zanix's 2008 reading

Looking to triple last years effort of 100 read.

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling 01/08/08
2. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 01/11/08
3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling 01/13/08
4. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 01/14/08
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling 01/16/08
6. Being There by Jerzy Kosinski 01/20/08
7. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 01/20/08
8. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 01/22/08
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling 01/23/08
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 01/25/08
11. Frozen: A Play by Bryony Lavery 01/25/08
12. The Man of Property by John Galsworthy 01/26/08
13. "Indian Summer of a Forsyte" by John Galsworthy 01/27/08
14. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 01/27/08
15. 1984 by George Orwell 01/29/08
16. White Noise by Don DeLillo 01/30/08
17. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling 02/04/08
18. Letters Regarding the English Nation by Voltaire 02/07/08
19. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 02/08/08
20. "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann 02/09/08
21. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling 02/10/08
22. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 02/11/08
23. The Immoralist by André Gide 02/12/08
24. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling 02/14/08
25. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 02/15/08
26. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien 02/17/08
27. The Warden by Anthony Trollope 02/19/08
28. In Chancery by John Galsworthy 02/20/08
29. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow 02/22/08
30. The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil 02/23/08
31. To Let by John Galsworthy 02/25/08
32. The Lover by Marguerite Duras 02/25/0
33. The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg 02/26/08
34. Possession: a Romance by A.S. Byatt 02/28/08
35. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 03/05/08
36. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 03/07/08
37. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 03/08/08
38. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 03/09/08
39. Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet 03/11/08
40. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll 03/13/08
41. The Garden of Forking Paths (Fictions) by Jorge Luis Borges 03/15/08
42. The Red and the Black by Stendhal 03/15/08
43. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut 03/18/08
44. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing 03/19/08
45. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 03/19/08
46. The Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle 03/21/08
47. Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert 03/22/08
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 03/26/08
49. White Teeth by Zadie Smith 03/27/08
50. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre 03/28/08
51. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 3/28/08
52. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk 3/29/08
53. Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo 3/31/08
54. City of Glass by Paul Auster 03/31/08
55. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo 04/04/08
56. Dubliners by James Joyce 04/05/08
57. Ghosts by Paul Auster 04/05/08
58. Mary Stuart by Friedrich von Schiller 04/06/08
59. Phèdra by Jean Racine 04/06/08
60. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 04/07/08
61. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prévost 04/07/08
62. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 04/09/08
63. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 04/09/08
64. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 04/10/08
65. The Locked Room by Paul Auster 04/11/08
66. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 04/13/08
67. Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg 04/13/08
68. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 04/15/08
69. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis 04/16/08
70. Post Office by Charles Bukowski 04/16/08
71. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 04/17/08
72. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 04/19/08
73. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 04/20/08
74. Unions by Robert Musil 04/20/08
75. Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane 04/21/08
76. Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy 04/21/08
77. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 04/22/08
78. The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom 04/24/08
79. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner 04/24/08
80. The Stranger by Albert Camus 04/24/08
81. Riverside Drive by Woody Allen 04/25/08
82. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami 04/25/08
83. The Misanthrope by Molière 04/72/08
84. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton 04/27/08
85. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 04/27/08
86. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares 04/27/08
87. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 04/28/08
88. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 4/30/08
89. Victoria by Knut Hamsun 05/03/08
90. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 05/04/08
91. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 05/05/08
92. The Innocent by Ian McEwan 05/05/08
93. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 05/08/08
94. The Castle by Franz Kafka 05/10/08
95. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 05/11/08
96. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 05/13/08
97. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 05/15/08
98. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey 05/18/08
99. Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 05/20/08
100. The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene 05/22/08
101. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 05/24/08
102. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson 05/25/08
103. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 05/27/08
104. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis 04/27/08
105. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 05/29/08
106. A Hero of Our Time by Makhail Lermontov 05/29/08
107. Germinal by Emile Zola 05/31/08
108. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee 05/31/08
109. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis 06/02/08
110. "The Kreutzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy 06/02/08
111. "Family Happiness" by Leo Tolstoy 06/04/08
112. The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard 06/04/08
113. Night by Elie Wiesel 06/05/08
114. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 06/06/08
115. Strait is the Gate by André Gide 06/08/08
116. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 06/09/08
117. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 06/11/08
118. Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill 06/12/08
119. The Horse And His Boy by C. S. Lewis 06/13/08
120. Snow by Orhan Pamuk 06/14/08
121. Zadig by Voltaire 06/15/08
122. The White Monkey by John Galsworthy 06/16/08
123. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 06/17/08
124. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 06/20/08
125. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 06/20/08
126. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 06/21/08
127. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 06/22/08
128. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 06/22/08
129. Dawn by Elie Wiesel 06/22/08
130. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 06/23/08
131. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse 06/25/08
132. Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope 06/26/08
133. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola 06/27/08
134. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis 06/27/08
135. Utopia by Thomas More 06/27/08
136. The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori 06/28/08
137. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy 06/29/08
138. Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 06/30/08
139. The Counterlife by Philip Roth 07/01/08
140. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul 07/02/08
141. Swan Song by John Galsworthy 07/03/08
142. I Am Legend by Richard Mathesonk 07/03/08
