The Next Best Book Club discussion

My goal is to read 81 books in 2011. I read 70 last year and I joined the +11 in'11 challenge in the Books on the Nightstand group here on GR(that's why I have an odd number as a goal). The additional 11 books are going to be books that I already own and have never read. I'll put a +11 sign next to the titles of those books as I complete them.

1. The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
2. The Ringmaster's Daughter by Jostein Gaarder

Beth wrote: "My goal is to read 81 books in 2011. I read 70 last year and I joined the +11 in ii challenge in the Books on the Nightstand group here on GR(that's why I have an odd number as a goal). The addit..."

That's a neat idea for a challenge! Good luck!

3. Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow (+11 in 11)

4. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan (Italy challenge)

5. Swindle by Gordon Korman

5. Swindle by Gordon Korman

6. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (+11 in 11)

7. My Reading Life by Pat Conroy

8. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

9. Who Was Harriet Tubman? by Yona Zeldis McDonough My youngest son is reading this for school so I read it too so I can discuss it with him.

What did you think of Revolution? It's on my list as well.

I really liked it, especially the diary entries from the past.

10. Great House by Nicole Krauss

11. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

12. Holes by Louis Sachar My ten year old read this for his school book club so I decided to read it too.

13. Lonesome Doveby Larry McMurtry (+11 in 11)

14. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

15. The Fates Will Find Their Way: A Novel by Hannah Pittard

16. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (+11 in 11)

17. The Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman

18. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
19. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
20. The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry

21. The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond by Donna Goldberg

22. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

23. The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
24. Any Human Heart by William Boyd (+11 in 11)

25. The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma

26. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

27. I Survived The Sinking Of The Titanic, 1912 by Lauren Tarshis I read this with my 10 year old for his book club

28. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa

29. House Arrest: A Novel by Ellen Meeropol

30. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (+11 in 11)

31. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

32. The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto

33. The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (+11 in 11)
34.22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson

35. The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich (+11 in 11)

36. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

37. The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson

38. Half a Life: A Memoir by Darin Strauss

39. Honeysuckle House by Andrea Cheng
40. Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

41. The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

42. Just as Long as We're Together by Judy Blume

43. Here's to You, Rachel Robinson by Judy Blume
44. The Law of Similars by Chris Bohjalian
45. Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian

46. The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

47. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
48. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch

49. Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
50. Behind the Bedroom Door: Getting It, Giving It, Loving It, Missing It by Paula Derrow
51. The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson
52. Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury

53. A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé

54. Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close

55. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer

56. Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O'Roark Dowell
57. Firegirl by Tony Abbott

58. Among Others by Jo Walton

59. The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies