Read 50 books this year.

27. Banish Belly, Butt, and Thighs
28. Inside Delta Force by Eric L. Haney

6. Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper

1. ‘Wat er niet meer is’ by Susan Smit
2. ‘Transparent’ by Cris Beam
3. ‘Running with Scissors’ by Augusten Burroughs
4. ‘Cirque du Freak: Tunnels of Blood’ by Darren Shan
5. ‘The boy in the striped pyjama’s’ by John Boyne
6. ‘Horrorarium’ by Various Dutch and Belgium writers
7. ‘The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories’ by Tim Burton (probably doesn’t count, I don’t care)
8. ‘Kiss Kiss’ by Roald Dahl

Yay for immature kiddy books (well, some). I don’t give a crap. They’re words.

23. Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
24. Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry
25. Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry
26. True Evil by Greg Isles

Yes, I realize I have a long way to go since it’s already June:
1. Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
4. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Book#1 shall be Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (1/2 done)
Book#2 Geek Love
Book#3 1984 by H.G. Wells
Book#4 War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

Lets do this!!

1. The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Adams, Douglas
2. The Divine Comedy – Alighieri, Dante
3. Emma- Austen, Jane
4. A Clockwork Orange – Burgess, Anthony
5. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
6. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Carnegie, Dale
7. Alice in Wonderland – Carroll, Lewis
8. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens, Charles
9. The Karamazov Brothers – Dostoevsky, Fyodor
10. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky, Fyodor
11. A Study in Scarlet – Doyle, Arthur Conan
12. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Doyle, Arthur Conan
13. The Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas, Alexander
14. The Man in the Iron Mask – Dumas, Alexander
15. The Three Musketeers – Dumas, Alexander
16. Silas Marner – Eliot, George
17. Lord of the Flies – Golding, William
18. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Green, Hannah
19. The Metamorphosis – Kafka, Franz
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Kesey, Ken
21. Flowers for Algernon – Keyes, Daniel
22. A Wrinkle in Time – L’Engle, Madeline
23. Life of Pi – Martel, Yann
24. I Am Legend – Matheson, Richard
25. Paradise Lost – Milton, John
26. Lolita – Nabokov, Vladamir
27. Animal Farm – Orwell, George
28. Nineteen Eighty-Four – Orwell, George
29. Fight Club – Palahniuk, Chuck
30. Hatchet – Paulsen, Gary
31. Frankenstein – Shelley, Mary
32. The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck, John
33. Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck, John
34. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Stevenson, Robert Louis
35. Dracula – Stoker, Bram
36. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift, Jonathan
37. The Hobbit – Tolkien, JRR
38. War and Peace – Tolstoy, Leo
39. Around the World in Eighty Days – Verne, Jules
40. A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Verne, Jules
41. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Verne, Jules
42. Faust – von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
43. Slaughterhouse-Five – Vonnegut, Kurt
44. Breakfast of Champions – Vonnegut, Kurt
45. The Invisible Man – Wells, H.G.
46. The Time Machine – Wells, H.G.
47. War of the Worlds – Wells, H.G.
48. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde, Oscar
49. Swiss Family Robinson – Wyss, Johann
50. The Downfall – Zola, Emile

20. Robert E. Lee’s Civil War by Bevin Alexander
21. The Problem with Murmur Lee by Connie May Fowler
22. Murder at Ford’s Theatre by Margaret Truman

January
1 – The Gift, Cecelia Ahern
2 – An April Shroud, Reginald Hill
3 – A Clubbable Woman, Reginald Hill
4 – Dialogues of the Dead, Reginald Hill
5 – Born Guilty, Reginald Hill
February
6 – Just After Sunset, Stephen King
7 – The Taking, Dean Koontz
8 – Exit Lines, Reginald Hill
March
9 – The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
10 – Velocity, Dean Koontz
April
11 – This Charming Man, Marian Keyes
12 – The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
13 – Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
14 – Sushi for Beginners, Marian Keyes
15 – Anybody Out There, Marian Keyes
May
16 – Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
17 – An Advancement of Learning, Reginald Hill
18 – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
19 – The Jewel That Was Ours, Colin Dexter
20 – My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
June
21 – One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
22 – Icebound, Dean Koonzt
23 – Small Island, Andrea Levy
24 – Forever Odd, Dean Koontz
July
25 – Thinner, Stephen King
26 – Confessions of a Fallen Angel, Ronan O’Brien

Here is the start of my list:

1. See No Evil by Robert Baer
2. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Brendt
3. A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitscomb
4. 100 Things I’m Not Going to Do Now That I’m Over 50 by Wendy Reid Crisp
5. The Devil’s Feather by Minette Walters
6. Speak Rwanda by Julian Pierce
7. Getting Sober by Kelly Madigan Erlandson
8. Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
9. Bad Dogs Have More Fun by John Grogan
10.Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
11. The Kalahari Typing School For Men by Alexander McCall Smith
12. The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
13. Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood
14. Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink
15. The Potluck Club by Linda Evans Shepherd, Eva Marie Everson
16. The Burden of Proof by Scott Turrow
17. It Happened in Kentucky by Mimi O’Malley
18. Life Is Friends by Jeanne Martinet
19. The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

I have posted reviews of all of these books on goodreads and Shelfari