What I've Been Reading - December 2007

Though December is well over, I thought I'd take a look back over what I've read. I'm not sure that my reading follows any kind of pattern, and while I quite like that, it makes it almost impossible for people to buy me books without a list supplied by me in triplicate.

Zora Neale Hurston "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Jonathan Safran Foer "Everything is Illuminated"
Penelope Fitzgerald "The Bookshop"
Paulo Coelho "The Alchemist" (Wanted to see what the fuss was about)
J. G. Ballard "Empire of the Sun"
Imran Ahmad "Unimagined"
Louisa May Alcott "Little Women" (One I'd missed as a child - wanted to see what the fuss was about)
Lian Hearn "Across the Nightingale Floor"
Louis Sachar "Small Steps"

To make things interesting, I'm attempting to read 100 books this year (last year was 89), and at roughly two per week, I'm behind already. I'm also slowly reading my way through the "1001 Books to Read Before You Die". Given that I'm only up to number 101, it could be a while. Does make me read some things I probably wouldn't have otherwise (as the list above attests).