Saturday, February 09, 2013

commit to reading

we are now more than a week into february, and just a few days shy of valentine's day, which means it's time to commit.  commit?!??!  commit to a reading list for 2013 since i have already lost a month.
  1. agnes grey {anne bronte}
  2. anna karenina {leo tolstoy}
  3. anne of green gables {l.m. montgomery}
  4. anne of avonlea  {l.m. montgomery}
  5. anne of the island  {l.m. montgomery}
  6. anne of windy poplars  {l.m. montgomery}
  7. anne's house of dreams  {l.m. montgomery}
  8. anne of ingleside   {l.m. montgomery}
  9. behind the beautiful forevers:  life, death, and hope in a mumbai undercity {katherine boo}
  10. beneath a marble sky {john shors}
  11. blind spot {mahzarin banaji and anthony greenwald}
  12. brave new world {aldous huxley}
  13. the case for christ {lee strobel}
  14. the count of monte cristo {alexandre dumas}
  15. dirty god {johnnie moore}
  16. east of eden {john steinbeck}
  17. the end of your life book club {will schwalbe}
  18. the great divorce {c.s. lewis}
  19. the hobbit {j.r.r. tolkien}
  20. the house girl {tara conklin}
  21. invisible man {ralph ellison}
  22. killing kennedy:  the end of camelot {bill o'reilly, martin dugard}
  23. kisses from katie {katie davis}
  24. les miserables {victor hugo}
  25. lady almina and the real downton abbey {the countess of carnarvon}
  26. life of pi {yann martel}
  27. memoirs of a geisha {arthur golden}
  28. mansfield park {jane austen}
  29. miracle for jen {linda barrick}
  30. northanger abbey {jane austen}
  31. oliver twist {charles dickens}
  32. one day in the life of ivan denisovich {aleksandr solzhenitsyn}
  33. the paris wife {paula mclain}
  34. persuasion {jane austen} 
  35. peter pan {j.m. barrie} 
  36. rainbow valley {l.m. montgomery}
  37. the reason for god {tim keller}
  38. rilla ingleside {l.m. montgomery}
  39. sarah's key {tatiana de rosnay}
  40. shadow on the crown {patricia bracwell}
  41. the silver linings playbook {matthew quick}
  42. spoken from the heart {laura bush}
  43. the storyteller {jodi picoult}
  44. thinking fast and slow {daniel kahneman}
  45. through the looking glass {lewis carroll}
  46. the tiger's wife {tea obreht}
  47. this side of paradise {f. scott fitzgerald}
  48. the wettest county in the world {matt bondurant}
  49. unbroken {laura hillenbrand}
  50. unglued {lysa terkeurst}
my first read from the list is les miserables.  with about 500 pages read, i have about two-thirds of the book to go yet.  progress.

what are you reading now?  have any future recommendations, or possible substitutes for my list?

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