Reading Resolutions 2016

Happy New Year! This year my goal is 12 books from the below list: 3 from Dad, 3 from Kevin, 3 from friends, and 3 that won the Pulitzer Prize.

Three Novels My Dad Loved:

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (on night table)
• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter 
• The Shining Mountain by Peter Boardman 

Three Books Kevin Recommends:

• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (short stories) by Alice Munro (on night table)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Three Recommendations from Friends:

• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (on night table) - Michele
• Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
• Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushde
• Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan/ Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy- Jaime
• Personal History by Katharine Graham- Allison
• Life and Other Near Death Experiences- Chrissy
• anything by David McCullough- Sarah B

Three Books That Won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction (highlights are ones I read):

• 2015) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• 2014) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• 2013) The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
• 2012) No award... Finalists: 
•  Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Swamplandia! by Karen Russell 
•  The Pale King by David Foster Wallace 
• 2011) A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 
• 2010) Tinkers by Paul Harding 
• 2009) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 
• 2008) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 
• 2007) The Road by Cormac McCarthy 
• 2006) March by Geraldine Brooks 
• 2005) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 
• 2004) The Known World by Edward P. Jones 
• 2003) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 2002) Empire Falls by Richard Russo 
• 2001) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 
• 2000) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• 1999) The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• 1998) American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
• 1990) Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
• 1983) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
• 1982) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
• 1979) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• 1967) The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• 1961) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1953) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway