Walking Backwards

This year I made a goal for 43things that was stupid. I have a goal to read 50 books this year. I'm not doing well so far with only 3 books completed for the year, but I figured that I always read several books a week when I'm not in school so there is time to make it up. The first 20 are already on my shelf thanks to hand-me-downs. I figured they should go first. Here is my list of 'to reads' for the rest of the year, let me know if you can think of anything:

1. Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (next month's book club book)
2. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, and others
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (only finished half of it)
4. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
5. The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
6. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
7. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
8. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
9. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
10. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
11. Lucky by Alice Sebold
12. The Color of Water by James McBride
13. A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
14. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
15. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
16. The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
17. The Prize-winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
18. The Master by Colm Toibin
19. The Dubliners by James Joyce
20. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
21. Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
22. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
23. Althaea by Andrea Crowder
24. Atonement by Ian McEwan
25. Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
26. Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels by John Updike
27. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
28. Plays by Harold Pinter (2005 Nobel prize for Literature)
30. Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

That's all I got for now. I think I am going to try to round out my list with books of short stories and plays, but I still have twenty books to think of, so if you can think of anything . . .