New year...new books!

[Nikki]

Anyone making a list of what you plan on reading in 2009? I've been meaning to get mine started, but have been sooooo lazy and/or busy recently.

So what's on your list???

[Lori, Super Mod]

Are you kidding me?
Ive been planning 09's reads since Sept! Ha!

I am planning on hitting:

Still Life with Woodpecker - Robbins
Fierce Invalids - Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume - Robbins
As She Climbed Across the Table - Lethem
Midnights Children - Rushdie
Babbit - Lewis
The rest of the Sookie series - Harris
Dr Zhivago - Boris

Ect...ect....ect...

[Jeane]

For the first time I am starting on time with the 'winter' challenge and are planning what I read to match a bit the challenge.
Now I also started watching the books I wrote years ago in my TBR list and I would like to finally read those instead of picking up new once that aren't even on my many lists. The first one is
The Mists of Avalon
Gai-Jin

[Emma]

I'm planning on reading more classics this year.

Also, I am going to try to finish ALL the books on my bookshelf. Yep. That is one of my New Year Goals.

I'm planning on re-reading The Gemma Doyle Trilogy in January as well.

[Jeane]

Really Emma...what a suprise the trilogy..:-))

[Emma]

Hahahaa.

The exact date will be January the 24th, because that's the day I started it this year.

I have Gemma Doyle OCD. And book OCD. And online OCD. But mostly Gemma Doyle OCD.

[Jeane]

noooooooo, really? Didn't know you were so obsessed about it........

[Emma]

LOL, Jeane.

It's not obvious? Huh.

[Jackie]

Gemma Doyle Trilogy is on my list for January too...wonder who's make me read it?? =P

Also on the list:
Jane Eyre
Emma
The Zahir by Paul Coelho
Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Plus various others that are sitting on my bookshelf waiting their turn patiently.

[Jeane]

ohoh Fiona, you didn't mention a certain person...Atishay needs to come back or I will be called a book pusher by you!!! :-)

I have number 19 also on my list..in my head or otherwise it will be to read in the 21st century!

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

My list would be, basically, "anything interesting-looking I can lay my hands on." Heh.

[Emma]

:D Jackie..hmm, I WONDER.

[Kellie]

I've started my TBR list...here is what I have so far.
Gone With The Wind-Margaret Mitchell
The Teahouse on Mulberry Street
Out to Canaan-Jan Karon
The Measure of a Man-Sidney Poitier
The Full Cupboard of Life-Alexander McCall Smith
Whiteout-Ken Follett
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing-Melissa Bank
Alias Grace-Margaret Atwood
Bogart-In Search of My Father
Downtown-Anne Rivers Siddons
Potuguese Irregular Verbs-Alexander McCall Smith
Scarlet Feather-Maeve Binchy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Odd Thomas-Koontz (ELBOWS LORI :))
Black Dahlia-James Ellroy
Middlesex-Jeffrey Eugenides
Freakonmics
The Moviegoer-Walker Percy
Smoke Jumper-Nicholas Evans
The Pact-Jodi Picoult
Down River-John Hart

[Monica]

Here is a list I came up with right now. Though I am 100% POSITIVE that will will change! Though my goal is to read at least 2 books per month!

TO READ IN 2009:
-The Photograph by Virginia Ellis
-The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexia
-Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
-The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
-Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
-Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
-Just one look by Harlan Coben
-Dracula by Bram Stoker
-Kushiel’s Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
-Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
-Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
-The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johansen
-Stone Garden by Molly Moynahan
-Waiting by Ha Jin
-Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
-She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
-Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
-The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
-The Mummy by Ann Rice
-Something by Jody Picoult
-Harry Potter Books 5,6, and 7 by J.K. Rowling
-The Host by Stephanie Meyer
-Wicked by Gregory Maguire
-The Hours by Michel Cunningham
-Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

[Petra X]

I buy about 30 books a month that I personally want to read, then I put them out for sale in the bookshop. When I need something to read of course the book I most want has sold, but there is always the a good selection for me. So my TBR list is meaningless, its just what's available and takes my fancy. That's one good thing about owning a bookshop!

[Lori, Super Mod]

Kelly, yeah,,, Odd Thomas gets slotted for this coming year! You will like it, I am sure of it!!!

