new additions to my collection

i enjoy reading. i started with classics and gradually developed a liking for other genres. but till date, after having read books on different subjects [including anthropology and public administrations], i never developed a liking for since fiction.

i have a somewhat enviable collection of books. books that i have collected over a period of time. some i bought from dehradoon while in college; from middle east where i worked as a teacher; from delhi, goa, bangalore, pondicherry, hyderabad, and kolkatta.

there are many in my collection which i have not yet started reading. and even though there is a backlog, the collection keeps growing. to put an end to my buying spree, and to finish reading the current stock, i have decided not to purchase any new book next year [one of my new year resolutions]. around 15 books are currently untouched in the collection.

the resolution is now written on a paper after a lot of thought, so there no chance of modifying it to include a clause of 'buying a new book under certain circumstances.' new year is yet to begin, and just thought what if i run out of books to read after i finish reading the ones in my backlog. so today i purchased few more books so that i am not starved next year [and i hope they don't feel deprived of human touch next year too!]

this time the books i bought are a mix of old classics and contemporary classics. few i have already read but just thought of including them in my collection. here's the list:

• A Room With A view - have read Passage to India by the same author
• The Longest Journey
• A Clockwork Orange
• Lolita
• Songs of Solomon - have read SULA
• A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man
• Aesop's Fables
• 1984 - read Animal Farm
• The Catcher in the Rye
• Madam Bovary
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Dubliners
• Three Men in a Boat
• To Kill a Mocking Bird
• Middlemarch
• Tess of the D'urbervilles - have already read it along with Far From The Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, Return of The Native, Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders, A Pair of Blue Eyes, and Two on a Tower by Hardy
• Emma - have read this along with Persuation, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Love in the time of cholera
• Oliver Twist
• The Great Gatsby
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
• Lady Chatterley's Lover
• To Catch A Smile
• The Best of Roald Dahl
• Short Stories by Sadat Manto
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• The Crooked LinePoet Saints of India
• Inscets are like you and me except some of them have wings

let me see how many of these i am able to complete next year. i wish myself good luck!