I mentioned in a previous post that I'm doing the 50-book challenge again this year, with a goal of 20 books before I leave the country. Several of you have recommended books. I'm listing 16 books that I definitely plan to include in the first 20. That leaves room for 4 more, if someone wants to recommend something (under 300 pages) that I should read before I leave.

• Anthony, Piers — Letters to Jenny
• Alexander, Lloyd — The Black Cauldron
• Cooper, Susan — Over Sea, Under Stone
                           The Dark Is Rising
                           Greenwitch
                           Thd Grey King
                           Silver on the Tree
• Dick, Philip K. — Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Proulx, Annie — Close Range (which includes "Brokeback Mountain")
• Asimov, Isaac — The Robots of Dawn
• Card, Orson Scott — Ender's Game
• Greene, Graham — The Power and the Glory
• Grahame, Kenneth — The Wind in the Willows
• Clarke, Arthur C. — Childhood's End
• Percy, Walker — The Moviegoer
• Gibson, William — Neuromancer