2009 Book List ... so far.

For the last few years, my new year's resolution has been to read 25 books in a year. Each year I have failed, but at least I have kept the motivation to try again. I know it's an easily attainable goal. Especially now so that I have graduated.

Being that I have just finished my 17th book, (and am in the middle of numbers 18 and 19), I thought I would recap my year's reads here. I have included some school books, but only ones that I read all the way through, and that I somewhat enjoyed reading, as well. Here goes:

1. Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs
   
2. Brothers and Keepers, John Edgar Wideman
3. Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller
4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
5. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
7. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
8. Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
9. House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferre
10. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
11. Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
12. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
13. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
14. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
15. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
16. El Principito, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
17. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling

Currently Reading:

• Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne
• The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, T.R. Reid

Books that I am currently anxious to read (and are currently sitting on my bookshelf):

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

That leaves me with one more to choose for my 25. And of course, there may be substitutions in there. And who knows, what if, for the first time in my life, I read more than 25 books in one year? Woah, that's just a little toocrazy to think about!