Reading List for February

Like I said I'm going to start reading a lot again. I've already finished one book in February so we're off to a good start. I have a list of 41 books I want to finish this year (doesn't seem too unreasonable at all and hopefully I'll knock them all out). I've decided to further break this list down into 5 books I want to read every month. I'm not counting the book I've already read this month so hopefully this month I'll finish six. These are in the order I want to read them:

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (656pp)
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (928pp)
• While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut (272pp)
• Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace (343pp)
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman (480pp)
• The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman (230pp)

Only 2679 2023 1751 pages to go.
The Visible Man was a book I read halfway through once but I restarted from the beginning and knocked it out in two days. It will be the same with 1Q84. I have read almost the entire book but I will be restarting from the beginning because I didn't finish and that was so long ago.

I have a really awesome mix of non-fiction and fiction this month and I'm looking forward to reading all of it. I'm so excited about this I'm going to have a hard time waiting until March to make the list for that month (motivation to finish early). 

Interesting aside, the reason "pp" is used as the acronym for "pages" is because in some languages double letters are used for acronyms that are plural. Like "EE. UU." for Estados Unidos (United States) in Spanish. Here it's Latin, the plural for page being paginae. 

Update: 2/23/2013
So I've finished Steve Jobs and While Mortals Sleep and I've started Consider the Lobster. However, I've been side tracked by a new addition to the list.  

• Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki (138pp) 

I'll probably finish that this afternoon and then continue reading Consider the Lobster. Hopefully I can finish both books at the latest by the end of the weekend.  Unfortunately that would only leave me 5 days to read 1408 pages or like 280 pages a day. Not sure I can swing that. But, I will have finished 5 books in February once I finish the two I'm reading, so we'll just have some roll over books into March. Maybe I'll write up short reviews about what I thought of each book at the end of the month.