I'll give this a try ... you never know I might actually sruprise myself and finish; if not I'll have a start into 2011.

After thinking about this, I decided there is no way I'm going to finish this list unless I start now, especially since I have a cross country move coming up and will be packing and unpacking boxes for several weeks ... so to give my self some leeway I'm starting 6 weeks early.

My categories:

English Literature Eras
American Literature
Fairy Tales
Thrillers
Science Fiction
Science
History
Something to Ponder
Autobiographies/Biographies
Award Winners

Message edited by its author, Nov 18, 2009, 2:59pm.

English Literature Eras
1. Old English: Beowulf
2. Middle English: William Langland - Piers Plowman
3. Renaissance Era: John Milton – Paradise Lost
4. Elizabethan Era: Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince (11/25/09)
5. Jacobean Era: Francis Beaumont - The Knight of the Burning Pestle
6. Restoration Era: John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress
7. Augustan Era: Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub
8. Romanticism Era: Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (11/18/09)
9. Victorian Era: Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol (12/10/09)
10. Modernism Era: James Joyce – Ulysses

Message edited by its author, Yesterday, 3:23pm.

American Literature
1. Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard’s Almanac
2. Thomas Paine – Common Sense
3. Mark Twain – Life on the Mississippi
4. James Fennimore Cooper – The Leatherstocking Tales
5. Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
6. John Steinbeck – Tortilla Flat
7. Norman Mailer's - The Naked and the Dead
8. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
9. Flannery O'Connor - Everything That Rises Must Converge
10. Annie Dillard – Holy the Firm

Fairy Tales & Fantasy
1.The Girl with Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
2. Hans Christian Andersen – Emperor’s New Clothes
3. Charles Perrault – Bluebeard or Cinderella
4. Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
5. Howard Pyle – The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
6. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
7. Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont - Beauty and the Beast
8. Kate Mosse - Labyrinth
9. Washington Irving - Sleepy Hollow
10. James M. Barrie - Peter Pan

Message edited by its author, Yesterday, 3:22pm.

Thrillers
1 - 3. Anne Rice – The Vampire Chronicles Books 4-6
4. Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park
5. Nick Louth – Bite
6. John Grisham – A Time To Kill
7. Joe Perrone Jr. - As The Twig Is Bent
8. Dan Brown – The DaVinci Code (11/30/09)
9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
10. Tom Clancy - Hunt For Red October

Message edited by its author, Dec 1, 2009, 1:03am.

Science Fiction
1 – 3. Isaac Asimov – The Foundation Trilogy
4. Arthur C. Clarke - The Fountains of Paradise
5. Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
6. Alexander Besher - RIM
7. Jules Verne – The Mysterious Island
8. Larry Niven – The Mote in God’s Eye
9. Larry Niven – The Gripping Hand
10. Kim Stanley Robinson – Red Mars

Science
1. Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
2. Carl Sagan - The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
3. Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
4. Stephen Hawking - A Briefer History of Time
5. Paul Kurtz - Science and Religion: Are They Compatible
6. Michael Shermer – How We Believe
7. Albert Einstein - Relativity
8. Rupert Sheldrake - Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science
9. Richard Feynman - QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
10. Charles Darwin's - The Origin of Species

History
1. James W. Loewen - Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
2. Charles C. Mann - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
3. John Keegan - The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare
4. Jim Lovell – Apollo 13: Lost Moon
5. Geoffrey Ashe - The Discovery of King Arthur
6. Stephen E. Ambrose - Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
7. George Kerr - Okinawa: A History of an Island People
8. Eugene B. Fluckey - Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in WW II
9. Gerhard Herm - The Celts
10. Donald Worcester - The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest

Something to ponder
1. Pat Frank - Alas Babylon
2. Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
3. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited (11/16/09)
4. Greg Mortenson - Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
5. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
6. Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
7. Mark Batterson - In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day
8. Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
9. Plato – The Republic
10. R. Buckminster Fuller's - Critical Path

Message edited by its author, Nov 16, 2009, 11:31pm.

Autobiography/Biography
1. Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Infidel
2. Donna Hill - Joseph Smith: The First Mormon
3. Linda King Newell - Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
4. Stephn B. Oates – With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (11/23/09)
5. Kem Knapp Sawyer - Eleanor Roosevelt
6. Mary S. Lovell - The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart
7. Dana Meachen Rau - Dr. Seuss
8. Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow - The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
9. Carolyn Jessop - Escape
10. Lama Dalai - Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama

Message edited by its author, Nov 24, 2009, 12:54am.

Award Winners
1. Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2. Herta Müller - The Land of Green Plums
3. Cormac McCarthy - The Road
4. Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex (12/8/09)
5. Alice Walker – The Color Purple
6. Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book
7. Aravind Adiga – White Tiger
8. Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
9. Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
10. A.S. Byatt – Possession

Message edited by its author, Yesterday, 3:23pm.

Middlesex and The Color Purple are both magnificent. Guns, Germs and Steel and The Road were well worth reading. Stranger in a Strange Land - very boring the second time (read it first maybe 30 years ago and loved it).

You have quite a heavy load there for next year!

Message edited by its author, Nov 15, 2009, 4:15pm.

Wow what a selection, especially the English Literature Eras category. I keep meaning to try some of them but I am always scared off ;)

You have a great selection of books laid out!!