52 books in 52 weeks

You know those 52 books in 52 week challenges? There’s a ton of them out there…the idea is to try to read a book a week over the year. I’m giving it another shot. Last year, I managed 42 by New Year’s Eve.

Here are the books I’ve finished reading:

1. Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress XXII edited by Elisabeth Waters
2. Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress XXIII edited by Elisabeth Waters
3. The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham
4. Wildfire by Zane Grey
5. 2009 O. Henry Prize Stories edited by Elisabeth Waters
6. Caverns: The Journeys of McGill Feighan by Kevin O’Donnell Jr
7. Reefs: The Journeys of McGill Feighan by Kevin O’Donnell Jr
8. Lava: The Journeys of McGill Feighan by Kevin O’Donnell Jr
9. Cliffs: The Journeys of McGill Feighan by Kevin O’Donnell Jr
10. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
11. The Almost Meeting and Other Stories by Henry Kreisel
12. Such Is My Beloved by Morley Callaghan
13. Homeground by Caterina Edwards
14. No New Land by M.G.Vassanji
15. Migration Songs by Anna Quon
16. Dutch Treatment by D. E. Fredd
17. Bright-sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
18. The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey
19. Terrorist by John Updike
20. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
21. Dragonsblood by Todd McCaffrey
22. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
23. Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell
24. Knife on the Table by Jacques Godbout
25. Death With Interruptions by José Saramago
26. Just After Sunset by Stephen King
27. Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey
28. Current Psychotherapies (8th Ed) edited by Raymond J. Corsini and Danny Wedding
29. 1919 O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories; various
30. Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends by Michael White and David Epston
31. Maps of Narrative Practice by Michael White
32. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
33. Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again by Dr. Drew Pinsky with Todd Gold
34. Changing the World: All-New Tales of Valdemar edited by Mercedes Lackey
35. Light Boxes by Shane Jones
36. Seven Icelandic Short Stories, various.
37. Literary Pluralities edited by Christl Verduyn
38. Animal Farm by George Orwell
39. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
40. Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
41. Swords and Deviltry: Fahfred and Grey Mouser, Book One by Franz Leiber
42. The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
43. The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan
44. Half Portions by Edna Ferber

And the ones I’m still reading:

1. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
2. The Butterfly Collector by Fred McGavran
3. The Panopticon Writings by Jeremy Bentham
4. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

It’s kind of a varied group – some of the books are for my MA program, and the rest are just for me. But I’m inching closer to 52!