2012 Reading List

This is the list of books I'd like to read in 2012. I won't stick to this list religiously but in the absence of any other good idea, I shall refer to the list!

  1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
  3. Housekeeping by Marilynn Robinson
  4. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  5. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  6. American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
  7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  8. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (winner of 2011 Pulitzer Prize)
  9. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  11. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  12. Angel Time by Anne Rice
  13. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  14. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
  15. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
  16. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  17. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
  18. A Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (winner of 2011 Man Booker prize)
  19. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (winner of National Book Foundation prize for 2011)
  20. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (winner of 2011 Orange Prize)
  21. The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (winner of 2011 Edgars Award)
  22. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  23. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  24. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
  25. Love in a Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  26. In the Woods by Tana French
  27. Little Children by Tom Perrotta
  28. One Day by David Nicholls
  29. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  30. The Immoral Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot