What are you planning to read in 2010?

[Mont'ster]

Since "what gets measured is what gets done" it seems to me that the logical thing for me to do is to state my reading plan for 2010.

I have *many* books that I'd like to read "someday" but this is about a realistic, attainable, specific goal to be achieved during calendar year 2010.

Although it sounds bizarre, I discovered in 2009 that all the reading I had to do for work was leaving me somewhat "burned out" for recreational reading. With that in mind my 2010 reading list is comprised of 25 books that are either:
1) Books that I've never read and that I feel are long overdue for me to read OR
2) Books that I discovered (while making my list) with a bookmark where I had left off. These will be included as "Finish in 2010". (Adding these books caused my list of "Currently Reading" to grow quite a bit)
And these books come from many different genres.

I'm shooting for at least two books from this list a month - probably one a serious book and one that is more or less "brain candy". Since I keep several books going at the same time I will have to check my progress each month to make sure that I am "on track" averaging at least 2 books a month. I'm also trying to just put books on this list that I already have a copy of (yes, to my great chagrin, I have *that many* books around here that I haven't read yet)
If (by some miracle) I tear through all of these books and still have time left, I'm already starting a "2010 part 2" list of books that I didn't include here.

Okay, that's my rules for me. Please feel free to Make Up Your Own Rules when figuring out your 2010 Planned Reading List and most importantly HAVE FUN !! I can hardly wait!

My 2010 Reading List I came up with 23 "new" books for me and several that I need to finish. (and I'm not saying that I'm going to read them in the order listed)

Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Finish in 2010 if I don't finish it in 2009
World War Z - An Oral History of The Zombie War - Finish in 2010 if I don't finish it in 2009

Rocket Man - Finish in 2010
The Ig Nobel Prizes - Finish in 2010
The Darwin Awards 4 - Finish in 2010
The Christian Culture Survival Guide - Finish in 2010
Starlight and Time - Finish in 2010
Sophie's World - A Novel About the History of Philosophy - Finish in 2010
The Incredible Book of Vatican Facts and Papal Curiosities - Finish in 2010

The Dragonriders of Pern - Finish in 2010 - so far its "topshelf" and "4 stars" but I've only read the first of the three books contained in this volume (Dragonflight)
- I'm counting the other 2 books (Dragonquest and The White Dragon) for 2010.

The Confessions of St. Augustine - Read in 2010
Slaughterhouse Five - Read in 2010 (thats the ISBN I have but the cover is different)
Desert Fury - Read in 2010
The Motorcycle Diaries - Read in 2010
Introduction to Christianity (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) - Read in 2010
Heart of Darkness - Read in 2010
Reading Like a Writer - Read in 2010
All The Pretty Horses - Read in 2010
The Lightning Thief - Read in 2010
The Metamorphosis - Read in 2010
A Grief Observed - Read in 2010
Because of Winn Dixie - Read in 2010
The Cost of Discipleship - Read in 2010
The Four Million - Read in 2010

(Sayings and Short Writings)
Back in the Day - 101 Things Everyone Used to Know How to Do - Read in 2010
In the Words of Ronald Reagan - The Wit, Wisdom & Eternal Optimism of America's 40th President - Read in 2010
Native American Wisdom - Read in 2010
Words of Our Nation - A Reader for Americans - Read in 2010

(Graphic Novels)
Essential Daredevil Volume 1 - Read in 2010
9-11 Emergency Relief - Read in 2010
The Marvel/DC Crossover Classics Volume 3 - Read in 2010

[Adrienne]

This is an ambitious list! I tried to do this once, but I'm such a rebel that just HAVING a reading list makes me want to read anything that's not on the list. I have a burgeoning TBR shelf at home, so I guess my list would be anything that's on that shelf.

Good luck with yours!

[Des]

Goodluck achieving your reading setlist. I have started 2010 with Sherlock Holmes. And I'm loving it. As for the rest mine looks like this;

- Brave New World
- Call of the Wild
- Will finish Watchmen
- Will finish Chronicles of Narnia
- The Plague
- The Pearl
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Old Pantagonian Express
- Will attempt that new Dan Brown
- Will attempt any Umberto Eco
- Running With Scissors
- Fight Club

[Mont'ster]

Adrienne wrote "...I'm such a rebel that just HAVING a reading list makes me want to read anything that's not on the list."

yes I understand that feeling completely. Unfortunately for me my TBR shelf (no, make that "TBR shelves") haven't been enough of an embarrassment to prompt me (and work cuts into my free time :-) so now i'm banking on "public humiliation" as a motivator.

And several of these are from my list of "books I'm embarrassed to admit I've never read".

[Mont'ster]

Des, I think you've got some really solid fiction picked out there. Looks like it'll be an enjoyable reading list.

I was looking over your bookshelf and noticed you have several books by Haruki Murakami (an author I'm not familiar with). So I looked him up and after watching the video on his author page, now I have The Elephant Vanishes on my "to read" shelf.

Thanks - I'm always looking for a good read (but aren't we all :-)

[Vicki]

My Goals for books in 2010 are

to aquire the missing books in some of my series books and read/re-read or listen to the entire series beginning to end

[Mont'ster]

Vicki, does your bookshelf "wish list" get you updates from the goodreads bookswap? I know that if you have a shelf named "wishlist" (as one word) you will get email updates when books on your wishlist are available to swap. That might help you "acquire the missing books" :-)

(i found this out sort of accidentally when i re-named my "need it" bookshelf to "wishlist" after reading a discussion about the bookswap.)

I haven't swapped any books yet but I've been reading (mostly) good things about it.

[Angela]

For the last 4-5 years or so, I've reached a goal of finishing 100 books/ year that are new to me. This year, In Feb, I choose a Black History topic (that's when all the good books are out) and this year, I'll be reading 1 "classic" (published before 20th century) a month.

[Jesse]

I too have a goal of 100 books a year but I only plan about 30-40 because new stuff always comes up that distracts me. Here's a few on my list

Fiction-
The Dante Club
The Furies of Calderon series
The Children of the Lamp series
The Incarnations of Immortality series (reread)
The Baphomet
The Blood of Elves
Brave New World
Chronicles of Prydain series
The Road to Wellville
The Magus

Non-Fiction-
True North
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in God
Letter to a Christian Nation
Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
Democracy in America by Tocqueville
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The Art of War
Herodotus
Sailing the Wine-dark Sea
The Science of Good and Evil