50 Books in 2011

Make that 29. 

2011 was the year we became parents, and my personal reading time took a decidedly juvenile turn. A little less Proust, a lot more Llama Llama Red Pajama.

1. Preemies: The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies by Dana Wechsler Linden
2. Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis
3. Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss
4. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
5. Bossypants by Tina Fey
6. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
7. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
8. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
9. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
10. A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
11. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
12. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
13. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
14. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
15. The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
16. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
17. M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
18. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
19. Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
20. Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
21. Obasan by Joy Kogawa
22. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
23. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
24. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
25. Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
26. A Step from Heaven by An Na
27. Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos
28. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
29. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” 

-Rainer Maria Rilke