Monday, January 2, 2012

Books for 2012

*Updated 1/31. A bit less ambitious, but a bit less terrifying ;)

I've decided to make a list of all the books I want to read this year. I think this is the first time I've ever done this, surprisingly enough. I'm going to see if I can do 20. I bet I could do more, but I'd rather start low and do better ;)

So here it is, in no particular order:

-The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (gotta reread it before the movie!)
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
-The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins (that counts for three!)
-Emma by Jane Austen (possibly the only Austen I haven't read)
-One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville
-Prodigal God by Tim Keller
-Middlemarch by George Eliot (I loved this book in college, and now can't remember anything about it)
-The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
-A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
-The Shack by William Young
-Dracula by Bram Stoker (it's been on my bookshelf for a couple of years now. Got it at a garage sale for fifty cents. Might as well...)
-Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
-Travelling Mercies by Anne Lamott
-Atonement by Ian McEwan
-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (because I've never read it and that's weird)
-My Name is Hope by John Mark Comer

Ambitious, right? I'll always be an English major in my heart.