- read from your own collection between January 1st and December 31st, 2009
My Goal – 50 Books
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
- You Know You’re a Writer When by Adair Lara
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- The Host by Stephenie Meyer
- Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
- Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson
- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- The Writer’s Idea Book by Jack Heffron
- Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
- Fool by Christopher Moore
- Roses are Red by James Patterson
- Twilight Director’s Notebook by Catherine Hardwicke
- Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
- Knit Two by Kate Jacobs
- Love Letters of Great Men Vol 1 by John C. Kirkland
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
- Violets are Blue by James Patterson
- Four to Score by Janet Evanovich
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- 8th Confession by James Patterson
- The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea Buchanan
- The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner
- Step on a Crack by James Patterson
- Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
- Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
- Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
- Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
- Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
- All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges
- Swimsuit by James Patterson
- Take Your Shirt Off and Cry by Nancy Balbirer
- A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
- Marley and Me by John Grogan
- Four Blind Mice by James Patterson
- Run For Your Life by James Patterson
- Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
- The Noticer by Andy Andrews
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson
- London Bridges by James Patterson
I think next year I may aim for a higher number to force myself to continue reading books I already own. At this rate, the number will never go down.