Thinking Ahead: 2011 Reading Goals

I love lists and goals.  Well, making lists and goals.  Actually accomplishing those goals is much lower on my list of fun-things-to-do-in-my-spare-time.  It's only fitting, then, that instead of thinking about my current challenge responsibilities (which is changing from "Fall into Reading" to "Falling Behind in Reading") I start talking about the next set of goals...we can talk about my failures some other time.

This is the direction I think I'll take for next year's goals in reading:

BACK TO THE CLASSICS CHALLENGE 2011: (hosted by Sarah Reads Too Much)
1. A Banned Book: Lolita (Nabokov)
2. A Book with a Wartime Setting: Gone With the Wind (Mitchell)
3. Pulitzer Prize winner/runner up: One of Ours (Cather)
4. Children's or Young Adult Classic: Watership Down (Adams)
5. 19th Century Classic: Daniel Deronda (Eliot)
6. 20th Century Classic: Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)
7. A Book you think should be a 21st Century Classic: The Road (McCarthy)
8. A re-read from High School/College: Native Son (Wright)

FAVORITE AUTHORS and SPECIFIC TITLES:
- Jane Austen (Sanditon, reread Persuasion)
- Irving Stone (Men to Match My Mountains)
- Elizabeth Gaskell (Ruth or Mary Barton)
- Jubilee Trail (Bristow)

- Dr. Zhivago (Pasternak)

PERPETUAL CHALLENGES:
Willa Cather: Chronological

Pulitzer Prize Winners

Newbery Award (or Honor) books