It's doubtful I'll actually read all of these and I reserve the right to remove any that I'm not able to really sink my teeth into, but generally these are the books I plan to read this year:
Historical Fiction:
1. Pompeii - Robert Harris
2. I, Mona Lisa - Jeanne Kalogridis
3. Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George
4. Wisdom's Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba - India Edghill
5. The Princes of Ireland - Edward Rutherfurd
6. World Without End - Ken Follett
7. The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory
8. Fire from Heaven - Mary Renault
9. Stonehenge - Bernard Cornwell
10. The Players - Stephanie Cowell
11. The Passions of the Mind or The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
12. The Journeyer – Gary Jennings
13. Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
14. The Lost Queen and The Lute Player – Nora Lofts
15. The First Man in Rome – Colleen McCullough
16. The Uncrowned Queen - Posie Graeme-Evans
Arthurian/Camelot:
1. Firelord - Parke Godwin
2. The Child of the Holy Grail - Rosalind Miles
3. Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country - Rosalind Miles
4. The Knight of the Sacred Lake - Rosalind Miles
5. Prince of Dreams: A Tale of Tristan and Essylte -Nancy McKenzie
6. Kingdom of the Grail – Judith Tarr
Classics I should have read a long time ago:
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
3. Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
4. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
5. Night - Elie Wiesel
6. Oliver Twist or Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
7. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
8. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
10. My Antonia - Willa Cather
11. Things Fall Apart -Chinua Achebe
12. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Childrens/Young Adult Classics I should have read a long time ago:
1. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum
6. Stuart Little - E.B. White
7. His Dark Materials trilogy – Philip Pullman
More recent fiction & literature:
1. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
2. A Free Man of Color - Barbara Hambly
3. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
4. Life Expectancy - Dean Koontz
5. Smila's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
6. Play It as It Lays - Joan Didion
7. Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger
8. Naked - David Sedaris
9. Atonement - Ian McEwan
10. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
11. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
12. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
13. About Grace - Anthony Doerr
14. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
15. Here on Earth – Alice Hoffman
16. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’neill
17. Lost in Translation – Nicole Mones
18. Known World – Edward P. Jones
19. How to Be Lost – Amanda Eyre Ward
20. Pope Joan – Donna Woolfolk Cross
21. Map of the World – Jane Hamilton
22. Three Mothers – Sonia Lambert
23. Women of the Silk and The Language of Threads – Gail Tsukiyama
24. Gospel According to Jesus Christ – Jose Saramago
25. The Last Days of Dogtown – Anita Diamont
26. The Songs of the Kings – Barry Unsworth
27. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
28. Slammerkin – Emma Donoghue
29. Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
30. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen finished
31. The House at Riverton - Kate Morton finished
32. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak finished
Nonfiction/History:
1. The Seige - Conor Cruise O'Brien
2. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
3. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
4. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
5. Empire City- Kenneth T. Jackson
6. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
7. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
8. Sovereign Ladies – Maureen Waller
9. Alexandra, the Last Tsarina – Carolly Erickson
Auto/Biography:
1. Raging Bull – Jake LaMotta
2. A Hemingway Biography
2. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig - Jonathan Eig
3. Coltrane: The Story of a Sound - Ben Ratliff
4. Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
5. The Lonely Empress: A Biography of Elizabeth of Austria - Joan Haslip
6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
Books I will likely re-read:
1. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
2. Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
3. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
4. Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
5. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Mr. Zoo's suggestions to my reading list:
1. Consider Phlebas - Iain Banks
2. Creation - Gore Vidal
3. A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
4. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
Historical Fiction:
1. Pompeii - Robert Harris
2. I, Mona Lisa - Jeanne Kalogridis
3. Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George
4. Wisdom's Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba - India Edghill
5. The Princes of Ireland - Edward Rutherfurd
6. World Without End - Ken Follett
7. The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory
8. Fire from Heaven - Mary Renault
9. Stonehenge - Bernard Cornwell
10. The Players - Stephanie Cowell
11. The Passions of the Mind or The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
12. The Journeyer – Gary Jennings
13. Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
14. The Lost Queen and The Lute Player – Nora Lofts
15. The First Man in Rome – Colleen McCullough
16. The Uncrowned Queen - Posie Graeme-Evans
Arthurian/Camelot:
1. Firelord - Parke Godwin
2. The Child of the Holy Grail - Rosalind Miles
3. Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country - Rosalind Miles
4. The Knight of the Sacred Lake - Rosalind Miles
5. Prince of Dreams: A Tale of Tristan and Essylte -Nancy McKenzie
6. Kingdom of the Grail – Judith Tarr
Classics I should have read a long time ago:
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
3. Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
4. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
5. Night - Elie Wiesel
6. Oliver Twist or Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
7. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
8. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
10. My Antonia - Willa Cather
11. Things Fall Apart -Chinua Achebe
12. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Childrens/Young Adult Classics I should have read a long time ago:
1. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum
6. Stuart Little - E.B. White
7. His Dark Materials trilogy – Philip Pullman
More recent fiction & literature:
1. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
2. A Free Man of Color - Barbara Hambly
3. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
4. Life Expectancy - Dean Koontz
5. Smila's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
6. Play It as It Lays - Joan Didion
7. Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger
8. Naked - David Sedaris
9. Atonement - Ian McEwan
10. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
11. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
12. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
13. About Grace - Anthony Doerr
14. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
15. Here on Earth – Alice Hoffman
16. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’neill
17. Lost in Translation – Nicole Mones
18. Known World – Edward P. Jones
19. How to Be Lost – Amanda Eyre Ward
20. Pope Joan – Donna Woolfolk Cross
21. Map of the World – Jane Hamilton
22. Three Mothers – Sonia Lambert
23. Women of the Silk and The Language of Threads – Gail Tsukiyama
24. Gospel According to Jesus Christ – Jose Saramago
25. The Last Days of Dogtown – Anita Diamont
26. The Songs of the Kings – Barry Unsworth
27. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
28. Slammerkin – Emma Donoghue
29. Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
30. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen finished
31. The House at Riverton - Kate Morton finished
32. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak finished
Nonfiction/History:
1. The Seige - Conor Cruise O'Brien
2. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
3. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
4. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
5. Empire City- Kenneth T. Jackson
6. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
7. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
8. Sovereign Ladies – Maureen Waller
9. Alexandra, the Last Tsarina – Carolly Erickson
Auto/Biography:
1. Raging Bull – Jake LaMotta
2. A Hemingway Biography
2. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig - Jonathan Eig
3. Coltrane: The Story of a Sound - Ben Ratliff
4. Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
5. The Lonely Empress: A Biography of Elizabeth of Austria - Joan Haslip
6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
Books I will likely re-read:
1. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
2. Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
3. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
4. Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
5. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Mr. Zoo's suggestions to my reading list:
1. Consider Phlebas - Iain Banks
2. Creation - Gore Vidal
3. A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
4. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
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