With the announcement this week of JK Rowling’s new book for adults, I decided to compile a quick list of the books I am still going to read this year.

• The Girl Who Played With Fire  by Stieg Larsson. (Surprisingly loved the first book when I read it back in December. I’ll be picking this one up next month during my business trip to Toledo.)

• The Hunger Games (Why not?  Everyone has asked me if I’ve read it.  It’s already lined up on my Kindle Fire.”

• Michael Koryta’s The Prophet (Publishes 2 days before JK Rowling’s New Book)

• JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy (Publishes in September)

• Kate Morton’s The Distant Hours (This one has been on my list for a while and all my friends have read it.)

• Stephen King’s The Shining (After my craze for collecting his books all over again last year, I figured I needed to squeeze one in this year. I chose this one because there’s a sequel of it due out next year that I know I’ll want to read then.)

• The Tale of Edgar Sawtelle (I had never heard of this book until this year.  Got a free copy on Bookmooch and it’s been on mind a lot lately.)

• Tennessee Williams’ Memoirs (For research mostly, and hopefully I’ll finished reading his biography by then which I’ve been reading for several months.)