BOOK LIST 2007
The Goal: Read 30 books this year. Mission Accomplished on August 15. Mostly classics or "important" books.
1. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (January 27)
2. The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis (January 28)
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (February 12)
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (February 12)
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston* (February 14)
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (February 28)
7. Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy (March 16)
8. Selected Poems by TS Eliot (April 17)
9. Murder in the Cathedral by TS Eliot (April 21)
10. The Cocktail Party by TS Eliot (May 3)
11. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (May 12)
12. Old School by Tobias Wolff* (May 18)
13. On the Road by Jack Kerouac* (May 24)
14. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (May 27)
15. Sanctuary by William Faulkner (June 3)
16. Persuasion by Jane Austen (June 14)
17. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling (re-read) (June 26)
18. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (June 29)
19. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (July 6)
20. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn* (July 7)
21. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (July 21)
22. A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plumb Martin** (July 22)
23. The Minutemen and Their World by Robert A. Gross** (July 24)
24. Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi* (August 2)
25. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America by Linda K. Kerber** (August 5)
26. The Fatal Equilibrium by Marshall Jevons* (August 5)
27. A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney by Hugh Hewitt (August 6)
28. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild* (August 9)
29. The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (August 12)
30. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (August 15)
31. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (August 16)
32. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (August 17)
33. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (August 19)
34. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (August 20)
35. Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons* (August 28)
36. Deadly Indifference by Marshall Jevons* (August 29)
37. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (August 30)
38. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (August 30)
39. Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock by Andrew Beaujon (August 30)
40. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (September 3)
41. Anthem by Ayn Rand (September 4)
42. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut* (September 24)
43. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini* (October 9)
44. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. (October 15)
45. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez* (October 20)
46. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (October 23)
47. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (October 28)
48. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (November 2)
49. The Stranger by Albert Camus (November 17)
50. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien* (December 19)
51. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (December 20)
*Read for school
**Read for Harvard Summer School
Recommend me books! I don't care if you're not on my f'list or have never talked to me before. Books that changed your life, classics, obscure, amazing books.