Here is the list of books I want to read in 2011. I think 30 is definitely manageable, but I hope the number swells over time. On second thought, I think I will include the works I read in English classes only. However, Re-reads do not count! The point of this project is to read new books. So here goes!
1) Sula-- Toni Morrison
2) The Bell Jar-- Sylvia Plath
3)To The Lighthouse--Virginia Woolf
4) The Unbearable Lightness of Being-- Milan Kundera
5) Disgrace-- J.M. Coetzee
6) Native Son-- Richard Wright
7) In Cold Blood-- Truman Capote
8) Lolita-- Vladimir Nabokov
9) The Time Machine-- H.G. Wells
10) House of Leaves-- Mark Z. Danielewski
11) Naked Lunch-- William S. Burroughs
12) For Colored Girls-- Ntozake Shange
13) Invisible Man-- Ralph Ellison
14) The Picture of Dorian Gray-- Oscar Wilde
15) On Beauty-- Zadie Smith
15) The Shipping News-- E. Annie Proulx
16) Out of Africa-- Isak Dinesen
17) The Five People You Meet in Heaven-- Mitch Albom
18) The Poisonwood Bible-- Barbara Kingsglover
19) Alias Grace-- Margaret Atwood
20) The God of Small Things-- Arundhati Roy
21) Push-- Sapphire
22) Her Fearful Symmetry-- Audrey Niffenegger
23) Never Let Me Go-- Kazuo Ishiguro
24) Slaughterhouse-five-- Kurt Vonnegut
25) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-- Junot Diaz
26) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-- Johnathan Safran Foer
27) All The Pretty Horses-- Cormac McCarthy
28)What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng-- Dave Eggers
29) Middlesex-- Jeffrey Eugenides
30) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles-- Haruki Marakami
31) A Short History of Women-- Kate Walbert
I cannot contain my excitement about starting this list! I'm finding it very difficult to focus on my finals because I just want to go out and buy these books! Hopefully this upcoming year will be a happy one, filled with plenty good reads!
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