Short List # 2: Books I want to read

This is a list of books that I have seen and want to read and that people said I should read. I am listing only titles for most books I will list authors where I know it.

Leaves of Grass- Whitman
Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist
The Things They Carried
Hugo Cabert
Night- Wiesl
The Weather of the Future- Hedi Cullen
Something by Charles Dickenson
Orgin of Species-Darwin
The Stand- King
Misery-King
Salem's Lot-King
Eric Rex
Peter and the Star Catchers
City of Bones
Shiver
Dash and Lilly's Book of Dares
Warrior Heir
Sarum
Never Let Me Go
The Zookeepers Wife
Revolution
Walden
Extremly Loud and Incredibly Close
The World is Flat

Thats all I have for now. My full list of 52 books will be made soon so stay tuned.

Short list #1

Hi! I meant to get this up last week but did not have a chance.This is my first of about 3 or 4 shortlists. All these books are from one person. I have not looked deeply in to any of these books yet but have heard of quite a few of them. Expect the next short list next week and another shortly after. In December I will have a final list of books in an approximate order. I do want to try to theme the books, Horror in October, Poetry in April but I do not know how well it will work out well without further ado here is the list.

FICTION:

Johnathon Franzen - The Corrections

                                Freedom  

Caleb Carr:  The Alienist

                    The Angel of Darkness

Khaled Houssani:  The Kite Runner                                  

                            A Thousand Splendid Suns  

Alex Haley - Roots 

Alice Walker:  The Color Purple

Amy Tan:  Possessing of the Secret of Joy -

                  The Joy Luck Club

George Elliot - Silas Marner

Charles Dickens:  The Pickwick Papers

 Rohinten Mistry - A Fine Balance

Eli Wiesel - Night 

NON FICTION:

Heinrich Harrier - Seven Years In Tibet

Barbara W. Tuchman - The Guns of August  

David McCoulough -Anything He wrote 

Joseph Ellis - First Family

Edmund Morris - Theodore Rex

Howard Zinn - Peoples History of The United States

Dr. Jeffery Canada - Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun

                                 Reaching up for Manhood

Johnothan Kozol:  Rachel and Her Children

William Maddox and Stuart Lilie - BEYOND LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE

Frank McCourt - Teacher Man 

                           Angela's Ashes

Malachy McCourt - A Monk Swimming

Joan Dideon: The Year of Magical Thinking

Books on My List so far!

Hi. I have been very busy and have not been able to blog but I have a chance now and I am not letting it go to waste. So this is a list of books that will mostly make my final list and are definitely on my list of 52 books. So for each book I will post the title and then a link to the Wiki page if there is one and occasionally a pic of the cover.

1. Life of Pi- My friend will be pretty pissed if I don't read this one so I am going to read it. This is a book about a boy who gets stuck on a boat with a tiger. For more info go here.

2. War and Peace- My god mother gave me this one to be obnoxious but I will take her up on the challenge. For information about this classic book go here http://dft.ba/-2e0.

3. Kite Runner- I have been intending to read this for a long time but I have not yet.  The pic of the of the cover is too the right of this. The book is about a boy in Afghanistan during its time of political turmoil.Wiki Page here

4. Misery- I enjoy the King I have read so far but you can never get enough King. This one I got for a few bucks on my nook so I will read it. This book is a horror about a psycho who makes an author re write a book because her favorite character dies. See more on Wiki

These are just 4 books. Within the next week I hope to have a short list of about 50 books up, give or take maybe 20. Week after another short list and then maybe 1 more short list. Then starting December 1st consolidating it into a short list of around 100 or so books and eliminating books to make the final list. Thats the plan so come back next week for more books.