I am thinking of reading:
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (French classic)
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev (Russian classic)
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell (Victorian classic)
Villette, Charlotte Brontë (Victorian classic)
Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope (Victorian classic)
Ullyses, James Joyce (Irish, modernism)
something by Ayn Rand (American Capitalism)
I'm not sure what else. I might read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, as it's been a while since I read a western. I might read Paradise Lost by Milton. May read something by Thomas de Quincy. May read something by Sir Walter Scott as he was extremely popular once. May read some Edwardian books like Kipps by H.G. Wells. Might give D.H. Lawrence a go. Think I may read a few more classic crime books like The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, and something by Patricia Highsmith.
I will read some straight entertainment books too, and probably The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns.