New Year book list

So I failed to read 50 books before the new year. So I decided to try again. 30 books in a year... starting January 1st, 2009. (2.5 books a month... come on, I don't read that fast)

Picking stories from the list below which is in no particular order. I can pick and choose which books I want to read, and when to read them.

My book list:

1. Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler (Currently Reading)

2. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer

3. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

4. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli

5. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

6. Rant - Chuck Palahniuk

7. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

8. Candide - Voltaire

9. A Clockwork Orange - A Burgess

10. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

11. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmal Beah

12. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

13. Beyond Good And Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

14. Lord of the Flies - William Golding

15. Clown Girl: A Novel - Monica Drake

16. Fugitives and Refugees A Walk in Portland, Oregon - Chuck Palahniuk

17. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

18. College Girl - Patricia Weitz

19. Running With Scissors A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs

20. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

21. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

22. On the Road - Jack Kerouac

23. The Plague - Albert Camus

24. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J. K. Rowling

25. Paper Towns - John Green

26. Looking for Alaska - John Green

27. Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

28. Ulysses - James Joyce

29. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

30. Native Son - Richard Wright

31. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

32. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

33. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

34. Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

35. A Room With A View - E.M. Forster

36. Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell

37. I, Claudius - Robert Graves

38. A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway

39. The Hunt For Red October - Tom Clancy

40. The Puppet Masters - Robert Heinlein
41. It - Stephen King
42. V. - Thomas Pynchon

43. The Republic - Plato

44. Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

45. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

46. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

47. How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie

48. Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss

49. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

50. Utopia - Thomas More

Word of the day

Chauvinsism: is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group.