Last week I wrote the post What to Read? and it resonated with a few people. I have mentioned a few times on this blog that I'll be doing a Virtual World Literary Tour, where I am reading books from authors around the globe. I have a lot of books that tell you the must-read books and I have been making my selections from a combination of those books. I have started reading the books already. You can take a look at the page that I created for this reading project. I will show you some fun ways to choose which books to read.
I thought I'd quickly research interesting ways for people to choose which books to read, and this is what I found.
2 Fun Ways to Choose Which Books to Read
- Fun Ways to Choose Books: For example you could read banned books. The American Library Association has a list of books that were banned or challenged. Other suggestions in the article include books that won literary awards and books by local authors. Please read the article for more ideas.
- Whichbook: This is a page on the Opening the Book website, and it gives you certain options to choose from, and based on what you choose, it recommends books for you. Some of the options that you are presented with: Happy or Sad; Funny or Serious; Larger than Life or Down to Earth; Expected or Unpredictable; Optimistic or Bleak. Play around with it and see what books are recommended for you.
How to Keep Track of What You Read in 2013
| Name of Book | Author | Month | One Paragraph Summary | |
| 1. | Against the Odds |
Kat Martin | January | |
| 2. | That Night on Thistle Lane |
Carla Neggers | January | |
| 3. | Death in High Places |
Jo Bannister | January | |
| 4. | When Summer Comes |
Brenda Novak | January | |
| 5. | 10 Ways to Be a Better Learner |
Jeff Cobb | January | |
| 6. | Thanksgiving Prayer |
Debbie Macomber | January | |
| 7. | Beach House No 9 |
Christie Ridgway | January | |
| 8. | Redemption |
B J Daniels | January | |
| 9. | Anthem |
Ayn Rand | January | |
| 10. | The Call of the Wild |
Jack London | January | |
| 11. | Death in Venice | Thomas Mann | January | |
| 12. | Fahrenheit 451: A Novel |
Ray Bradbury | January | |
| 13. | The Time Machine |
HG Wells | January | |
| 14. | Of Mice And Men  |
John Steinbeck | January | |
| 15. | The Walk: A Novel |
Richard Paul Evans | January | |
| 16. | Work Smarter with Evernote |
Alexandra Samuel | January | |
| 17. | The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe |
CS Lewis | February | |
| 18. | Black Beauty |
Anna Sewell | February | |
| 19. | Gilgamesh |
Stephen Mitchell | February | |
| 20. | Hunger: A Novel |
Knut Hamsun | February | |
| 21. | Siddhartha |
Hermann Hesse | February | |
| 22. | The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway | February | |
| 23. | Pippi Longstocking |
Astrid Lindgren | February | |
| 24. | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | February | |
| 25. | The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Bantam Classics) |
Leo Tolstoy | February | |
| 26. | The Medium is the Massage |
Marshall McLuhan | February | |
| 27. | Winnie-the-Pooh (The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh ) |
AA Milne | February | |
| 28. | The Princess Diaries |
Meg Cabot | February | |
| 29. | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams | February | |
| 30. | Herland |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | February |
The column with the short summary is blank because after the first week in January 2013, all the books I’m reading are for the weekly SummaReviews and the Virtual World Literary Tour that starts mid-April. I have a template that I now use that I got from Jeff Cobb’s book 10 Ways to be a Better Learner, and that’s where I have the book summary.
This post and last week's post What to Read? will keep you busy for awhile with choosing which books to read in 2013.