My New Reading List

Once I have torn my way through the immense pile of books that I have which currently remain unread, I aim to make my way through the list of '50 Books For Our Times' that Newsweek put together. So this really is a checklist for me. And incase the article is somehow removed over time, I am going to reproduce it now.

1. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
2. The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright
3. Prisoner Of The State Zhao Ziyang
4. The Big Switch Nicholas Carr
5. The Bear William Faulkner
6. Winchell Neal Gabler
7. Random Family Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
8. Night Draws Near Anthony Shadid
9. Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely
10. God: A Biography Jack Miles
11. The Unsettling Of America Wendell Berry
12. A Good Man Is Hard To Find Flannery O'Connor
13. Underground Harukimi Murakami
14. Disrupting Class Clayton Christensen
15. Air Guitar Dave Hickey
16. Leaves Of Grass Walt Whitman
17. The Trouble With Physics Lee Smolin
18. City: Rediscovering The Center William H. Whyte
19. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Philip K. Dick
20. Benjamin Franklin Edmund S. Morgan
21. The Mississippi Books Mark Twain
22. Among The Thugs Bill Buford
23. Brooklyn Colm TÛibÌn
24. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
25. Bad Mother Ayelet Waldman
26. Guests Of The Ayatollah Mark Bowden
27. Whittaker Chamebers Sam Tanenhaus
28. Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
29. American Prometheus Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
30. The Lost Daniel Mendelsohn
31. Gilead Marilynne Robinson
32. Pictures At A Revolution Mark Harris
33. KIM Rudyard Kipling
34. Walking With The Wind John Lewis
35. The Line Of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
36. The Dark Is Rising Susan Cooper
37. Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
38. Underworld Don DeLillo
39. Why Evolution Is True Jerry A. Coyne
40. American Pastoral Philip Roth
41. The Botany Of Desire Michael Pollan
42. The Regeneration Trilogu Pat Barker
43. Senator Joe McCarthy Richard H. Rovere
44. Year Of Wonders Geraldine Brooks
45. The Elegance Of The Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
46. Gone Tomorrow Lee Child
47. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
48. American Journeys Don Watson
49. Cotton Comes To Harlem Chester Himes
50. The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film David Thomson*

*Hmm I can see myself giving this one a miss, to be honest. 1,000+ pages of some guy's opinions on actors etc isn't exactly something I'm jumping to read.

I guess that I will have this list finished by 2012... time will see if I am a good estimator or not!