So I've joined the My Year of Reading Dangerously challenge.  This is going to be great!  I'll get to read books I've been meaning to read but never really get around to.
  

Here's my list:

January: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens- I've read almost a half of this for school, but I never did finish.
February: Beloved, by Toni Morrison- This is also a school book that I have to read
March: Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut- I've owned this book forever, but have never been able to pick it up even though several of my friends are Vonnegut fangirls.
April: The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier- somehow I missed this one when I was a kid.
May: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro- I have avoided and avoided reading this, but now I'm going to get through it. 
June: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
July:  Ulysses, James Joyce- I read most of this last year in school, but I read it quickly and with little comprehension, so I'd like to try it again.
August: Forgetfulness: A Novel, Michael Mejia- by a professor of mine.  It's supposed to be pretty difficult.
September: Selected Poems, W. H. Auden- all poetry is difficult for me.
October: Gentlemen and Players: A Novel, Joanne Harris- I don't know if this is a difficult book, but it's certainly breaking out of the mold for me
November: A Month of Classic Short Stories, Various
December: The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth