Reading 100 Books in a Year

I joined GoodReads in November of 2011 and read nine books. This motivated me to read 52 (one per week) in 2012; however, I wound up actually reading 82. Of course, getting to 82 in 2012 meant I had to read 104 (two per week) in 2013. I wound up squeaking in 108 total for 2013 and upping my 2012 page count of 26,052 to 26,997. I'm quite a slow reader, so while I know many people routinely read over 100 books per year, this undertaking took a lot of effort for me (averaging over two hours per day).

You can read more about it the short book (32 pages) I wrote about the experience Reading 100 Books in a Year. Since then, I've returned to a more normal rate of reading with the goal of reading at least one book per week for the rest of my life. To see what I'm currently reading or other books I've finished in the past, check out my GoodReads profile.

You can read about my other upcoming projects and completed projects by visiting the Personal Projects home page and keeping up with my blog where I document the steps, stumbles, and small achievements along the way.

Books Read in 2013

• Philosophy in the Flesh
  
• Scarcity
  
• Daily Rituals
  
• Bird by Bird
  
• Metaphors We Live By
  
• Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education
  
• Hannibal
  
• Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning
  
• On Language
  
• Vagabonding
  
• Language as a Complex Adaptive System
• The Power of Reading
• Explorations in Language Acquisition and Use
• Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics
• On Writing
• Free Voluntary Reading
• The Read-Aloud Handbook
• Understanding and Using English Grammar
• Language, Learning, and Life
• Embracing the Wide Sky
  
• Building Your Book for Kindle
  
• The Natural Approach
  
• Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition
  
• Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing
  
• Self-Renewal
• Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching
  
• The Pocket Linguist
• Jailhouse Strong
  
• Syntactic Structures
  
• Second Language Pedagogy
  
• Evaluating Character Development
  
• A New Way to Proficiency in English
  
• Ungifted
  
• Focus on Grammar 1
• From Reading to Writing 1
• Lessons from the Classroom
• 20 Gifts of Life
• The Psychology of Teaching Foreign Languages
• Real Grammar
• Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms
  
• The Loom of Language
  
• The Science of Getting Rich
• Choose Yourself
• Complete Korean
  
• Anti Linguistics
• Language Made Plain
• The Power of Full Engagement
• The Art and Science of Learning Languages
  
• Across the River and into the Trees
  
• Incognito
  
• Polyglot
  
• The Gift of Fear
  
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• The Jungle Books

• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  
• Beyond 5/3/1
• The Greyskull Method for Powerbuilding
• The Healthy Bodybuilder & Powerlifter
• Bench Press
• To Have and Have Not
• The Sun Also Rises
• Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Green Hills of Africa
• The Little Book of Contentment
  
• How We Think
  
• The Input Hypothesis
• Fundamentals of Language Education
• Moral Principles in Education
• Democracy and Education
  
• The Flinch
• Toward a Psychology of Being
• Learned Optimism
  
• Practical Research
  
• On Becoming a Person
  
• Hesiod
• Talent Is Overrated
  
• So Good They Can't Ignore You
• Holistic Learning
• Learned Helplessness
• The Power of Less
• Thriving on Less
• The Effortless Life
• The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life
• Focus
• Switch
• How Will You Measure Your Life?
• Mind Boosters
• Man's Search for Meaning
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• The Allyn & Bacon Teaching Assistant's Handbook
• Lives on the Boundary
• Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms
• Language Teaching Awareness
• A Practicum in TESOL
• Prometheus Bound
• Doing and Writing Action Research
• Why We Do What We Do
  
• The Oresteia
• Philoctetes
• Three Theban Plays
  
• The Master and Margarita
• The Iliad
• Strength Life Legacy
• Second Language Acquisition
• The Linguist on Language
  
• The Way of the Linguist
• The Red and the Black