Reading List for 2012

In a very ambitious project of Reading Outside Thy Comfort Zone,  my requests for introductions to other people's best loved authors have landed me as diverse a set of titles as the friends I have approached. Derived from activists to suits, cutting across gender, age and nationalities, behold my forthcoming labour of love:  

Tomes

1. Anna Karenina By Tolstoy (Argh!)
2. Dark Rendezvous By Sean Stewart
3. Sandman By Gaiman
4. Welcome To The Monkey House By Vonnegut
5. A Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
6. Angels and demons by Dan Brown
7. Devil's Place By Brian Gomez
8. Karamazov by Frydor Dostoyevsky   (Double Argh!)
9. KiteRunner by Khaled Hosseini
10. Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
11. Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
12. Malaysian Maverick by Barry Wain
13. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
14. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro's
15. One Child by Tory Hayden
16. Proper study of mankind by Isaiah Berlin
17. Shopgirl By  Steve Martin
18. Small gods / The whole watch series by Terry Pratchett
19. South Of The Border By Murakami
20. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
21. The Famished Road by Ben Okri
22. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman.
23. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
24. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
25. The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
26. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
27. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
28. Why we Get Fat and What to do About It - Gary Taubes

Authors

1. Paulo Coelho
2. Sebastian Faulks
3. Alexander Mccall Smith
4. Kathy reich
5. PG Wodehouse
6. James Herriot
7. Dorothy Sayers
8. Yoko ogawa
9. Mishima
10. Lionel Shriver  

How few I have read. It would be interesting to see how many books I would finish by the end of 2012. Here goes nothing!