Cognito Ergo Scribo

With a new year dawning for the nth time, I have yet another chance to create a wishlist of all the books I intend to conquer this year

1. Snow – Orphan Pamuk
2. Taras Bulba – Nikolai Gogol
3. On Human Bondage – Somerset Maugham
4. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffery Eugenides
5. Something Happened – Joseph Heller
6. Waiting for the barbarians – J.M.Coetzee
7. Watchmen – Alan Moore
8. Sandman – Neil Gaiman
9. Leviathan – Paul Auster
10. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
11. Vernon God Little – DBC Pierrie
12. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
13. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
14. God’s Debris – Scott Adams
15. Swann’s song – Marcel Proust
16. End Game – Samuel Beckett
17. The Stranger – Albert Camus
18. The book of laughter and forgetting – Milan Kundera
19. The House of sand and fog- Vadim Perelman
20. A million little pieces – James Frey
21. Madame Bovary – Gustave Falubert
22. Lolita – Vladamir Nabokov
23. The book of imaginary beings – Jorge Borges
24. Dirk Gently – Douglas Adams
25. Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
26. Shalimar the clown – Salman Rushdie
27. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
28. A confederacy of Dunces – John Toole
29. Doors – Margaret Atwood
30. kafka on the shore – Haruki Murakami
31. The Trail – Franz Kafka
32. The world according to Garp – John Irving
33. Bumper book of bunny suicides – Andy Riley
34. The Book of sand – Jorge Borges
35. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
36. ….

I do realize I have set an over ambitious list, considering the numbers and also the fact that I don’t most of the books. But Its a new year and I want to believe I can surprise myself. And isn’t anything possible in the world of fiction?