Current Reading List

Here’s the list for 2012 and onward. I’m enjoying not having a “real” list so much this year that I’m not holding myself to strictly to finishing these in 2012. Mostly, I’m just shooting for 50 books, and we’ll see which one’s get crossed off.

1. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
2. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
3. Middlemarch – George Eliot
4. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
5. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
6. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
8. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
9. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
12. Atonement – Ian McEwan
13. Dune – Frank Herbert
14. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
15. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth I wave the white flag, I give up, I will not finish this book…. NO MORE!
16. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
17. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
18. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
19. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
20. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
21. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
22. Notes From A Small Island– Bill Bryson
23. Ulysses – James Joyce
24. Germinal – Emile Zola
25. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
26. Possession – AS Byatt
27. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
28. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
29. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
30. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life - Wendy Mass
31. Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
32. A Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss
33. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
34. Jonathan strange and Mr. Norrell – Susan Clarke
35. The Wheele of Time Series, (book 4 onward) – Robert Jordan
36. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
37. The Rain Wild Chronicles – Robin Hobb
38. Timeline – Michael Crichton
39. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
40. Paradise Lost –Milton
41. The Omen Machine – Terry Goodkind (I can’t believe he added more to the story, CAN’T BELIEV IT…GAH!)
42. A Dance With Dragons – George R.R. Martin, I was supposed to read this last year but hey I was supposed to read a lot of books last year. And if you want to play the blame game, R.R. was supposed to have written this book like nine years ago! Okay? sigh.