The Books I Read and the Music I Listened to in 2011
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Identity by Milan Kundera, translated from French by Linda Asher
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, translated from Dutch by Susan Massotty
Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Sabrina Ward-Harrison
Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context edited by Vern L. Bullough
See What I’m Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses by Lawrence D. Rosenblum
What It Is by Lynda Barry
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Como agua para chocolate by Lara Esquivel
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal by J. K. Rowling, translated from English by Alicia Dellepiane
Jazz by Toni Morrison
The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by Geoff Stray
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Top 10 Albums Acquired (Regardless of Release Date)
Amended to Top 4 Because I Only Acquired 4
4. Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
3. Time Without Consequence - Alexi Murdoch
2. Either/Or - Elliot Smith
1. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens