A New Reading Goal - 12 Books from Need to Read

Last year I challenged myself to read all of Jane Austen's book. I completed all 6 books by June 21, 2012 (read my previous blog here).

As a new challenge, I plan to read all of the 21 books that I have not already read from the list in my previous blog:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
2. True Grit by Charles Portis 
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
4. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
5. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 
6. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty 
7. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
8. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams 
9. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
11. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
12. The Magus by Jon Fowles 
13. in our time by Ernest Hemingway
14. Different Seasons by Stephen King 
15. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
16. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
17. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris 
18. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 
19. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner 
20. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
21. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 

I have read (9):

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty 

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 

My goal to read (12):

True Grit by Charles Portis 

Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams 

The Magus by Jon Fowles

in our time by Ernest Hemingway

Different Seasons by Stephen King - great short story stylists - author's favorite

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald