I'm admittedly jumping the gun here. Especially considering I still have 17 books on this year's list yet to read. However, um, this is just how I roll. (I wanted to see how many books I could grab from my bookshelf that I've never read (or not in a long time) and get them on next year's list)
A - B - Mikhail Bulgakov: The heart of a dog and other stories C - Willa Cather: Death comes for the archbishop OR Michael Cunningham: Specimen days D - Richard Dawkins: The selfish gene E - George Elliot: Middlemarch (I remember loving this but can't remember anything else about it) F - William Flesch: Comeuppance OR Carlos Fuentes: The death of Artemio Cruz G - Seth Grahame-Smith (w/Jane Austen): Pride and prejudice and zombies H - Jonathan Haidt: The happiness hypothesis I - Kazuo Ishiguro: Never let me go J - K - Barbara Kingsolver: The poisonwood bible L - William Longwood: The queen must die OR Daniel Levitin: This is your brain on music M - Alice Munro: The view from castle rock OR Tom McNeal: Goodnight, Nebraska N - Gary Paul Nabhan: Coming home to eat O - P - Gavin Pretor-Pinney: The cloudspotter's guide Q - R - Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping S - [many contenders:] T - Tavris, Carol & Elliot Aronson: Mistakes were made (but not by me) U - V - W - Richard Wright: Native son X - Y - Herbert V. Young: They came to Jerome Z -
A -
B - Mikhail Bulgakov: The heart of a dog and other stories
C - Willa Cather: Death comes for the archbishop OR Michael Cunningham: Specimen days
D - Richard Dawkins: The selfish gene
E - George Elliot: Middlemarch (I remember loving this but can't remember anything else about it)
F - William Flesch: Comeuppance OR Carlos Fuentes: The death of Artemio Cruz
G - Seth Grahame-Smith (w/Jane Austen): Pride and prejudice and zombies
H - Jonathan Haidt: The happiness hypothesis
I - Kazuo Ishiguro: Never let me go
J -
K - Barbara Kingsolver: The poisonwood bible
L - William Longwood: The queen must die OR Daniel Levitin: This is your brain on music
M - Alice Munro: The view from castle rock OR Tom McNeal: Goodnight, Nebraska
N - Gary Paul Nabhan: Coming home to eat
O -
P - Gavin Pretor-Pinney: The cloudspotter's guide
Q -
R - Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping
S - [many contenders:]
T - Tavris, Carol & Elliot Aronson: Mistakes were made (but not by me)
U -
V -
W - Richard Wright: Native son
X -
Y - Herbert V. Young: They came to Jerome
Z -