Progress on my Book List for the 9/9/9 Project

Here's an update on my 9/9/9 project. That's 9 books in 9 categories in 2009 (plus an extra few to make it up to 100 this year). Books in bold I have read. You would think I would have been caught up by now, but so far I believe the count is at 39 for the year. I should be at 50 or so by now if I am going to make 100. Hm.

Books I should have read but haven't (The Classics)

1. Sanditon and Other Stories by Jane Austen
2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
3. I, Robot by Issac Asimov
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
6. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
7. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
8. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
9. Middlemarch by George Eliot
   

Books picked by Steve (and recommended by others)

1. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
4. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
5. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
6. Post Office by Charles Bukowski
7. UBIK by Philip K Dick
8. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
9. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
   

Collections and Anthologies (short stories and poetry)

1. QPB Anthology of Women's Writing edited by Susan Cahill
2. The Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas by Sena Jeter Naslund
3. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
5. The Best of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl
   
6. Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood
7. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
8. Just After Sunset by Stephen King
9. Transformations by Anne Sexton
   

True Stories, Writing, Biographies, History...in Other Words Non-Fiction

1. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott
   
2. Art & Fear by David Bayles
3. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
   
4. Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights by Robert Schnakenberg
   
5. A Biography of Zelda by Nancy Milford
6. Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick
7. The Journalist and The Murder by Janet Malcom
8. The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
9. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
   

Good Intentions: Books I Own but Keep Avoiding

1. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
2. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
3. Snobs by Julian Fellowes
4. Fragile Things Neil Gaiman
5. Love by Toni Morrison
6. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
7. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
8. Where or When by Anita Shreve
9. Atonement by Ian McEwan
   

Books Turned into Movies

1. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
   
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
   
3. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
4. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindquist
5. The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
6. The Stand by Stephen King
7. The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
8. Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
9. Blindness by Jose Saramago
   

Books from Childhood (or that I wish had been there for me to read)

1. The Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander (The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Lyr, Taran Wander, The High King)
2. The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin (The Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore)
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
4. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & The Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
6. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
7. Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers
8. Peter Pan by J.M Barrie
9. The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
   

Books translated into English

1. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
2. The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin
   
3. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
4. Have Mercy on Us All: A Novel (Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries) by Fred Vargas
   
5. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
   
6. Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
8. Seeing by Jose Saramago
9. Never Let Me Go by Nazuo Ishigino
   

Classic Mysteries

1. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
2. Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
3. Inspector Morse: The Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
   
4. Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
5. Dashiell Hammett novel collection
6. The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
7. Brown's Requiem by James Ellroy
8. The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
9. Knots & Crosses by Ian Rankin
   

Whatever, Whatever, I'll read what I want...

1. Ghost: A Novel by Alan Lightman
2. The Lighthouse by P. D. James
3. The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
4. Dead & Gone by Charlaine Harris
   
5. Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski
   
6. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
   
7. Real World by Natsuo Kirino
   
8. Picture Me Dead by Heather Graham
   
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