Great Novels to read in 2008

I enjoy reading Esquire and Rolling Stone.  I really like the pictures too.  Magazines are great bathroom reads, but I need to open a book or two.

2008 has got to be the year that I pick up the novels that some consider literary greats.  Some of these novels I am ashamed to admit that I have never read and some I just did not appreciate reading the first time (probably in high school).

It may be too ambitious to read 12 during the year especially since I still have that subscription to Esquire and Rolling Stone.  Reading ten great novels is realistic and a great resolution for the new year.  

 As I get back to my love of reading, I will try to stay away from the big box book stores and will support local used book stores or the public library to get my stash.  I love the smell of used books and I enjoy the stories behind used book stores.

Here is my list (in no particular order):

• Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger
• On the Road-Jack Kerouac
• Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
• Animal Farm-George Orwell
• In Cold Blood-Truman Capote
• A Confederacy of Dunces-Jack Kennedy Toole
• The Bell Jar-Slyvia Plath
• Catch 22- Joseph Heller
• Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
• Into the Wild-John Krakauer
• The Brothers Karamazov-Feodor Dostoevsky
• Hop on Pop-Dr Suess

 As I build my literary resume and add these novels to my library, I will be sure to offer my thoughts and comments.  Its going to be an exciting journey; one word at a time.  I feel the need, the need for read!