In addition to attempting to read more this year despite both a job and classes, I wanted to actually read all those books I've begun and never finished or those I've been saying for years I should read (including re-read) and simply have never made the time to actually do so.
The following is my list, which will be read in no particular order:
1. Things Fall Apart (Achebe) 2. Tuesdays with Morrie (Albom) 3. A Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood) 4. Tuck Everlasting (Babbit) 5. Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) 6. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Brashares) 7. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Brashares) 8. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Brashares) 9. Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Brashares) 10. A Clockwork Orange (Burgess) 11. The Secret Garden (Hodgson Burnett) 12. A Little Princess (Hodgson Burnett) 13. The Plague (Camus) 14. The Stranger (Camus) 15. Alice in Wonderland (Carrol) 16. House on Mango Street (Cisneros) 17. The Book of Lost Things (Connolly) 18. Zoology (Dolnick) 19. Look at Me (Egan) 20. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers) 21. Middlesex (Eugenides) 22. The Diary of Anne Frank (Frank) 23. Good Omens (Gaiman and Pratchett) 24. Lord of the Flies (Golding) 25. Catch 22 (Heller) 26. The Outsiders (Hinton) 27. The Kite Runner (Hosseini) 28. Les Miserables (Hugo) 29. Brave New World (Huxley) 30. Carry Me Down (Hyland) 31. The Castle (Kafka) 32. A Wrinkle in Time (L’Engle) 33. Life of Pi (Martel) 34. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (McGuire) 35. Wicked (McGuire) 36. Son of a Witch (McGuire) 37. A Lion Among Men (McGuire) 38. Lolita (Nabokov) 39. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Niffenegger) 40. 1984 (Orwell) 41. Interview with a Vampire (Rice) 42. Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) 43. The Jungle (Sinclair) 44. Walden Two (Skinner) 45. I Capture the Castle (Smith) 46. A Walk to Remember (Sparks) 47. Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut) 48. The Color Purple (Walker) 49. The Loved One (Waugh) 50. Night (Wiesel)
The following is my list, which will be read in no particular order:
1. Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
2. Tuesdays with Morrie (Albom)
3. A Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood)
4. Tuck Everlasting (Babbit)
5. Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
6. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Brashares)
7. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Brashares)
8. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Brashares)
9. Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Brashares)
10. A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
11. The Secret Garden (Hodgson Burnett)
12. A Little Princess (Hodgson Burnett)
13. The Plague (Camus)
14. The Stranger (Camus)
15. Alice in Wonderland (Carrol)
16. House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
17. The Book of Lost Things (Connolly)
18. Zoology (Dolnick)
19. Look at Me (Egan)
20. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers)
21. Middlesex (Eugenides)
22. The Diary of Anne Frank (Frank)
23. Good Omens (Gaiman and Pratchett)
24. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
25. Catch 22 (Heller)
26. The Outsiders (Hinton)
27. The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
28. Les Miserables (Hugo)
29. Brave New World (Huxley)
30. Carry Me Down (Hyland)
31. The Castle (Kafka)
32. A Wrinkle in Time (L’Engle)
33. Life of Pi (Martel)
34. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (McGuire)
35. Wicked (McGuire)
36. Son of a Witch (McGuire)
37. A Lion Among Men (McGuire)
38. Lolita (Nabokov)
39. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Niffenegger)
40. 1984 (Orwell)
41. Interview with a Vampire (Rice)
42. Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
43. The Jungle (Sinclair)
44. Walden Two (Skinner)
45. I Capture the Castle (Smith)
46. A Walk to Remember (Sparks)
47. Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
48. The Color Purple (Walker)
49. The Loved One (Waugh)
50. Night (Wiesel)