So it’s one in the morning and I seriously can’t sleep. Le sigh. So I decided to make a list! I inherited this very useful habit from Mama, as she is a pro as far as list-making goes. I tend to do this when I am very stressed or anxious, as well as re-alphabetize my books and movies.
I’m cool like that.
So I sat in front of my main bookcase and wrote down the books that I have either half-read or haven’t read yet. I have challenged myself to read the 40 (!) books on my list in a year’s time. I have some pretty hefty guys on my list so if I don’t finish in EXACTLY a year, I’m not going to cry about it.
Here’s my listy-list:
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (currently reading)
- Little Bee by Chris Cleave*
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Count of Montecristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards*
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan S. Foer
- Marley and Me by John Grogan*
- Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Nigger by Randall Kennedy
- The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer*
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts
- The Giver by Lois Lowry (reread)
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel G. Marquez*
- Atonement by Ian McEwan*
- Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien
- Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling*
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks*
- Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe*
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
- Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff*
*= the books I have started but haven’t finished…
Now that it is nearing two o’clock, I’m going attempt to sleep. Guess who gets a nap tomorrow? Already can’t wait. Woof.
That is a solid, varied list. However, when I saw One Hundred Years of Solitude ….well, I thought, shit that alone will take half the year. Hahah1
Haha thanks! The Tale of Genji is even bigger!