List of Books to Read in 2012

For I am a reader as well as a writer. In no particular order:

• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith
• Tales of Madman Underground by John Barnes
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Les Miserables by Hugo Victor
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (once it comes out!)
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• A Tree Grows in Brookyln by Betty Smith 
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (summer reading list)
• The Little Prince by Atoine de Saint-Exupery
• City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (when it comes out)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (my childhood stank, obviously)

Oh lordy, wish me luck. As you can see, I read pretty much anything except for romance. I don't expect to enjoy all of these books, but I do want to read them in case I do. Have a happy new year!