50 books in 52 weeks

So for the last 2 years I have tried to read 50 book in one year. I read 38 and 40 in each of those years, so no more lolly-gagging, this is the year so I made a list ahead of time and am determined to do it. So I made a blog for some built in accountability...hopefully it helps. Here are the 50 books in no particular order, I hope to give you all a review of each book when I am finished.

Title	Author
Democracy Matters	Cornell West
Moby Dick	Hermann Melville
Audacity of Hope	Barack Obama
Best of the Oxford American	Various
Islam - A Short History	Karen Armstrong
Real Parents, Real Children	Holly Von Gulden
Raising Adopted Children	Lois Melina
Pursuit of Holiness	Jerry Bridges
Jesus	John MacArthur Et. Al
The Gift of Being Yourself	David Benner
The Silent Life	Thomas Merton
Dark Night of the Soul	St. John of the Cross
The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemmingway
Maximum City	Seketa Mehta
Farenheit 457	Ray Bradbury
Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman
Surrender or Starve	Robert Kaplan
Son of the Revolution	Liang Heng
Blue Highways	William Least Heat Moon
The Spirit Catches You and then You Fall Down	Anne Fadiman
Around the World in 80 Days	Jules Verne
Comrade Rockstar	Reggie Nadelson
90 Minutes in Heaven	Don Piper
Spectacular Sins	John Piper
Factory Girls	Leslie T. Chang
Vintage Jesus	Mark Driscoll
Banker to the Poor	Muhammed Yunnus
Out of Poverty	Paul Polak
Creating a World Without Poverty	Muhammed Yunnus
American Pastoral	Philip Roth
All Quiet of the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque
The Desire of the Everlasting Hills	Thomas Cahill
The Silmarillion	J.R.R. Tolkien
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
Going Nucular	Geoffreay Nunberg
On the Road	Jack Kerouac
The Book of Dave	Will Self
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ	John Piper
Miracle at St. Anna	James McBride
Adventures of Augie March	Saul Bellow
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Are Those Kids Yours	Cheri Register
Exiles	Michael Frost
Serve the People	Yan Lianke
Marco Polo From Venice to Xanadu	Laurence Bergreen
World Changing: A User's Guide to the 21st Century	Ed. Alex Steffen
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays	Henry David Thoreau
Reading Lolita in Tehran	Azar Nafisi
The Souls of Black Folk	W.E.B. DuBois

Again, this is in no order, and I tend to read multiple books at one time. Please feel free to ask questions and comment at will, I'm going to get it done this year.