2010
Books to be read in 2010:
*re-read
What is the What--Dave Eggers
A Prayer for Owen Meany--John Iriving
Eating Animals--Jonathan Safran Foer
The Reader--Bernard Schlink
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close--Jonathan Safran Foer*
Everything is Illuminated--Jonathan Safran Foer
Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen*
The Uglies Trilogy--Scott Westerfeld*
The Extras--Scott Westerfeld
Leviathan--Scott Westerfeld
Dark Tower Series--Stephen King
The Time Travelers Wife--Audrey Niffenegger
Harry Potter series--JK Rowling*
East of Eden--John Steinbeck*
The Poisonwood Bible--Barbara Kingslover*
The Weight of Silence--Heather Gudenkauf
Dracula--Bram Stoker
The Last Song--Nicholas Sparks
Dear John--Nicholas Sparks
Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal--Christopher Moore*
Practical Magic--Alice Hoffman
So Yesterday--Scott Westerfeld
Peeps--Scott Westerfeld
The People of Paper--Salvador Plascencia
The Virgin Suicides--Jeffery Eugenides
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami
Breakfast At Tiffany's--Truman Capote
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things--Jon McGregor
Man Walks Into a Room--Nicole Krauss
The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera*
The History of Love: A Novel--Nicole Krauss
A Room With a View--EM Forster
Anna Karenina--Leo Tolstoy
Candide--Voltaire
Canterbury Tales--Chaucer*
Daniel Deronda--George Eliot
Emma--Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad
Jacob's Room--Virginia Woolf
Jude the Obscure--Thomas Hardy
Madame Bovary--Gustave Flaubert
Mansfield Park--Jane Austen
Middlemarch--George Eliot
Night and Day--Virginia Woolf
Northanger Abbey--Jane Austen
Persuasion--Jane Austen
Sons and Lovers--DH Lawrence
Swann's Way--Marcel Proust
The Divine Comedy--Dante
The Picture of Dorian Grey--Oscar Wilde
The Scarlett Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Turn of the Screw--Henry James
The Voyage Out--Virginia Woolf
The Spake Zarathustra--Nietsche
Vanity Fair--William Thackeray
Villete--Charlotte Bronte
Women in Love--DH Lawrence
The bottom half of this list is my attempt at becoming a better English major. Just sayin'.
More books to be added as soon as I get to my bookcase. I also have a goal to read all the books on my shelf that are unread before I buy any more. I have a habit of purchasing books and letting them sit and wait for me to get around to read them, but in the mean time I usually pick up a library book or buy ANOTHER book. Seriously, my impulse purchases are ALL books. Something about walking around the bookstore and finding a new book is like therapy for me. Second only to writing.
I don't want to set a goal only to fail. But I do want to read more this year. All of my re-reads haven't been read in about a year (with the exception of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Pride and Prejudice, and the first 4 Harry Potters).
Fingers crossed!
*re-read
What is the What--Dave Eggers
A Prayer for Owen Meany--John Iriving
Eating Animals--Jonathan Safran Foer
The Reader--Bernard Schlink
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close--Jonathan Safran Foer*
Everything is Illuminated--Jonathan Safran Foer
Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen*
The Uglies Trilogy--Scott Westerfeld*
The Extras--Scott Westerfeld
Leviathan--Scott Westerfeld
Dark Tower Series--Stephen King
The Time Travelers Wife--Audrey Niffenegger
Harry Potter series--JK Rowling*
East of Eden--John Steinbeck*
The Poisonwood Bible--Barbara Kingslover*
The Weight of Silence--Heather Gudenkauf
Dracula--Bram Stoker
The Last Song--Nicholas Sparks
Dear John--Nicholas Sparks
Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal--Christopher Moore*
Practical Magic--Alice Hoffman
So Yesterday--Scott Westerfeld
Peeps--Scott Westerfeld
The People of Paper--Salvador Plascencia
The Virgin Suicides--Jeffery Eugenides
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami
Breakfast At Tiffany's--Truman Capote
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things--Jon McGregor
Man Walks Into a Room--Nicole Krauss
The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera*
The History of Love: A Novel--Nicole Krauss
A Room With a View--EM Forster
Anna Karenina--Leo Tolstoy
Candide--Voltaire
Canterbury Tales--Chaucer*
Daniel Deronda--George Eliot
Emma--Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad
Jacob's Room--Virginia Woolf
Jude the Obscure--Thomas Hardy
Madame Bovary--Gustave Flaubert
Mansfield Park--Jane Austen
Middlemarch--George Eliot
Night and Day--Virginia Woolf
Northanger Abbey--Jane Austen
Persuasion--Jane Austen
Sons and Lovers--DH Lawrence
Swann's Way--Marcel Proust
The Divine Comedy--Dante
The Picture of Dorian Grey--Oscar Wilde
The Scarlett Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Turn of the Screw--Henry James
The Voyage Out--Virginia Woolf
The Spake Zarathustra--Nietsche
Vanity Fair--William Thackeray
Villete--Charlotte Bronte
Women in Love--DH Lawrence
The bottom half of this list is my attempt at becoming a better English major. Just sayin'.
More books to be added as soon as I get to my bookcase. I also have a goal to read all the books on my shelf that are unread before I buy any more. I have a habit of purchasing books and letting them sit and wait for me to get around to read them, but in the mean time I usually pick up a library book or buy ANOTHER book. Seriously, my impulse purchases are ALL books. Something about walking around the bookstore and finding a new book is like therapy for me. Second only to writing.
I don't want to set a goal only to fail. But I do want to read more this year. All of my re-reads haven't been read in about a year (with the exception of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Pride and Prejudice, and the first 4 Harry Potters).
Fingers crossed!