Read 50 books in one year

Unless I get really distracted, I’ll have finished my tenth book by the end of October. At this rate, I’ll be able to read 50 books before my goal date of 8/27/09. :D

I read 50 books in a year once, but it was a few years ago. I tried to do it this year, but school prevents me from reading as much as I used to. I will start this goal in Jan 2009 and hope to be finished by Dec 2009.

It’s my goal to read 50 books by this time in 2009. :)

I read a lot of nonfiction, so my focus will be on reading fifty fiction books in one year.

1. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
2. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
3. The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
5. Gridlock, Ben Elton
6. The Art of war, Sun Tzu
7. The Catcher in The Rye, J.D. Salinger
8. Gone with The Wind, Margret Mitchell
9. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin
10. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
11. The Hound of The Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12. Memoirs of a fox hunting man, Seigfried Sassoon
13. A Breif History of Time, Stephen Hawking
14. The Green Mile, Stephen King
15. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
16. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
17. Shadow of The Wind, Carlos R Zafon
18. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
19. For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
20. The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
21. The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
22. Across the Nightingale Floor, Lain Hearn
23. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
24. The Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King
25. A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
26. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
27. Bel Canto, Ann Patchet
28. I know you got soul, Jeremy Clarkson
29. 1984, George Orwell
30. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
31. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
32. One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
33. Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee
34. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
35. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
36. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
37. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K. Dick
38. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Woolfe
39. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
40. Conversations In Sicily, Elio Vittorini
41. The War of The Worlds, H.G. Wells,
42. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
43. Making History, Stephen Fry
44. Thank you for smoking, Christopher Buckley
45. 1985, Anthony Burgess
46. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
47. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
48. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
49. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut.
50. The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy

Yeah, there is no way I am going to read 50 books this year. I don’t have any time to read for pleasure. =(