30 and counting...

Every start of the year I tend to refrain from making New Year resolutions simply because I shouldn't need the start of a new year to make me want to introduce new changes. I should be making conscious decisions to make changes throughout the year regardless of what day it is, but nonetheless I gave into the trend. One of my New Year resolutions was to read 30 books. The prior year I had only read, I believe, around 22 books. Quite a dismal amount considering that in 2011 I had read 52 and surpassed my reading goal by 2 books. Now this year has been a successful year for my reading. I've been reading more contemporary books and following more trends of what's popular, and I've been taking recommendations from the LA Times. So here goes the list of what I've read so far:

1. While Mortals Sleep - Kurt Vonnegut
2. Project Jennifer - Jill A. Rosenblatt
3. Slaughter House-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
4. Playing with Boys - A. Valdes-Rodriguez
5. Chasing Harry Winston - L. Weisberger
6. Bagombo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut
7. Now and Forever - Ray Bradbury
8. The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club - J. Morrison
9. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
10. Tempest Rising - Diane McKinney-Whetstone
11. A Simple Havana Melody: From When the World was Good - Oscar Hijuelos
12. Six Weeks to Toxic - Louisa McCormack
13. The Nanny Diaries - E. McLaughlin & N. Kraus
14. The Paris Wife - Paul McLain
15. Paris: A Love Story - Kati Marton
16. The Chosen - Chaim Potok
17. Holy Land - D.J. Waldie
18. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love - Carole Radziwill
19. The Girl Who Fell to Earth - Spohia Al-Maria
20. How to be a Hepburn in a Hilton World - J. Christy
21. The Ivy Chronicles - Karen Quinn
22. Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes - E. Bard
23. My Berlin Kitchen - Luisa Weiss
24. Women & Money - Suze Orman
25. This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
26. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Moshin Hamid
27. Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
28. In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
29. ¡Yo! - Julia Alvarez
30. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Therese Ann Fowler
31. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
32. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez
33. Grace - Grace Coddington
34. Looking for the Gulf Motel - Richard Blanco
35. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
36. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? - Maria Semple
37. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
38. Maya's Notebook - Isabel Allende
39. Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
40. Love - Toni Morrison
41. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut