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 (in progress)
84. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, T. J. Stiles (in progress)

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: 146

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Total: 1,005

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