Several of you have asked me lately if I really intend to go through with this challenge, and my answer is YES! I’m hoping all of you will help me achieve my goal my continuing to encourage and goad me to keep going. AND, I’m hoping that some of you will join me and make your own reading list for 2010. It might not be a book a week, but it could be a book a month or two a month.
Okay - here is my rough reading list. Of course, I will need 52 books in all, and as you can see, I don’t have quite that many YET. So, feel free to pipe in here with some of your favorites -- and make sure to tell my WHY I should read it. “It’s a great book!” won’t suffice! Tell me what components of the book make it great, how did it make you feel, why do you think I would enjoy it, etc. Remember, this isn’t just to help ME compile my 2010 reading list. This is also for all the other bibliophiles reading this blog.
So, here goes (in no particular order):
- A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
- In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, Alice Walker
- Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
- The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
- Chance, Joseph Conrad
- Courage for the Earth, Peter Matthiessen
- The Fragile Absolute, Slavoj Zizek
- J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, Humphrey Carpenter
- A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
- Meeting the Tree of Life, John Tallmadge
- Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
- Darwin on Trial, Philip E. Johnson
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
- Catch 22, Joseph Heller
- Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- Religion and Nothingness, Nishitani
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
- The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- Julie and Julia, Julie Powell
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
- My Life in France, Julia Child
- The Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
- Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver
- Touching the Void, Joe Simpson
- Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
- The Kingdom of God is Within You, Leo Tolstoy
- The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
- My Antonia, Willa Cather
- Night, Elie Wiesel
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- The Longest Trip Home, John Grogan
- Howard’s End, E. M. Forster
- Crazy for the Storm, Norman Ollestad
- The Celtic Way of Seeing, Frank MacEowen
- The Primal Teen, Barbara Strauch
- A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink
- The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
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