100 Books Reading Challenge

Started a reading challenge project mid-spring of 2017. The goal: read 100 books by summer in a year. I’m inching along, albeit at a slower pace than I’d like. Figured posting the list on my blog would hold me accountable–also, I get to share cool books!

So here’s a list of books I’ve reading; I plan to update every 10 books or so. If you have any book recommendations, I’d love to hear them! 🙂

April 10th, 2019: Oh! I am just about done with this project. It’s taken me two years, and I’m just 7 books away. In looking back, I realize that some stories I have forgotten, while others have burned into my memory. I’ve bolded some of the stories I really loved and remembered.

June 22nd, 2019: I’m done! I finished earlier, but I just didn’t want to–weirdly enough–be done with this project. I’ve finished 100 books in, ah, two years.

1. One! Hundred! Demons!, Lynda Barry
2. James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
4. Here, Richard McGuire
5. Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks
6. Burned, Ellen Hopkins
7. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy Kaling
8. Walking Dead 1, Robert Kirkman
9. Walking Dead 2, Robert Kirkman
10. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelous
11. Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
12. Partner Track, Helen Wan
13. Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
14. Kafka, R. Crumb
15. Project Jennifer, Jill Rosenblatt
16. Dignity, Donna Hicks
17. Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant, Roz Chast
18. Ginny Moon, Benjamin Ludwig
19. Autobiography of Barefoot Gen, Nakazawa Keji
20. Meow Meow, Jose Fonollosa
21. Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann
22. Phenomenal Woman, Maya Angelou
23. The Skin Above My Knees, Marcia Butler
24. Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With), Daisy Goodwin
25. Sailing Alone Around the Room, Billy Collins
26. Future Tense, Paintings by Alex Gross
    
27. Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling
28. Thirst, Poems by Mary Oliver
29. Global Street Art, Lee Boffkin
30. Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami
31. Vintage Cisneros, Sandra Cisneros 
32. Have You Seen Marie, Sandra Cisneros
33. Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros
34. The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures, Sylvia Judson
35. Blue Nights, Joan Didion 
36. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
37. This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
38. The Embassy of Cambodia, Zadie Smith
39. Love Mad Poems, Rumi
40. The Wolves In The Walls, Neil Gaiman
41. Forms of Distance, Bei Dao
42. 73 Poems, E.E. Cummings
43. The Love Bunglers, Jaime Hernandez
44. Little Book of Little Stories
45. Shoplifter, Michael Cho
46. Rick & Morty Comics
47. Fresh Complaint, Jeffrey Eugenides
48. Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
49. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
50. South and West, Joan Didion
51. Dear Dumb Diary
52. Stories Julian Tells, Ann Cameron
53. Stitches, David Small
54. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
55. Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
56. Pretty: Stories, Greg Kearney
57. Night Watch, Malin Lindroth
58. Constance and the Great Escape, Pieere Le Gall 
59. Rapunzel, Paul Zelinsky
60. Jane and the Fox & Me, Isabelle Aresenault 
61. I’ve Loved You Since Forever, Hoda Kobb
62. Corduroy, Don Freeman
63. Buck, MK Asante
64. Chemistry, Weike Wang
65. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo
66. Soviet Daughter, Julia Alekseyeva
67. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
68. LIFE 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography
69. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
70. SHOCK
71. Beijing: Imperial and Contemporary
72. Abandoned America, Matthew Christopher
73. The Polaroid Book
74. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
75. Cats, Jane Bown
76. The Photographs of Carl Mydans
77. Camanchaca, Diego Zuniga 
78. Creepy Carrots, Aaron Reynolds
79. Lies in The Dust : A Tale of Remorse From The Salem Witch Trial
80. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
81. Going Into Town, Roz Chaz
82. Doodle Diary of A New Mom, Lucy Scott
83. The Marshmallow Test, Walter Mischel
84. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L Konigsburg
85. The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
86. Interpreter’s Maladies
87. Rx
88. Because We Are Bad, Lily Bailey
89. Frida’s Bed, Slavenka Drakulic
90. Zenobia
91. Light Filters In Poems, Caroline Kaufman
92. Sweet Land Stories, E.L Doctorow
93. Hap and Hazzy at the End of the World, Diane DeSanders
94. The Pleasure of My Company, Steve Martin
95. One of The Boys, Daniel Magariel 
96. Mary Ann in Autumn Book, Armistead Maupin
97. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
98. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
99. The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen
100. States of Mind, Emilie Guillon