143. The Bread of Those Early Years by Heinrich Böll 07/04/08
144. Factotum by Charles Bukowski 07/06/08
145. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 07/07/08
146. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 07/07/08
147. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis 07/07/08
148. Emma by Jane Austen 7/10/08
149. Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope 07/13/08
150. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 07/14/08
151. The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho 07/14/08
152. Gulag Archipelago Vol. 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 07/15/08
153. "The Overcoat; The Nose; Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol 07/15/08
154. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 07/16/08
155. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 07/17/08
156. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 07/18/08
157 "The Miller's Daughter; Captain Burle; The Death of Olivier Becaille" by Emile Zola 07/18/08
158. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris 07/19/08
159. Everyman by Philip Roth 07/19/08
160. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 07/19/08
161. Stardust by Neil Gaiman 07/20/08
162. Saturday by Ian McEwan 7/21/08
163. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke 7/22/08
164. The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill 7/22/08
165. Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres 7/23/08
166. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck 07/24/08
167. Hippolytus by Euripides 07/25/08
168. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 07/25/08
169. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 07/26/08
170. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 07/27/08
171. "Rain; Footprints In The Jungle; The Outstation" by W. Somerset Maugham 7/29/08
172. The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope 7/29/08
173. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 7/31/08
174. Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust 7/31/08
175. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 7/31/08
176. The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff 07/31/08
177. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 08/03/08
178. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein 08/04/08
179. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 08/05/08
180. Survivor by Chuck Palahiuk 08/06/08
181. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami 08/06/08
182. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 08/07/08
183. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 08/09/08
184. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 08/10/08
185. The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 2 by Aleksandr Solzenitsyn 08/13/08
186. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 08/16/08
187. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 08/17/08
188. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans 08/17/08
189. The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind 08/18/08
190. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 08/20/08
191. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 08/21/08
192. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams 08/22/08
193. Demian by Hermann Hesse 08/22/08
194. Rhetoric by Aristotle 08/23/08
195. Blindness by José Saramago 08/25/08
196. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie 08/26/08
197. Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin 08/28/08
198. "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 08/30/08
199. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 08/30/08
200. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 08/31/08
201. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July 09/01/08
202. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams 09/01/08
203. Poetics by Aristotle 09/01/08
204. Nana by Émile Zola 09/02/08
205. Liberalism by Ludwig Von Mises 09/03/08
206. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 09/4/08
207. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 09/4/08
208. La Vagabonde by Colette 09/5/08
209. The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul 09/6/08
210. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré 09/6/08
211. The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietsche 09/7/08
212. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 09/7/08
213. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 09/8/08
214. So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish by Douglas Adams 09/9/08
215. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 09/10/08
216. Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac 9/11/08
217. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9/12/08
218. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 9/13/08
219. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 9/14/08
220. The End of Faith by Sam Harris 9/14/08
221. Maid in Waiting by John Galsworthy 9/14/08
222. Flowering Wilderness by John Galsworthy 9/15/08
223. Over the River by John Galsworthy 9/16/08
224. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark 9/17/08
225. Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams 9/17/08
226. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov 09/18/08
227. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 09/19/08
228. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 09/19/08
229. The Universe in a Single Atom by the 14th Dalai Lama 09/20/08
230. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis 09/21/08
231. The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata 09/22/08
232. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 09/22/08
233. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 09/22/08
234. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster 09/23/08
235. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 09/25/08
236. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz 09/25/08
237. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon 09/26/08
238. Artifices (Fictions) by Jorge Luis Borges 09/26/08
239. Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 09/27/08
240. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 09/28/08
241. Letters from a Stoic by Seneca 09/28/08
242. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 09/28/08
243. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington 09/29/08
244. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan 09/30/08
245. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard 09/30/08
246. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 09/30/08
247. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 10/04/08
248. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut 10/05/08
249. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 10/06/08
250. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 10/08/08
251. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman 10/09/08
252. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 10/09/08
253. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglass 10/10/08
254. Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge 10/11/08
255. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 10/12/08
256. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 10/12/08
257. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 10/13/08
258. Ubik by Philip K. Dick 10/14/08
259. Agamemnon by Aeschylus 10/15/08
260. Gulag Archipelago Vol. 3 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 10/16/08
261. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Peter Süskind 10/18/08
262. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 10/19/08
263. Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry 10/19/08
264. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 10/21/08
265. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 10/22/08
266. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 10/23/08
267. Histories by Tacitus 10/24/08
268. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson 10/25/08
269. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell 10/25/08
270. Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 10/26/08
271. White Jazz by James Ellroy 10/27/08
272. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini 10/29/08
273. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan 10/30/08
274. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley 10/31/08
275. The World According to Garp by John Irving 11/03/08

276. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 11/04/08
277. The Iliad by Homer 11/07/08
278. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin 11/09/08
279. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 11/09/08
280. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima 11/10/08

281. The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham 11/10/08
282. The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope 11/11/08
283. The Sun King by Nancy Mitford 11/12/08
284. The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky 11/14/08
285. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami 11/14/08

286. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 11/14/08
287. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming 11/15/08
288. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth 11/15/08
289. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence 11/17/08
290. Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth 11/18/08

291. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 11/18/08
292. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 11/18/08
293. "Brokeback Mountain" by E. Annie Proulx 11/18/08
294. Amadeus by Peter Shaffer 11/18/08
295. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 11/19/08

296. The Odyssey by Homer 11/21/08
297. The Razors Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 11/23/08
298. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac 11/23/08
299. The Reivers by William Faulkner 11/25/08
300. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan 11/25/08

301. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon 11/25/08
302. The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust 11/26/08
303. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 11/27/08
304. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan 11/27/08
305. Day by Elie Wiesel 11/28/08

Holy Smoke! You must have one of the most diverse reading lists I've ever seen!

It looks like you're on a mission, because these are really high-octane books. Seems like you don't do much random browsing... May I ask how you compile your to-be-read list?

Oh, I'm definitely on a quest to conquer all of literature; I just wish I had been more diligent in my past reading habits! I can't say I have any single resource I turn to to direct my reading. I listen to a lot of audiobooks so often I go with whatever is available. Otherwise, I usually pick through all those 100 best lists or nab something from the various "classics" imprints and hope for the best.

Genre fiction does poke its nose into my reading from time to time, but I really look to movies for that type of entertainment. In defense of browsing: my selections do appear less random than they feel when I'm making them. I'm sure next years will seem less methodical now that I have more of my bases covered.

306. The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth 11/28/08
307. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan 11/29/08
308. Mao II by Don DeLillo 11/30/08
309. Ulysses by James Joyce 12/03/08
310. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike 12/05/08

311. Sackett's Land by Louis L'Amour 12/06/08
312. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 12/07/08
313. The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Böll 12/08/08
314. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro 12/08/08
315. The Pearl by John Steinbeck 12/09/08

Do you ever read things that you don't add to your list?

Outside of the stray short story or essay I can't recall of anything of import that I've read not listed above (or below).

316. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 12/11/08
317. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 12/12/08
318. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro 12/13/08
319. The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck 12/13/08
320. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 12/14/08

321. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 12/15/08
322. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 12/16/08
323. Smoke by Ivan Turgenev 12/17/08
324. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 12/19/08
325. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud 12/20/08

326. Howards End by E. M. Forster 12/22/08
327. Aeneid by Virgil 12/23/08
328. The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy 12/24/08
329. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 12/27/08
330. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 12/28/08

331. Claudius the God by Robert Graves 12/30/08
332. King James Bible by Jove et al. 12/31/08
333. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 12/31/08