Resolution for 2007: no more books!

One of my resolutions for 2007 is to beat my book buying habit. Too often I find myself buying a new book, reading the first few chapters, and abandoning it in favour of another new purchase. I have a deck of playing cards which I used a bookmarks and almost all of them are in books, some of which I began reading more than two years ago. I therefore resolve not to buy another book (excepting required textbooks) until I've finished those I already own. To start with, I've selected twelve shorter unread books:

• Thomas Paine, Common Sense
• Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption
• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
• Harry Brighouse, Justice
• Alastair Hannay, On The Public
• Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves
• Jonathan Mills (ed.), Barons to Bloggers: Confronting Media Power
• Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
• Chris George, The Book of Digital Photography
• Karen Cheng, Designing Type
• Gordon Rennie, David Bishop, Simon Jowett, Peter Evans & James Swallow, I Am the Law
• Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles