20 Books in 3 Months

In no particular order, here are the 20 books I want to tackle in the summer of 2009. The list is subject to change.

1. The Life of Pi – Yann Martel (June 1-June 3)
2. Empress – Shan Sa
3. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
4. Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
5. The Uses of Enchantment – Bruno Bettelheim
6. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
7. The Gastronomical Me – M.F.K. Fisher
8. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
9. Inkdeath – Cornelia Funke
10. Mythologies – Roland Barthes
11. Istanbul – Orhan Pamuk
12. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
13. She – H. Rider Haggard
14. Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15. The Displaced Legion – Harry Turtledove
16. Assassin’s Quest – Robin Hobb
17. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
18. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
19. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
20. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey