2012 Reading List

“Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus…”

- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

I'm proud to say that I have fulfilled my 2011 book challenge before the year officially ends. I must admit, it was tough to finish 48 books in just a year.

Now, here's the list for another year of reading and book fetish. I've lessened the quota to 24 books since I will have my internship, teaching OJT and thesis writing next school year. These 24 books are piled up on my study table right at this very minute. They all scream for attention, believe me.

I've already read some of these books, but I've read them so haphazardly, they need caressing, cuddling and flipping again. As for the others, I'm looking forward to a phenomenal reading experience. So please do grant me so.

1.       The Reader by Bernard Schlink

2.       Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

3.       Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field by Melissa Nathan

4.       The Darcy Connection by Elizabeth Ashton

5.       Snowbound Six by Richard Martin Stern

6.       The Summer of the Spanish Woman by Catherine Gaskin

7.       Elephants in the Living Room, Bears in the Canoe by Earl and Liz Hammond

8.       Arrest Sitting Bull by Douglas C. Jones

9.       I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall

10.   Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

11.   The Brethren by John Grisham

12.   Homecoming by Belva Plain       

13.   The Starlight Drive-in by Marjorie Reynolds

14.   The Debutante by Katherine Williams

15.   September by Rosamunde Pilcher

16.   The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

17.   Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

18.   Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

19.   Not Another Country by James Baldwin

20.   Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

21.   Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

22.   My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters by Sidney Salter

23.   Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

24.   Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen