I have had the unexpected pleasure of receiving a butt-load (an "I need two seats on a plane my butt is so big" butt-load) of books from a good friend of mine, who has excellent taste, and has now exponentially increased my "to-read" list. As I go through the books, (and I'm not all the way through yet by the way), I'm finding new authors I'm sure I'll love and I'm cringing with the thought of having to choose what to read next!! So I'm going to put my list in print and see how it compares with what I end up reading this year. The scary part is knowing that there will be new releases coming out (two sequels that I know of this summer) that will also get added to the list. And there are some classics I would like to read. So this is definitely not set in stone:
Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde (currently reading #1 The Eyre Affair)
The Strain trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
A Perfect Spy by John Le Carre
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffrey Deaver
Zero Day by David Baldacci
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
Smoking Seventeen by Janet Evanovitch
Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovitch
Still Midnight (Alex Morrow #1) by Denise Mina
Darwin Slept Here by Eric Simons
The Forgotten Founding Father by Joshua Kendall
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
A Discovery of Witches sequel (#2 in the trilogy) by Deborah Harkness
The Passage sequel (#2 in the trilogy) by Justin Cronin
Many of these authors write books that are part of a series of 10 or more books and with the exception of Janet Evanovitch, I only listed the first in the series. So, assuming that I like THOSE books, then this list is going to get much longer!! Holy cow, I'm already overwhelmed.
Here is the REALLY funny part of this story. I was off work today and since I had an appointment this morning, I took my daughter to daycare. With my extra free time this afternoon, I so wanted to go to the bookstore. Isn't that crazy? I have all these books at my fingertips and I couldn't believe the will power it took to steer my car somewhere else. The best explanation I can give is that I LOVE BOOKS and reading. I just need to remember that I don't need to BUY a new book, just take one I already have and get a coffee and enjoy the relaxing change of scenery to curl up and read.
If you have read any of these and it didn't live up to your expectations, please pass along! I already crossed one off my list because of someone's disrecommendation (? is that even a word?), In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (although Devil in the White City is awesome).
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