liz does dayzero

#10:  Read all of the books on my bookshelf.

I have a problem with buying/borrowing/finding books that I totally intend to read and never get around to doing so.  Instead of reading what I have, I’ll go to the library or the bookstore, borrow something else, or go to Amazon.com to find another one.  I decided that I want to read all of the books on my shelf within the next 1001 days.  When I am done with them, I will be able to pass them along to other people who might enjoy them, rather than moving them with me, like I have done for the past few years.  Here’s my list to read:

The Sleep-Over Artist—Thomas Beller
The Catcher in the Rye—J.D. Salinger (I’ve read this several times, but I want to read it again.)
Sea Glass—Anna Shreve
A Redbird Christmas—Fannie Flagg
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz:  Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo—Michela Wrong
East of Eden—John Steinbeck
Intruder in the Dust—William Faulkner
The Beach—Alex Garland
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter—Carson McCullers
The Firm—John Grisham
To-Do List—Sasha Cagen
Where is the Mango Princess—Cathy Crimmins
Freakonomics:  A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything—Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Cider House Rules—John Irving
Loves Music, Loves to Dance—Mary Higgins Clark
The DaVinci Code—Dan Brown
Great Expectations—Charles Dickens (I was supposed to read this in high school, but opted for Cliff’s Notes instead)
The Big Beautiful—Pamela Duncan
The Poisonwood Bible—Barbara Kingsolver
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Survivor’s Club—Lisa Gardner
Equivocal Death—Amy Gutman
A Good Man—Judith Henry Wall
Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale Hurston
A Bend in the Road—Nicholas Sparks
Fake Liar Cheat—Tod Goldberg
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All—Allan Gurganus
Blue Christmas—Mary Kay Andrews
The Runaway Jury—John Grisham
A Million Little Pieces—James Frey
Contemporary American Prose—edited by Clarence W. Wachner, Frank E. Ross & Eva Marie Van Houten
Eclipse—Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn—Stephenie Meyer
Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea—Chelsea Handler
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas—James Patterson
Wicked—Gregory Maguire
The Time Traveler’s Wife—Audrey Niffenegger
Jane Austen in Scarsdale, Or Love, Death, and the SATs—Paula Marantz Cohen
Stolen Lives—Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi
Mirror, Mirror—Gregory Maguire
Evening—Susan Minot
Even Now—Karen Kingsbury
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister—Gregory Maguire
The Stepford Wives—Ira Levin
Into The Wild—Jon Krakauer
Autobiography of a Wardrobe—Elizabeth Kendall
The Dress Lodger—Sheri Holman
Tropic of Cancer—Henry Miller
The Awakening and other Selected Stories—Kate Chopin
Heart Song—LaVyrle Spencer
For Whom The Bell Tolls—Ernest Hemingway
The Alchemist—Paulo Coelho
Hide—Lisa Gardner
The Strange Death of Vincent Foster—Christopher Ruddy
Gods of Death—Yaron Dvdway and Thomas Hughes
Style—Kate Spade
Candide—Voltaire
A Confederacy of Dunces—John Kennedy O’Toole
Fiction:  A Pocket Anthology
Apartment Therapy:  The Eight-Step Home Cure—Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
Happier:  Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment—Tal Ben-Shahar
The First 30 Days:  Your Guide to Any Change—Ariane de Bonvoisin
Then We Came to the End—Joshua Ferris
Something Borrowed—Emily Griffin

And of course, Infinite Jest and Gone With The Wind…

I better get to reading.