Reading Plan for 2010

If the decrease in reading over the last few months has told me anything, it’s that I had better have realistic expectations for the time I can devote to reading in the coming year. I probably won’t be doing any challenges, at least officially, and the numbers will be more in keeping with the first half of 2009 (aka about three books a month). There are some books, however, that I definitely want to make time for in 2010:

TBR From My Shelves

• Inkspell, by Cornelia Funke, to continue the story from Inkheart
• the Harry Potter series, since I never read 6 and 7 but want to see the movies
• Possession : A Romance, by A.S. Byatt
• The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
• Georgette Heyer, who represents the majority of my Christmas books

TBR from the Library

• Murder at Longbourn, by Tracy Kiely, though it’s never on the shelves when I’m there
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley, since the sequel is coming out
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, since everyone else seems to have read it
• The House at Riverton, by Kate Morton (again, late for the bandwagon)
• more books by Angela Thirkell

Mysteries

• continue my personal Agatha Christie challenge
• Pride and Prescience: Or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged, by Carrie Bebris, since I finally snagged a copy through Bookmooch
• Death on Demand, by Carolyn Hart, since I received the first several last Christmas and haven’t quite gotten to them
• A Monstrous Regiment of Women, the second Mary Russell book

Classics

• The Watsons, one of my few unread Jane Austens
• The Princess of Cleves, for the Guardian Challenge
• House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
• The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells