Thinking Ahead: A Thursday Thirteen

Earlier this year I made a list of ten books I wanted to read in 2007.   I have actually managed to read five of them and have started a sixth book from the list.  I am not sure I will read the remaining four...perhaps, but I thought I would make a new list of books I wouldn't mind reading in the second half of 2007.  The problem with sticking with one particular list is that as time goes by my mood changes, or I discover new books and authors that I would like to read.  I do plan on finishing all the books that are listed in my sidebar (a few have been long time stragglers that I need to finish), and of course there will be the odd book club book and perhaps a challenge or two (am thinking about Carl's RIP and Heather mentioned a Victorian book challenge), but otherwise here are some books I have wanted to read and would love to squeeze in this year still:

1. Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset - I want to start this as soon as I finish Don Quixote.  I plan on finishing next month, but I may step up my reading a bit.  I am only about 300 pages away from the end and I am sort of feeling like I need to get the rest read rather than dragging out the story in little bite sized pieces.
2. Excellent Women, Barbara Pym - I have heard so many good things about Pym--I think I know already that I will like her.
3. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor - I really enjoyed the book I read by her earlier this year and want to read more.
4. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster - This might be my other lone Modern Library title that I read this year (I didn't do very well with ML books).  I have been in the mood to read something by Forster for a while.
5. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky - I have wanted to read this since I heard about it.  After seeing so many varying reviews I'd like to read it for myself.
6. The Road, Cormac McCarthy - Somehow the subject matter never quite appeals to me, but I do want to read this.  I may just have to pick it up and read it in one go.
7. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson or The Priory, Dorothy Whipple - I have been very, very much in the mood to order some new titles from Persephone Books (am trying hard to resist), but I think I should read some I already own.  They all sound so good, I am sure I won't be disappointed (at least I hope not) by whatever I choose.
8. Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie - The story sounds really appealing to me right now, and I have only heard good things about it.
9. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1750-1832 , S.K. Tillyard - I loved the miniseries and have been wanting to read the biography of these fascinating sisters.
10. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates - This is supposed to be a modern classic.  I have had it for ages, and it is now being made into a movie.  I think it is time to finally pull it out and read it.
11. Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe - This sounds like great fun.  I actually want to read this as Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is supposed to be a parody of it.  I'd like to read all of Jane Austen's major novels (only two would be rereads) next year, so this would be perfect to read ahead of time.
12. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley - Another book that has come highly recommended.  I had it on my amazon wishlist for a long time and finally broke down and bought it. 
13. Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig - This just sounds so good: "Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health."

I think I am being very optimistic, but you never know what you might accomplish.  It was very hard narrowing it down to only 13.  I left off Penelope Fitzgerald and Margaret Forster (I do plan on reading one of her books still, very soon).  I would like to read something by D.H. Lawrence still.  There are those new books I mentioned recently that I want to read soon.  But the titles listed above are books I have wanted to read for ages, and have talked about (probably too much).  Now I think I will have to pick out one of them to start as soon as I finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  Which to choose, which to choose...