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Okay, so... I have this list on my blog. Its a list of novels that is usually followed by an offended gasp and a "you haven't read that?!?"

My goal is 50 books to include most of this list:

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein*
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller*
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger*
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis*
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck*
Love in a Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez*
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald*
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce*
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov* (Read 02/18/10)
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley*
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner (Re-read)*
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence*
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding* (Finished 3/10/10)
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway*
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London*
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand* (Finished 1/3/10)
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon (Re-read)*
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Re-read)* (Finished 1/5/10)
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells*
ULYSSES by James Joyce
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner (Re-read)* (Finished 6/18)
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Life of Pi by Yann Martel*
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Re-read)
Hamlet by Shakespeare*
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain*
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley*
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey*
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Atonement by Ian McEwan*
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs*
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Dune by Frank Herbert
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Charlie and the Chocolate factory by Roald Dahl*
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath*
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Road by McCarthy*
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry* (re-read)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George* (re-read)

Starred books are one from my personal library. I have also made a goal to not buy any books this year. :)

Good Luck. I enjoyed the beginning of your post. I know how you feel. I got it all the time with Pride and Prejudice and To Kill A Mockingbird. I recently read To Kill a Mockingbird, but I still need to read Pride and Prejudice.

Anyway, hope you enjoy your reading and good luck with your goal to not buy anymore books. I am trying I can purchse one after I read 3.

I have built up *so* many books that I haven't read yet. I could probably read all this year and next year and still have some left over. I sent my best friend a picture of my dog and I and she was trying to figure out how I got my dog in the library... we were in my apartment. *lol*

You've got a great list there. I can't gasp because I haven't read many of them, and the ones I have read have been only in the last year or two. Enjoy!

Kristin wrote: "I have built up *so* many books that I haven't read yet. I could probably read all this year and next year and still have some left over. I sent my best friend a picture of my dog and I and she w..."

I have a lot too.. but I tried to not buy last year and it failed. This year if the library has it, I won't buy it so that should help a lot. That is a cute story about your dog. I think I need a room just for my books :)

Don't feel bad Krys! There's a lot of classics I never read. Only last year did I finally tackle P&P but I've seen so many adaptations that the story was very familiar. In fact, I read P&P -and- P&P&Zombies. Heh.

G'luck with Ulysses! I've cracked it a couple of times but then distracted myself.

Dune is a wonderful read if you like political stories. Not modern day politics but wielding, dealing, secret plotting, etc!

I have always wanted a library. I used to dream of having a little room just for my books and a window seat where I could sit and read and look out. We moved around a lot when I was a kid and this and my own tower were the only things I wanted in every one of our houses. I never got my wish. :(


I tried to buy Ulysses a few times. I couldn't even dedicate myself to buying the book. *lol* It was HUGE. And it doesn't help that i was already reading Atlas Shrugged when I was used book shopping and found it. I was pretty much fed up with the classic tome.

January Reads:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've been grateful that despite my multiple moves, my book library has remained relatively intact. I had about every Bernstein Bear and Babysitter's Club book which I gifted to my cousins - to pass on that joy. You could get one of those wheeled box chairs for the living room. They have a flip top to store books inside and you can roll the small box seat to a corner window to read. That way your library is MOBILE! :)

February Reads:

Frightful's Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger

March Reads:

Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
Be Honest--You're Not That Into Him Either: Raise Your Standards and Reach for the Love You Deserve by Ian Kerner
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
World of Warcraft and Philosophy by Luke Cuddy
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Secrets to Happiness: A Novel by Sarah Dunn
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

April Reads:

Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

May Reads:

Dancing With Einstein: A Novel by Kate Wenner
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
Drown by Junot Díaz

June Reads:

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts by Cormac McCarthy

It has been a while since I updated. My apartment flooded the beginning of July... so I moved. Then I moved again the beginning of September.

So here is what I've done in my absence:

July:
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

August:
The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
Finding Mrs. Warnecke by Cindi Rigsbee
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Now I am back on track!!