My 2011 Reading Plan

It's time again for me to plan my reading for the year. As I've posted about here and here, I devise a reading plan every January, to help guide my reading throughout the year (it usually turns out that half or more of my reading is spontaneous, so my plan is plenty flexible). So here's some of the books I hope to get to in the course of 2011:

Biography:
Martin Luther King Jr. (Frady)
Empire of the Summer Moon (Gwynn)

Memoir:
The Bread of Angels (Saldana)
A Rope and a Prayer (Rohde/Mulvihill)

Classics:
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Bleak House (Dickens)
The Swiss Family Robinson (Wyss)
A Journal of the Plague Year (Defoe)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Wiggin)

Writing:
A Dangerous Profession (Busch)

History:
No Ordinary Time (Goodwin)
The Fall of Rome (Lafferty)
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer (Swanson)

New authors:
A Soldier of the Great War (Helprin)
I, Elizabeth (Miles)
Libra (DeLillo)
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (Barnes)
Flaubert’s Parrot (Barnes)
Arthur & George (Barnes)
Penrod (Booth Tarkington)

Poetry:
Nox (Carson)

Favorites:
The Heritage of the Desert (Grey)
Code of the West (Grey)
Chancy (L’Amour)
The Cherokee Trail (L’Amour)
Soulprint (Batterson)
The Broker (Grisham)
The Last Juror (Grisham)

Christian:
The Power of a Whisper (Hybels)
The End of Religion (Cavey)
The Challenge of Jesus (Wright)
Hanging out the Wash (Lara)

Ministry/Leadership:
The Training of the Twelve (Bruce)
The Principle of the Path (Stanley)

Related books; (read in order):
Flaubert’s Parrot (Barnes)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)

Martin Luther King Jr. (Frady)
Hellhound on his Trail (Sides)

Something Rotten (Fforde)
Gertrude & Claudius (Updike)

Arthur & George (Barnes)
The Sherlockian (Moore)

Books About Books:
My Reading Life (Conroy)

Children’s:
None

Re-read:
Leap Over a Wall (Peterson)

International and inter-cultural:
The Bread of Angels (Saldana)

Contemplative/Devotional:
Chanting the Psalms (Bourgealt)
Devotional Classics (Foster)

Friends:
Living in the Overlap (Schaefer)

Other:
The Wager (Myers)
Just Think (Nordenson)
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shaikespeare? (Shapiro)
The Great Typo Hunt (Deck)

2 comments:

  1. Bob, I'm honored to see Living in the Overlap appear in your list. And I appreciate the help and encouragement you gave when I was developing the manuscript. May 2011 be a year of special blessings for you and your family.

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  2. Steve, the honor is all mine! I'm looking forward to it.

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