New Year's Resolution

Tough to resolve to do anything this year, knowing most waking minutes will be spoken for with the pooping and the cleaning, and the not-so-much-sleeping. Can't resolve to go to the gym if there's no time. Can't resolve not to eat junk food when we're too exhausted to cook rice. The one thing that I wanted to try some time was to resolve to read 50 books in a year. Came pretty close this year, but the resolve faded towards the end there.

The goal for 2005 was to read at least one book a month by an author I was ashamed to have never read before. Kurt Vonegut, John Updike, Iris Murdock. E.B. White. etc. This year I'm thinking along similar lines, but looking for lesser known writers, or at least not the classics. So this is a call to all of our loyal readers (both of you that is). I'd love recommendations for any good books you've read that didn't make it on to the Oprah Book Club, or don't exist in penguin Classics editions. The more obscure the better. One a month shouldn't be too hard to do, even with a screaming child, so the goal is at least 12 suggestions. Feel free to use the comments section to avoid duplication. Thanks for the help with this.