New Year, New Books

I'd like to think 2009 was a great year for me rediscovering my love of reading that included alot of hits (Watchmen earlier this year, Moneyball, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, etc.) and a few misses (my forays into the weird minds of Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs). This year their are alot of books i'd really like to read as well as authors. For poetry i'm probably going to read a collection of Langston Hughes poems because ever since I first read "Harlem" by him a long time ago, he's easily been my favorite poet (it's not a coincidence that tomorrow i'm reading his aforementioned poem to my english class). Although I really think Walt Whitman's vision of America is cool, his poems bore me. Other books i'd like to read are The Tao of Wu by The Rza, Push by Sapphire, Road Dogs and Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard, and maybe Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I'm really starting to love gritty urban novels which is one of the reason's i'd like to read Push, as well as I recently saw the movie "Precious" which was amazing. I'm also interested in reading a good World War II novel, but I don't know any good ones so suggestions would be really appreciated.