A few weeks ago, I made a list of about 30 novels that I had either never read or just breezed through during my high school/undergraduate years.  While I wish that I had time to read each one this year, my goal is to read ten.  Here are the books that I plan on reading this year. There is no real reason behind my desire to read these exact novels.  A few of them were added because someone brought them up in conversation, and I had nothing to add since I hadn’t read the book that they were discussing.  Others on the list were chosen simply because I found them on a list of “great novels.”  I guess I should start reading…

  1. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut  Read 1/15/2012
  2. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
  3. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  4. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
  5. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  6. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  7. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
  8. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  9. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  10. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer