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Old 12-20-2009, 03:58 PM   #2
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Here's my goals. With the series, I've excluded the ones I've already read.

Individual books: -The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
-The Plague by Albert Camus
-The Beautiful Strange by Julia London*
-The Ruthless Charmer by Julia London*
-The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
-The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth-Grahame Smith*
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
-Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas
-The Secret History by Donna Tartt
-Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

*these have been on my Reader for way too long and I really need to read them.

Highlander Series by Karen Marie Moning
-To Tame a Highland Warrior
-The Highlander's Touch
-Kiss of the Highlander
-The Dark Highlander
-The Immortal Highlander
-Spell of the Highlander

Lucy Stone Series by Leslie Meier
-Trick or Treat Murder
-Back to School Murder
-Christmas Cookie Murder
-Valentine Murder
-Turkey Day Murder
-Wedding Day Murder
-Birthday Party Murder
-Father's Day Murder
-New Year's Eve Murder
-Mother's Day Murder

Non-Fiction Disaster Books
(pulled most of these from the Listopia list on Goodreads)
-Alive The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Reed
-The Circus Fire A True Story of an American Tragedy by Stewart O'Nan
-A Crack in the Edge of the World America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
-Triangle The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle
-The Indifferent Stars Above The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
-Under a Flaming Sky The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel James Brown
-The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

There's also a large number of books I'm looking forward to in 2010, but I'm not including those as I generally read them right away or shortly thereafter. I want to at least read 200 books this year, but I'm going to aim for 250.
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