My 2013 Personal Book Challenge

My 2012 book challenge was so rewarding, making me pick up books I would just keep skipping over in favor of lighter reading. I'm doing it again this year. Some books are carried over from last year and some I dropped because they just didn't look interesting to me right now. But you can see I have plenty of others to fill in the gaps.

As before, I may not get through all of them in a year, but I will be trying always read one of them despite other distractions. In no particular order.

Classics

1. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (required of self after seeing musical)
2. Middlemarch* - Eliot
3. Belly of Paris* (Emile Zola)
4. Wuthering Heights* - Charlotte Bronte (began this in 2012, finishing it in 2013)

Modern

1. Momento Mori - Muriel Spark
2. Last Call* - Tim Powers (not a true classic, I know ... but still a "challenging" read which is what all these are for me)
3. Galactic Pot Healer - Philip K. Dick (I wanted to try a novel instead of short stories and this was recommended as being one of the most complete stories told in a novel.)
4. Journal of the Gun Years - Richard Matheson (I'm so curious to see what sort of Western Matheson writes since he was such a science fiction award winner)

Religion

1. Introduction to the Devout Life* - St. Francis de Sales (began this in 2012, finishing it in 2013)
2. The Way of Perfection* - St. Teresa of Avila
3. A Song for Nagasaki - Glynn
4. The Scarlet and the Black - Gallagher

Rereading

1. The Sand Pebbles*
2. Nine Princes in Amber - Zelazny

Nonfiction

1. Tolkien's Letters
2. The Inklings - Humphrey Carpenter
3. H.V. Morton travel book
4. King Peggy

* Carried over from the 2012 Book Challenge.