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I am usually pretty good at pacing my reading to include a couple of review copies, along with a book or two that I am reading just for fun. However, due to the generosity of several bloggers and publishers, I have a nice, healthy stack of books that I must get to within the next couple of weeks. I know that this causes stress for some bloggers but these are all books that I am dying to read so I am anxious, but in a good way.

So, in an attempt to organize my chaotic self, here’s a quick list of what I will be reading over the next few weeks in no particular order:

Book List 1

Book List 2

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Keeper by Kathi Appelt
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
Trackers by Patrick Carman
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Black Hills by Dan Simmons

Well, enough with the list, off I go to put a dent in it.

My book club met last night for our annual book selection meeting. We choose our books for the entire year. This seems to work well for us and we all look forward to the meeting.

I took this screenshot off of Goodreads, but it’s the exact opposite of how we plan to read them. If you start on the lower right with Finn and then read from right to left, bottom to top, then you have the order. I also listed it down below. I always make a shelf in Goodreads for my book club reading list, just to keep track of it. Next time, I’ll start with the last book first.

I’m really pleased with this list. We actually added two more books that take us into the next year so I did not list them officially here, but those two are Last Night in Twisted River and The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

2010 Library Book Club Reading List

Jan – Finn by John Clinch [review]

Feb – Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Mar – True History of the Kelly Gang byPeter Carey

April – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon [review] Changed to The Book Thief.

May – First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

June – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

July – Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink

Aug – The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Sept – Invisible by Paul Auster

Oct – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Nov – Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors