books i just bought:
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Love in the Time of Cholera - Garcia Marquez)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

authors i intend to read (or read more of) in 2008:
Toni Morrison
Edith Wharton
Cormac McCarthy
Philip Roth
Helen DeWitt*
Vladimir Nabokov*
Salman Rushdie
Ian McEwan*
Kiran Desai
Alan Hollinghurst*
David Mitchell*
Michael Ondaajte*
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

*i am particularly excited about these.
(this list is by no means exhaustive)

other things i intend to do in 2008:
-finish reading the booker prize winners (i've only read 5, but in my defense, i've read a lot more of the shortlisted ones)
-begin reading the pulitzer prize winners. eventually i intend to read all of them, but this year i'll start at 2007 and work my way backwards, with the goal of reading my way to 1980 by this time next year.