Besides reading 50 books, I am going to try to complete my "Top 10" to-read books, which include mainly half-read books but also some purchased-with-the-intent-to-start-but-never-did. The list includes (in no particular order):

1. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer - COMPLETED August 24, 2009
2. Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust
3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac - COMPLETED August 12, 2009
4. Inferno by Dante Alighieri - COMPLETED November 14, 2009
5. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert - COMPLETED October 21, 2009
6. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - COMPLETED 03/23/2009
7. World Without End by Ken Follett - COMPLETED 09/20/2009
8. Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary by Gao Wenqian - COMPLETED 09/04/2009
9. Likeness, The by Tana French - COMPLETED 04/05/2009
10. The Art of War by Sun Tzu - COMPLETED 11/07/2009

1. The Queen's Fool A Novel by Philippa Gregory - January 5, 2009

2. American Wife A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld - January 6, 2009

3. Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card - January 12, 2009

4. Young Wives by Olivia Goldsmith - January 19, 2009

5. The Other Woman by Jane Green - January 22, 2009

6. Monkey/Folk Novel of China by Cheng-en Wu - February 4, 2009

7. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - March 12, 2009

8. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - March 15, 2009

9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald - March 15, 2009

10. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - March 23, 2009

11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz - March 26, 2009

12. Running In Heels A Novel by Anna Maxted - March 28, 2009

13. The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society by Kathryn Harrison - April 1, 2009

14. Likeness, The by Tana French - April 5, 2009

15. Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble - April 12, 2009

16. In the Woods by Tana French - April 14, 2009

17. Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier - April 16, 2009

18. Triple by Ken Follett - April 22, 2009

19. Earthly Joys A Novel by Philippa Gregory - April 25, 2009

**Worst book this year

20. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld - April 26, 2009

21. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik - May 3, 2009

**Second book in series

22. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - May 5, 2009

23. Dead Sleep by Greg Iles - May 7, 2009

24. Blood Memory by Greg Iles - May 19, 2009

25. You've Been Warned by James Patterson - June 8, 2009

26. Step on a Crack by James Patterson - June 11, 2009

27. Tai-Pan by James Clavell - June 25, 2009

28. The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho - July 20, 2009

29. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers - July 26, 2009

30. Prep A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld - August 3, 2009

31. Skating Shoes by Noel Streatfeild - August 4, 2009

32. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez - August 5, 2009

33. Peony in Love by Lisa See - August 8, 2009

34. On the Road by Jack Kerouac - August 12, 2009

35. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - August 14, 2009

36. Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card - August 17, 2009

37. Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card - August 22, 2009

38. Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card - August 23, 2009

39. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer - August 24, 2009

40. Zhou Enlai The Last Perfect Revolutionary by Gao Wenqian - September 4, 2009

41. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck - September 5, 2009

42. When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park - September 7, 2009

***Favorite YA book of the year

43. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer - September 9, 2009

44. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - September 14, 2009

45. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - September 19, 2009

46. World Without End by Ken Follett - September 20, 2009

47. The Serpent's Children Golden Mountain Chronicles 1849 by Laurence Yep - September 21, 2009

48. A Separate Peace by John Knowles - September 22, 2009

49. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik - September 24, 2009