I’ve decided I need a little pressure to turn off my computer and go read some times, so I’ve joined a popular challenge in the nerdfighter forum and set myself a goal: to read 50 books this year. The list is not closed, but there are some titles I definitely want in there already. Titles in italics mean I want to read something by that author but not necessarily that one book:
1. The Magical Mountain – Thomas Mann [27/May/2009]
2. Paper Towns – John Green [15/January/2009]
3. Atonement -Ian McEwan [27/January/2009]
4. Pretties -Scott Westerfeld [29/January/2009]
5. A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf [03/July/2009]
6. The Favorite Game -Leonard Cohen [29/May/2009]
7. Hard Times -Charles Dickens
8. Agnes Grey -Anne Brontë
9. El Cazador del Desierto -Lorenzo Silva [11/January/2009]
10. Alanna -Tamora Pierce [08/July/2009]
11. The Wars -Timothy Findley
12. The English Patient -Michael Ondaatje
13. Born of The Sun: a Namibian Novel -Joseph Diescho [18/March/09]
14. A Fine Balance -Rohinton Mistry
15. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town -Stephen Leacock
16. Northanger Abbey -Jane Austen [24/July/2009]
17. Trainspotting -Irvine Welsh
18. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone -J.K. Rowling [23/March/2009]
19. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -J.K. Rowling [31/March/2009]
20. On the Road -Jack Kerouak [15/May/2009]
21. Life of Pi -Yann Martel
22. The Bell Jar -Sylvia Plath [1/August/2009]
23. The Deptford Trilogy -Robertson Davies
24. Catch 22 -Joseph Heller
25. Slaughterhouse V -Kurt Vonnegut
26. The Restaurant at The Other End of The Universe -Douglas Adam
27. The Island -Aldous Huxley
28. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -Philip K. Dick
29. The Stranger -Albert Camus [30/May/2009]
30. A Clockworck Orange -Anthony Burges
31. The Handmaid’s Tale -Margaret Atwood [3/October/2009]
32. The Seaman Who Fell from Grace with the Sea -Yukio Mishima [22/May/2009]
33. Fight Club -Chuck Palahniuk [7/October/2009]
34. Everyman -Philip Roth
35. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept -Elizabeth Smart [29/October/2009]
36. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems -John McCrae
37. Tess of D’Ubervilles -Thomas Hardy
38. Infinite Jest -David Foster Wallace
39. Emma -Jane Austen
40. Mansfield Park -Jane Austen
41. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -J.K. Rowling [1/August/2009]
42. The Tales of Beedle the Bard -J.K. Rowling
43. Alanna: In the Hand of the Goddess -Tamora Pierce [25/September/2009]
44. Alanna: The Woman Who Rides Like A Man -Tamora Pierce
45. Sonnets -Shakespeare
46. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adam [8/January/2009]
47. Der Sandmann -E.T.A. Hoffman [13/Octubre/2009]
48. Dreams from my Father -Barack Obama [7/June/2009]
49. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -J.K. Rowling [16/August/2009]
50. La Dent de L’Ours -Catherine de Lasa [11/October/2009]
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