Sunday, January 22, 2012

2012 Reading Challenge!

One thing that I started last year as a New Year's Resolution was a reading goal. This was made fairly easy with the Reading Challenge widget on Goodread's website. Since last year was successful, I have decided to attempt to complete a yearly reading goal again this year!

Here is a copy of the books, in no particular order, I want to hit for-sure this year:

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
4. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
5. Watership Down by Richard Adams
6. The Knight by Gene Wolfe
7. The Wizard by Gene Wolfe
8. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
9. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
10. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
11. Dracula by Bram Stoker
12. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
13. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
14. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
15. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
16. The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
17. A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
18. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
19. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
21. Animal Farm by George Orwell
22. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
23. Paradise Lost by John Milton
24. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
25. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
26. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
27. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
28. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
29. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
30. Antigone by Sophocles
31. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
32. The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
33. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
34. Sandman by Neil Gaiman
35. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
36. The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
37. Agatha Christie's Detectives by Agatha Christie*
38. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
39. Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty
40. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
41. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

* asterisks denote books that I own that are single volumes with multiple books bound within.