My To Be Read List for 2008

I have set a personal goal of attempting to read 50 books in the next year.  Given the nature of my life it's more than an ambitious goal.  The first way to accomplish a goal is to break it down.  I'm starting to break it down by listing the books that I would like to read.  This is a work in progress and suggestions are welcome.  (Most of these are ones that I have around the house that I just haven't gotten to)

1.  Foucaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco 

2.   Her Last Death: A Memoir by Susanna Sonnenberg.

3.   Falling Through the Earth:  A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni

4.  Marie Antoinnette:  The Journey by Antonia Fraser

5.  The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

6.  Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

7.  Hegemony or Survival:  America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky

8.  Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

9.  Uglies by Scot Wsterfeld

10.  The Giver by Lois Lowry

11.  The Zookeeper's Wife:  A War Story by Diane Ackerman

12.  Proust and the Squid:  The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

13.  Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold Packard

14.   The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship by by Roger Friedland & Harold Zellman

15.   The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander

16.   The Historian by Caroline Alexander

17.  The Lamb:  The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

18.   The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

19.   The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

20.  Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

21.  Autims Spectrum Disorders:  The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and other ASD's by Chantal Sicile-Kira and Temple Graindin

22.  Gerald's Game by Stephen King 

23.  The Other Boeyn by Phillipa Gregory

24.   The Secret History by Donna Tartt

25.  Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter

26.  Middlemarch by George Eliot 

27.  Swimming in a Sea of Love:  A Son's Memoir by David Reiff

28.  Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck

29.  Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children by Betty Hart and Todd R Risley

30.  The Social World of Children Learning to Talk by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley

31.  Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy

32.  The Wonder of Girls:  Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our Daughters by Michael Gurian

33.  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

34.  My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

35. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason

36.  The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

37.  Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

38.  Away by Amy Bloom

39.  The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano

40.  Tuesday's With Morrie by Mitch Alboom

41.  The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

42.  The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

 I'm stopping here....