Summary and Goals

So I read 24 books last year. I always have a dream that I'll take on the 50 book challenge, and it's never happened, so I don't want to even set myself up for failure this year. I'm sure I'll read more books this year than last year simply because I'm in school this year and I'll have 3 quarters of coursework, probably including some reading hours for my comps. My only number goal is to increase the number of books I read every year, so I'm sure I'll be fine on that count. As far as content goals, I'm still formulating those. I want to try to read different stuff than what I normally read, so I want to think up some categories in which I would like to read more than one book this year. Some that I know I want to include already are poetry, non-fiction, graphic novel, and science fiction. I'd also like to reduce the number of unread books on my shelves. To that end, here's a list of my unread books (not counting the ones I have bought and will read this quarter for classes):

**The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
**Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
**Notes From the Underground/The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
**How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
**War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Bostonians - Henry James
Mao II - Don DeLillo
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods - Umberto Eco
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
Rabbit Redux - John Updike
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Promise - Chaim Potok
The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
Native Son - Richard Wright
Black Boy - Richard Wright
Nana - Emile Zola
Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
The Information - Martin Amis
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
**Lady Chatterly’s Lover - D. H. Lawrence
Video - Meera Nair
If You Are Afraid of Heights - Raj Kamal Jha
Freedom at Midnight - Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Stories - Guy de Maupassant
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
**A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
**Kim - Rudyard Kipling
**Seventeen Syllables - Hisaye Yamamoto
**The Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghosh
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
**We Wish To Inform You . . . - Philip Gourevitch
The Squabble - Nikolai Gogol
**Freedom Song - Amit Chaudhuri
**The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
**Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
**Where the Long Grass Bends - Neela Vaswani
**Malgudi Days - R. K. Narayan
Leave It To Me - Bharati Mukherjee
**Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
**The Russian Debutante’s Handbook - Gary Shteyngart
The Fall - Albert Camus
**Love and Longing in Bombay - Vikram Chandra
Madras on Rainy Days - Samina Ali
Blindness, Etc. - Jose Saramago
Collected Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer
If You Are Afraid of Heights - Raj Kamal Jha
Video - Meera Nair
**Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
**The Guide by R.K. Narayan
**Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
**The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
**East, West by Salman Rushdie
**All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
**Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Stars denote books that I'm desperate to read when I have the time. These books don't include the 7 or so boxes of books that are currently at my mother's house because they won't fit in our apartment. Next year for Christmas I plan to buy another bookshelf (I bought a sweet new one this year) and some of those will probably be unearthed at that time. I don't even remember what any of those books are, except for Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott because I was looking for it and it's not here.