Bookshelf Lust, Take Two

A reading list to go with the beautiful bookcase:

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin(Currently in my bag. It's like 750 pages, so my shoulder is currently sore, but it is excellent thus far.)
  
• Deciding What's News by Herbert J. Gans (On my bookshelf. This one is so I can convince ridiculously selective grad schools to take me.)
  
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Because I've never read Rushdie, but should.)
  
• Devil in the White City (On my bed, but unopened.)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Started this like two years ago and then got distracted. Also, the Russian names trip me up.)
• Leaves of Faith by Rav Aharon Lichtenstein (Currently reading, but slowly. Reading takes much longer when you need to really think--and look up words in the dictionary.)
  
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (On my shelf. Started it and never finished. I think I just don't like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but I wish I did.)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (Left over from a previous reading list. Should get on that)
  
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Ditto.)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (This has been on my mental to-read list for forever.)
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (My grandmother keeps telling me this is the most fantastic book ever. My aunt says it's the most depressing book ever. I should read it and take a side.)
  

Books you should read if you haven't yet:

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Selected as the best book of the past 25 years by the NY Times.)
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (I received it as a gift from two wonderful friends. Probably the best book I read in the last year.)
  
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
• Oracle Night by Paul Aster
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  
• The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
• You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
• All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Just because.)