Books I Plan to Read in 2008
The following is the list of books I am planning on reading in 2008. There are fifty of them, as there have been in previous years. I came close to meeting the goal of 50 in 2007, falling short by eight. Hopefully this year will be different.
Any title with an asterisks (*) is a book that was on last year's list. Any title with a (2) is a book that was on my 2006 AND 2007 list. There are an annoyingly large number of these.
1) Niffenegger, Audrey – The Time Traveler's Wife (started – currently on page 129) (2)
2) Pullman, Phillip – His Dark Materials, Book Two: The Subtle Knife (started – currently on page 72)
3) Benderson, Bruce – The Romanian: Story of an Obsession (started – currently on page 138)
4) Stroud, Jonathan – The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate (started – currently on page 59)
5) Black, Holly - Ironside
6) Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson – Peter and the Secret of Rundoon
7) Meyer, Stephenie - Eclipse
8) McEwan, Ian - Atonement
9) Lewis, C.S. – The Chronicles of Narnia (five books total) (reread)
10) Blake, James – Breaking Back
11) Haggard, H. Rider – King Solomon's Mines
12) Barrie, J.M. – Peter Pan
13) Pullman, Phillip – His Dark Materials, Book Three: The Amber Spyglass
14) Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (reread)
15) Clare, Cassandra – The Mortal Instruments, Book Two: City of Ashes (due out in April)
16) Riordan, Rick – Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book Four: The Battle of the Labyrinth (due out in May)
17) Obama, Barack - Audacity of Hope*
18) Clarke, Susanna - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*
19) Larsen, Eric - Devil in the White City*
20) Sparks, Nicholas - The Notebook*
21) Willig, Lauren - The Secret History of the Pink Carnation*
22) Berendt, John - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil*
23) Bissinger, Buzz - Three Nights in August (2)
24) Virgil - The Aeneid (2)
25) Maguire, Gregory - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2)
26) Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (2)
27) Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha (2)
28) Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility (2)
29) Gaiman, Neil - American Gods (2)
30) Goldman, William - The Princess Bride (2)
31) Gregory, Philippa - The Other Boleyn Girl (2)
32) Pierce, Tamora - Trickster's Queen (2)
33) Rice, Anne - Interview with the Vampire (2)
34) Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo (2)
35) Japrisot, Sebastien - A Very Long Engagement (2)
36) Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (2)
37) Homer - The Iliad (2)
38) Homer - The Odyssey (2)
39) Coulter, Catherine - The Sherbrooke Twins (2)
40) Coulter, Catherine - Lyon's Gate (2)
41) Stoker, Bram – Dracula (2)
42) Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales (2)
43) Coulter, Catherine - Season of the Sun (2)
44) O'Neill, Jamie - At Swim Two Boys (2)
45) Bray, Libba - A Great and Terrible Beauty (2)
46) Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden (2)
47) Gaiman, Neil – Neverwhere (2)
48) Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray (2)
49) Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit (2)
50) Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women (2)
I picked up The Subtle Knife today and read another chapter in that, so that's probably the book I'll finish next, since my interest is renewed after seeing The Golden Compass in the theatre today. Once I do finish it (or whatever book I read instead) I will post a "review" here. The goal is to have a review for every single book I read this year. That may actually be more of a challenge than reading the books in the first place. :-P
