Lists!!!!

The fun of making lists!

So the new year 2016 is right around the corner! And my favourite thing to do around the end of the year is to prepare lists of all kinds of things for the up and coming year.
One list is, of course, my New Year's Resolutions!
I compared the things that were on my 2015 resolution just to get an idea if I really did manage to achieve them, and I'm happy to say that partly at least, yes!
But this is not about the Resolutions which are very personal and change from one person to another.
This is about the best of all the lists... BOOKS!!!

I am a huge fan of classics. I do read modern and recent literature, but what attracts me most are the classics.
My initial goal was reading 10 books during 2015. Gladly, I ended up reading 19, which, looking back, gives me a shock!
So this year I decided to start with a goal of 35 books, and I classified some of them into genres.
This list is still a work in prgress, I still have my required reading for university that I would have to add next semester. Usually, I would rather decide as the year proceeds, but I have to have a general list for the books that I wish to read in any case.

So here is a part of my list for the next year... as I mentioned, it is still in progress, so expect additions soon!

Historical Novels

1. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo.
2. The 40 days of Musa Dagh - Franz Werfel.

Free Choice

1. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakmi.
2. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.
3. Inferno - Dan Brown.
4. My name is Aram - William Saroyan.
5. A room of one's own - Virginia Woolf.
6. The diary of a young girl - Anna Frank.
7. The white guard - Mikhail Bulgakov.
8. Dubliners - James Joyce

Biography

Banned Books

1. Animal Farm - George Orwell.
2. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller.

Required Reading for UNI

1. The mysterious flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco.
2. The betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni.
3. The princess of Cleves - Mme. de la Fayette.

I really hope that my list would give some inspiration for you to read some of the books on this list. If not, I only hope that it will inspire some to actually read. The advantages that reading can have on our lives are great, the way we read and what we read are very important points that help to broaden our minds ad views. 

We live in a world that wasn't made cruel, but became cruel due to us, the people inhabiting it! The corruption and the vile ideas that take form in actions that we see on daily basis are astonishingly destructive. The least every person can do to himself, in the midst of all the mess that we live in, is to try to forget, or if not forget, to shift the center of attention to something else, something that can be relaxing, and cheering in times when our morals are low.