The Mad Book Queue

Just went to Stand this afternoon and went absolutely crazy. I love love love books. But I've gone insane in a bookstore far too many times and now have a queue of books. Since money is not a substance to waste in these troubling times, I need to make good on that which I spent*. Thus, I am making a public proclamation, in order**, of the books I plan to read:

1. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (just started)

2. Then We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris (just started)

3. Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann (book club book meeting end of February)

4. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

5. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (this is huge and I have ADHD, so may read at same time as #6)

6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)

7. Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1

8. Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2

This list and its exceptions** should take me quite a while, so I'll stop there.

*Books I've purchased/acquired that sit in my room and haunt me, but I can't seem to add to the list:

a. My Life, Bill Clinton

b. Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama

c. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond

d. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

e. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo

f. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

** Book club books, TBD, books my boss occasionally sets on my desk (when she's not mad at me) and Books that sit on my friends shelves that I really want to borrow (isn't coveting a sin?):

i. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

ii. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

iii. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

iv. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk

v. Schooled, Anisha Lakhani

vi. A Million Little Pieces, James Frey

I've got problems, I know.