Friday Reads

My husband would probably file this under "Useless and Pointless Knowledge," but I thought it looked interesting. Every week the FridayReads group posts a list of the "Best Read" books from the week before - a list of the books being read by the greatest number of people in the group. This week there are 34 books on the list. Why 34? Well, I think it actually started as a Top Ten list, but they decided to list all the books that tie for any one spot - so every week the total is different. Makes sense? Anyway, here's today's Best Read List (based on all the posts from February 25th):

1. FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen
2. SWAMPLANDIA by Karen Russell
3. THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain
4. JUST KIDS by Patti Smith
5. PICTURES OF YOU by Caroline Leavitt
6. ROOM by Emma Donoghue
7. A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan
8. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE by Beth Revis
9. CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins
10. LIFE by Keith Richards
11. MADAME TUSSAUD by Michelle Moran
12. PACKING FOR MARS by Mary Roach
13. REVOLUTION by Jennifer Donnelly
14. THE BOOK THIEF by Marcus Zusak
15. THE MAGICIANS by Lev Grossman
16. THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
17. THE WEIRD SISTERS by Eleanor Brown
18. THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE by Jeaniene Frost
19. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES by Deborah Harkness
20. AMERICAN GODS by Neil Gaiman
21. DELIRIUM by Lauren Oliver
22. LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann
23. LORD OF MISRULE by Rachel Caine
24. MATCHED by Ally Condie
25. THE FIRM by John Grisham
26. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson
27. THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins
28. THE ILLUMINATION by Kevin Brockmeier
29. THE IMPERFECTIONISTS by Tom Rachman
30. THE PASSAGE by Justin Cronin
31. THE POSTMISTRESS by Sarah Blake
32. UNVEILED by Courtney Milan
33. WISHFUL DRINKING by Carrie Fisher
34. WITHER by Lauren DeStefano

The two titles in red are the only ones I've read from the list, so I'm obviously not keeping up very well. But I've got several of the other books on my "must read" list for this year. Today, however, I'm reading Thomas Mallon's A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries, when I really should be reading one of the many ARCs I've got piling up. (Tsk, tsk!)

If you have a Facebook account, and want to let the world know what you're reading, you can join the FridayReads group here. And there's also a Twitter group here.