Year of the Male Writers

One of my goals for the upcoming year is to read some new authors I have been wanting to read. I've had many recommended to me and some are authors my husband loves to read but whose books I have yet to try. And when I was compiling a list of the authors I would like to read, realized they are ALL............... boys!! I felt sort of sexist when I realized the authors I was interested were all male, lol. Especially when I still read about injustices between the genders when it comes to publishing books. What I always found interesting was that I read mainly female authors, so it's actually very surprising to me that the ones I'm interested in are male. Here are a list of some of the authors I have on my list to read (or read more of if I've read only one).

• Haruki Murakama
• Nick Hornby
• Christopher Moore
• Chuck Palahniuk
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Jess Walter
• Jonathan Tropper
• Joshua Ferris
• Stephen King
• Kazuo Ishiguro
• Dennis Lehane
  

Not that I need them, but any other suggestions??

I think I'll also try another personal goal which I attempted but failed badly at this year: Complete all the books written by Jodi Picoult and Chris Bohjalian. I've read most of Jodi Picoult's books. In fact, I've read all but 3 of the 16 she has published. These 3 include the first 2 and then one other one that I put off because I already saw the Lifetime movie adaption on tv, lol. I love her books, so I don't know why I put off reading the other 3.

I also love the few books by Chris Bohjalian that I have read 4 of his 10 (well, 10 if you count the compilation of his weekly columns). I own most of the rest but, again, have put them off despite wanting to finish reading the rest. So, these are two things I think I'll try to again work on this year.

My other goal for the past 2 years has been to finish the Harry Potter series (I still need to finish #4). Again, a wonderful series that I do love, yet I keep putting it off.

What is my
problem??