Lint Upon Tweed

The new year is right around the corner and there’s so much I need to accomplish in 2010.

One of the first things I’m going to do is begin to track the books I read throughout the year.  I go through a lot of books and I tend to forget when I actually read the book.

The list of books is after the jump.  This list is not complete by any means.

• Off Ramp by Hank Stuever
• You remind me of me by Dan Chaon
• Snow Angels by Stewart O’Nana
• Tinsel by Hank Stuever
• Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde
• Earth, Air, Fire and Custard by Tom Holt
• Just a couple of days by Tony Vigorito
• Kings of Infinite Space by James Hnes
• Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
• Seeing by José Saramago
• The Commitment by Dan Savage
• Nine Kinds of Naked by Tony Vigorito
• An Arsonists Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke

This list will most definitely be interrupted by a few books that a due for release in the new year.  The first is Christopher Moore’s Bite Me, which will be released on the 23rd of March.  The other is the next book in the Spellman series by Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again: A Novel.

Jasper Fforde has a new book that will be released on the 29th of December but I will wait for the paperback.

In addition, I thought I’d give you a list of some other great books that are on the list and could possibly replace what I’ve listed above….depending on my mood!

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers
The New Comedy Writing Step by Step by Gene Perret
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Street by David Simon (true crime)
Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert by William Langewiesche
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told by Kenneth Turan
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne {Wait for paperback}
Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith (essays)
Don’t Forget to Breathe by Ashim Shanker
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
How I Became A Famous Novelist by Steve Henly
Help! A Bear is Eating me by Mykle Hansen
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett {Wait for paperback}
Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey
Anonymous Rex by Eric Garcia
Why Dogs Die Young by Ted Kerasote
Pukka by Ted Kerasote
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (December 29, 2009)
Big Machine by Victor La Valle
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford {Wait for paperback}
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanas by Geoff Dyer
Await your Reply by Dan Chaon {Wait for paperback}
I only roast the ones I love by Jeffrey Ross {wait for paperback}
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Tell All by Chuck Palahniuk
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
It’s Beginning to Hurt: Stories by James Lasdun
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester
Born Round by Frank Bruni
Light Years by James Salter
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis
Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel
Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes by T. Cooper
Rain: Poems by Don Paterson
Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
What the dogs have taught me by Merrill Markoe
It’s my fucking birthday by Merrill Markoe

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