w00t! Those are some big ones you're taking one, doing the Lord of the Rings Trilogy! =) I would highly recommend reading The Hobbit prior to those three, simply because 1) it's an awesome book, and 2) it's still an awesome book, oh and 3) it actually gives a lot of meaning to the trilogy itself. Um... I'm reading Plato's Symposium right now... it's pretty fun. But other than that, it took me a year to get through my last book, so I'm not one to really talk.
Best wishes on your goal to get through 24!
And I'll have to look into this NaNoWriMo Editing thing. Sounds fun. =)
And yea, we still read xanga! At least I do. But that's me. This is the REAL blog world.

Hmm... I'm beginning to wonder the same things about xanga... but I'm still reading. =)

What kind of books are you looking to read? Fiction? Non? Christian? Non? =) Let me know...

Here are a few of my fave novels:
1. Cain! - James Byron Huggins (for review, visit http://www.eclectica.org/v1n11/klausner_cain.html -- this is probably my favorite contemporary novel of all, contemporary being within the last 10 years)
2. A Wolf Story - Huggins
3. The Oath - Peretti
4. Leviathan - Huggins
Um... I'm a fan of Huggins. And I like action/suspense/drama novels. Classics are always good, too, I love the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Scarlet Letter. Seriously, the red connection has nothing to do with it. Little Women is a keeper, but you've probably already read that one. But seriously, Plato's Symposium is not that "ooo, wow, so deep" at all... it's just a bunch of men with hangovers sitting around celebrating a guy's first published work of poetry by praising what they view to be "Love." It's even quite comical in some spots, and chock full of homosexual undertones. Them damn Greeks.
More suggestions to come! Now I'm salivating over books... hmmmm...

If you like books that follow the vein of Frank Peretti, I would HIGHLY recommend Ted Dekker. He's my favorite fiction author, hands down. So... "Black", "White", "Red", "Bless The Child", "A Man Called Blessed", "House" (co-written by Frank Peretti), "Showdown", "When Heaven Weeps", "The Martyr's Song", "Thunder of Heaven", "Obsessed", "Heaven's Wager", and "Thr3e"... which actually just came out in theaters as a movie. The Black, White, Red trilogy might be my favorite of all of them though.

Oliver Twist, by Dickens... A Time to Kill... anything by Kurt Vonnegut is rather interesting fiction...

ummm by the looks of what you is on your list so far, we have somewhat similar tastes in books:) i just finished Wicked, which is about the wicked witch of the west (and what the broadway play of the same name is based on). it was fabulous. i also recently read running with scissors. a little graphic, but amazing. other favorites: the lovely bones by alice sebold, on the road by jack kerouac... i'll think of more :)