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner)]

my list:
The Book Thief
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Breaking Dawn
The Thirteenth Tale
The Secret Life of Bees
Eat, Pray, Love
Lolita
Crank
About a Boy
Marley Me

..that's just my top ten.

[Bettie]

Two musts for January are:

The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson; Hardcover
Available for Pre-order

The Road to Jerusalem: Crusades Trilogy Bk. 1 (Crusades Trilogy 1) - Jan Guillou; Paperback
Available for Pre-order

Apart from that there is a TBR Mount Everest - like most of you out there. Seasons Greetings to You and Yours, wherever you may be.

[Jen B]

I've been telling myself for ages that I'm going to stop acquiring new books. And then what happens? I join this group to find some "smart" books and my books start multiplying like rabbits! My shelf has grown to 131 unread books (**blushing**). So I'm instituting a book buying ban in 2009 until I have it down to 100 or fewer. And I'm holding myself to it! Some of my must-reads (most of which came from suggestions in this group):

The Thirteenth Tale
The Secret History
In The Woods
The Book Thief
I Capture the Castle
Jessica Z
Beach Music (I've had it for 5 years and counting and started it twice. Time to finish it!)
With some chick lit thrown in just because...

[[deleted user]]

I'm planning on reading 100 books in 2009. This is one of my New Year's resolutions. Here they are:

1. Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
2. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
3. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
4. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
5. The Secret Live of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
6. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
7. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
8. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
9. Until I Find You by John Irving
10. Portrait of a Killer: Jack The Ripper - Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
11. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
12. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
13. A Darkness More Than Night by Micheal Connelly
14. The Other House by Henry James
15. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
16. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
17. Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
18. Salem's Lot by Stephen King
19. Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
20. Gathering to Nauvoo by Fred E. Woods
21. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
22. Utopia by Thomas More
23. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
24. The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother by Lucy Mack Smith
25. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
26. Blindness by José Saramago
27. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
28. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
29. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
30. The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
31. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
32. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
33. Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
34. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
35. Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed by Jane Austen
36. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
37. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
38. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
39. A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
40. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
41. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Finding Noel: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans
43. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
44. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
45. Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
46. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
47. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
48. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
49. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
50. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
51. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
52. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
53. A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
54. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
55. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
56. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
57. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
58. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
59. Where Angels Fear To Tread by E.M. Forster
60. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
61. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
62. Drop City by T.C. Boyle
63. Adam Bede By George Eliot
64. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
65. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
66. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
67. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
68. Persuasion by Jane Austen
69. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
70. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
71. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
72. To the Lighthouse to Virginia Woolf
73. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
74. In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
75. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
76. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
77. At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
78. Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
79. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
80. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
81. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
82. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
83. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
84. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
85. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
86. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
87. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
88. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
89. Eclispe by Stephenie Meyer
90. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
91. The Alchemist by Paulo Paulo
92. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
93. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
94. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
95. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
96. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
97 Black Dogs: A Novel by Ian McEwan
98. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
99. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
100. Saturday by Ian McEwan

[Angela]

I never really plan what I am going to read throughout the year...(I will be giving myself a challenge of 150). This year I will probably make 140, but I am not in school anymore so I am sure the number will be larger from last year... it just happens to be what will fit in the challenges that Cynthia creates or books my favorite authors write during the year that I must read!

[Petra X]

I've read 25 of your TBR books, Emilee. You have a good selection there.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

I'll probably be reading

The Life of Elizabeth I, by Alison Weir,
and
The Johnstown Flood, by David McCullough,

which I just got for Christmas.

[Ann from S.C.]

Wow! I just want to read. I don;t care what. I do want to read THE HISTORIAN. I have had it on my tbr pile forever!! I go to the library all the time and find books i want to read. Also, my new bookshelve my hubby made me is soooo full!!! so I guess I will read all of those this year. I read around 100 books in 2008, so lets see how many I can in 2009.

[Vicki]

I don't plan too well, because I get really distracted and end up way off the list, but there are a few I would definitely like to read,
Life of Pi
Kite Runner
Thouusand Splendid Suns
Water For Elephants
They are sitting on my shelves and I am going to try to get them in this year. I am also planning on branching out this year, new authors, new genres..