What I Did Last Year

Last year I decided to read through as many genres as I could. Some I fudged and others were genuine genres. i.e. The Zookeeper's Wife = Animal Lit.

Here's a list of what I read.... titles and genres. It was terribly fun and pushed me into areas of reading that I wasn't familiar with. I love sports, but would never read a sports book. However, Michael Lewis' Moneyball, soon to be made into a movie, was brilliant and actually exciting. The "genre" or "classification" of microfiction was new to me and Marcus, my brother, passed along a book of it he read for school. Interesting stuff there.

In chronological order through the year, here's what I read.

1. Graphic Novel - The Watchmen
2. "Fairy Tale" - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
3. Autobiography - My Boyhood and Youth (John Muir)
4. Mythology - Random House Book of Greek Myths
5. Sports - Moneyball
6. Money - The Treasure Principle
7. Classic - Treasure Island
8. Food - How to Pick a Peach
9. Christian Fantasy - On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
10. Music - Nick Hornby's Songbook
11. Juvenile Adventure - The 39 Clues - The Maze of Bones
12. Christian Living - Enter the Worship Circle
13. Animal - The Zookeeper's Wife
14. Microfiction - Collection of Microfiction
15. Mystery - The London Eye Mystery
16. Adventure/Memoir/History - The Lost City of Z
17. Conspiracy - The Men Who Stare At Goats
18. Novel/Fiction - Memoir in Antproof Case

This is what I finished. I had started three books before the end of the year, but lost momentum and gave up. They were...

1. Fantasy - The Sword of Shannara
2. Writing - Maps and Legends
3. Essay/Short Story - State by State