These are the books that I've pledged to read this year -
I'm not doing 52 because I'm really busy with writing, school and, ya know, life, and I don't want to feel obligated to read for the sake of filling a quota.
I might add more books if I've read all these before the end of the year.
In bold are the books I've read. In italics are the books I'm reading.
1) The Color Purple – Alice Walker
2) Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
3) Beloved – Toni Morrison
4) Twin: A memoir – Allen Shawn
5) Jazz – Toni Morrison
6) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7) Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
8) Nexus, Plexus, Sexus – Henry Miller
9) Roots – Alex Haley
10) Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy – Douglas Adams
11) The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
12) Come on People, Bill Cosby
13) A long way gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier – Ishmael Beah
14) Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
15) Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
16) The Iceman Cometh – Eugene O'neill
17) Half the Sky – Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
18) Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
19) Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
20) House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
21) The Soloist – Steve Lopez
22) The Memory Palace – Mira Bartok
23) Palo Alto – James Franco
24) Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
25) East of Eden – John Steinbeck
26) The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
27) In search of our mother's gardens – Alice Walker
28) The bluest eye - Toni Morrison
29) Sula - Toni Morrison
30) Animal Farm - George Orwell
31) The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
32) Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
33) Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro
34) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
35) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
36) Sati - Christopher Pike
37) 38) 39) The Last Vampire 4-5-6 - Christopher Pike
40) Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
41) Bossypants - Tina Fey
42) Role Models - John Waters
43) Thus spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
44) Mistress - Anita Nair
45) Tar Baby - Toni Morrison
46) We need to talk about Kevin
