I’ve managed to meet and to surpass my goal of reading 24 books in 2011, and kept them organized through Goodreads.com. That’s 9,140 pages. With nearly 100 books on my “to-read” shelf, and more added each month, I’m going to bump my goal up to 30 books for 2012. I expect most will be the micro-histories that have become my favorite reading genre, and I will happily take suggestions of books to add to my list.

Favorite 3 sciencey books: Moonwalking with Einstein, Genome War, How I Killed Pluto.

3 favorite books by celebrities that I didn’t want to like, but did: Happy Chaos, Dirty Sexy Politics, Cesar’s Way

3 favorite books that took themselves too seriously: Homo Politicus, The Wal-Mart Effect, Superfreakonomics

3 books I’d recommend to anyone: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Packing for Mars, Making Rounds with Oscar