What do YOU want to read in 2014?

[Mary]

To get us started, we need to come up with a list of books for our group reads. Please help us out with some ideas. Please list ten books you are interested in reading together and discussing sometime in 2014. From this, we can create a poll and hopefully all participate in making the choices. Below is a template you may copy and paste into your post.


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[Mary]

Books I am interested in reading and discussion;

1. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
2. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
3. The Hummingbirds Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
4. The Aviators Wife
5. The Winds of Heaven and Earth by Stephen M Holack
6. Pyotr Ilyitch
7. Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
8. Joyland by Stephen King
9. Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
10 The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

[julie]

I'm open to a pretty broad range of reading - fiction & non- and across genres as well, but my list of 10 would include:

1. Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things
2. The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
3. The Republic of Wine, Mo Yan
4. My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
5. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (a reread, but would love to discuss)
6. The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver (a reread, but would love to discuss)
7. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami (again, a reread, but i would love to discuss this book)
8. A Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
9. An Arrangement of Light, Nicole Krauss (this is a short story, not a novel)
10. Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges

[Holly]

Basically all of these are going to be classics, apologies!

1. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
2. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
5. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
6. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
7. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
8. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
9. Dracula by Bram Stoker
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

This list might change, considering I might read some this year...

[Matt]

I am always looking for my next book and I like to try different genres. I look forward to this 100 book challenge and that the decision of what to read will be taken out of my hands. That being said, here are a few suggestions from my "to-read list" to put in the hat;

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­aMárquez
3. City of Thieves by David Benioff
4. Logan's Run by William Nolan
5. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
6. The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
7. Joyland by Stephen King
8. The Silver Star by Jeannette Wells
9. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
10. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[Erin]

I'm already finding new books to read, but here are a few from my "to be read" list:
1.Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2.Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
3.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
6.Middlemarch by George Eliot
7.Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
8.The Art of War by Sun Tzu
9.The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
10 The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

[Madelyn]

Hello Readers,

Thank you very much for all of your participation!

1. Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
2. The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
3. The Case of the Missing Books
4. Biblioholism: Literary Addition by Tom Raabe
5. So many books, so little time by Sara Nelson
6. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch
7. The Bookstore by Debra Meyler
8. Longbourn by Jo Baker
9. Joyland by Stephen King
10. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

[Colleen]

I'm loving a lot of these selections, and am a pretty open reader. That being said, I'll add my $.02. Chose from some of the oldest titles on my TBR list

1. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
4. Catch-22
5. The Bell Jar
6. The Orphan Master's Son
7. The Round House
8. Joyland or any other horror book in October
9. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time - November/thanksgiving book
10. Love in the Time of Cholera

[Gene]

Its really hard for me to just pick ten books but here is a list in no particular order.

1. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
2. Monster Hunter International - Lary Correia
3. Auschwitz: A New History - Laurence Rees
4. The Book of Law - Aleister Crowley
5. The Count of Monte Cristo - Clare West
6. The Plucker - Brom
7. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
8. Paddle Your own Canoe - Nick Offerman
9. The Future of the Mind - Michio Kaku
10. Skin Game - Jim Butcher

[Heather]

How to pick just 10?

1. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
3. Lady Windemere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
6. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
7. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon
8. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
9. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
10. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

[Tony]

I'm wrapping up 2013 by finishing off the Harry Potter series (should have done this YEARS ago) and continuing to read Terry Pratchett's amazing Discworld series in publication order (seriously, if you haven't read any of these, get on it!)

I'm up for reading whatever the majority of the group is interested in for 2014. I plan on getting to these books at some point between now and the end of 2014:

1. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2. The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore
3. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
4. When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle
5. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
7. Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
8. One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
9. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
10. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

[Kelsey]

Even though there are TONS of books I want to read, here a few I've been meaning to read lately.

Books I am interested in reading and discussing

1. Anna Karenina
2. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
3. Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
4. The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
5. The Bookstore by Debra Meyler
6. Molokai by Alan Brennert
7. Swamplandia by Karen Russell
8. The Passage by Justin Cronin
9. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
10 The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

[Pop]

1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
3. The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
4. The Giver by Lois Lowry
5. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
6. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
7. The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
8. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
10. Making History
by Stephen Fry

[Karena]

1. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
2. Wolf Hall
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
4. Neverwhere
5.This Is How You Lose Her
6. Catch-22
7. The Poisonwood Bible
8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
9. Sweet Tooth
10. The Good Earth

[Jade]

This is really hard, but here are my top 10 to get to next year in no particular order:

Books I am interested in reading and discussion;

1.Snapper - Brian Kimberling
2.The Valley of Amazement - Amy Tan
3.Women with big eyes- Angeles Mastretta
4.The Humanoids - Jack Williamson
5.Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
6.True Grit - Charles Portis
7.Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world - Haruki Murakami - This is a re-read for me, but it's so awesome :) I'd love to read it again
8.Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9.Tolstoy and the Purple Chair - Nina Sankovitch
10 The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman - or anything written by him really!

Can't wait to get started!

[Heather]

Here are the books I would like to read in 2014:

1. The Hobbit
2. The Scarlet Letter
3. The Adventures of Robin Hood
4. Skeletons at the Feast(Chris Bohjalian)
5. The Soul Thief (Cecelia Holland)
6. The Last Jew (Noah Gordon)
7. Waiting to be Heard (Amanda Knox)
8. Pilate's Wife (Antoinette May)
9. Stones From the River (Ursulla Hegi)
10. Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver)

[Gary]

Books I am interested in reading and discussion;

1. The Aviator's Wife (Melanie Benjamin)
2. The Child Thief (Brom)
3. Waiting to be Heard (Amanda Knox)
4. Life after Life (Kate Atkinson)
5. The Golem and the Jinni (Helene Wecker)
6. Inkheart (Cornelia Funke)
7. Lord of the Flies
8. The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise (Julia Stuart)
9. Reconstructing Amelia (Kimberly McCreight)
10. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Horace McCoy)

[Heather]

I've got a huge list started, but these are my top ten(ish) books for 2014.

1. Pontypool Changes Everything (Tony Burgess)
2. Tipping the Velvet (Sarah Waters)
3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)
4. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
5. Paradise Lost (John Milton)
6. Drive by Truckers (Ginger Strand)
7. In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
8. Feminism and Pop Culture (Andi Zeisler)
9. The Last Victim (Jason Moss)
10. The Poisoner's Handbook (Deborah Blum)

I feel like my cj background influences my book taste a bit...

[Madelyn]

Thanks Gary for the add in!

Gary wrote: "Books I am interested in reading and discussion;

1. The Aviator's Wife (Melanie Benjamin)
2. The Child Thief (Brom)
3. Waiting to be Heard (Amanda Knox)
4. Life after Life (Kate Atkinson)
5. The G..."

[Ann]

1. Gone with the wind
2. Robinson Crusoe
3. A tale of two cities
4. Gulliver's travels
5. Wolf hall
6. Wuthering heights
7. A room with a view
8. A sentimental journey
9. Howards end
10. Sense and sensibility