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TBR Non-Fiction:
Biographies | Letters, Diaries, Essays | Books about Books | Language | The Rest

TBR Reading Challenges:
Priority Reads* | Rory Gilmore | 1001 | Frankie and Poppyshake's Must Reads |
 
My Must Reads | Top 20 Authors I Want To Read (link to another thread)
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*Also includes 'Books on Both the 1001 and Rory Gilmore Lists'

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Below is the list of books that I've read and that I'm currently reading. Books that have been read have a rating out of 10.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 1976
TBR as at 30 December 2015: 1975 (43 from TBR pile, 1 re-read, 3 ebooks | 42 acquired)

January (3)
Charles Dickens Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol 10/10
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #2: Ripley Under Ground 9/10
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #1: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 8/10
 
February (6)
Agatha Christie Black Coffee 7/10
Andy Weir The Martian (ebook) 8/10
Lois Lowry The Giver #2: Gathering Blue 7/10
Lois Lowry The Giver #3: Messenger 8/10
Lois Lowry The Giver #4: Son (ebook) 7/10
Matt Haig The Humans 9/10
 
March (3)
Jon Ronson The Psychopath Test 9/10
Veronica Roth Divergent #2: Insurgent 7/10
Veronica Roth Divergent #3: Allegiant 7/10
 
April (4)
Jon Ronson The Men Who Stare at Goats 8/10
Haruki Murakami Underground 6/10
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca 10/10
Stieg Larsson Millennium #2: The Girl Who Played with Fire 9/10
 
May (3)
Stieg Larsson Millennium #3: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 9/10
Voltaire Candide 8/10
MRC Kasasian Gower Street Detective #1: The Mangle Street Murders 8/10
 
June (4)
MRC Kasasian Gower Street Detective #2: The Curse of the House of Foskett 8/10
Norton Juster The Dot and the Line (re-read) 9/10
Jed Rubenfeld The Interpretation of Murder 8/10
Chris Priestley Tales of Terror from the Black Ship 8/10
 
July (2)
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #1: The Winter Queen 8/10
Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman 10/10
 
August (1)
Mark Z Danielewski House of Leaves 9/10
 
September (4)
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #2: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag 8/10
Agatha Christie Death on the Nile 9/10
Lois Lowry Anastasia #6: Anastasia Has the Answers 6/10
Lois Lowry Anastasia #7: Anastasia’s Chosen Career 7/10
 
October (2)
Jeff Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter 8/10
Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine #3: Library of Souls 9/10
 
November (8)
Ann Rule The Stranger Beside Me 9/10
Patrick DeWitt The Sisters Brothers 8/10
Linda Grant I Murdered My Library (ebook) 7/10
Cornelia Funke Inkheart #2: Inkspell 6/10
Terry Pratchett: Discworld #6: Wyrd Sisters 8/10
Leanne Shapton Important Artifacts and... 7/10
Jacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum 8/10
Roald Dahl Rhyme Stew 8/10
 
December (7)
Neil Gaiman Odd and the Frost Giants 8/10
Ted Hughes The Iron Man 8/10

Louis de Bernieres Red Dog 8/10

Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles 9/10

GK Chesterton The Strange Crime of John Boulnois 7/10

Cornelia Funke Inkheart #3: Inkdeath 6/10

AA Milne Now We Are Six 6/10

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Acquired in 2015
 
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Books acquired:
2015: 42*
2014: 145
2013: 281
2012: 427
2011: 551
2010: 382
2009: 275
2008: 147

Acquired in 2015: 42 (less 6 selected non-fiction and 2 new editions)

I've marked books that I've read and books that I'm currently reading. The numbers after the dates do not include any books marked as (n.a.).

January (0)
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February (11)
John Banville Shroud
John Curran (ed.) Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making—More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks
John Forster The Life of Charles Dickens
Shell Harris & Elizabeth Johnson Skinny Smoothies (n.a.)
Jenny Hartley (ed.) The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
Sarah Kelly The Complete Mosaic Handbook (n.a.)
Claire Tomalin Jane Austen
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #2: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Matt Haig The Humans

MRC Kasasian Gower Street Detective #1: The Mangle Street Murders
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #1: The Winter Queen
Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers Vol. 3: Songs of the Doomed
LM Montgomery The Complete Journals of LM Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1901–1911
 
March (0)
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April (3)
Johanna Basford Secret Garden (n.a.)
Johanna Basford Enchanted Forest (n.a.)
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #10: The Diamond Chariot
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #3: A Red Herring without Mustard
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Good Omens (n.a.)
Arthur Miller All My Sons
 
May (10)
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #2: The Turkish Gambit
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #3: Murder on the Leviathan
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #4: The Death of Achilles
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #8: She Lover of Death
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #4: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #5: Speaking from Among the Bones
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #6: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
MRC Kasasian Gower Street Detective #2: The Curse of the House of Foskett
Agatha Christie At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie The Big Four
 
June (1)
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (n.a.)
Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman
 
July (6)
Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London #5: Foxglove Summer
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #5: Special Assignments
Ernest Cline Ready Player One
Stephen Fry More Fool Me
Andrey Kurkov The Gardener from Ochakov
Andrey Kurkov The Milkman in the Night
 
August (4)
Kate Chopin The Awakening and Selected Stories
Robert Galbraith The Silkworm
Craig Harrison The Quiet Earth
Nick Hornby Shakespeare Wrote for Money
Millie Marotta Animal Kingdom (n.a.)
Millie Marotta Tropical Wonderland (n.a.)

September (5)
Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction
Mark Lewisohn Tune In
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen The Rabbit Back Literature Society
Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine #3: Library of Souls

Patricia Highsmith A Suspension of Mercy

 

October (0)

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November (2)

Ian Brodie Lord of the Rings Location Guide

Craig Bullock Quake Cats

 

December (0)

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Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London #5: Foxglove Summer
John Joseph Adams Brave New Worlds

Boris Akunin The Winter Queen

John Banville Ancient Light
Benjamin Black The Black Eyed Blonde
Benjamin Black Vengeance
Gerald Brom The Devil's Rose
Gerald Brom Krampus
Richard Brautigan In Watermelon Sugar
Richard Brautigan Revenge of the Lawn etc
Derren Brown Confessions of a Conjuror
Derren Brown Tricks of the Mind
William Burroughs Last Words
William Burroughs Rub Out the Words
Italo Calvino Letters
Neal Cassady Neal Cassady Collected Letters, 1944-1967
Ann Charters The Portable Beat Reader
Agatha Christie The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie Detectives and Young Adventurers
Agatha Christie Miss Marple and Mystery
Agatha Christie Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Cassandra Clare Infernal Devices #3: Clockwork Pricess
​Cassandra Clare Mortal Instruments #6: City of Heavenly Fire
Colette Gigi
Edmund Crispin The Moving Toyshop
Justin Cronin The Twelve
David Crystal Spell it Out
David Crystal The Story of English in 100 Words
Dave Davies Kink
Ray Davies X-Ray
Alain de Botton The News: A User's Manual
Mark Dunn American Decameron
Mark Dunn Feral Park
Geoff Emerick Here, There and Everywhere
John Fante & HL Mencken John Fante and HL Mencken: A Personal Correspondence, 1930-1952
Jasper Fforde The Last Dragonslayer #3: The Eye of Zoltar
Jasper Fforde First Among Sequels (already have this, but need to get an edition that matches my others)
Annie Finch Villanelles
Noel Riley Fitch Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation

Margaret Fountaine Love Among the Butterflies (Books do Furnish)

Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique
Kate Grenville Sarah Thornhill

Matt Haig Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig To Be a Cat

Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Henry James Ghost Stories of Henry James
Jonas Jonasson The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Kathryn Kenny Trixie Belden #38, #39
Jack Kerouac The Haunted Life
Martin Luther King Autobiography of Martin Luther King
Erik Larson Dead Wake

Erik Larson Thunderstruck
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Uncle Silas
Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner Think Like a Freak
Mark Lewisohn The Beatles: The Complete Story, Volume One
Jeff Lindsay Dexter's Debut
Lawrence Lipton The Holy Barbarians
Maggie MacKellar Miles
David Mitchell Back Story
David Mitchell The Bone Clocks
Nancy Mitford A Talent to Annoy
LM Montgomery The Blythes are Quoted
Haruki Murakami Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Haruki Murakami The Strange Library

Vladimir Nabokov Lolita: A Screenplay
Rene Pol Nevils Ignatius Rising
Philip Nitschke Damned if You Do
Robert Owen A New View of Society and Other Writings
Georges Perec Portrait of a Man
Sylvia Plath Collected Poems
Terry Pratchett A Blink of the Screen
Chris Priestley Mister Creecher
Chris Priestley Through Dead Eyes
Beth Revis Across the Universe #3: Shades of Earth
Mary Rubio The Complete Journals of LM Montgomery Vol. 2
Robert Falcon Scott The Last Expedition

Hubert Selby Requiem for a Dream

Diane Setterfield Bellman & Black
William L Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic
Rabindranath Tagore Selected Short Stories
Donna Tartt The Goldfinch
JRR Tolkien The Letters of JRR Tolkien
Mark Twain American Drolleries

Timur Vermes Look Who's Back

Vanessa Veselka Zazen
Norah Vincent Voluntary Madness
Sarah Waters The Paying Guests
Chris Ware Building Stories
Scott Westerfeld Goliath
TH White Mistress Masham's Repose
Andrew Wilson Beautiful Shadow
PG Wodehouse PG Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
PG Wodehouse The World of Blandings
PG Wodehouse The World of Jeeves
PG Wodehouse What Ho!
Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Prisoner of Heaven

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TBR Pile A-B

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 176
TBR as at 17 September 2015: 187 (3 read, 14 acquired)


Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London #2: Moon Over Soho
Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London #3: Whispers Underground
Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London #4: Broken Homes
*Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London #5: Foxglove Summer

Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts
Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless
Aravind Adiga White Tiger

*Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #1: The Winter Queen

*Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #2: The Turkish Gambit
*Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #3: Murder on the Leviathan
*Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #4: The Death of Achilles
*Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #5: Special Assignments

*Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #8: She Lover of Death

*Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #10: The Diamond Chariot

Henri Alain-Fournier The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)
Brian Aldiss Non-Stop
Brian Aldiss (ed) A Science Fiction Omnibus
Brian Aldiss (ed) The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (similar, but not identical, to above)
Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy
Clare Allan Poppy Shakespeare
Woody Allen The Insanity Defense
Woody Allen Without Feathers
Isabel Allende Eva Luna
Kingsley Amis The Old Devils
Kingsley Amis One Fat Englishman
Martin Amis The Information
Martin Amis Money
Martin Amis The Rachel Papers
Hans Christian Andersen Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Howard L Anderson Albert of Adelaide
Poul Anderson Tau Zero
Virginia Andrews Flowers in the Attic
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Anonymous Go Ask Alice
Isaac Asimov Foundation
Isaac Asimov Second Foundation
Isaac Asimiov Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov (ed) The Hugo Winners
Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson Case Histories
Kate Atkinson Started Early, Took My Dog
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood
Jane Austen Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon
Jane Austen & Charlotte Bronte The Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster The New York Trilogy
Murray Bail Eucalyptus
Frank Baker Miss Hargreaves
James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
Duncan Ball Selby Speaks
JG Ballard Cocaine Nights
JG Ballard The Complete Stories of JG Ballard
JG Ballard Concrete Island
JG Ballard Crash
JG Ballard The Crystal World
JG Ballard The Disaster Area
JG Ballard The Drought
JG Ballard The Drowned World
JG Ballard Empire of the Sun
JG Ballard Hello America
JG Ballard High-Rise
JG Ballard Kingdom Come
John Banville Athena
John Banville Birchwood
John Banville Doctor Copernicus
John Banville Eclipse
John Banville Ghosts
John Banville The Infinities
John Banville Kepler
John Banville Mefisto
John Banville The Newton Letter
John Banville The Sea
*John Banville Shroud

John Banville The Untouchable
Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Clive Barker Weaveworld
Pat Barker Regeneration
Pat Barker The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker The Ghost Road
Julian Barnes A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
Stephen Baxter Time
Stephen Baxter Space
Stephen Baxter Origin
Greg Bear Blood Music
Greg Bear Eon
Frank Beddor Looking Glass Wars #1: The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor Looking Glass Wars #2: Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor Looking Glass Wars #3: Arch Enemy
Aphra Behn Oroonoko
***David Benedictus Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
Gregory Benford Timescape
Walter Benjamin One-Way Street and Other Writings
EF Benson Mapp and Lucia
EF Benson Mrs Ames
John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
***Michael Best (ed) William Shakespeare on the Art of Love
Alfred Bester The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination
Laurent Binet HHhH
John Birmingham He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
John Birmingham Popeland
Peter Biskind Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Benjamin Black Christine Falls
Benjamin Black The Silver Swan
Benjamin Black The Lemur
Benjamin Black A Death in Summer
Benjamin Black Elegy for April
David Blair (ed) Gothic Ghost Stories
James Blish Cities in Flight
Judy Blume Deenie
T Boardman (ed) Connoisseur's Science Fiction
Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron
Kyril Bonfiglioli The Mortdecai Trilogy
Jorge Luis Borges A Universal History of Infamy
Jorge Luis Borges The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969
Jorge Luis Borges The Book of Imaginary Beings
Jorge Luis Borges Brodie's Report
Jorge Luis Borges Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinths
Tadeusz Borowski This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Pierre Boulle Planet of the Apes
Elizabeth Bowen Eva Trout
WE Bowman The Ascent of Rum Doodle
Karin Boye Kallocain
John Boyne The Congress of Rough Riders
John Boyne Crippen
John Boyne Mutiny on the Bounty
John Boyne Noah Barleywater Runs Away
Ray Bradbury The Day it Rained Forever
Ray Bradbury I Sing the Body Electric!
Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man
Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley's Secret
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #1: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

*Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #2: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

*Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #3: A Red Herring without Mustard

*Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #4: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
*Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #5: Speaking from Among the Bones

*Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #6: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches

ER Braithwaite To Sir, With Love
Gyles Brandreth Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders
Richard Brautigan So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Richard Brautigan Sombrero Fallout
David Brin Kil'n People
Poppy Z Brite Exquisite Corpse
Poppy Z Brite Lost Souls
Gerald Brom The Child Thief
Christopher Brookmyre The Sacred Art of Stealing
Max Brooks World War Z
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese
John Brunner The Jagged Orbit
John Brunner The Sheep Look Up
John Brunner The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner The Stone that Never Came Down
Pearl S Buck The Good Earth
Charles Bukowski The Continual Condition
Charles Bukowski Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski Notes on a Dirty Old Man
Charles Bukowski The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Charles Bukowski Tales of Ordinary Madness
Mikhail Bulgakov Diaboliad
Mikhail Bulgakov The Heart of a Dog
Katharine Burdekin Swastika Night
Anthony Burgess 1985
Anthony Burgess The Complete Enderby
Anthony Burgess A Dead Man in Deptford
Anthony Burgess Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess Honey for the Bears
Anthony Burgess The Long Day Wanes
Anthony Burgess The Malayan Trilogy
Anthony Burgess Tremor of Intent
Anthony Burgess The Wanting Seed
Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy
Augusten Burroughs Sellevision
William S Burroughs & Jack Kerouac And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
William S Burroughs Junky
William S Burroughs Naked Lunch
AS Byatt The Children's Book
AS Byatt Possession

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TBR Pile C-D

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 208
TBR as at 30 December 2015: 202 (10 read, 4 acquired)


Pat Califia Doc and Fluff
Italo Calvino Adam, One Afternoon
Italo Calvino The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino Difficult Loves
Italo Calvino Into the War
Italo Calvino Marcovaldo
Italo Calvino The Non-Existent Knight & The Cloven Viscount
Italo Calvino Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
Italo Calvino Our Ancestors
Italo Calvino The Road to San Giovanni
Italo Calvino T Zero
Italo Calvino Under the Jaguar Sun
Albert Camus The Plague
Trudi Canavan The Magician's Guild
Trudi Canavan The Novice
Trudi Canavan The High Lord
Karel Capek RUR
Karel Capek War with the Newts
Truman Capote A Tree of Night and Other Stories
Truman Capote The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Truman Capote Music for Chameleons
Truman Capote Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote Summer Crossing
John Carey The Faber Book of Utopias
Peter Carey Bliss
Peter Carey The Illywhacker
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang
Isobelle Carmody The Gathering
Isobelle Carmody Obernewtyn #1: Obernewtyn
Isobelle Carmody Obernewtyn #2: The Farseekers
Isobelle Carmody Obernewtyn #3: Ashling
Isobelle Carmody Obernewtyn #4: The Keeping Place
Lewis Carroll The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll Sylvie and Bruno
Angela Carter Black Venus
Angela Carter Heroes and Villains
Angela Carter The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop
Angela Carter Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter Wise Children
Raymond Carver Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
Nick Cave And the Ass Saw the Angel
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon The Final Solution
Michael Chabon The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon Summerland
Michael Chabon Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon Werewolves in Their Youth
Raymond Chandler Killer in the Rain
Raymond Chandler The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels
Henri Charriere Papillon
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
John Cheever Bullet Park
GK Chesterton The Complete Father Brown Stories
GK Chesterton The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands
*Kate Chopin The Awakening and Selected Stories

Agatha Christie The 13 Problems

Agatha Christie A Caribbean Mystery
Agatha Christie A Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie After the Funeral
Agatha Christie Appointment with Death
*Agatha Christie At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie Black Coffee
*Agatha Christie The Big Four
Agatha Christie The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie The Clocks
Agatha Christie Dead Man's Folly
Agatha Christie Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie Dumb Witness
Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember
Agatha Christie Evil Under the Sun
Agatha Christie The Floating Admiral
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie Hickory Dickory Dock
Agatha Christie The Listerdale Mystery
Agatha Christie The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Agatha Christie The Mousetrap and Other Plays
Agatha Christie The Moving Finger
Agatha Christie The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie The Murder in the Mews
Agatha Christie The Murder on the Links
Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie The Mysterious Mr Quin
Agatha Christie Partners in Crime
Agatha Christie Peril at End House
Agatha Christie Postern of Fate
Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie The Seven Dials Mystery
Agatha Christie Sleeping Murder
Agatha Christie Spider's Web
Agatha Christie Taken at the Flood
Agatha Christie Towards Zero
Agatha Christie The Unexpected Guest
John Christopher The Death of Grass
Santo Cilauro et al Phaic Tan
Santo Cilauro et al San Sombrero
Cassandra Clare Mortal Instruments #1: City of Bones
Cassandra Clare Mortal Instruments #2: City of Ashes
Cassandra Clare Mortal Instruments #3: City of Glass
Cassandra Clare Clockwork Angel
Arthur C Clarke Against the Fall of Night
Arthur C Clarke Prelude to Space
Arthur C Clarke The Space Trilogy
Susanna Clarke The Ladies of Grace Adieu
Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

*Ernest Cline Ready Player One

Jean Cocteau Les Enfants Terrible
JM Coetzee Disgrace
Colette The Last of Cheri
Eoin Colfer And Another Thing
Eoin Colfer The Supernaturalist
Wilkie Collins The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
John Connolly The Gates
Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent
Wendy Cooling (ed) D is for Dahl
Alfred Duff Cooper Talleyrand
Dale Cooper The Autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper
William Corlett The Magician's House #1: The Steps Up the Chimney
William Corlett The Magician's House #2: The Door in the Tree
William Corlett The Magician's House #3: The Tunnel Behind the Waterfall
William Corlett The Magician's House #4: The Bridge in the Clouds
Jonathan Craig Case of the Nervous Nude
Michael Crichton Jurassic Park
Justin Cronin The Passage
John Crowley Little, Big
Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham The Hours
Roald Dahl The Collected Short Stories
Roald Dahl Completely Unexpected Tales
Roald Dahl Rhyme Stew
Roald Dahl The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Gyorgy Dalos 1985
Mark Z Danielewski House of Leaves
David Stuart Davies The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories
Honore de Balzac Eugenie Grandet
Simone de Beauvoir The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir The Woman Destroyed
Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres Red Dog
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Wind, Sand and Stars
Edmund de Waal The Hare with Amber Eyes
Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Don DeLillo White Noise
Luke Dempsey Monty Python's Flying Circus: Completed and Annotated - All the Bits
Patrick Dennis Auntie Mame
Joyce Dennys Henrietta Sees it Through
Joyce Dennys Henrietta's War
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Patrick DeWitt The Sisters Brothers
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa The Leopard
Philip K Dick A Maze of Death
Philip K Dick A Scanner Darkly
Philip K Dick Confessions of a Crap Artist
Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K Dick Dr Bloodmoney
Philip K Dick Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle
Philip K Dick Martian Time-Slip
Philip K Dick Minority Report
Philip K Dick The Penultimate Truth
Philip K Dick Solar Lottery
Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K Dick Ubik
Philip K Dick Valis
Charles Dickens The Annotated A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples
Sophie Divry The Library of Unrequited Love
Cory Doctorow Little Brother
EL Doctorow Ragtime
James Doig Australian Ghost Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from Underground
Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle Tales of Unease
Roddy Doyle Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
Margaret Drabble The Gifts of War
Daphne du Maurier The Birds and Other Stories
Daphne du Maurier Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas The Last Cavalier
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers
Sarah Dunant In the Company of the Courtesan
Mark Dunn Ibid
Mark Dunn Under the Harrow
Mark Dunn Welcome to Higby
Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
Mary Durack Kings in Grass Castles

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I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 158
TBR as at 30 December 2015: 156 (3 read, 1 acquired)


Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan Look at Me
Dave Eggers The Wild Things
M Barnard Eldershaw Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Samuel Locke Elliott Careful, He Might Hear You
Brett Easton Ellis American Psycho
Brett Easton Ellis Less Than Zero
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
Ben Elton Blind Faith
Ben Elton Dead Famous
Ben Elton Meltdown
Ben Elton This Other Eden
Charles Elton Mr Toppit
Michael Ende The Neverending Story
Laura Esquivel Like Water for Hot Chocolate
Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead
Michel Faber The Apple
Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber The Courage Consort
Michel Faber The Fahrenheit Twins
Michel Faber The Fire Gospel
Michel Faber The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps
Michel Faber Under the Skin
John Meade Falkner Moonfleet
Hans Fallada Alone in Berlin
John Fante Ask the Dust
John Fante The Bandini Quartet
Philip Jose Farmer Dayworld
Philip Jose Farmer Dayworld Rebel
Philip Jose Farmer Dayworld Breakup
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner Light in August
William Faulkner Sanctuary
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Raymond E Feist Magician
Rachel Ferguson The Brontes Went to Woolworths
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Her
Jasper Fforde Dragonslayer #1: The Last Dragonslayer
Jasper Fforde Dragonslayer #2: The Song of the Quarkbeast
Jasper Fforde Nursery Crimes #2: The Fourth Bear
Jasper Fforde Shades of Grey #1: Shades of Grey
Jasper Fforde Thursday Next #6: One of Our Thursdays is Missing
Jasper Fforde Thursday Next #7: The Woman Who Died a Lot
Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary
Henry Fielding Tom Jones
F Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
F Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
Zelda Fitzgerald Save Me the Waltz
Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg I Still Dream about You
Fannie Flagg Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish
Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert Three Tales
Gillian Flynn Gone Girl
Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier
Frederick Forsyth The Odessa File
Therese Anne Fowler Z
John Fowles The Collector
John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Miles Franklin My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin My Career Goes Bung
Jonathan Franzen Freedom
Dawn French A Tiny Bit Marvellous
Dawn French Oh Dear Silvia
Esther Freud Hideous Kinky
Robert Frost The Poetry of Robert Frost
Stephen Fry The Hippopotamus
Stephen Fry The Liar
Stephen Fry Making History
Stephen Fry Paperweight
Stephen Fry The Stars' Tennis Balls
Cornelia Funke Inkheart #2: Inkspell
Cornelia Funke Inkheart #3: Inkdeath
Neil Gaiman American Gods
Neil Gaiman Fragile Things
Neil Gaiman M is for Magic
Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman Odd and the Frost Giants
Neil Gaiman Smoke and Mirrors
Neil Gaiman Stardust
Neil Gaiman (ed) Stories
Ernest J Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
Robert Galbraith The Cuckoo’s Calling
*Robert Galbraith The Silkworm
Paul Gallico Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Alex Garland The Beach
Elizabeth Garner The Ingenious Edgar Jones
Helen Garner The First Stone
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
Ricky Gervais Flanimals
Stella Gibbons Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons Starlight
Stella Gibbons Westwood
William Gibson Neuromancer
William Gibson Count Zero
William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson Burning Chrome
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
George Gissing New Grub Street
Morris Gleitzman Two Weeks with the Queen
Morris Gleitzman Once
Morris Gleitzman Then
Morris Gleitzman Now
Morris Gleitzman After
Dmitry Glukhovsky Metro 2033
Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Other Stories
Glen David Gold Carter Beats the Devil
Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
Edward Gorey The West Wing
Seth Grahame-Smith Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Gunter Grass The Tin Drum
Julia Gray Fire Music
Julia Gray Ice Mage
Julia Gray Isle of the Dead
Julia Gray The Guardian Cycle #1: The Dark Moon
Julia Gray The Guardian Cycle #2: The Jasper Forest
Julia Gray The Guardian Cycle #3: The Crystal Desert
Julia Gray The Guardian Cycle #4: The Red Glacier
Julia Gray The Guardian Cycle #5: Alyssa's Ring
Graham Greene A Burnt-Out Case
Graham Greene The Man Within
Graham Greene The Quiet American
Graham Greene Travels with My Aunt
Kerry Greenwood Corinna Chapman #2: Heavenly Pleasures
Kerry Greenwood Corinna Chapman #4: Trick or Treat
Kerry Greenwood Corinna Chapman #5: Forbidden Fruit
Kerry Greenwood Corinna Chapman #6: Cooking the Books
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #2: Flying Too High
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #3: Murder on the Ballarat Train
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #4: Death at Victoria Dock
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #5: The Green Mill Murder
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #7: Ruddy Gore
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #8: Urn Burial
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #9: Raisins and Almonds
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #10: Death Before Wicket
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #11: Away with the Fairies
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #12: Murder in Montparnasse
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #13: The Castlemaine Murders
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #14: Queen of the Flowers
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #15: Death by Water
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #16: Murder in the Dark
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #17: Murder on a Midsummer Night
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #18: Dead Man's Chest
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #19: Unnatural Habits
Kate Grenville The Secret River
Kate Grenville Lieutenant
Ken Grimwood Replay
Winston Groom Forrest Gump
David Grossman See Under: Love
Vasily Grossman Life and Fate
Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

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I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 126
TBR as at 9 December 2015: 127 (3 read, 4 acquired)


Mark Haddon The Red House
H Rider Haggard She

*Matt Haig The Humans

Matt Haig The Last Family in England
Matt Haig The Radleys
Joe Haldeman The Forever War
Sarah Hall Daughters of the North
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man
Knut Hamsun Hunger
Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure
Deborah Harkness A Discovery of Witches
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #9: Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #10: Dead in the Family
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #11: Dead Reckoning
Charlaine Harris Harper Connelly #1: Grave Sight
Charlaine Harris Harper Connelly #2: Grave Surprise
Charlaine Harris Harper Connelly #3: An Ice Cold Grave
Charlaine Harris Harper Connelly #4: Grave Secret
Joanne Harris Chocolat
Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs
*Craig Harrison The Quiet Earth

Harry Harrison Make Room! Make Room!

Harry Harrison A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat for President
Harry Harrison Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows
Elizabeth Harrower The Watch Tower
Milo M Hastings City of Endless Night
Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Lian Hearn Tales of the Otori #1: Across the Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn Tales of the Otori #2: Grass for His Pillow
Robert Heinlein The Door into Summer
Robert Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert Heinlein Starship Troopers
Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Joseph Heller Closing Time
Joseph Heller God Knows
Joseph Heller Good as Gold
Joseph Heller Picture of the Artist as an Old Man
Joseph Heller Picture This
Joseph Heller Something Happened
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
Emma Henderson Grace Williams Says It Loud
Frank Herbert Dune
Xavier Herbert Capricornia
Patricia Highsmith Carol
Patricia Highsmith Nothing that Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #2: Ripley Under Ground
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #3: Ripley's Game
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #4: The Boy Who Followed Ripley
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #5: Ripley Underwater
Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train

*Patricia Highsmith A Suspension of Mercy

Patricia Highsmith Those Who Walk Away
Patricia Highsmith The Two Faces of January
Susan Hill The Battle for Gullywith
Susan Hill Dolly
Susan Hill I'm the King of the Castle
Susan Hill The Mist in the Mirror
Susan Hill Mrs De Winter
Susan Hill The Small Hand
Barry Hines A Kestral for a Knave
SE Hinton Hawkes Harbor
SE Hinton Tex
SE Hinton That Was Then, This Is Now
Robin Hobb Farseer Trilogy #1: Assassin’s Apprentice
Robin Hobb Farseer Trilogy #2: Royal Assassin
Robin Hobb Farseer Trilogy #3: Assassin’s Quest
William Hope Hodgson The House on the Borderland
John Clellon Holmes Go
Homer The Iliad
Homer The Odyssey
Anthony Hope Rupert of Hentzau
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Michel Houellebecq Atomised
Michel Houellebecq Lanzarote
Michel Houellebecq The Possibility of an Island
Katherine Howe The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Ted Hughes The Iron Man
Ted Hughes The Iron Woman
Ted Hughes The Selected Poems
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
Aldous Huxley Ape and Essence
Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley Crome Yellow
Aldoux Huxley The Doors of Perception, and Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley Island
Aldous Huxley Those Barren Leaves
John Irving The World According to Garp
Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood Mr Norris Changes Trains
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro When We Were Orphans
Eowyn Ivey The Snow Child
*Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson The Lottery and Other Stories
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question
Henry James The Ambassadors
Henry James Daisy Miller and Other Stories
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Henry James Washington Square
Henry James What Maisie Knew
MR James Ghost Stories
MR James The Haunted Doll's House
Syrie James The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen
Tove Jansson Moomin #2: Finn Family Moomintroll
Tove Jansson Moomin #3: Moominpappa's Memoirs
Tove Jansson Moomin #4: Moominsummer Madness
Tove Jansson Moomin #5: Moominland Midwinter
Tove Jansson Moomin #6: Tales from Moominvalley
Tove Jansson Moomin #7: Moominpappa at Sea
Tove Jansson Moomin #8: Moominvalley in November
Tove Jansson The Summer Book
Paul Jennings Uncollected
Jerome K Jerome Diary of a Pilgrimage
Jerome K Jerome Evergreens
Jerome K Jerome Three Men on a Bummel
Lloyd Jones Mister Pip
Terry Jones (Douglas Adams) Starship Titanic
Wendy Jones The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals
Nicholas Jose (ed) Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature

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I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 112
TBR as at 6 October 2015: 107 (10 read, 5 acquired)


Franz Kafka The Complete Novels
Franz Kafka The Complete Short Stories

*MRC Kasasian Gower Street Detective #1: The Mangle Street Murders

*MRC Kasasian Gower Street Detective #2: The Curse of the House of Foskett

James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English
Thomas Keneally Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally Three Cheers for the Paraclete
Andrew Keogh twentytwelve
Jack Kerouac Beat Generation
Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac Doctor Sax
Jack Kerouac Good Blonde & Others
Jack Kerouac Lonesome Traveler
Jack Kerouac Maggie Cassidy
Jack Kerouac On the Road (The Original Scroll)
Jack Kerouac Orpheus Emerged
Jack Kerouac Satori in Paris
Jack Kerouac The Sea is My Brother
Jack Kerouac The Subterraneans and Pic
Judith Kerr When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Ken Kesey Demon Box
Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion
Daniel Keyes The Fifth Sally
Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees
Clive King Stig of the Dump
Stephen King 11.22.63
Stephen King The Bachman Books
Stephen King IT
Stephen King Needful Things
Stephen King The Stand
Stephen King Under the Dome
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Damon Knight (ed) A Pocketful of Stars
John Knowles A Separate Peace
Christopher Koch The Year of Living Dangerously
Arthur Koestler Arrival and Departure
Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon
Elizabeth Kostova The Historian
Nicola Kraus The Nanny Diaries
Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia
*Andrey Kurkov The Gardener from Ochakov

*Andrey Kurkov The Milkman in the Night

Lisa Lang Utopian Man
Reif Larsen The Selected Works of TS Spivet
Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Hugh Laurie The Gun Seller
DH Lawrence Kangaroo
Nam Le The Boat
JMG Le Clezio War
Sheridan Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly
Ursula Le Guin The Dispossessed
Ursula Le Guin The Earthsea Cycle #1: A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula Le Guin The Earthsea Cycle #2: The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula Le Guin The Earthsea Cycle #3: The Farthest Shore
Ursula Le Guin The Earthsea Cycle #4: Tehanu
Ursula Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula Le Guin The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Maurice Leblanc An Arsene Lupin Omnibus
Maurice Leblanc Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

*Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie
Vernon Lee The Virgin of the Seven Daggers
Fritz Leiber Gather, Darkness
Stanislaw Lem The Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem The Futurological Congress
Stanislaw Lem The Master's Voice
Stanislaw Lem Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
Madeleine L'Engle A Wind in the Door
Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle Many Waters
Doris Lessing Briefing for a Descent into Hell
Doris Lessing Memoirs of a Survivor
Jonathan Lethem Gun, with Occasional Music
Ada Leverson Love's Shadow
Primo Levi If Not Now, When?
Primo Levi The Periodic Table
Ira Levin Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin This Perfect Day
Andrea Levy Small Island
CS Lewis The Dark Tower
CS Lewis Out of the Silent Planet
CS Lewis Perelandra
CS Lewis That Hideous Strength
Sinclair Lewis It Can't Happen Here
Astrid Lindgren The Brothers Lionheart
Astrid Lindgren Karlson Flies Again
Astrid Lindgren Pippi in the South Seas
Astrid Lindgren Pippi Goes on Board
Astrid Lindgren Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
John Ajvide Lindqvist Harbour
John Ajvide Lindqvist Let the Right One In
Jeff Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay Dearly Devoted Dexter
Jeff Lindsay Dexter in the Dark
Jeff Lindsay Dexter by Design
Jeff Lindsay Dexter is Delicious
Joan Lindsay Picnic at Hanging Rock
David Lodge A Man of Parts
David Lodge The Campus Trilogy
David Lodge Ginger, You're Barmy
David Lodge Small World
Jack London The Call of the Wild and Other Stories
Jack London The Iron Heel
HP Lovecraft The Best of HP Lovecraft
Charlie Lovett The Bookman’s Tale
Lois Lowry A Summer to Die
Lois Lowry Anastasia #6: Anastasia Has the Answers
Lois Lowry Anastasia #7: Anastasia’s Chosen Career
Lois Lowry The Giver #2: Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry The Giver #3: Messenger

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I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 172
TBR as at 30 December 2015: 172 (1 read, 1 acquired, 1 with Nathan)


Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mister Tom
Gregory Maguire Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister
Gregory Maguire Matchless
Gregory Maguire Mirror Mirror
Gregory Maguire Wicked #2: Son of a Witch
Gregory Maguire Wicked #3: A Lion Among Men
Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead
Bernard Malamud The Natural
David Malouf An Imaginary Life
David Malouf The Complete Stories
David Malouf The Conversations at Curlow Creek
David Malouf Johnno
David Malouf Remembering Babylon
David Malouf Ransom
Alberto Manguel All Men are Liars
Alberto Manguel The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories
Alberto Manguel News from a Foreign Country Came
Alberto Manguel Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
Wolf Mankowitz A Kid for Two Farthings
Katherine Mansfield The Collected Stories
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock
Melina Marchetta Froi of the Exiles
Melina Marchetta The Piper's Son
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
John Marsden The Great Gatenby
John Marsden The Journey
John Marsden Out of Time
John Marsden Winter
George RR Martin Game of Thrones #1: A Game of Thrones
George RR Martin Game of Thrones #2: A Clash of Kings
George RR Martin Game of Thrones #3a: A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow
George RR Martin Game of Thrones #3b: A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold
George RR Martin Game of Thrones #4: A Feast for Crows
George RR Martin Game of Thrones #5a: A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust
George RR Martin Game of Thrones #5b: A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast
George RR Martin (ed.) Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance
Valerie Martin Property
Groucho Marx The Essential Groucho Marx
Richard Matheson The Shrinking Man
Charles Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer
W Somerset Maugham Catalina
W Somerset Maugham Christmas Holiday
W Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories Volume 1
W Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories Volume 2
W Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories Volume 3
W Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories Volume 4
W Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
W Somerset Maugham Then and Now
William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow
Cormac McCarthy Border Trilogy #1: All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy Border Trilogy #2: The Crossing
Mary McCarthy The Group
Donald McCraig Rhett Butler’s People
Carson McCullers The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding
Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds
Ian McEwan Black Dogs
Ian McEwan The Innocent
Ian McEwan Solar
Jon McGregor If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Paula McLain The Paris Wife
McSweeney's McSweeney's Echanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
McSweeney's Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs...
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Grace Metalious Peyton Place
Shaun Micallef Preincarnate
Shaun Micallef The President’s Desk
China Mieville Bas-Lag #1: Perdido Street Station
China Mieville Bas-Lag #2: The Scar
China Mieville Bas-Lag #3: The Iron Council
China Mieville The City & the City
China Mieville Embassytown
China Mieville King Rat
China Mieville Kraken
China Mieville Looking for Jake and Other Stories
China Mieville Railsea
China Mieville Un Lun Dun

*Arthur Miller All My Sons

Walter M Miller Jr A Canticle for Leibowitz
Spike Milligan Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall
Spike Milligan The Compulsive Spike Milligan
AA Milne Now We Are Six
AA Milne The Red House Mystery
Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey
David Mitchell Ghostwritten
David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Margaret Mitchell Lost Laysen
Nancy Mitford The Blessing
Nancy Mitford Love in a Cold Climate and Other Stories
Nancy Mitford Pigeon Pie
Nancy Mitford Pudding & Pie
Walter Moers Zamonia #3: The City of Dreaming Books
Walter Moers Zamonia #4: The Alchemaster's Apprentice
Walter Moers Zamonia #5: The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books
LM Montgomery Anne of Green Gables #6: Anne of Ingleside
LM Montgomery Anne of Green Gables #7: Rainbow Valley
LM Montgomery Anne of Green Gables #8: Rilla of Ingleside
LM Montgomery Chronicles of Avonlea
LM Montgomery Further Chronicles of Avonlea
LM Montgomery Emily #1: Emily of New Moon
LM Montgomery Emily #2: Emily Climbs
LM Montgomery Emily #3: Emily's Quest
Michael Moorcock The Dancers at the End of Time
Thomas More Utopia (with Nathan)
Sally Morgan My Place
Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus
William Morris News from Nowhere and Other Writings
Toni Morrison Beloved
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
James Morrow This is the Way the World Ends
Jack Moses Nine Miles from Gundagai
Kate Mosse Labyrinth
Frank Muir The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose
Alice Munro Selected Stories
Alice Munro The View from Castle Rock
Haruki Murakami After Dark
Haruki Murakami Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami 1Q84
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Ryu Murakami Piercing
Iris Murdoch The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch Under the Net
Paul Murray Skippy Dies
Vladimir Nabokov Ada or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov The Annotated Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov Bend Sinister
Vladimir Nabokov Despair
Vladimir Nabokov The Eye
Vladimir Nabokov Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov Mary
Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov's Dozen
Vladimir Nabokov The Original of Laura
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Irene Nemirovsky Le Bal
E Nesbit Five Children and It
E Nesbit The Railway Children
Patrick Ness Chaos Walking #1: The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness Chaos Walking #2: The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness Chaos Walking #3: Monsters of Men
Patrick Ness The Crane Wife
David Nicholls One Day
Larry Niven Neutron Star
William F Nolan & George Clayton Johnson Logan's Run
Mary Norton Bedknob and Broomstick
Mary Norton The Borrowers
Flann O'Brien At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien The Hard Life
Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman
Robert C O'Brien Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find
Frank O'Connor The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland
John O'Hara Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara BUtterfield 8
Jamie O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys
Joyce Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaneys
Tea Obreht The Tiger's Wife
Yoko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor
Sofi Oksanen Purge
Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell The Road to Wigan Pier
Joanne Owens Puppet Master

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I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 135
TBR as at 27 November 2015: 131 (6 read, 1 acquired)


Chuck Palahniuk Choke
Chuck Palahniuk Diary
Chuck Palahniuk Haunted
Chuck Palahniuk Pygmy
Chuck Palahniuk Rant
Chuck Palahniuk Survivor
Ruth Park Poor Man's Orange
Dorothy Parker The Ladies of the Corridor
Dorothy Parker The Penguin Dorothy Parker
Ann Patchett Bel Canto
Banjo Paterson The Man from Snowy River
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
Mervyn Peake The Gormenghast Trilogy
Mervyn Peake Gormenghast #2: Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake Gormenghast #3: Titus Alone
Matthew Pearl The Dante Club
Matthew Pearl The Last Dickens
Matthew Pearl The Poe Shadow
Iain Pears An Instance of the Fingerpost
Otto Penzler (ed) The Big Book of Pulps
Georges Perec A Void
Georges Perec The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise
Georges Perec Life: A User's Manual
Georges Perec Things: A Story of the Sixties
Georges Perec W or the Memory of Childhood
Arturo Perez-Reverte The Club Dumas
Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics
DBC Pierre Vernon God Little
Albert Sanchez Pinol Pandora in the Congo
Sylvia Plath Collected Children's Stories
Sylvia Plath Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Andrey Platonov The Foundation Pit
Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Frederik Pohl Jem
Frederik Pohl & CM Kornbluth The Space Merchants
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales
Anthony Powell Books Do Furnish a Room
Terry Pratchett The Carpet People (standalone)
Terry Pratchett The Dark Side of the Sun (standalone)
Terry Pratchett Nation
Terry Pratchett Strata (standalone)
Terry Pratchett Discworld #6: Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett Discworld #7: Pyramids
Terry Pratchett Discworld #8: Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett Discworld #9: Eric
Terry Pratchett Discworld #10: Moving Pictures
Terry Pratchett Discworld #11: Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett Discworld #12: Witches Abroad
Terry Pratchett Discworld #13: Small Gods
Terry Pratchett Discworld #14: Lords and Ladies
Terry Pratchett Discworld #15: Men at Arms
Terry Pratchett Discworld #16: Soul Music
Terry Pratchett Discworld #17: Interesting Times
Terry Pratchett Discworld #18: Maskerade
Terry Pratchett Discworld #19: Feet of Clay
Terry Pratchett Discworld #20: Hogfather
Terry Pratchett Discworld #21: Jingo
Terry Pratchett Discworld #22: The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett Discworld #23: Carpe Jugulum
Terry Pratchett Discworld #24: The Fifth Elephant
Terry Pratchett Discworld #25: The Truth
Terry Pratchett Discworld #26: Thief of Time
Terry Pratchett Discworld #27: The Last Hero
Terry Pratchett Discworld #28: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett Discworld #29: Night Watch
Terry Pratchett Discworld #30: The Wee Free Men
Terry Pratchett Discworld #31: Monstrous Regiment
Terry Pratchett Discworld #32: A Hat Full of Sky
Terry Pratchett Discworld #33: Going Postal
Terry Pratchett Discworld #34: Thud!
Terry Pratchett Discworld #35: Wintersmith
Terry Pratchett Discworld #36: Making Money
Terry Pratchett Discworld #37: Unseen Academicals
Terry Pratchett Discworld #38: I Shall Wear Midnight
Terry Pratchett Discworld #39: Snuff
Terry Pratchett Discworld #40: Raising Steam
Terry Pratchett The Discworld Companion
Terry Pratchett Johnny Maxwell #1: Only You Can Save Mankind
Terry Pratchett Johnny Maxwell #2: Johnny and the Dead
Terry Pratchett Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
Terry Pratchett The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Good Omens
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long Earth
Chris Priestley The Dead of Winter
Chris Priestley Tales of Terror from the Black Ship
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials #1: Northern Lights
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials #2: The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials #3: The Amber Spyglass
Barbara Pym An Unsuitable Attachment
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
Ann Radcliffe A Sicilian Romance
Ayn Rand The Early Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand Night of January 16th
Ayn Rand We the Living
Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons
Graham Rawle Woman's World
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling
David Remnick Wonderful Town: New York Stories from ‘The New Yorker’
Beth Revis Across the Universe
Mack Reynolds Towers of Utopia
Dan Rhodes Anthropology
Dan Rhodes Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love
Dan Rhodes Little Hands Clapping
Dan Rhodes The Little White Car
Dan Rhodes This is Life
Dan Rhodes Timoleon Vieta Come Home
Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat
Simon Rich The Last Girlfriend on Earth

*Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine #3: Library of Souls

Ransom Riggs The Sherlock Holmes Handbook
Elisabeth Robinson The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Kim Stanley Robinson Galileo's Dream
Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson The Years of Rice and Salt
Mordecai Roshwald Level 7
Philip Roth The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth The Human Stain
Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth Sabbath’s Theater
Veronica Roth Divergent #2: Insurgent
Veronica Roth Divergent #3: Allegiant
Rainbow Rowell Eleanor & Park
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Jed Rubenfeld The Interpretation of Murder
Salman Rushdie Fury
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses

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TBR Pile S-V

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 118
TBR as at 28 November 2015: 116 (2 read, x acquired)


Rafael Sabatini Captain Blood
JD Salinger For Esme - with Love and Squalor
JD Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Jean-Paul Sartre The Age of Reason
Kim Scott That Deadman Dance
WG Sebald Austerlitz
Erich Segal Love Story
Erich Segal Oliver's Story
Hubert Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn
George Selden The Cricket in Times Square
Will Self The Book of Dave
Brian Selznick Wonder Struck
Maria Semple Where'd You Go, Bernadette
William Shakespeare As You Like It
William Shakespeare The Sonnets
Leanne Shapton Important Artifacts and...
Percy Bysshe Shelley Selected Poems
Lynn Shepherd Tom-All-Alone's
Gary Shteyngart Absurdistan
Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story
Nevil Shute A Town Called Alice
Nevil Shute Pied Piper
Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Robert Silverberg The Book of Skulls
Shel Silverstein Every Thing On It
Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends
Craig Silvey Jasper Jones
Georges Simenon Maigret at the Crossroads
Dan Simmons Hyperion
Michael Sims (ed) The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Natasha Solomons A Novel in the Viola
Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Muriel Spark The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories
Art Spiegelman The Complete Maus
Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon Star Maker
Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children
ML Stedman The Light between Oceans
Wallace Stegner Crossing to Safety
John Steinbeck East of Eden
John Steinbeck The Long Valley
John Steinbeck The Moon is Down
John Steinbeck Once There Was a War
John Steinbeck The Pearl
John Steinbeck The Red Pony
John Steinbeck The Short Reign of Pippin IV
Laurence Sterne The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell The Curse of the Gloamglozer (Book 1, Quint Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell The Winter Knights (Book 2, Quint Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell The Last of the Sky Pirates (Book 1, Rook Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Vox (Book 2, Rook Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Freeglader (Book 3, Rook Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Beyond the Deepwoods (Book 1, Twig Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Stormchaser (Book 2, Twig Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Midnight Over Sanctaphrax (Book 3, Twig Saga)
Kathryn Stockett The Help
Bram Stoker The Lair of the White Worm and Other Stories
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
Charles Stross Halting State
Jonathan Stroud Bartimaeus #1: The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud Bartimaeus #2: The Golem's Eye
Jonathan Stroud Bartimaeus #3: Ptolemy's Gate
Jonathan Stroud Bartimaeus #4: The Ring of Solomon
William Styron Sophie's Choice
William Styron The Suicide Run
Kate Summerscale The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls
Patrick Suskind Perfume
Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Rabindranath Tagore Selected Poems
Kousun Takami Battle Royale
Amy Tan The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan Saving Fish from Drowning
Mildred D Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Peter Temple The Broken Shore
Walter Tevis Mockingbird
William Makepeace Thackeray The Rose and the Ring
Scarlett Thomas The End of Mr Y
Scarlett Thomas Pop Co
Miriam Toews The Flying Troutmans
JRR Tolkien Mr Bliss
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole
John Kennedy Toole The Neon Bible
Sue Townsend The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend True Confessions of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
Lynne Truss A Certain Age
Lynne Truss Going Loco
Lynne Truss Tennyson's Gift
Nancy Turner Sarah's Quilt
Nancy Turner The Star Garden
John Updike Rabbit, Run
John Updike The Witches of Eastwick
Carl-Johan Vallgren The Horrific Sufferings of Hercules Barefoot
Jack Vance Emphyrio
Vassilis Vassilikos Z
Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days
Barbara Vine The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
Vladimir Voinovich Moscow 2042
Voltaire Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Palm Sunday and Welcome to the Monkey House

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TBR Pile W-Z

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 153
TBR as at 29 November 2015: 152 (1 read, x acquired)


Lucy Wadham Heads and Straights
SA Wakefield Gumbles on Guard
SA Wakefield Gumbles in Summer
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Karen Thompson Walker The Age of Miracles
Dorothy Wall Blinky Bill
Andy Warhol A: A Novel
Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men
Sarah Waters Affinity
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters The Night Watch
Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet
Winifred Watson Mrs Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Evelyn Waugh A Little Order
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh Officers and Gentlemen
Evelyn Waugh Scoop
Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia
Charles Webb Home School
Orson Welles Mr Arkadin
HG Wells Ann Veronica
HG Wells The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories
HG Wells The First Men in the Moon
HG Wells The History of Mr Polly
HG Wells The Island of Dr Moreau
HG Wells Love and Mr Lewisham
HG Wells A Modern Utopia
HG Wells Mr Britling Sees it Through
HG Wells Selected Short Stories
HG Wells The Shape of Things to Come
HG Wells The Sleeper Awakes
HG Wells Tono-Bungay
Irvine Welsh Filth
Irvine Welsh Porno
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
Eudora Welty Moon Lake
Scott Westerfeld Leviathan #1: Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld Leviathan #2: Behemoth
Scott Westerfeld #1: Peeps
Scott Westerfeld #2: The Last Days
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
TH White The Once and Future King
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Elie Wiesel Dawn
Elie Wiesel Day
Elie Wiesel Twilight
Gene Wilder What Is This Thing Called Love?
John Williams Stoner
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog
Jacqueline Wilson Best Friends
Jacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum
Sarah Winman When God Was a Rabbit
Jeanette Winterson Gut Symmetries
Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry
Tim Winton Dirt Music
Tim Winton That Eye, the Sky
PG Wodehouse A Damsel in Distress
PG Wodehouse A Pelican at Blandings
PG Wodehouse The Adventures of Sally
PG Wodehouse Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
PG Wodehouse Bachelors Anonymous
PG Wodehouse Barmy in Wonderland
PG Wodehouse Big Money
PG Wodehouse Blandings Castle
PG Wodehouse The Clicking of Cuthbert
PG Wodehouse Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
PG Wodehouse Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
PG Wodehouse Full Moon
PG Wodehouse The Girl in Blue
PG Wodehouse The Heart of a Goof
PG Wodehouse Hot Water
PG Wodehouse Ice in the Bedroom
PG Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
PG Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing
PG Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith
PG Wodehouse Laughing Gas
PG Wodehouse The Luck of the Bodkins
PG Wodehouse The Mating Season
PG Wodehouse Money for Nothing
PG Wodehouse Mr Mulliner Speaking
PG Wodehouse Mulliner Nights
PG Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim
PG Wodehouse Pigs Have Wings
PG Wodehouse Ring for Jeeves
PG Wodehouse Service with a Smile
PG Wodehouse The Small Bachelor
PG Wodehouse Something Fishy
PG Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
PG Wodehouse Summer Lightning
PG Wodehouse Summer Moonshine
PG Wodehouse Sunset at Blandings
PG Wodehouse Ukridge
PG Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite
PG Wodehouse Uncle Fred in the Springtime
PG Wodehouse Uneasy Money
PG Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves!
PG Wodehouse Wodehouse at the Wicket
PG Wodehouse Young Men in Spats
Bernard Wolfe Limbo '90
Gene Wolfe The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tom Wolfe The Pump House Gang
Jack Womack Ambient
Jack Womack Elvissey
Jack Womack Going Going Gone
Jack Womack Heathern
Jack Womack Let's Put the Future Behind Us
Jack Womack Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Jack Womack Terraplane
Maryrose Wood The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1: The Mysterious Howling
Virginia Woolf A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf Flush
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway's Party
Virginia Woolf Orlando
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf The Years
David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Jonathan Wylie Across the Flame
Jonathan Wylie Island and Empires 1: The Last Augury
Jonathan Wylie Island and Empires 2: Dark Fire
Jonathan Wylie Island and Empires 3: Echoes of Flame
Jonathan Wylie Other Lands
Jonathan Wylie Shadow Maze
John Wyndham Chocky
John Wyndham The Kraken Wakes
John Wyndham Plan for Chaos
John Wyndham Trouble with Lichen
John Wyndham Web
Johann Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson
Richard Yates A Special Providence
Richard Yates Cold Spring Harbor
Richard Yates Collected Stories
Richard Yates The Easter Parade
Richard Yates Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Richard Yates Liars in Love
Richard Yates Revolutionary Road
Charles Yu How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafon Niebla #1: The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafon Niebla #2: The Midnight Palace
Roger Zelazny The Lord of Light
Emile Zola Nana
Emile Zola Therese Raquin
Markus Zusak Fighting Ruben Wolfe

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Non-Fiction: Autobiographies and Biographies

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 168
TBR as at 17 September 2015: 172 (x read, 4 acquired)


(Ordered by subject rather than author)
Amis | Martin Amis Experiece
Austen | Paula Byrne The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

Austen | Claire Tomalin Jane Austen: A Life

Ballard | JG Ballard Miracles of Life
Bates | HE Bates A Country Life
Beach | Sylvia Beach Shakespeare & Company
Beat Writers | Barry Miles The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963
Beat Writers | Bill Morgan The Typewriter is Holy

*Beatles, The | Mark Lewisohn Tune In

Bloomsbury Set | Leon Edel Bloomsbury: A House of Lions
Bloomsbury Set | Quentin Bell Bloomsbury
Bennett | Alan Bennett A Life Like Other People's
Borges | Alberto Manguel With Borges
Boyd | Pattie Boyd Wonderful Tonight
Branson | Richard Branson Losing My Virginity
Brautigan | Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America
Bronte | Rebecca Fraser Charlotte Bronte
Bryson | Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Buddha | Jack Kerouac Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Burgess | Anthony Burgess You've Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess
Burroughs | Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table
Burroughs | Augusten Burroughs Dry
Burroughs | Augusten Burroughs Magical Thinking
Burroughs | Augusten Burroughs You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Calvino | Italo Calvino Hermit in Paris
Cassady | Carolyn Cassady Off the Road
Chabon | Michael Chabon Manhood for Amateurs
Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin My Autobiography
Chapman | Jack Jones Let Me Take You Down: The Man Who Killed John Lennon
Christie | Agatha Christie An Autobiography
Dahl | Ronald Storrock Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl
Dawkins | Richard Dawkins An Appetite for Wonder
de Beauvoir | Claudine Monteil The Beauvoir Sisters
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir A Very Easy Death
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Vol. 1)
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir The Prime of Life (Vol. 2)
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir Force of Circumstance (Vol. 3)
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir All Said and Done (Vol. 4)
de Pompadour | Nancy Mitford Madame de Pompadour
de Quincey | Thomas de Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Delafield | EM Delafield The Diary of a Provincial Lady
des Barres | Pamela des Barres I'm with the Band
Descartes | AC Grayling Descartes
Dickens | Simon Callow Charles Dickens

Dickens | John Forster The Life of Charles Dickens

Didion | Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Donovan | Donovan Leitch The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Durrell | Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals
Durrell | Gerald Durrell The Overloaded Ark
Dylan | Bob Dylan Chronicles Volume One
Eggers | Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Fielding | Leaf Fielding To Live Outside the Law
Fitzgerald | Nancy Milford Zelda Fitzgerald
Fowler | Jenny McMorris The Warden of English: The Life of HW Fowler
Fox | Michael J Fox Lucky Man
Frederick II | Nancy Mitford Frederick the Great
Frey | James Frey A Million Little Pieces
Fry | Stephen Fry The Fry Chronicles

*Fry | Stephen Fry More Fool Me

Garland | Gerald Clarke Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
Garnett | Angelica Garnett Deceived with Kindness
Greer | Germaine Greer Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
Griffin | John Howard Griffin Black Like Me
Guevara | Che Guevara Guerrilla Warfare
Hammerton | Sir John Hammerton Books and Myself: Memoirs of an Editor
Hanff | Helene Hanff Q's Legacy
Hanff | Helene Hanff Underfoot in Show Business
Hardy | Marieke Hardy You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead
Harrison | Dava Sobel Longitude
Hawking | Stephen Hawking My Brief History
Hearst | Patty Hearst Her Own Story
Heller | Joseph Heller No Laughing Matter
Heller | Joseph Heller Now and Then
Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast
Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa
Hepburn | Katharine Hepburn Me: Stories of My Life
Highsmith | Joan Schenkar The Talented Miss Highsmith
Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock A Brief Darkness
Hitchens | Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22
Hughes | Gerald Hughes Ted and I
Jensen | Jan Lars Jensen Nervous System
Jerome | Jerome K Jerome The Life and Times
Jobs | Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs
Jones | Chris Masters Jonestown
Kennedy | Richard Kennedy A Boy at the Hogarth Press
Kennedy | Graeme Blundell King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy
Lennon | Yoko Ono (ed) Memories of John Lennon
Levi | Primo Levi If This is a Man & The Truce
Lewis | CS Lewis Surprised by Joy
Liddell | Simon Winchester The Alice Behind Wonderland
Louis XIV | Nancy Mitford The Sun King
Mantel | Hilary Mantel Giving Up the Ghost
Marx | Charlotte Chandler Hello, I Must be Going: Groucho and His Friends
Marx | Groucho Marx Groucho and Me
Marx | Groucho Marx Memoirs of a Mangy Lover
Marx | Harpo Marx Harpo Speaks!
Maynard | Joyce Maynard At Home in the World
McCrum | Robert McCrum My Year Off
Mencken | HL Mencken My Life as Author and Editor
Mencken | HL Mencken Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work
Mencken | Terry Teachout The Skeptic: A Life of HL Mencken
Milne | Christopher Milne The Enchanted Places
Mitford | Diana Mitford A Life of Contrasts
Mitford | Jessica Mitford A Fine Old Conflict
Mitford | Harold Acton Nancy Mitford: A Biography
Mitford | Jonathan Guinness The House of Mitford
Mitford | Mary S Lovell The Mitford Girls
Mitford | Mary S Lovell The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
Murakami | Haruki Murakami What I Think About When I Think About Running
Nabokov | Stacy Schiff Vera (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov)
O'Dell | Chris O'Dell Miss O'Dell
Orwell | George Woodcock The Cystal Spirit
Orwell | Hilary Spurling The Girl from the Fiction Department
Parker | John Keats You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
Parker | Marion Meade Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This?
Pirsig | Robert M Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plath | Ronald Hayman The Death & Life of Sylvia Plath
Powell | Julie Powell Julie & Julia
Richards | Keith Richards Life
Rushdie | Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton
Salinger | David Shields & Shane Salerno Salinger
Sartre | Simone de Beauvoir Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre
Sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre Words
Schulz | David Michaelis Schulz and Peanuts
Sedaris | David Sedaris Barrel Fever
Sedaris | David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sedaris | David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Sexton | Diane Wood Anne Sexton
Sexton | Linda Gray Sexton Searching for Mercy Street
Shakespeare | Ben Crystal Shakespeare on Toast
Shorter | Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards
Smith | Nigel Smith I Think There's Something Wrong With Me
Smith | Simon Winchester The Map that Changed the World
Stein | Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
Stein | Gertrude Stein Paris France
Sybil | Flora Rheta Schreiber Sybil
Tammet | Daniel Tammet Born on a Blue Day
Tammet | Daniel Tammet Embracing the Wide Sky
Tan | Amy Tan The Opposite of Fate
Tarbox | Katherine Tarbox Katie.com
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Kingdom of Fear
Thompson | William McKeen Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S Thompson
Thompson | Ralph Steadman The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S Thompson
Thompson | Jann Wenner Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S Thompson
Twain | Mark Twain Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1
Twain | Mark Twain Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 2
Van Gogh | Irving Stone Lust for Life
Van Gogh | Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith Van Gogh
Vincent | Norah Vincent Self-Made Man
Voltaire | Nancy Mitford Voltaire in Love
Walls | Jeanette Walls The Glass Castle
Warhol | Andy Warhol The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Waugh | Paula Byrne Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
Welles | Simon Callow The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles biography, Vol 1)
Welles | Simon Callow Hello Americans (Orson Welles biography, Vol 2)
Welles | Chris Welles Feder In My Father's Shadow
West | Rebecca West The Essential Rebecca West
Wevill | Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev A Lover of Unreason
Wharton | Hermione Lee Edith Wharton
Winterson | Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?
Wodehouse | Frances Donaldson PG Wodehouse
Wodehouse | Robert McCrum Wodehouse
Woolf | Quentin Bell Virginia Woolf 1882-1912
Woolf | Quentin Bell Virginia Woolf 1912-1941
Woolf | Julia Briggs Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
Woolf | Hermione Lee Virginia Woolf
Woolf | Virginia Woolf Moments of Being
Wurtzel | Elizabeth Wurtzel More, Now, Again
Wurtzel | Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation
X | Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Zeitoun | Dave Eggers Zeitoun

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Non-Fiction: Letters, Diaries and Essays

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 112
TBR as at 3 April 2015: 115 (1 read, 4 acquired)


(Ordered by subject rather than author)
Amis | Martin Amis The Moronic Inferno
Amis | Martin Amis Visiting Mrs Nabokov
Amis | Martin Amis The War against Cliche
Austen | Deirdre Le Faye Jane Austen's Letters
Auster | Paul Auster Winter Journal
Ballard | JG Ballard A User's Guide to the Millennium
Bangs | Lester Bangs Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Beach | Sylvia Beach The Letters of Sylvia Beach
Bell | Regina Marler (ed) Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
Borges | Jorge Luis Borges | The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986
Bulgakov | Mikhail Bulgakov Diaries and Selected Letters
Burroughs | Oliver Harris The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945-59
Capote | Truman Capote A Capote Reader
Capote | Gerald Clarke (ed) Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote
Carter | Angela Carter A Card from Angela Carter
Christie | John Curran Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
Christie | John Curran Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making—More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks
Conan Doyle | John Lellenberg et al Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
de Beauvoir | Quintin Hoare Simone de Beauvoir: Letters to Sartre
Dickens | Jenny Hartley The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
Doyle | Ursula Doyle Love Letters of Great Men and Women
Eco | Umberto Eco Serendipities
Fitzgerald | Jackson Bryer & Cathy Barks Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald | Andrew Turnbull (ed) Dreams of Youth: The Letters of F Scott Fitzgerald
Franklin | Miles Franklin My Congenials: Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters
Franzen | Jonathan Franzen How to be Alone
Ginsberg | Allen Ginsberg The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952
Guevera | Che Guevera The Motorcycle Diaries
Hardy | Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire Yours Truly: Cathartic Confessions, Passionate Declarations and Vivid Recollections from Women of Letters
Heller | Matthew J Bruccolo & Park Bucker (eds) Catch as Catch Can (also on fiction TBR)
Hitchens | Christopher Hitchens Arguably
Hitchens | Christopher Hitchens The Quotable Hitchens
Hornby | Nick Hornby 31 Songs
Hughes | Ted Hughes Letters of Ted Hughes
Huxley | Aldous Huxley Music at Night
Inklings | Humphrey Carpenter The Inklings
James | Morris Shapira Henry James: Selected Literary Criticism
Kafka | Max Brod (ed) Franz Kafka: Diaries, 1910-1923
Kafka | Richard & Clara Winston (eds) Letters to Friends, Family and Editors: Franz Kafka
Kerouac | Bill Morgan & David Stanford (eds) Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
Lewis | Lesley Walmsley CS Lewis Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories
Lewis | Walter Hooper CS Lewis: The Companion & Guide
Lindsay | Norman Lindsay Bohemians at the Bulletin
Mansfield | Katherine Mansfield Letters and Journals
Marx | Groucho Marx The Groucho Letters: Letters to and from Groucho Marx
Mencken | HL Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy
Mencken | HL Mencken The Diary of HL Mencken
Mencken | HL Mencken In Defence of Women
Mencken | HL Mencken Selected Prejudices
Mencken | Alastair Cooke Vintage Mencken
Mitchell | Richard Harwell Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Letters 1936-1949
Mitford | Peter Y Sussman (ed) Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Mitford | Jessica Mitford The Making of a Muckraker
Mitford | Nancy Mitford (ed) Noblesse Oblige
Mitford | Charlotte Mosley The Letters of Nancy Mitford
Mitford | Charlotte Mosley The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
Mitford | John Saumarez Smith The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-1973
Mitford | Charlotte Mosley The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters
Montgomery | LM Montgomery The Complete Journals of LM Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889–1900
*Montgomery | LM Montgomery The Complete Journals of LM Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1901–1911
Murdoch | Peter J Conradi Iris Murdoch: Letters & Diaries 1939-1945
Nabokov | Dmitri Nabokov & Matthew J Bruccoli Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-77
Nin | Anais Nin The Journals of Anais Nin, Volume 3
Orwell | George Orwell George Orwell: A Life in Letters
Orwell | George Orwell Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 1
Orwell | George Orwell Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 2
Orwell | George Orwell Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 3
Orwell | George Orwell Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 4
Orwell | George Orwell Diaries
Orwell | George Orwell Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
Orwell | George Orwell Why I Write
Oxford | Anita Kermode (ed) The Oxford Book of Letters
Perec | Georges Perec Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Plath | Sylvia Plath Letters Home
Rand | Scott McConnell 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand
Rand | Michael S Berliner Letters of Ayn Rand
Rilke | Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
Ronson | Jon Ronson Lost at Sea
Ronson | Jon Ronson The Men Who Stare at Goats
Ronson | Jon Ronson Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness
Ronson | Jon Ronson What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness
Ronson | Jon Ronson Them: Adventures with Extremists
Russell | Bertrand Russell Selected Letters, Volume 1: The Private Years (1884–1914)
Sexton | Linda Gray Sexton & Lois Ames (eds) Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
Steinbeck | John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
Steinbeck | John Steinbeck & Elaine Steinbeck Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
Steinbeck | Robert Demott Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath 1938-1941
Stoker | Bram Stoker The Lost Journals of Bram Stoker
Thompson | Anita Thompson (ed) Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S Thompson
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers Vol. 2: Generation of Swine
*Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers Vol. 3: Songs of the Doomed
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers Vol. 4: Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing Letters Vol. 1: The Proud Highway
Twain | Charles Neider (ed) Punch, Brothers, Punch: The Comic Mark Twain Reader
van Gogh | Ronald de Leeuw The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Warhol | Pat Hackett (ed) The Andy Warhol Diaries
Waugh | Evelyn Waugh The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
Waugh | Evelyn Waugh The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
Wilde | Oscar Wilde De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
Wodehouse | PG Wodehouse A Life in Letters
Wolfe | Tom Wolfe Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine
Wolfe | Tom Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Wolfe | Tom Wolfe & EW Johnson (eds) The New Journalism
Wolfe | Tom Wolfe The Purple Decades
Woolf | Frederic Spotts Letters of Leonard Woolf
Woolf | Virginia Woolf A Writer's Diary
Woolf | Virginia Woolf The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 1 1915-19
Woolf | Virginia Woolf The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 3 1925-30
Woolf | Virginia Woolf The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4 1931-35
Woolf | Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
Woolf | Virginia Woolf Selected Diaries
Woolf | Virginia Woolf Selected Letters
Woolf | Virginia Woolf Women & Writing
Woolf | Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell with Thoby Stephen Hyde Park Gate News: The Stephen Family Newspaper

