what is on your 2008 reading list?

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A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

good luck with that i am stuck with his other book (my friend Leonard) which is badly written

[thelastmelon]

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

good luck with that i am stuck with his other book (my friend Leonard) which is badly written

Have you read A Million Little Pieces as well? I've heard it's a good book,
but have had it at home for a long time and not read it. I think it's worth a try at least.

[Topekachu]

I heard that the Twilight series (or whatever it's called) by Stephenie Meyer is good...so I might read those.
Also, George Orwell's 1984 and the rest of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. And The PK Man...and I haven't read the rest of the Among the Hidden books yet! Yeah...I have a long list, but these are the ones I remember.

[Niamh]

The long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams

Hey, let me know if its any good! I've wanted to read that for a while but havent gotten around to.

Also this year i will definitely read terry pratchett, i say it every year but still havent!

[grace86]

For some reason I have been frantically trying to make a list! But I think primarily I should get to the books that are on my bookshelf (some have been crying at me for years now).

So my list:

Sons and Lovers (currently started) - D.H. Lawrence
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence (is it obvious I am trying to catch up?)
She and Allan - H.R. Haggard (I've started but stopped)
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas (wanted to read it last summer)

Shakespeare: maybe two or three of his comedies. Too many tragedies lately!

Walden - Thoreau
The Inferno - Dante
Paradise Lost - Milton (with this one I am being optimistic - I cannot read this by myself so I need to find a buddy)

There are a lot more on my shelves but as long as I get these done I will feel like I have accomplished a lot. I also wanted to participate in at least four book club readings (I am setting a goal at least)...still trying to see if I can do January's.

This summer I want to devote to one author and read multiple works by that one author...either Thomas Hardy or Willa Cather (I got hooked Janine!). And lastly, I am trying to locate some good forensic anthropology books to read up on, there is a lack of classes for now that I can take on the subject so I was told to pick up a book on it.

[Tosca]

Going by pages is awesome! It is fun to see the numbers get bigger and bigger with every book you read!

[Lily Adams]

I would love to get my hands on those rarer HG Wells books that I can never find. First Men in the Moon and Mind at the End of Its Tether. I have a whole shelf of books just waiting to read, though.

I'd really like to read Lolita, too. I wanna see the Kubrick movie badly. Reminds me of the Oingo Boingo song...too little too little TOO LITTLE!!!!!!!!

[*Classic*Charm*]

The Master and Margarita- Bulgakov
Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevski
The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoyevski
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
War and Peace- Tolstoy
Lolita- Nabokov

It's the year of the Russian authors for me...can you tell?

[LadyWentworth]

The Master and Margarita- Bulgakov
Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevski
The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoyevski
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
War and Peace- Tolstoy
Lolita- Nabokov

It's the year of the Russian authors for me...can you tell?

I was just about to ask you if you planned on making this a year of all Russian writers, and then I saw your note at the bottom!!

[PabloQ]

In 2007, I embarked to read American authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a lead up to reading the USA trilogy by John Dos Passos. As I got interested in the realism to modernism movement, novels keep showing up on the shelf in front of it. So here's how it looks at this moment:
Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Mark Twain
The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Maggie: a Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane
McTeague and The Octopus -- Frank Norris
King Coal -- Upton Sinclair
Sister Carrie -- Theodore Drieser
Main Street and Babbitt -- Sinclair Lewis
Daisy Miller and Washington Square -- Henry James
This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned -- Scott Fitzgerald
and finally Dos Passos.
Reserving the right to shuffle the deck and possibly add to the list based on whether a particular author catches my fancy and I want more before I move on (which may very well happen with Mark Twain).

[aeroport]

But I think primarily I should get to the books that are on my bookshelf (some have been crying at me for years now).

Likewise!

Paradise Lost - Milton (with this one I am being optimistic - I cannot read this by myself so I need to find a buddy)

I'll be reading this as well in Milton class.
L'Amant - Marguerite Duras (for Fr. class)
Finish The Ambassadors (within the week hopefully) - James
The Wings of the Dove - James
What Maisie Knew - James
The Rise of Silas Lapham - William Dean Howells
The House of the Seven Gables - Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance - Hawthorne
The Marble Faun - Hawthorne
Hawthorne - James's critical study
Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson, and The Prague Orgy - Philip Roth
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

[Chaos Theory]

I recently started a literature binge and I would like to maintain the momentum, so the following list does seem overzealous! Given the seasonal intersessions and summer vacation, I think I can accomplish it.

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
2. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
4. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
10. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
11. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
12. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
13. Les Miserables by Victory Hugo
14. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervates Saavadera
15. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
16. Ulysses by James Joyce
17. Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
18. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
19. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Most of these books were recommended in the thread I created about long novels. And I am impressionable for any nearly all recommendations that anyone gives, so I decided why not?

[Lily Adams]

Oooh, and The Metamorphosis by Kafka and 2001: A Space Odyessey. Loved the movie, now I wanna read the book.

I checked out Lolita today.

[Tersely]

I heard that the Twilight series (or whatever it's called) by Stephenie Meyer is good...so I might read those.

That my friend is an excellent series. They are already making a movie about it and the series is only a couple of years old.
Anyways.. I have a nice little green tub full to the rim of books and to control my finances, have made an agreement with myself to not buy a -single- book until I read everything in that tub. Just to name a few...
(currently into the gothic literature) so that includes Mysteries of Udolpho, Melmoth the Wanderer, Uncle Silas, Castle of Otranto, The Monk, and The Vampyre.
Two huge novels.. Les Miserables (second reading unabridged...first was abridged) and The Tale of Genji.
For fun... a couple of Stephen Kings.

[PabloQ]

Likewise!


I'll be reading this as well in Milton class.
L'Amant - Marguerite Duras (for Fr. class)
Finish The Ambassadors (within the week hopefully) - James
The Wings of the Dove - James
What Maisie Knew - James
The Rise of Silas Lapham - William Dean Howells
The House of the Seven Gables - Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance - Hawthorne
The Marble Faun - Hawthorne
Hawthorne - James's critical study
Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson, and The Prague Orgy - Philip Roth
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

I just finished The Ambassadors and really enjoyed it. If you plan to walk straight into The Wings of the Dove, I'd be interested in your reaction, especially if it's the first time. I found it maddening and I've figured out why, but I'm interested in other's reaction to it.
I really enjoyed The Rise of Silas Lapham as well.