okay, let's get down to business:

JENNY'S 2005 READING LIST

legend:
*=school-related reading
**=re-read

1. This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff*


2. Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld


3. Gal: A True Life, Ruthie Bolton*


4. The Ruby in the Smoke, Phillip Pullman


5. Shadow in the North, Phillip Pullman


6. Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy*


7. Lost in Place: Growing up Absurd in Suburbia, Mark Salzman*


8. Emerald City and Other Stories, Jennifer Egan


9. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote


10. Light Before Day, Christopher Rice


11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon


12. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett*


13. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, Gerard Jones*


14. Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright*


15. At Home in the World, Joyce Maynard*


16. The Quality of Life Report, Megan Daum


17. The Manor and the Estate, Isaac Bashevis Singer


18. Perfume, Patrick Suskind


19. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger


20. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton


21. That Was Dachau, Stanislaw Zamecnik


22. White Noise, Don Delillo


23. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal


24. Special, Bella Bathurst


25. Circling the Drain, Amanda Davis


26. Leaving Brooklyn, Lynne Sharon Schwartz**


27. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick


28. The Wonder Spot, Melissa Bank


29. Underworld, Don Delillo


30. The Myth of You and Me, Leah Stewart


31. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhool, Koren Zailckas


32. Love Invents Us, Amy Bloom


33. Tenth Grade, Joseph Weisberg


34. The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan


35. The Whole Story and Other Stories, Ali Smith


36. The J.A.P. Chronicles, Isabel Rose


37. Hometown, Tracy Kidder*


38. A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly


39. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things


40. The Field Guide, Tony DeTizzerli and Holly Black*


41. The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander*


42. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her, Melanie Rehak


43. Bad Girls, Cynthia Voigt*


44. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry*


45. Snakes and Earrings, Kanehara Hitomi


46. Wickett's Remedy, Myla Goldberg


47. Shade's Children, Garth Nix


48. The Drowning Tree, Carol Goodman


49. Lying Awake, Mark Salzman


50. Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet


51. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer


52. The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett

okay, so that's an average of 1 book a week. let's see if i can't step it up to 1.5 a week in 2006. so that's 78.

CAN...

SHE...

DO IT??



more importantly,

DOES...

ANYONE...




CARE??



more to come concerning a complicated rating system and my reading from the first week of 2k6.