I had to wade through a rather lengthy (and ever growing) list of books that I want to read, however, after many changes of mind and heart, dithering, umming and ahhing I was finally able to the whittle the list down to the books listed below. I have long wanted to revisit some of the classics, hence several 'rereads' added to my list. There are many and varied reasons to each book choice on my list...everything from recommendations to sheer whimsy.
Book List 2012
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Detective - Arthur Hailey
My Left Foot - Christy Brown
The Lifeboat - Charlotte Rogan
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Shades Of Grey - Jasper Fforde
Daughters of Shame - Jasinder Sanhera
The Sound of One Hand Clapping - Richard Flanagan
Red Mist - Patricia Cornwell
The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng
The Schopenhauer Cure - Irvin Yalom
Cold Granite - Stuart McBride (and subsequent sequels)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Marianne Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell
The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
S'pose I Die: The Evelyn Maunsell Story - Hector Holthouse
Firefly Summer - Maeve Binchy
Gallipoli - Les Carlyon
The Merchant’s House - Kate Ellis (and as many of the complete Peterson series as practical)
Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld (Though classified as young adult fiction my interest in the Steampunk movement has me wanting to read this book)
The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling (when released in the latter part of the year)
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (reread)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (reread)
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (reread)
The Silmarillion - J.R.R Tolkien (reread)
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus (reread)
And remember, it is a woman's prerogative to change her mind!
Note: I also read to my son so I had to take into account time taken reading my son's books when considering how many books to list of my own. Perhaps I should list the books I read to him as 'books read', too...