Reading List 2014

Yes, just as I've put some writing goals out there, so must I list what I intend to read this year. You may follow me on Goodreads to see some of what I have read and what I am currently reading. Here are the thirty books I want to read this year, not necessarily in this order:

1. Aeschylus, The Oresteia
2. Aristotle, The Basic Works of Aristotle (Ethics, Politics, Poetics)
3. Cervantes, Don Quixote
4. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
5. Colette, Break of Day
6. Dante,, The Divine Comedy
7. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
8. Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories
9. Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
10. Henry James, Notebooks
11. Henry James, Roderick Hudson
12. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
13. James Joyce, Ulysses
14. John Hawkes, The Lime Twig
15. Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
16. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
17. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
18. Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
19. Plato, The Collected Dialogues (Timaeus, Symposium, Republic)
20. Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
21. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
22. Sir Thomas Browne, Urne Burial
23. Stendhal, The Red and the Black
24. Steven L. Peck, The Scholar of Moab
25. Therese Doucet, A Lost Argument: A Latter-day Novel
26. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
27. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
28. Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
29. Virgil, The Aeneid
30. William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West

Certainly, this represents more pages than I can flip through in a year, but even if I succeed in reading only half of it, I'll be that much farther toward my ultimate goal of reading William H. Gass's 50 Literary Pillars.

Read, write, execute!