what is on your 2008 reading list?

[applepie]

A few I would like to get to in the next year are:

The Divine Comedy- Dante Alighieri
The Three Musketeers- Dumas
Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes
Something by Tolstoy, but I've not decided what
The Fountainhead (I've read Atlas Shrugged several times, but never this)- Rand
The Bride of Lammermoor- Sir Walter Scott

I'll see if I can find the time to even get to all of these, and then maybe I'll add more

[rjonathon]

Just Started: Underworld by Don Delillo
After I finish (probably in a month or so...), I want to tackle:

Portrait of the Artist/Ulysses by Joyce
Moby Dick by Melville (reread, because I plowed through it in college but didn't appreciate)
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (need to buy a better translation first)
Rememberance of Things Past by Proust
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway (reread)
Foucault's Pendulum by Eco
Anything by Henry James

...that's all I can think of. I'm not in front of my bookshelf right now. Lots of heavy stuff, but I'll probably balance it with short books in between

[thelastmelon]

I have a little project to read books by authors from all the continents in the world. So far I've managed:

North America
The Dominican Republic: In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Canada: JPod - Douglas Coupland

South America
Brazil: The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho

Asia
Japan: Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

Africa
South Africa: Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
Cape Verde: The Testament of Sir Napumoceno da Silva Araújo - Germano Almeida

Europe
England: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Sweden: Ett Oskrivet Blad - Marie Hermanson

Oceania
None

Currently reading:
A book with short stories by Nguyen Huy Thiep from Vietnam.
A Família Trago - Germano Almeida

[JBI]

Hesse is mostly concerned with Schopenhauerian and Nietzschean themes. His novels contain little drama and character development, and they're more like vehicles for ideas than actual novels. His works are sincere and, in my opinion, not bad, but Mann touches the same issues and he's better. Just keep in mind that you won't be moved by his characters. Oh, and if you dismiss concepts like "Will" or "The Spirit of Music" don't even bother in the first place.

I disagree with you completely. You should try Steppenwolf. Hesse was an excellent writer, and blended in more Eastern philosophy to his work than Nietzschean. Mann touches different issues all together and is also worth reading.

[Ultravox]

I didn't read anywhere near as many books as I should have done in 2007, so I intend to spend 2008 rectifying that as greatly as possible.

As it stands, I have a few books for my course that require my attention before anything recreational, including:

Poetics, Aristotle
Odyssey, Homer
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
and possibly
The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche

As far as recreational reading extends, my current list looks something along the lines of:

(Finishing) Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

It's probably highly likely that this list will change substantially though as the year progresses. I'm sure it won't be long before something else takes my fancy.

[higley]

Ultravox, Fahrenheit 451 is amazing, my favorite book. Crime and Punishment was a close second.

I'd like to complete the 50 book challenge this year, I fell about twenty short in 2007. Recently I saw some post from a disgruntled blogger complaining about people who set reading goals, saying that they turn reading into a chore and that they couldn't possibly genuinely enjoy or appreciate a book if it was only a step towards an end. They seemed actually offended. I, along with several others, disagreed.

[ntropyincarnate]

I have added to my list The Sienkiewicz Triology - With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe

[AngelofPhantoms]

I'm going to finish Les Miserables, finish Notre-Dame de Paris, read some of Chalres Dickens books, maybe some Ray Bradbury.

[toro913]

Borges Collected Fictions
New York Trilogy - Auster
Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Chabon
Big Sleep - Chandler
Cheever Collected Stories
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
Lolita - Nabokov
Corrections - Franzen
The Brothers Karamazov
Rabbit, Run - Updike
Flannery O'Conner Collected Stories
Maltese Falcon - Hammett
American Psycho - Ellis
100 Years of Solitude - Marquez
AHBWOSG - Eggers
Everything is Illuminated - Foer
Sound and Fury - Faulkner
Satanic Verses - Rushdie
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque

There's more that I've bought and haven't read and I'm sure I'll take something random from the library every other week.

[JoanS]

Iam not making any lists, ufortunately all the books i want to read are simply innacesable to me, but two weeks ago i got leave of grass, finally...
This year i want to read all the greek tragedies, Ibsen´s dramas, Gide´s novels, some books of Rabelaise, Montaigne and Proust.. and many more

[JoanS]

I didn't read anywhere near as many books as I should have done in 2007, so I intend to spend 2008 rectifying that as greatly as possible.

As it stands, I have a few books for my course that require my attention before anything recreational, including:

Poetics, Aristotle
Odyssey, Homer
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
and possibly
The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche

As far as recreational reading extends, my current list looks something along the lines of:

(Finishing) Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

It's probably highly likely that this list will change substantially though as the year progresses. I'm sure it won't be long before something else takes my fancy.

I also want to read poetics of Aristotle but i recomend your read before all the literature which was written before this book to understand it better. my profesor of philosophy told me that..

[johann cruyff]

Well,off the top of my head,here are some authors I'll be paying more attention to in the next few months:

Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum,Baudolino
Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
Dostoevsky - The Idiot,The Gambler
Tolstoy - War and Peace
Daniel Kehlmann - Measuring the World
Goethe - Faust
Hugo - Les Miserables

Not the most compelling list(Hugo),but I have to do it sooner or later...

[Ryduce]

Hmm..No matter what reading list I make, as soon as I walk into a book store I am sure to deviate from it.

Ray Bradbury-Farenheit 451
H.P Lovecraft-Assorted short stories
Cormac McCarthy-The Road
Henry James-The Turn of the Screw
Joyce Carol Oates-Not sure yet.
Sam Sheridan-A fighters heart
Norman Mailer-The Naked and the Dead
Mary Shelley-The Last Man

[livelaughlove]

I have an ever expanding list of books I'd like to read this year, here are some of those I'm especially keen on:

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Plague - Albert Camus
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Pale Fire - Vladmimir Nabokov
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervates Saavadera
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, or, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Walden - Henry David Thoreau (re-read)

I very much doubt I'll manage to even make a dent in this list, what with a mountain of college work already piling up, plus the fact that there are some biggies in there which will take some time to plod through. I'd also like to read a little more non-fiction this year too, I think. There are just so many books I'm itching to delve into... far too many to get through in ten years, even, let alone one.

This is a little late but I just wanted to tell you that this is an amazing list!!

[latimeri]

a hundred, and one more, writers of the soviet- russian by Juri Andtejev. It's written analysis about writers such as Mihail Solohov and many else.