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