It’s doubtful I’ll actually read all of these and I reserve the right to remove any that I’m not able to really sink my teeth into, but generally these are the books I plan to read this year:

Historical Fiction:

1. Pompeii – Robert Harris
2. I, Mona Lisa – Jeanne Kalogridis
3. Memoirs of Cleopatra – Margaret George
4. Wisdom’s Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba – India Edghill
5. The Princes of Ireland – Edward Rutherfurd
6. World Without End – Ken Follett
7. The Other Queen – Philippa Gregory
8. Fire from Heaven – Mary Renault
9. Stonehenge – Bernard Cornwell
10. The Players – Stephanie Cowell
11. The Passions of the Mind or The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone
12. The Journeyer – Gary Jennings
13. Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
14. The Lost Queen and The Lute Player – Nora Lofts
15. The First Man in Rome – Colleen McCullough
16. The Uncrowned Queen – Posie Graeme-Evans

Arthurian/Camelot:

1. Firelord – Parke Godwin
2. The Child of the Holy Grail – Rosalind Miles
3. Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country – Rosalind Miles
4. The Knight of the Sacred Lake – Rosalind Miles
5. Prince of Dreams: A Tale of Tristan and Essylte -Nancy McKenzie
6. Kingdom of the Grail – Judith Tarr

Classics I should have read a long time ago:

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
3. Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
4. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
5. Night – Elie Wiesel
6. Oliver Twist or Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
7. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
8. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
10. My Antonia – Willa Cather
11. Things Fall Apart -Chinua Achebe
12. The Awakening – Kate Chopin

Childrens/Young Adult Classics I should have read a long time ago:

1. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Wizard of Oz – Frank L. Baum
6. Stuart Little – E.B. White
7. His Dark Materials trilogy – Philip Pullman

More recent fiction & literature:

1. The Dante Club – Matthew Pearl
2. A Free Man of Color – Barbara Hambly
3. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
4. Life Expectancy – Dean Koontz
5. Smila’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg
6. Play It as It Lays – Joan Didion
7. Friday Night Lights – H.G. Bissinger
8. Naked – David Sedaris
9. Atonement – Ian McEwan
10. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
11. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
12. The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
13. About Grace – Anthony Doerr
14. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
15. Here on Earth – Alice Hoffman
16. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’neill
17. Lost in Translation – Nicole Mones
18. Known World – Edward P. Jones
19. How to Be Lost – Amanda Eyre Ward
20. Pope Joan – Donna Woolfolk Cross
21. Map of the World – Jane Hamilton
22. Three Mothers – Sonia Lambert
23. Women of the Silk and The Language of Threads – Gail Tsukiyama
24. Gospel According to Jesus Christ – Jose Saramago
25. The Last Days of Dogtown – Anita Diamont
26. The Songs of the Kings – Barry Unsworth
27. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
28. Slammerkin – Emma Donoghue
29. Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
30. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen finished
31. The House at Riverton – Kate Morton finished
32. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak finished

Nonfiction/History:

1. The Seige – Conor Cruise O’Brien
2. Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
3. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins
4. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
5. Empire City- Kenneth T. Jackson
6. Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
7. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
8. Sovereign Ladies – Maureen Waller
9. Alexandra, the Last Tsarina – Carolly Erickson

Auto/Biography:

1. Raging Bull – Jake LaMotta
2. A Hemingway Biography
2. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig – Jonathan Eig
3. Coltrane: The Story of a Sound – Ben Ratliff
4. Johnny Cash – Johnny Cash
5. The Lonely Empress: A Biography of Elizabeth of Austria – Joan Haslip
6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers

Books I will likely re-read:

1. Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
2. Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
3. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
4. Outlander Series – Diana Gabaldon
5. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Mr. Zoo’s suggestions to my reading list:

1. Consider Phlebas – Iain Banks
2. Creation – Gore Vidal
3. A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
4. To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis