2010 Book Challenge
These are the books I intend on reading in 2010. Well, I intend on reading at least these books. It is likely (and hopeful) that I will read even more. The books that I have crossed out are the ones I have finished. The ones in italics are the ones I have started. The ones with reviews are the ones that are links. So, starting with the books from last year that I didn’t finish first:
* Silas Marner by George Eliot
* Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
* Compassionate Carnivore by Catherine Friend
* On the Wealth of Nations by P.J. O’Rourke
* Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
* Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia
* The Eight By Katherine Neville
* Begin Anywhere by Frank Gianpietro
* The Horse, The Wheel and Language by David Anthony
* How Language Works by David Crystal
* The Ode Less Traveled by Stephen Fry
* The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
* The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Farber
And, then adding:
* Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount Jr.
* The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
* Ibid by Mark Dunne
* The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
* The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
* The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
* Speak by Laura Halse Anderson
* Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
* Jaws by Peter Benchley
* Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer
* Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
* Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
* Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
* Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
* In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
* The Stuff of Thought by Stephen Pinker
