BOOK LIST 2008
Goal: Read 50 books this year. Hey, it worked last year. ETA: (11/2/08) lol College got the best of me. No 50 books this year.
1. The God Who Is There by Francis Schaeffer (January 2)
2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (January 29)
3. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde* (January 31)
4. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (February 2)
5. The Plague by Albert Camus (February 3)
6. The Wall: And Other Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre (February 10)
7. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (March 6)
8. Hamlet by William Shakespeare* (March 9)
9. Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg (March 14)
10. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (March 15)
11. The Fall by Albert Camus (March 21)
12. Candide by Voltaire* (March 30)
13. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe* (April 27)
14. Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (May 7)
15. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (May 10)
16. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (May 12)
17. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (May 18)
18. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (May 18)
19. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (June 20)
20. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (June 22)
21. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (August 3)
22. Before the Frost by Henning Mankell† (August 11)
23. Watchmen by Alan Moore (August 20)
24. Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy by Anna Politkovskaya (August 27)
25. Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down by Kaylene Johnson (September 29)
26. Desiring God by John Piper (October 5)
27. Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader by Joe Hilley (November 2)
28. The Tales of Beetle the Bard by JK Rowling (December 5)
Currently Reading:
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
*Read for AP Literature & Composition
†Read for Georgetown classes
Recommend me books! I don't care if you're not on my f'list or have never talked to me before. Books that changed your life, classics, obscure, amazing books.