I don't, as a rule, join reading challenges, preferring instead to read what I please, when I please. This won't really change in 2009, but I am hereby naming 2009 the year of my Reading Resolution. (Admittedly, it is rather like a challenge, except that it is for me alone and doesn't follow a theme.)
The following is a list of every unread or unfinished book currently in my possession. Some titles are new, others I've been meaning to read for years, and still others I've been in the process of reading for longer than I care to remember.
My reading resolution for 2009 is to read most, if not all, of these books. Can I do it? How long until I add a title to this list? Will I go mad from the effort? I suppose we'll have to see.
I'll be adding this post to my sidebar, and I'll be crossing off each title as I complete it. Please feel free to post with recommendations, ideas, or even some simple encouragement.
The following is a list of every unread or unfinished book currently in my possession. Some titles are new, others I've been meaning to read for years, and still others I've been in the process of reading for longer than I care to remember.
My reading resolution for 2009 is to read most, if not all, of these books. Can I do it? How long until I add a title to this list? Will I go mad from the effort? I suppose we'll have to see.
I'll be adding this post to my sidebar, and I'll be crossing off each title as I complete it. Please feel free to post with recommendations, ideas, or even some simple encouragement.
TITLES IN MY 2009 READING RESOLUTION
Ahmed, The Land of Invisible Women
Balzac, Cousin Bette
Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece
Bambara, The Salt Eaters
Bolano, The Savage Detectives
Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Conescu, Being Written
Connolly, Nocturnes
Davis, The Thin Place
Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney
Dick, Now Wait for Last Year
Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Dick, A Scanner Darkly
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Eliot, Daniel Deronda
Groff, The Monsters of Templeton
Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hickey, The Painted Kiss
Hugo, Les Miserables
Keret, The Girl on the Fridge
Largo, Final Exits
MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
MacLean, Why the Long Face?
Mann, Death in Venice
McCabe, The Butcher Boy
Meek, The People's Act of Love
Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys
Oates, Because it is Bitter, and Because it is my Heart
Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl
Parker, Ovenman
Peace, Tokyo Year Zero
Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Powers, The Echo Maker
Price, Clockers
Pyncheon, V
Radcliffe, The Italian
Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
Rice, Blood and Gold
Russell, St. Lucy's Home
Stross, Accelerando
Sturgeon, Selected Stories
Teuthold, The Necromancer
Thomson, Soft
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Trollope, Barchester Towers
Wallace, Oblivion
Wharton, The House of Mirth
Wharton, The Buccaneers
White, The Aunt's Story
White, Voss
Zweig, Beware of Pity
Whew -- that's quite a list! Wish me luck!
CURRENT PROGRESS: 33 / 88
10 comments:
Good luck! I've had the same goal for years except I add books to the list faster than I read them. :)
You have some great choices, as well as some books that I hated, so I'm looking forward to your reviews and thoughts.
Happy reading in 2009!
There are some chunky ones on that list! Good luck.
I have a hard time with challenges too, so I set myself a list as well. Mine only has 12 items on it, so I better be able to finish it up!
Wow! That's a list! I read a pathetic number of books in 2008. My unofficial new year resolution is to read more. To find time, or make time to read more. I have no books planned - just READ!. Good luck with your list. :-)
Hello Ms. Bibliolatrist,
Don Quixote is on my list for 2009 too! :)
I'm a big fan of your blog (thanks to your review of "The Time Traveller's Wife", it was gifted twice for Christmas) and I'm delurking to send some encouragement your way.
I loved loved loved "Death Comes for the Archbishop" and "The Moonstone" and I was so pleased to see them on your list. My FIL gave me "Eat Pray Love" for my birthday and it was a good & quick read. Finally, as a Canadian, I have to heartily recommend Douglas Coupland (national treasure...) and I'd also point you toward his other works of fiction like "Microserfs", "Shampoo Planet", and "Girlfriend in a Coma".
Have fun reading and Happy 2009!
Erika.
What a great idea. Maybe I'll try it myself sometime! I agree with another commenter that you have an interesting mix of books I loved and books I hated -- I'm looking forward to the reviews.
Some good books there, I have some and they are also sitting unread. You have a great idea there.
That is a lot of reading in one year, I wish you good luck and lots of great reads.
Yes, this list is quite impressive! A couple of them are on my to-read list this year...this is the first time that I've created a list and am following it pretty closely. I have a little more than 40 books on the list, which is quite a lot of reading (especially because I shamefully read only about half as many last year). I am half-way thru books 9 and 10, so maybe I can make it? Good luck!
What to read next? Name of the Rose. OMG one of my all time faves. Don't wait another minute! :-)
I see you are seriously on course with your reading resolution. It inspires me. Thanks
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