2011 Reading Goals

Do you ever make reading goals for yourselves? I'm not a fan of New Years Resolutions, but I think I might be willing to make a New Years Book Resolution. There are so many books that I haven't read that perhaps it's a good idea to start working on that list.

Here are some of my reading goals for 2011:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

Anything new coming from Brandon Sanderson

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom

Hmm. Since I can finish that short little list in about two months what else do you recommend I read next year?

And as for music. Try out this fabulous rendition of White Christmas:

Friday Wish-List: Required Reading

I have this friend who adamantly assures me that I fell through the cracks of the public school system and the reality is that she's probably right.

I never took Geometry or Government or Economics and I only took a year of Physical Education.

However, in her opinion, none of those things remotely compares to the grievous sin the schools committed in allowing me to not read some of the greatest literature of all time.

You see while everyone else in the United States was required to read Fahrenheit 451 or To Kill a Mockingbird. I was reading Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Birds and The Pearl (::gag:: I hated that book).

So today for my Friday Wish-List I'd like to shamefully add a few of the fundamentals to my must-reads.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1984 by George Orwell

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Sometimes people tell me that I'm 'well read,' and I've never argued, but inside I cringe and think of all the great books I haven't assimilated into my synapses.

So tell me... which ones are worth it and which ones should I just skip over?


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Friday Wish-List is going meme. Next week we'll be adding a link up (and grab-box) so you can participate. So find your list and start typing making sure you link back to us (next Friday) so we can all find some new stuff to enjoy!


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Books:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1984 by George Orwell

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Pearl by John Steinbeck