letusread:

Hello, I’m Let Us Live:

I want to end up reading, by the end of the year, a book for every week. I hope to receive some books as Christmas presents, so more books will certainly be added to this list. This is a preliminary list, but I will read all of the books on this list during this year. Also, I will write a Master’s Thesis during the next few months so I will invariably add some more books (and my reading may slack off while I focus on writing). 

Here is my initial list of 33 of my own books to read during 2009:

1] When I Grow Up: A Memoir by Juliana Hatfield

2] Hoagland On Nature by Edward Hoagland

3] Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

4] The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

5] Tricks of the Trade by Howard S. Becker

6] Writing for Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker

7] Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

8] Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

9] The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet

10] The Blacks: A Clown Story by Jean Genet

11] Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

12] Oblivion by David Foster Wallace

13] Red-dirt Marijuana and Other Tales by Terry Southern

14] Tarantula by Bob Dylan

15] The First Man by Albert Camus

16] The Zen Commandments by Dean Sluyter

17] Amerika by Franz Kafka

18] Leaves of Grass (First Edition) by Walt Whitman

19] Leaves of Grass (Death-bed Edition) by Walt Whitman

20] 101 Foods that Could Save Your Life by David Grotto

21] Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh

22] Las Vegas Noir edited by Jarret Keene and Todd James Pierce

23] The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King

24] The Best American Essays 2007 edited by David Foster Wallace

25] The Complete Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volume I: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams

26] The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen

27] How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

28] Oxford Dictionary of Biology

29] Oxford Dictionary of Ecology

30] Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

31] Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan

32] The Runner’s Diet by Madelyn H. Fernstrom

33] Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail A. Eisnitz

I must admit that I have started Infinite Jest a little early (and I read that another group member did as well). Just wanted to out myself there.