2009: The year for achievement

So I figure this year I could get a fair few books read.  To begin with I've got two months of holidays before I go back to University, so I assume this means I have plenty of reading time.  Therefore, I'm making a list of 50 books, from this list, that I would like to read in 2009.  I should have read more in 2008, but only got about 15 from the list.  

1. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

2. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 

3. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky 

4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding

5. Breakfast At Tiffany's - Truman Capote 

6. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Own)

7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (Own) 

8. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Own)

9. The Plague - Albert Camus 

10. Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky 

11. The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene 

12. Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg

13. What Maisie Knew - Henry Janes

14. Watchmen - Alan Moore 

15. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 

16. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald 

17. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 

18. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien (Own)

19. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 

20. Atonement - Ian McEwan (Own)

21. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst 

22. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 

23. Animal's People - Indra Sinha

24. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

25. Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann

26. The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda

27. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson 

28. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou 

29. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick 

30. Junkie - William S. Burroughs 

31. The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith (Own)

32. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming 

33. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

34. The Graduate - Charles Webb

35. In True Blood - Truman Capote 

36. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke

37. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard 

38. The Sea - John Banville 

39. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey

40. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel

41. War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells 

42. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 

43. The Lonely Londoners - Samuel Selvon 

44. On the Road - Jack Kerouac 

45. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

46. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy 

47. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster 

48. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rys

49. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence 

50. Homo Faber - Max Frisch 

Finally! That took quite a while to find 50, out of so many choices.  I'm happy with this list, and if I read a majority, if not all, I assume I will be much better read. Some of these are shocking, by the fact that I haven't read them yet.  Tomorrow, I begin. 

:D