My 2016 reading plans in random order. I’ll limit it to 50 to make it at least slightly probable I’ll actually read all of them this year. Also I’ll keep the crime out, because I tend to read it in between more serious stuff.

As I go through the list they’ll be crossed out here and will appear in reading history. Please leave your recommendations in comments!

• London. The Biography – Peter Ackroyd – I live in this city, so should probably know it better. – (r) read in 2017
• Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art – Hans Belting – because of my studies
• Faces – Hans Belting – same as above, I feel I should catch up on some classic art history writing.
• Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman – sometimes one needs to take care of ones brain
• We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver – I wanted to read it ever since I saw the movie, which was 4 years ago, shame on me.
• Selected Essays – Virginia Woolf – as a challenge
• The Outsider.The Stranger – Albert Camus (r)- I never read it and it’s connected to the next book
• The Meursault Investigation – Kamel Daoud (r)- highly praised, I’m also curious of how those two books will work together
• 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep – Jonathan Crary (r)- because sometimes I feel trapped in my job and why not blame the system
• Bad Science – Ben Goldacre (r)
• A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James – it got Man Booker Prize, I’m curious and I managed to buy it before my ban for book buying in the first quarter of 2016
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson (r) – wonderfully reviewed by Lady Fancifull and Shoshi’s Book Blog
• Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (r) – should’ve read it a while ago and a review on Worn Corners really got me
• Beware of Pity  – Stefan Zweig – because I was always afraid of reading Zweig and I just finally have to start and Lady Fancifull convinced me
• The Shore -Sara Taylor (r)- another inspiration from Lady Fancifull
• The Plot Against America – Philip Roth – I don’t own it yet, so it may take a while for me to get to it

next ones have been sitting on my Kindle for a while

• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson (r)
• The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (r)
• N-W – Zadie Smith
• The Goldfinch – Donna Tart (r)
• The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
• The Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng
• Stone Mattress – Margaret Atwood (r) – read in 2017
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – it’s actually a re-read, I want to see if it’s going to get me hooked again
• The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
• Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
• My Sunshine Away – Mo Walsh
• The Artificial Anatomy of Parks – Kat Gordon
• Levels of Life – Julian Barnes
• Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art – Julian Barnes
• Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
• Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• We Can Remember it For You Wholesale – Philip K. Dick
• House of Cards – Michael Dobbs
• The Ocean At The End Of The Lane – Neil Gaiman
• A Winter Book – Tove Jansson
• Satantango – Laszlo Krasznahorkai
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
• Elephant Moon – John Sweeney
• The Children Act – Ian McEwan (r)
• Middlemarch – George Eliot
• The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
• Catch 22 – Joseph Heller – a re-read of a long time favorite, also in honor of the above one.
• Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
• The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
• All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• Pure – Andrew Miller
• The Year of Living Danishly – Helen Russell
• Invisibles – Ed Siegle