For the past two weeks I have been trying to narrow down the list of books I simply must read this year.  I get super excited at the prospect of starting to read a new book.  Oddly enough, ever since I began working at a publishing company my personal reading time has exponentially diminished.  I'm not letting that fact bring me down, though.  So, I have decided on a few books, but I would like recommendations, too.  

So, without further ado, here is my short list for books to read:

Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner

Home, Marilyn Robinson

All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy 

The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (can you believe I have never read this?)

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy