Read all the books in my "must read" pile

find and finish “Portnoy’s Complaint”

In progress

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millenium by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger

Re-reading

World Stompers by Brad Olsen

Just finished

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Sirens of Titan – DONE
Moral Clarity
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Interpreter of Maladies
Player Piano
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Brave New World
The Glass Castle
The Namesake
Hocus Pocus
Timequake
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Water for Elephants
A Thousand Splendid Sons
The Joy Luck Club
My Life

^{The Milfords: Letters of six sisters – Charlotte Mosley
Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
Memoirs or a teenage amnesiac – Gabrielle Zevin
Vegan Virgin Valentine – Carolyn Mackler
It’s kind of a funny story – Ned Vizzini
Fight Club – Chuck Palahnuik
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Seth Grahame Smith
Loose girl: a memoir of pormiscuity – Kerry Cohen
Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
My Sisters Keeper – Jodi Picoult
Extremely loud and incredibly close – Jonathan S F
The curious Incident of the dog in the night-time – Mark Haddon
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
The secret of Magdalene – Ki Longfellow
The Brief history of the dead – Kevin Brockmeier
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Destoevsky
Let the Right one in – John Ajvide Lindqvist
Handling the Undead – John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak}

Just finished The Arabian Tales after a very long stop in between. Not sure what’s next since classes are starting soon. Mm, maybe I’ll squeeze something in, we’ll see.

Whose bright idea was it to write so many good books?

_{Goodreads is too hard to work and keep in sync with 43.
So I’ll post my list here, soon.}

I’m currently trying to finish ‘one flew over the cuckoos nest’ and ‘nausea’

Double Cross by James Patterson

Good, but his books always leave me wondering what happens next.

I am still working on this goal after all this time. The problem is not that I am not reading. The problem is that my list is growing at a faster rate than I am reading. I have made a conscious effort not to ask for books as gifts, and that has helped somewhat. However, I still have a tendency to purchase books on impulse, thus adding to my list.