3M's Progress and Goals for 2009

After reading 12 Pulitzers in 2007, I only read one (Beloved) in 2008! [edit: I actually read two because I read the 2009 winner, Olive Kitteridge] I'm not happy with that result at all, so I'd like to commit to reading at least 6 titles in 2009. These are the leading contenders (bolded were read in 2009):

• 2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• 2002 - Empire Falls (Russo)
• 2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon)
• 2000 - Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
• 1992 - A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
• 1989 - Breathing Lessons (Tyler)
• 1987 - A Summons to Memphis (Taylor)
• 1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
• 1973 - The Optimist’s Daughter (Welty)
• 1937 - Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
• 1936 - Honey in the Horn (Davis)
• 1935 - Now in November (Johnson)
• 1932 - The Good Earth (Buck)
• 1926 - Arrowsmith (Lewis)
• 1925 - So Big (Ferber)
• 1921 - The Age of Innocence (Wharton)

Progress so far:
2008 - Olive Kitteridge

2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007 - The Road
2006 - March
2005 - Gilead (read in 2006)
2004 - The Known World
2003 - Middlesex
1999 - The Hours
1998 - Beloved
1995 - The Stone Diaries
1994 - The Shipping News
1983 - The Color Purple
1972 - Angle of Repose
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird
1958 - A Death in the Family
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea (read in 2002)
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath (read in 1985)
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey