a reading goal

my reading goal for August 2013 to July 2014: read the 34 books on The Big Read list by NEA. advantageous, but I really love reading. plus, I've already read some of them. so I'm kind of cheating. maybe... I haven't decided about that part yet. finding all of these books could be interesting because I don't know how many of them I will be able to find at the libraries here. and I only have access to the electronic library of books back home. wish me luck!

for those wondering which books are included in The Big Read:

In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez

Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

My Antonia Willa Cather

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Love Medicine Louise Erdrich

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines

The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett

A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway

Sun, Stone, and Shadows (edited by) Jorge F. Hernandez

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston

Washington Square Henry James

The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri

A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

The Call of the Wild Jack London

The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Thief and the Dogs Naguib Mahfouz

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers

The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien

The Shawl Cynthia Ozick

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

True Grit Charles Portis

Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan

The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain

Into the Beautiful North Luis Alberto Urrea

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton

The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Our Town Thornton Wilder

Old School Tobias Wolff

Happy Reading!