95 Books In 2006, George W. Bush read 95 books. We will do better.

So I stopped keeping track somewhere around August, but luckily I also stopped tidying the piles of books on my nightside table and on my book shelves around the same time, so I was able to remember all/most of the books I’ve read since then:

58. God of Missed Connections by Elizabeth Bachinsky

59. Dusie 10, The Canadian Issue

60. Cockroach by Rawi Hage

61. Neighbour Procedure by Rachel Zolf

62. O Resplandor by Erin Moure

63. Chicago Review 55.2

64. Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait by Robert Kroetsch

65. The Invisibility Exhibit by Sachiko Murakami

66. Glass, Irony, and God by Anne Carson

67. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton

68. I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuleish

69. A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008 by Adrienne Rich

70. Play the Monster Blind by Lynn Coady

71. Missed Her by Ivan Coyote

72. The Company: A Short History of A Revolutionary Idea by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

73. Room by Emma Donoghue

74. The Capilano Review 3:12, Fall 2010

75. The Lateral by Jake Kennedy

76. Underachievers Manifesto: the Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great by Ray Bennett

77. Lost by Cathy Ostlere

78. Beyond Belfast by Will Ferguson

79. Not for Sale: End Human Trafficking and Slavery by David Batstone

80 - 84. Five self-help-type books that I don’t feel like naming here.

85 - 86. And finally, a bunch of chapbooks that collectively count for at least a couple of books:

The Bad Sequence by Phil Hall

Servants of Dust by Gary Barwin

Notes on Why Conceptualism is Better than Flarf by Vanessa Place

Retreat Diary by Margaret Christakos

Reptile House by Lisa Jarnot

Game Show Reversed by Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

A History of Button Collecting by Helen Hajnoczky

& by Elisa Sampedrin

- Natalie S.