Reading List

Some titles that I have in mind for the first half of 2012:

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1-3 by Robert Caro.  The 4th volume arrives in the spring, but it since it has been 10 years since the previous book I thought I might reread them all before diving into the new one.
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.  This has been recommended by a couple of friends, and it is free for Kindle owners, so I thought I would give it a shot.  So far I don’t care for it — I’ll give it a couple of more chapters before I pull the plug.  (Update:  When grabbing the link from Wikipedia I noticed that this book is classified as young adult, which I had already suspected due to the excessive & annoying amount of exposition — the leash just got shorter.)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.  I usually try to read one work of classic fiction each year.  This selection was inspired by Jonathan Franzen’s recent essay in  the New Yorker.
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.  Ninety-five percent of my reading is nonfiction, so it is unusual to see three novels on this list.  This book has always intrigued me — many end-of-the-century lists ranked it among the best novels of the 2oth century, and it was largely written while Foster was a professor here in Bloomington.  Also inspired by Franzen’s New Yorker essay.

Any other suggestions?