Here’s the complete list of the 50 books I read in 2011. I’ll be keeping you up to date on my 2012 list! (The goal for the new year is 25, so I can fit in some longer reads.)
1. Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work, Tim Gunn, 2010
2. White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1985
3. The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk, 1998
4. Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice, John Baugh, 2000
5. English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States, Rosina Lippi-Green, 1997
6. Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century, Mark Dery, 1997
7. Pattern Recognition, William Gibson, 2005
8. Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class, Bonnie Urciuoli, 1996
9. Galatea 2.2, Richard Powers, 1995
10. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, Julie Powell, 2005
11. Everyday Talk: Building and Reflecting Identities, Karen Tracy, 2002
12. You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier, 2010
13. Discursive Practice in Language Learning and Teaching, Richard Young, 2009
14. Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart, 2010
15. The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill, 2008
16. Inside Joss’ Dollhouse: From Alpha to Rossum, Ed. Jane Espenson, 2010
17. Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste, and Style, Tim Gunn & Kate Moloney, 2007
18. The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life, Bethenny Frankel & Eve Adamson, 2009
19. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, 1979
20. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002
21. The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears in Paris at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School, Kathleen Flinn, 2007
22. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris, 2004
23. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, Julie Powell, 2009
24. The Secret Lives of Dresses, Erin McKean, 2011
25. The Secret History, Donna Tartt, 1992
26. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, Laurie Viera Rigler, 2008
27. Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, Tom Bissell, 2010
28. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, Firoozeh Dumas, 2004
29. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949
30. My Father’s Daughter: Stories by Women, Irene Zahava, 1990
31. The Definitive Book of Body Language, Allan and Barbara Pease, 2006
32. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818
33. Naked, David Sedaris, 1997
34. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
35. The Film Club: A Memoir, David Gilmour, 2008
36. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, Anthony Bourdain, 2010
37. Rules, Cynthia Lord, 2006
38. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros, 1984
39. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel, 1989
40. Seriously…I’m Kidding, Ellen Degeneres, 2011
41. Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain, 2007
42. Libro de Horas. Poesia y Pinturas, Alfredo Castaneda, 2005
43. The Clash of Images, Abdelfattah Kilito, 2010
44. Personal Days, Ed Park, 2008
45. Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, Sara Roahen, 2008
46. The Ararat Papers, James C. Baloian, 1979
47. The Naive and Sentimental Novelist (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures), Orhan Pamuk, 2010
48. Great Short Poems, Ed. Paul Negri, 2000
49. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992, Audre Lorde, 1994
50. Our Dead Behind Us: Poems, Audre Lorde, 1994
