Here is to actually starting AND finishing all of the books on this list. “To ancient times and distant music!” Cheers! *as I lift my imaginary full wine glass up in the air to tink other imaginary full wine glasses of my imaginary friends while my husband stares at me like I grew and elephant trunk from my shoulder*
1. Why We Can’t Wait by MLK Jr.
2. The Republic by Plato
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
5. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century by Alex Ross
6. Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
7. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
8. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
9. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (this one has been sitting on my night stand for about 7 months)
10. The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
11. Eats, Shoots, & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
12. 1776 by David McCullough
13. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
14. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
15. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
16. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (I vow to finally finish this book this year)
17. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
18. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
19. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
20. On Writing by Stephen King
21. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Read this in high school and had to write my own kind of Canterbury Tales, so much fun)
22. The Works of Anne Bradstreet by Anne Bradstreet
23. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
24. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
25. The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
26. La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian by Dianne Hales
Okay, I think 25 is good to start off with for this year…I’m going to go get started now with Why We Can’t Wait. =)
Me + Three {and counting} 
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I loved the Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis.
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There are some good books on this list and I want to re-read of mice and men. I remember it being good and sad but that’s about it.