what is on your 2008 reading list?

[motherhubbard]

A lot of people have posted what they read in 2007. I wish I had kept up, but I will for 2008. I wondered if anyone had a list of books they would like to read in 2008?


I plan to take three literature classes this year so I may not have a lot of time for reading for my own pleasure, but I have formed a little list of books that I would really like to read this year. I’m currently about 1/3 of the way through Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and I’m loving it. I hope to read the Buck books next.


Pearl S. Buck- Sons, A House Divided
Flannery O'Connor- selected short stories
Eugene O’Neill- Beyond the Horizon
Shakespeare- As You Like It, Anthony and Cleopatra
Miguel de Cervantes- Don Quixote (summer read, it sounds a little daunting, but virgil has me interested)

[LadyWentworth]

I have an approximate total of, I'd say, 135 books to read at the moment. I am trying to come up with a list of 24 that I want to read first (that is 2 a month). If I can catch up to them, then I will, of course, read more.

First of all, thanks to Virgil, I have it in my head to read Shakespeare again (as it has been a long time since I have done so). I read plays in a day. So, I don't put them on the same list as the books, which take longer to read. My first Shakespeare choice of the year will be "The Taming of the Shrew". I haven't decided what will come next, though.

Second, as for books, I don't have an idea yet. When I finish the list, I will have to post it in here.

[Tosca]

My goal is to read 20,000 pages every year. I made it last year, and this year I'd like to include:

More of Thomas Hardy's work
Charles Dickens' "Bleak House"
Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" and "Woman in White"
And a lot more...!

[LadyWentworth]

My goal is to read 20,000 pages every year. I made it last year

You do it by pages, huh? All I ever do is try to read a chapter a night! I am lucky if I can do that! I should keep track of the number of pages that I read this year just for the fun of it. That would be interesting to find out!

[Niamh]

Where do i start!
Well obviously the twelve nominations from the book club.
I have inferno by Dante that i want to read but didnt nominate that.
I'm currently reading Sense and Sensablity
Theres supposed to be a new Artemis Fowl out this year.
I'll more than likely read Persuasion about twice
and i want to reread the Merlin Trilogy and A Wicked Day by Mary Stewart
As for the rest... Have to see where the year takes me.

[scoooter5]

I maintain an excel spreadsheet with a list of book I want to read. Currently it's over 200 long, so I expect I won't run out of things to read for quite a long time. The books next on the list for me are:

Roots--Haley (reading now)
Cousin Bette--Balzac
Of Human Bondage--Maugham
Lilith--MacDonald
Snow Crash--Stephenson
Cranford--Gaskell
Love in the Time of Cholera--Marquez
Looking Backwards--Bellamy
Sophie's Choice--Styron

Who knows, I may not get past those this year, but that's the agenda anyway. Good luck in your own reading.

[Dori]

Here's what is set in stone:

School
1984 by G. Orwell
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Hamlet by W. Shakespeare
Poerty from Frost, Dickenson, and Whitman

Personal
Those Who Love by Irving Stone
The War: An Intimate History 1941-1945 (audiobook) by G.C. Ward and Ken Burns
The Possessed by F. Dostoevsky***

Book Clubs/Discussions
The Aeneid (audiobook) by Virgil
Dr.Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

***This might also be read in another book club because I nominated it.

[JBI]

I'm starting with the Norton anthologies. Already mostly done volume one of the English literature one. though I was 800 in at the end of the year. A complete re-read of Shakespeare's major plays and his sonnets is in order.

I have a bunch of poets, about 150, to cover, as well as learning to speak and read Italian, which should take a lot of my time.

I would also like to punch into post-modern and new emerging books this year; I handles mostly realism and modernism last year.

The first half of this year I have no school (I worked hard to finish highschool half a year earlier than everyone else) so I should be reading zealously. I start university in September, so I will need to adjust the second half to them, of course.

Short stories will take most of my time I think. Novels will have to be chosen more carefully, as it is becoming increasingly difficult to spend the time, and effort on a 700 page tomb to be disappointed (happens a lot when you try modern stuff).

[huihuffaker]

2008 reading list......


'The Host' -Stephenie Meyer
'Breaking Dawn' -Stephenie Meyer [Twilight Series]
'Tithe' -Holly Black
'Ironside' -Holly Black
'The Complete Short Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'

[papayahed]

First let me say that I hope to read a good deal of the book club reads.

Secondly the books listed below are on my shelf and I am almost positive I will not be reading all of these in the next year but hope to make a dent:

The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
The long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
Trainspotting - Irvine welsh
rabbit, run - John updike
How to be Good - Nick Hornby
Independant People - Halldor Laxness
Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie
The protable Dorthy Parker
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space Engineer of War
Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds Mexican Immigration and the future of race in America

[aabbcc]

There are a couple of gaps to fill, certainly...

Manzoni, A. - I promessi sposi
... Atypical for me, but I predominately want to read it for the sake of having read it, because everybody around me has read it school-wise before I moved here, and more than once I felt it as a gap and wished I had read it. So, this is definitely going to be one of the things I will read this year.

Shakespeare, W. - something other than what I have read so far?
... Other than his sonnets, the most known tragedies and A Midsummer Night's Dream, I have not really read the "other side" of Shakespeare's opus, so I would like to read one or two of his other known works - I was thinking of starting with King Lear, but will see.

Moliere - same thing as above, other than two known works, I have not read anything more, but wish to; besides, it is going to be a good exercise for the poor and passive state of my French

Hugo, V. - another gap, and another French exercise. Though I have sort-of-read when I was younger A Hunchback of Notre Dame and parts of Les Miserables (and I read his poetry recently), I would really like re-read, or 'actually' read, if not both than at least one of that.

Something by Eco - I have not read his literary works other than Il Nome della Rosa, all that I have been reading by him were his works in aesthetics and philosophy, so I would like to read maybe another of his literary works.

Other than those, I will be reading just as usual, the random things I come across, without much plan, in addition to that which I ought to read for school (and, later this year, university).

[bouquin]

I think it's a neat idea to go by pages. I'll try and do that starting this year (so far, I have read 300 pages ). I was able to read 48 books in 2007 but I can't say how many pages they amounted to.
Here's my TBR list for 2008:
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

My goal is to read 20,000 pages every year. I made it last year, and this year I'd like to include:

More of Thomas Hardy's work
Charles Dickens' "Bleak House"
Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" and "Woman in White"
And a lot more...!

[thelastmelon]

My goal is to read at least one book by an author from every continent. And then I also realized I had a lot of books in the shelf that I haven't read, so I'll try to read many of them as well. Some of them are:

1984 - George Orwell
Coronado - Dennis Lehane
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Jerusalem - Selma Lagerlöf

[ThePianoMan]

More classics, not any set in stone but a bunch I'd like to start.

Some fantasy series I started and want to finish.

[Nossa]

Okay, for college, I have six plays for my drama class:

Shakespears:
The Comedy of Errors
Twelfth Night
As You Like It
Etherege - The Man of Mode
Congreve - The Way of the World
Farquhar - The Recruiting Officer

And on my own reading list:
Northangery Abbey - Jane Austen
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The Road - Cormac Mcarthy
Waiting For The Barbarians - JM Coetzee
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque.

I have some more, but these are the main ones.