This past summer of 2006, I promised myself I would settle down and read. I promised myself I would squeeze in all the “classics†I have never read. As I have mentioned before, I am playing catch-up with the rest of the literary, book-wormy, smarty pants, world that I avoided most of my youth…
I DID accomplish reading these:
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Breakfast at Tiffany’s & In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (my hero)
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lord of the flies-William Golding
I PLAN on reading these by New Years 2007:
Pride & Prejudice / Sense & Sensibility – Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Walden – Thoreau
Great Expectations & A tale of two Cities – Charles Dickens
That should cover all the “classics†right? Am I missing anything?
PLEASE add in the comments section other books I should get / read)
(I OWN all of the books above, I just haven’t read ‘em all… yet)
*Here are the books I would like to BUY / HAVE because I do not own them as of now
(Hint hint…family/friends….suggestions for my birthday-16 days away- presents??)
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People – by Toby Young
Read like a writer – by Francine Prose
Stephanie Plum series- by Janet Evanovich
The Bonfire of The Vanities- by Tom Wolfe
On the Road – by Jack Kerouac
I Know This Much Is True- by Wally Lamb
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed – by Alen Alda
Or, maybe just a Barnes and Nobel gift card!
