Books to Read This Year (part 1)

I have books lying around and I am determined to read them. I keep buying more and more, or, as the visiting workflow coordinator Carolina described, I buy four books for every one I read. The books accumulate -- you do the math.

But here is a list that I intend to read within the year 2009:

1. Glimpses of Grace by Madeline L'engle
2. Honeymoon With My Brother by Franz Wisneer
3. Veronika Decides to Die by Paul Coelho
4. The Valykiries by Paul Coelho
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nightime
6. The Englightened Mind by Stephen Mitchell
7. Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
8. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. Memories of My Meloncholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
11. The Freedomwriters Diary
12. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
13. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
14. French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
15. Three Junes by Julia Glass
16. Four Spirits by sena Jeter Naslund

These are just the books hanging out in my office at work that I have yet to read....

At home:

17. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
18. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
19. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
20. At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
21. Wisdom of Forgiveness by the Dahli Lama
22. The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Banks
23. Don't Look Down by Jennifer Cruise
24. What Remains by Carole Badziwill
25. Leaving Home by Anita Brooker
26. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
27. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
28. Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
29. Life and Death in Shanghi by Nien Chieng
30. Dedication by Emma McLaughlan and Nicholas Krauss
31. Anna Karennina by Leo Tolstoy
32. Love Walked In
33. The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemmingway
34. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
35. Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
36. Learning to Breathe by Karen White
37. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
38. Burning the Map by Lauren Caldwell
39. The Night Journal by Elizabeth Brook
40. Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
41. My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
42. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
43. The Secret of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
44. The California Book of the Dead by Tim Farrington
45. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
46. The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamante
47. Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlan and Nicholas Kraus
48. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
49. The Mercy of Thin Air by Robin Dominque
50. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
51. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
52. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
53. The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubois III
54. Certain Women by Madeleine L'engle
55. Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
56. The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
57. Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
58. The Telling by Ursla K. Le Guinn
59. Playing with Boys
60. Matchstick Men by Eric Garcia

and.... that's when I got tired of listing them. My goal is a book a week so that I can get through most of these. Reality will hit at some point and we'll be looking more at a book every two weeks, which won't really cause that much of a dent. Especially since whenever I'm done with a book that I don't feel a need to hold onto I simply post it on paperbackwap.com.....

If you ever have any recommendations on books or authors, obviously I would be thrilled for the input....