gym.

January: 104

February: 76

March: 110

April: 80

May: 11

June: 11

July: 109

August: 70

September: 125

October: 124

November: 130

December: 60

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Total, 2011: 1,010

2010 in books

With little comment, and in no particular order, the books that fed my brain between January and December 2010 (favorites bolded):

1. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
2. Sacred Games, Vikram Chanda
3. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
4. Lush Life, Richard Price
5. Sunset Park, Paul Auster
6. The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
7. Like Life, Lorrie Moore
8. Lit, Mary Karr
9. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
10. Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
11. Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker
12. Rumpus Women, compilation
13. C, Tom McCarthy
14. The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz
15. My Dog Tulip, JR Ackerley
16. Make Believe, Joanna Scott
17. The Manikin, Joanna Scott
18. The Black Minutes, Martin Solares
19. Half Life, Shelley Jackson
20. The Places in Between, Rory Stewart
21. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
22. A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
23. Lowboy, John Wray
24. You Are Here, Meenakshi Madhavan
25. The White Mary, Kira Salak
26. Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
27. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafron
28. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
29. Fugitives and Refugees, Chuck Palahniuk
30. The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos
31. The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
32. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
33. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
34. The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
35. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson
36. Room, Emma Donoghue
37. The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Thomas Mullen
38. Possible Side Effects, Augusten Burroughs
39. A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
40. Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane
41. Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
42. The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
43. Bad Marie, Marcy Dermansky
44. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
45. Bright-Sided, Barbara Ehrenreich
46. Ghosted, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
47. Kapitoil, Teddy Wayne
48. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
49. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
50. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
51. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa
52. The Coast of Akron, Adrienne Miller
53. The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
54. Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid
55. The Territory of Men, Joelle Fraser
56. Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault
57. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
58. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer
59. The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
60. Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
61. War, Sebastian Junger
62. A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
63. The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
64. Little Bee, Chris Cleave