Reading in the New Year

On the heels of yesterday's massive book review post I thought it might be fitting to share with you guys the list of books I have to read in 2008. Lets start with the books I have already started reading:

• American Gospel by John Meacham
  
• The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
• From Marco Polo to Pearl Harbor: Who Was Responsible? by the staff of the Yomiuri Shimbun
• Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield
• Scotland: A History edited by Jenny Wormald
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Spook Country by William Gibson
  

And here are to books on the to be read shelf:

• The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
• The Hinge Factor by Erik Durschmied
• The Best Alternative History Stories of the 20th Century edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg
• A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
• The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
• Will Eisner's Shop Talk by Will Eisner
• Rebus: The Early Years by Ian Rankin
• Baudolino by Umberto Eco
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• Legends of the Samurai by Hiroaki Sato
• The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• The Music of Change by Paul Auster
• Stealing the Dragon by Tim Maleeny
• Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
• The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins
• Music Lust by Nic Harcourt
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman
• The Return of Shadow by Christopher Tolkien
• Hamlet (The Arden Shakespeare) edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor
• Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 (The Arden Shakespeare) edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor
• Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai by Donald Richie
• Parallel Myths by J. F. Bierlein
• Strange Itineraries by Tim Powers
• Bonsai by Harry Tomlinson
• Lamb by Christopher Moore
• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
• Macbeth the King by Nigel Tranter
• Flowers of Chivalry by Nigel Tranter
• Star Trek The Eugenics Wars Volume One: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh by Greg Cox
• Watchman by Ian Rankin

And now we will finish up this list with the books I received for Christmas:

• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
• The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara
• Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! by Scott Adams
• Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
• A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
• The End of America by Naomi Wolf

Of course throughout the year other books will join these. I know both Barry Eisler and Alan Furst have novels coming out in 2008. Recent acquaintance Glenn E. Smith's first novel The Call of Duty is on the must read very soon list as is Wil Wheaton's The Happiest Days of Our Lives and a couple of Star Trek: S.C.E. omnibus editions which include stories by another recent acquaintance and Star Trek New Voyages screenwriter Dave Galanter.