2011 Reading List

I started a survey to select the 50 books I’m planning to read for the challenge group I joined on Shelfari. This is what looks like the final lineup, listed alphabetically by author:

1. Raptor Red – Bakker, Robert T.
2. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters – Barnes, Julian
3. Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury, Ray
4. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bryson, Bill
5. Naked Lunch – Burroughs, William S.
6. Fledgling – Butler, Octavia
7. Ender’s Game – Card, Orson Scott
8. The Songs of Distant Earth – Clarke, Arthur C.
9. Last of the Mohicans – Cooper, James Fenimore
10. The Passage – Cronin, Justin
11. Raise the Titanic! – Cussler, Clive
12. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Dick, Philip K.
13. Silas Marner – Eliot, George
14. The Neverending Story – Ende, Michael
15. Madame Bovary – Flaubert, Gustave
16. Daughters of a Coral Dawn – Forrest, Katherine V.
17. How to Read Novels Like a Professor – Foster, Thomas C.
18. The Princess Bride – Goldman, William
19. Stardust: The Cosmic Recycling of Stars, Planets and People – Gribbin, John
20. Far from the Madding Crowd – Hardy, Thomas
21. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway, Ernest
22. God is Not Great – Hitchens, Christopher
23. A Doll’s House – Ibsen, Henrik
24. A Prayer for Owen Meany – Irving, John
25. The Turn of the Screw – James, Henry
26. A Language Older Than Words – Jensen, Derrick
27. On The Road – Kerouac, Jack
28. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Larsson, Stieg
29. A Wrinkle in Time – L’Engle, Madeleine
30. A Fine Balance – Mistry, Rohinton
31. A Portrait of Jennie – Nathan, Robert
32. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe – Nicoll, Charles
33. Inferno – Niven, Larry
34. 1984 – Orwell, George
35. Common Sense – Paine, Thomas
36. Whitechapel Gods – Peters, S.M.
37. Woodsburner: A Novel – Pipkin, John
38. Reading Like a Writer – Prose, Francine
39. Contact – Sagan, Carl
40. Franny and Zooey – Salinger, J.D.
41. No Exit – Sartre, Jean Paul
42. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith, Betty
43. Zodiac – Stephenson, Neal
44. Walden – Thoreau, Henry David
45. Infinite Jest – Wallace, David Foster
46. The Glass Castle – Walls, Jeannette
47. The Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde, Oscar
48. The Stone Gods – Winterson, Jeanette
49. The Voyage Out – Woolf, Virginia
50. Enchanted Glass – Wynne Jones, Diana