52in52 is a challenge I’ve made to read one book per week. I succeeded in 2010 (woo!), came up 12 short in 2011 (boo.) and am trying again in 2012.

Here’s a list of the books I’ve read so far this year (2012):

• Book 2: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson – 3.5/5
• Book 1: Eating With The Enemy: How I Waged Peace With North Korea From My BBQ Shack in Hackensack by Robert Egan – 4/5

Here’s a list of books I read in 2011:

• Book 40: The Demon in the Freezer by by Richard Preston – 2/5
• Book 39: The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka – 4.5/5
• Book 38: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall – 3/5
• Book 37: Concierge Confidential by Michael Fazio – 3/5
• Book 36: The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht – 4/5
• Book 35: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami – 3/5
• Book 34: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain – 4/5
• Book 33: Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin – 1.5/5
• Book 31: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett – 3/5
• Book 30: Townie by Andre Dubus III – 5/5
• Book 29: Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson – 4.5/5
• Book 28: Bossypants by Tina Fey – 2.5/5
• Book 27: The Art of the Heist by Myles J. Connor – 2.5/5
• Book 26: In The Garden Of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson – 3.5/5
• Book 25: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese – 3.5/5
• Book 24: Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick – 4.5/5
• Book 23: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – 3.5/5
• Book 22: The Outlander by Gil Adamson – 4/5
• Book 21: Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton – 3/5
• Book 20: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender – 4.5/5
• Book 19: Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip Into the Heart of Fan Mania by Warren Saint John – 3.5/5
• Book 18: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – 3/5
• Book 17: One Day by David Nicholls – 3.5/5
• Book 16: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – 4.5/5
• Book 15: Filemaker Pro 11 – the Missing Manual by Susan Prosser – 4/5
• Book 14: Columbine by Dave Cullen – 4/5
• Book 13: The Passage by Justin Cronin – 3/5
• Book 12: The Road by Cormac McCarthy – 4/5
• Book 11: The Testament by John Grisham – 3/5
• Book 10: The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar – 4/5
• Book 9: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman – 3.5/5
• Book 8: The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard – 2.5/5
• Book 7: Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson – 4/5
• Books 4, 5, & 6: The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins – 5/5
• Book 3: A Rope and a Prayer – A Kidnapping from Two Sides by David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill – 4/5
• Book 2: The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick – 3/5
• Book 1: Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno – 3/5

Here’s a list of books I read in 2010:

• Book 52: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami – 4/5
• Book 51: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn – 2.5/5
• Book 50: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson – 2.5/5
• Book 49: Bone – The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume by Jeff Smith – 4/5
• Book 48: The Truth Teller’s Lie by Sophie Hannah – 2/5
• Book 47: Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by Robert Wittman – 3/5
• Book 46: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick – 3.5/5
• Book 45: Around the World in 80 Dinners by Bill Jamison and Cheryl Alters Jamison – 2/5
• Book 44: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore – 2.5/5
• Book 43: God Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe – 3/5
• Book 42: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris – 1.5/5
• Book 41: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart – 3.5/5
• Book 40: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer – 3/5
• Book 39: The Help by Kathryn Stockett – 4/5
• Book 38: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers – 5/5
• Book 37: How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere by Larry King – 2.5/5
• Book 36: Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain – 3/5
• Book 35: Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern – 3.5/5
• Book 34: The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad – 3.5/5
• Book 33: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larsson – 4/5
• Book 32: The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson – 3.5/5
• Book 31: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx – 3.5/5
• Book 30: Building Web Applications with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 – 3/5
• Book 29: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely – 4/5
• Book 28: Killing Yourself To Live by Chuck Klosterman – 3/5
• Book 27: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer – 1.5/5
• Book 26: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer – 2/5
• Book 25: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer – 3/5
• Book 24: Ford County: Stories by John Grisham – 0.5/5
• Book 23: American Gods by Neil Gaiman – 4.5/5
• Book 22: At Home On The Street by Jason Wasserman & Jeffrey Clair – 4.5/5
• Book 21: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder – 2.5/5
• Book 20: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott – 4/5
• Book 19: I am Nujood, Age 10, Divorced by Nujood Ali – 4.5/5
• Book 18: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer – 2.5/5
• Book 17: Little Bee by Chris Cleave – 4/5
• Book 16: Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane – 4.5/5
• Book 15: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan – 3.5/5
• Book 14: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot – 5/5
• Book 13: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson – 4/5
• Book 12: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold – 3/5
• Book 11: Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History – 5/5
• Book 10: Day by Elie Wiesel – 3/5
• Book 9: The Good Soldiers by David Finkel – 5/5
• Book 8: Under the Dome by Stephen King – 2/5
• Book 7: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi – 4/5
• Book 6: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer – 3.5/5
• Book 5: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai – 2.5/5
• Book 4: Push by Sapphire – 4/5
• Book 3: How To Disappear Completely by David Bowick – 3/5
• Book 2: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow – 4.5/5
• Book 1: The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere by Debra Marquart – 4/5
• 52 in 52 – book challenge – 52in52in2010