One more resolution. (Now updated again!)
So this is the year I finally want to become better read. I have all these awesome books that people have recommended and they're just wasting away on the shelves. So in 2008, I want to read them.
Besides all the new releases that are coming out (see Amazon Wish List if you're curious) and the new Stephen King and Marcus Sakey novels that I have already pre-ordered, I want to read:
Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (probably the one book I'm most ashamed of not having read)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Until I Find You by John Irving
Shining Through by Susan Isaacs
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (will probably wait until I see the movie)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Eight by Katherine Neville (my old coworker Stacy asks me every time we talk if I've read this yet)
1984 by George Orwell
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
After by Francine Prose
A Changed Man by Francine Prose
Housekeeping by Marilyne Robinson
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (recommended often and loudly by Jen)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I will take recommendations but if it's not something that I have already, you'll need to loan it to me. :) I'm still trying to save my meager resources for the new releases coming out. :)
Comments
You will love Anne Tyler! Because I said so. ;-)
All joking aside, let me know when you crack into Digging to America. It's on my shelf waiting to be read, too, and I think it would be fun to read it at the same time.
I've read her before. I just have those three and haven't read them. I've read John Irving before, too.
I will totally let you know. I'm not sure what order I'm doing any of them except I just started A Secret History, which is good. But I'm only like 13 pages in.
I have three other Irving books I haven't read. Hotel New Hampshire, Fourth Hand and Until I Find You. Should I throw them in, too?
I bought it because of the whole birth father thing and then haven't read it for the same reason. I'm psyched to finally get to it. (Whenever I do, but this year for sure.)
I'm doing Secret History now and Diary of a Young Girl is next and I don't know what's after that.
But I am totally open to suggestions. I do have a lot of awesome books, so there's a good chance someone will say something I already have. And if not, hopefully I can borrow it. (Otherwise, yeah, not so much this year.)
Yay for 1984 and Catcher in the Rye. Those were books we read for the book club.
Good luck with this project. It's going to be fun.