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I read my pleasure books ridiculously slow. For the year 2009 and beyond, I want to read more books, and faster. Don’t you ever wish you could walk into a library and know you’ve read a substantial amount of the books in inventory? I would never wish that I had read every book ever written; that would diminish the library. I only want to read more. This is my list:

• The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas
• The Idiot / Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Varieties of Religious Experience / William James
• Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
• Les Miserables / Victor Hugo
• War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea / Jules Verne
• The Moonstone / Wilkie Collins
• Interpretation of Dreams / Sigmund Freud
• Room with a View / E. M. Forster
• This Side of Paradise / F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Vanity Fair / William Makepeace Thackeray
• Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
• Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Beautiful and Damned / F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Four Feathers / A. E. W. Mason
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo
• Red Letters: Living a Faith That Bleeds / Tom Davis
• The Pilgrim’s Progress / John Bunyan
• Five Children and It / Edith Nesbit
• The Enchanted Castle / Edith Nesbit
• The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Dead Souls / Nikolai Gogol
• Nicholas Nickleby / Charles Dickens
• The Bostonians / Henry James
• Pere Goriot / Honore de Balzac
• Jude the Obscure / Thomas Hardy
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche
• Tom Jones / Henry Fielding
• The Pilgrim’s Regress / C.S. Lewis
• The Four Loves / C.S. Lewis
• The Problem of Pain / C.S. Lewis
• The Screwtape Letters / C.S. Lewis
• Quiet Strength / Tony Dungy
• Eli Manning: The Making of a Quarterback / Ralph Vacchiano
• Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance / Atul Gawande
• Band of Brothers / Stephen E. Ambrose