Today begins National Novel Reading Month

I'm pretty sure I'm making that up, and, honestly, I hope I am, because if National Novel Reading Month is actually in June, I'm going to be very sad. I'm declaring December my National Novel Reading Month, because after November's National Novel Writing Month, I'm exhausted. I miss reading. I miss sleeping. I need this. *sob*

*Ahem*

I don't have a clear cut plan, which, let's be honest, I didn't with my NaNoWriMo either. I do, however, have half a dozen books on my desk, three more awaiting me at the library, and the next month laid before me like a wide-open horizon.

Right now, on the pile -- literally and metaphorically -- are as follows:

Eat, Pray, Love, the last two-thirds of it, anyway...

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which only everyone has raved about...

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Charlie St. Cloud, which my mother loved, so I bought it and now owe it to her to read it...

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The Ancient Child, a novel by N. Scott Momaday, an author I was introduced to in the early years of my college education and have always wanted to read further...

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The Door in the Hedge, by Robin McKinley, mostly to get the taste of Sunshine out of my mouth... Blech.

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Neil Gaiman's Coraline, American Gods, and The Graveyard Book...

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 and... The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, which barely qualifies, but I pre-ordered it and have never read it, not to mention that I recently reread Twilight and now want to bleach-scrub that part of my brain. So, in essence, Stephenie Meyer's novella will preserve my brain from such mistreatment. Or... I hope it will.

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I've noticed that Stephen King has a new book on the shelves, which honestly makes me giddy, but until I can get my hands on a copy, that'll have to remain on a mental wishlist for my NaNoReaMo (hehe, like what I did there?).

These nine books won't hold me over very long, so I pose the question to you: What books have you recently read and loved? Any you highly recommend? Modern day classics? Guilty pleasures? Lay 'em on me!