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Non-Fiction: Books About Books

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 68
TBR as at 17 September 2015: 69 (x read, 1 acquired)


Anthony Arthur Literary Feuds
Russell Ash & Brian Lake Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities
Margaret Atwood Negotiating with the Dead
Allison Hoover Bartlett The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Nicholas A Basbanes Every Book Its Reader
Robert Belknap The List
Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies
Erin Blakemore The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harold Bloom How to Read and Why
Jorge Luis Borges On Writing
Peter Boxall (ed) 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die (2006)
Peter Boxall (ed) 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die (2008?)
Carmen Callil & Colm Toibin The Modern Library
Italo Calvino The Literature Machine
Italo Calvino Why Read the Classics?
James Campbell and Will Pryce The Library: A World History
Michael Chabon Maps & Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
Des Crowley & Clare Williamson The World of the Book
Lucy Daniel The Little Black Book of Books
Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life
Gary Dexter Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola
Gary Dexter Why Not Catch-21?
Umberto Eco Misreadings
Umberto Eco This is Not the End of the Book
George Eliot Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
Anne Fadiman Ex Libris
Anne Fadiman Rereadings
John Gross The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Daniel Hahn et al The Ultimate Teen Book Guide
Michael Heyward The Ern Malley Affair
Susan Hill Howards End is on the Landing
Martin Hopkinson Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates
*Nick Hornby Shakespeare Wrote for Money

Emma Jones The Literary Companion
Neal Jones A Book of Days for the Literary Year
Rob Kaplan A Passion for Books
Nicholas Karolides et al 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
Melissa Katsoulis Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes
Finlay Lloyd When Books Die
Alberto Manguel A History of Reading
Alberto Manguel A Reading Diary
Alberto Manguel The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
Alberto Manguel Homer's The Iliad & The Odyssey
Alberto Manguel Into the Looking-Glass Wood
Polly Manguel 501 Must-Read Books
Anthony Marshall Fossicking for Old Books
Harry Mathews & Alastair Brotchie Oulipo Compendium
Lesley McDowell Between the Sheets
Jeremy Mercer Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs
Sandra Newman Read This Next
George Orwell Books v. Cigarettes
Alice Ozma The Reading Promise
Alex Palmer A Literary Miscellany
Nancy Pearl Book Lust
Nancy Pearl More Book Lust
Penguin The Penguin Story
Bill Peschel Writers Gone Wild
Henry Petroski The Book on the Bookshelf
Marcel Proust Days of Reading
Charles Rembar The End of Obscenity
CH Rolph (ed) The Trial of Lady Chatterley
Julie Rugg & Lynda Murphy A Book Addict's Treasury
Ammon Shea Reading the OED
John Sutherland Curiosities of Literature
Brenda Walker Reading by Moonlight
Rick Wartzman Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Simon Winchester The Meaning of Everything
Simon Winchester The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Maryanne Wolf Proust and the Squid

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Non-Fiction: Language Books

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 50
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 50 (x read, x acquired)


Kingsley Amis The King's English
Chris Baker & Jacob Hansen The Elements of Fudging Style: A Helpful Parody
Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary
Melvyn Bragg The Adventure of English
Bill Brohaugh Everything You Know About English is Wrong
Bill Bryson Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Bill Bryson Made in America
Bill Bryson Mother Tongue
Bill Bryson Troublesome Words
Anthony Burgess Language Made Plain
Julian Burnside Wordwatching
Alexander Buzo Tautology Too
Roy Peter Clark The Glamour of Grammar
David Crystal By Hook or By Crook
David Crystal The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
David Crystal The Fight for English
David Crystal How Language Works
David Crystal A Little Book of Language
David Crystal The Stories of English
David Crystal Words Words Words
David Crystal & Hilary Crystal Words on Words
Susan Drake and Monica Davidson Freelancing for Australians for Dummies
Mark Dunn Zounds!
Linda & Roger Flavell Dictionary of English Down the Ages
HW & FG Fowler The King's English
HW & FG Fowler Modern English Usage
Stephen Fry The Ode Less Travelled
Mark Garvey Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style
Philip Gooden The Story of English
Leland Gregory Am-Bushed!
Peter Haining Wrotten English
Bruce Kaplan Editing Made Easy
Stephen King On Writing
Richard Lederer Anguished English
Richard Lederer More Anguished English
Jack Lynch (ed) Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
John Man The Gutenberg Revolution
Robert McCrum Globish
Robert McCrum et al The Story of English
Judy Parkinson I Before E Except After C: Old-School Ways to Remember Stuff
Eric Partridge Usage and Abusage
Eric Partridge You Have a Point There
Maggie Pinkney The Devil's Collection: A Cynic's Dictionary
Michael Quinion Port Out, Starboard Home and Other Language Myths
Lorna Robinson Ad Nauseum: A Miscellany of Latin Words & Phrases
Chris Stevens Thirty Days Has September: Cool Ways to Remember Stuff
Lottie Stride Write Every Time (Or is that 'Right'?): Cool Ways to Improve Your English
Caroline Taggart My Grammar and I (Or Should that be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English
Joe Thornton and Peter G Hannan Spelling Wen Yoo don't No How
Don Watson Death Sentence

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Non-Fiction: The Rest

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 220
TBR as at 17 November 2015: 218 (3 read, 1 acquired)


Art (3)
Rosalind Ormiston The Life of Works of Michelangelo
Rosalind Ormiston Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters & Art
Brian J Robb Steampunk: An Illustrated History

Australian History (19)
Geoffrey Blainey Black Kettle and Full Moon
Matthew Flinders Terra Australis
Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore
HV Evatt Rum Rebellion
Peter FitzSimons Batavia
Peter FitzSimons Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution
David Hill 1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet
David Hill Gold!
Grace Karsens Colony
Thomas Keneally Australians: Origins to Eureka
Thomas Keneally Australians: Eureka to the Diggers
Thomas Keneally Australians: Flappers to Vietnam
Thomas Keneally The Commonwealth of Thieves
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart & Susan Hood Pack of Thieves
Barry McGowan Australian Ghost Towns
John Morgan The Life and Adventures of William Buckley
Sarah Murgatroyd The Dig Tree
Peter Stewart Demons at Dusk
Watkin Tench 1788

Business (4)
John Casimir Gruen Transfer
Robert Gerrish Flying Solo
Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point
Dr Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese?
 
Economics/Maths (12)
Zac Goldsmith The Constant Economy: How to Create a Stable Society
Niall Kishtainy Economics in Minutes
Steven E Landsburg More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
Tim Harford The Undercover Economist
Hannah Nordhaus The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
Alex Perry Falling off the Edge: Globalization, World Peace & Other Lies
Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist
Joseph Stiglitz Globalization and its Discontents
Conor Woodman The Adventure Capitalist
Warwick Cairns About the Size of It: The Common Sense Approach to Measuring Things
Paul Glendinning Maths in Minutes
Ian Stewart Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
 
Feminism (7)
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
Eve Ensler The Vagina Monologues
Susan Faludi Backlash
Susan Faludi Stiffed: The Betrayal of the Modern Man
Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch
Germaine Greer The Whole Woman
Elizabeth Wurtzel B*itch!: In Praise of Difficult Women

Humour (18)
Jane Austen The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen
Andrea Barham The Pedant's Revolt
Andrea Barham The Pedant's Return
Craig Brown One on One
Robert Drennan (ed) The Algonquin Wits
Mardy Grothe Oxymoronica
Gideon Haigh Peter the Lord's Cat and Other Unexpected Obituaries
Roger Lewis Seasonal Suicide Notes
Spike Milligan The Essential Spike Milligan
Charlie Pickering Impractical Jokes
Karl Pilkington Happyslapped by a Jellyfish
Joshua Piven et al. The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History
Ben Pobjie SuperChef
David Rakoff Don't Get Too Comfortable
Lynne Truss Get Her off the Pitch!
Lynne Truss Talk to the Hand
Lynne Truss The Lynne Truss Treasury
Mark Twain The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
 
Mental Health/Self-Help (12)
Sally Brampton Shoot the Damn Dog
Helen Christensen & Kathleen Griffiths The Mood Gym: Overcoming Depression with CBT and Other Effective Therapies
Albert Ellis & Irving Becker A Guide to Personal Happiness
David Gillespie The Sweet Poison Quit Plan
Gary Greenberg Manufacturing Depression
Russ Harris The Happiness Trap
Spike Milligan Depression and How to Survive It
Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression
William Styron Darkness Visible
William Glasser Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
John Gray Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
 
Penguin Great Ideas (15)
Marcus Aurelius Meditations (with Nathan)
Edmund Burke The Evils of Revolution
Joseph de Maistre The Executioner
Sigmund Freud Civilization and its Discontents
William Hazlitt On the Pleasure of Hating
David Hume On Suicide
Niccolo Machiavelli The Conspiracies
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto
Arthur Schopenhauer The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
Seneca On the Shortness of Life
Sun-tzu The Art of War
Rabindranath Tagore Nationalism
John Ruskin On Art and Life
Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
 
Politics (7)
Bernard Shaw The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism & Facism
Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All the President’s Men
Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf
John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
 
Psychology (7)
Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational
Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow
VS Ramachandran The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature
Jon Ronson The Psychopath Test
Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
 
Religion/Philosophy (29)
Saint Augustine Confessions
Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
Peter Cave How to Think Like a Bat and 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy
Graham Coleman and Thupten Jinpa (eds) The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Paul Davies The Eerie Silence
Paul Davies The Mind of God
Richard Dawkins The God Delusion
Alain de Botton The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton The Consolation of Philosophy & Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Alain de Botton Religion for Atheists
Kahlil Gibran The Prophet
AC Grayling The God Argument
AC Grayling Ideas That Matter
AC Grayling The Mystery of Things
AC Grayling Thinking of Answers
Sam Harris Letters to a Christian Nation
Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens The Portable Atheist
CS Lewis Mere Christianity
CS Lewis The Screwtape Letters
Charles Mackay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Andrew J Petto & Laurie R Godfrey (eds) Scientists Confront Creationism
Stephen Pinker The Stuff of Thought
Roger Pol-Droit Astonish Yourself! 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
Bertrand Russell An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
Bertrand Russell Essays in Skepticism
Bertrand Russell In Praise of Idleness
Malise Ruthven The Divine Supermarket: Travels in Search of the Soul of America
 
Science (19)
Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species
Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins Unweaving the Rainbow
Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time
Mark Steer Defining Moments in Science
Norman Doidge The Brain that Changes Itself
Lawrence Krauss Hiding in the Mirror: The Quest for Alternate Realities
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson The QI Book of Animals
Hazel Muir Science in Seconds
Stephanie Pain Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers and Other Odd Events on the Way to Scientific Discovery
Mary Roach Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach Packing for Mars
Mary Roach Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
William Stolzenburg Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue
 
Sociology/Global Warming (11)
Jared Diamond Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail of Succeed
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond Why is Sex Fun?
Jared Diamond The World Until Yesterday
Tim Flannery Here on Earth
Tim Flannery The Weather Makers
Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore Our Choice

*Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction

Amanda Little Power Trip: Our Ride to the Renewable Future
 
Sport (2)
Paul Donnelley Firsts, Lasts and Onlys of Cricket
Simon Rae It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game
 
Travel (13)
Bill Bryson Notes from a Big Country
Mark Carwardine & Stephen Fry Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
Agatha Christie The Grand Tour
Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon
Aldous Huxley Jesting Pilate
Howard Jacobson In the Land of Oz
PJ O'Rourke Driving Like Crazy
PJ O'Rourke Holidays in Hell
Nicholas Ranking Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson
Marco Polo Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan
Ernest Shackleton South
Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad
 
True Crime (7)
Jan Stradling Bad Girls & Wicked Women
Nerida Campbell Femme Fatale: The Female Criminal
Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter
Helen Garner The First Stone
Helen Garner Joe Cinque's Consolation
Ann Rule The Stranger Beside Me
John Silvester and Andrew Rule Leadbelly
 
World History (36)
Benedict Allen (ed) The Faber Book of Exploration
Peter Barber et al. Mapping Our World: Terror Incognita to Australia
Geoffrey Blainey A Short History of the 20th Century
Geoffrey Blainey A Short History of the World
Geoffrey Blainey Sea of Dangers
Jerry Brotton A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Bill Bryson At Home
Bill Bryson One Summer
Deborah Cadbury Chocolate Wars
Ann Charters The Portable Sixties Reader
Nicholas Crane Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
Richard J Evans The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J Evans The Third Reich at War
Richard J Evans The Third Reich in Power
Niall Ferguson Empire
Tim Flannery Eternal Frontier
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged)
Charles Gritzner Earth Condensed
Walter Hadwen Premature Burial: How It May Be Prevented
Miles Harvey The Island of Lost Maps
Bianca Jackson Defining Moments in History
Philip Kerr (ed) The Penguin Book of Lies

Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts

Patricia Chapman Meder The True Story of Catch-22
Haruki Murakami Underground
Virginia Nicholson Among the Bohemians
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell The Road to Wigan Pier
Michael Swift Mapping the World
Evelyn Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia
Geoffrey Wawro Historial Atlas
Simon Winchester Atlantic
Simon Winchester A Crack in the Edge of the World
Simon Winchester Bomb, Book & Compass
Simon Winchester Krakatoa
Simon Winchester The Men Who United the States

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Priority Reads
 
This is a list of the books I'd most like to read this year. Some are just books in various series that I want to finish or make progress in. The list is subject to change. :)
 
Note to self: Here's a list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction authors I most want to read. Take this into account when creating the priority reading list for 2016.
 
Fiction (17 of 56)
JG Ballard Crash
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Raymond Chandler The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels
Agatha Christie Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
Patrick DeWitt The Sisters Brothers
Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop
Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
Michel Faber Under the Skin
Jasper Fforde Thursday Next #6: One of Our Thursdays is Missing
Cornelia Funke Inkheart #2: Inkspell
Cornelia Funke Inkheart #3: Inkdeath

Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #2: Flying Too High
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #3: Murder on the Ballarat Train
Matt Haig The Radleys
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #9: Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #10: Dead in the Family
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #11: Dead Reckoning
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #2: Ripley Underground
Homer The Odyssey
Henry James The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums
Stephen King The Stand
Reif Larsen The Selected Works of TS Spivet
Jeff Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Lois Lowry Anastasia #6: Anastasia Has the Answers

Lois Lowry Anastasia #7: Anastasia’s Chosen Career
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mary McCarthy The Group
Walter Moers Zamonia #3: The City of Dreaming Books
LM Montgomery Anne of Green Gables #6: Anne of Ingleside
Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
Terry Pratchett Discworld #6: Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett Discworld #7: Pyramids
Chris Priestley Tales of Terror from the Black Ship
Dan Rhodes This is Life
Veronica Roth Divergent #2: Insurgent
Veronica Roth Divergent #3: Allegiant
Maria Semple Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Leanne Shapton Important Artifacts and...
John Steinbeck East of Eden
Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls
John Kennedy Toole The Neon Bible
Voltaire Candide
HG Wells The Island of Dr Moreau
Jacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum
PG Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing
PG Wodehouse Mr Mulliner Speaking

Non-Fiction (3 of 25)
Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Augusten Burroughs Magical Thinking
Pamela des Barres I'm with the Band
Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Stephen Fry The Fry Chronicles
Stephen Hawking My Brief History
Patty Hearst Her Own Story
Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs
David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation
Lester Bangs Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Peter FitzSimons Batavia
Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch
David Gillespie The Sweet Poison Quit Plan
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression
Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Jon Ronson The Psychopath Test
Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel
Ann Rule The Stranger Beside Me
Bill Bryson At Home
Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts
Haruki Murakami Underground
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
 
 
Books on Both the 1001 and Rory Gilmore Lists
 
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Don Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier
Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Herman Melville Moby-Dick
Toni Morrison Beloved
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher
Mario Puzo The Godfather
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Voltaire Candide
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

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Rory Gilmore Challenge
 
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TBR as at 1 January 2015: 96
TBR as at 27 May 2015: 94 (2 read, x acquired)

TBR Pile (read, currently reading):


Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri Inferno
Isabel Allende Eva Luna
Judy Blume Deenie
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portugese
Pearl S Buck The Good Earth
Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter
Charles Bukowski Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Michael Chabon Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir Second Sex
Don Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Pamela des Barres I'm with the Band
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
Bret Easton Ellis Less than Zero
Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner Light in August
William Faulkner Sanctuary
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier
Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
James Frey A Million Little Pieces
Ernest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast
Homer The Iliad
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Nick Hornby Songbook (31 Songs)
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
Shirley Jackson The Lottery and Other Stories
Henry James Daisy Miller and Other Stories
Jan Lars Jensen Nervous System
Dr Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese?
Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
John Knowles A Separate Peace
Ira Levin Rosemary's Baby
Andrea Levy Small Island
Mojo Magazine Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion
Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Valerie Martin Property
Mary McCarthy The Group
Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Emma McLaughlin The Nanny Diaries
Herman Melville Moby Dick
HL Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy
HL Mencken My Life as Author and Editor
Grace Metalious Peyton Place
Toni Morrison Beloved
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory
Joyce Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaneys
Dorothy Parker The Portable Dorothy Parker
Ann Patchett Bel Canto
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems
Mario Puzo The Godfather
Ayn Rand The Fountainhead
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling
Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
Elisabeth Robinson True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
JD Salinger Franney and Zooey
Flora Schreiber Sybil
Erich Segal Love Story
William Shakespeare The Sonnets
Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
John Steinbeck East of Eden
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
William Styron Sophie's Choice
Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan The Opposite of Fate
Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Sun-tzu The Art of War
Voltaire Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Elizabeth Wurtzel Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

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1001 Books To Read Before You Die
 
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The books listed below are only the books from the challenge that I have on my TBR pile.
 
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 232
TBR as at 1 September 2015: 229 (3 read, x acquired)

TBR Pile (read, currently reading):


Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Douglas Adams Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
Kingsley Amis The Old Devils
Martin Amis Money: A Suicide Note
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Isaac Asimov Foundation
Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood Cat’s Eye
Margaret Atwood Surfacing
Paul Auster The New York Trilogy
James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
JG Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition
JG Ballard Empire of the Sun
JG Ballard Cocaine Nights
JG Ballard Crash
JG Ballard The Drowned World
JG Ballard High-Rise
John Banville The Newton Letter
John Banville The Sea
John Banville The Untouchable
Muriel Barbery Elegance of the Hedgehog
Pat Barker Regeneration
Pat Barker The Ghost Road
Julian Barnes Flaubert’s Parrot
Aphra Behn Oroonoko
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinths
Tadeusz Borowski This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anthony Burgess Inside Mr Enderby
William Burroughs Naked Lunch
William Burroughs Junkie
AS Byatt The Children's Book
AS Byatt Possession
Italo Calvino The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino Our Ancestors
Albert Camus The Plague
Karel Capek War with the Newts
Angela Carter Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter Wise Children
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands
Jean Cocteau Les Enfants Terribles
JM Coetzee Disgrace
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham The Hours
Mark Z Danielewski House of Leaves
Honore de Balzax Eugenie Grandet
Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Don DeLillo White Noise
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Charles Dickens The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
EL Doctorow Ragtime
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
Laura Esquivel Like Water for Hot Chocolate
Michel Faber Under the Skin
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Henry Fielding Tom Jones
F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education
Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier
John Fowles The Collector
Esther Freud Hideous Kinky
Paul Gallico Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
William Gibson Neuromancer
George Gissing New Grub Street
Nikolay Gogol Dead Souls
Nikolay Gogol The Nose
Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
Gunter Grass The Tin Drum
Graham Greene The Quiet American
H Rider Haggard She
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man
Knut Hamsun Hunger
Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy The Woodlanders
Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
Herman Hesse Steppenwolf
Barry Hines A Kestrel for a Knave
Michel Houellebecq Atomised
Aldous Huxley Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley Crome Yellow
John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving The World According to Garp
Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World
Henry James The Ambassadors
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
Henry James What Maisie Knew
Tove Jansson The Summer Book
Franz Kafka Amerika
Franz Kafka The Castle
James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late
Thomas Keneally Schindler’s Ark
Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard
Sheridan Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly
Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed
Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
Primo Levi If Not Now, When?
Primo Levi If This is a Man
Andrea Levy Small Island
Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Jack London The Iron Heel
Jack London The Call of the Wild
HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness
David Malouf Remembering Babylon
Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party
Charles Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer
W Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
Ian McEwan Black Dogs
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Nancy Mitford Love in a Cold Climate
William Morris News from Nowhere
Toni Morrison Beloved
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch Under the Net
Vladimir Nabokov Ada
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
Flann O’Brien At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman
Jamie O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys
Chuck Palahniuk Choke
Jack Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
Mervyn Peake Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake Titus Groan
Georges Perec A Void
Georges Perec Life: A User's Manual
Georges Perec Things: A Story of the Sixties
Georges Perec W: Or the Memory of Childhood
Arturo Perez-Reverte The Dumas Club
DBC Pierre Vernon God Little
Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher
Mario Puzo The Godfather
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
Anne Rice Interview With the Vampire
Philip Roth The Plot Against America
Philip Roth The Human Stain
Philip Roth Portnoy’s Complaint
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie Fury
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie Shame
WG Sebald Austerlitz
Nevil Shute A Town Like Alice
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children
Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
Patrick Süskind Perfume
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
John Updike Rabbit, Run
Vassilis Vassilikos Z
Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days
Voltaire Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Lew Wallace Ben-Hur
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet
Winifred Watson Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies
HG Wells The Island of Dr Moreau
HG Wells Tono-Bungay
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
John White The Once and Future King
Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry
Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf Orlando
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf The Years
John Wyndham Chocky
Émile Zola Nana

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Frankie and Poppyshake's Must Read Books

TBR as at 1 January 2015: 97
TBR as at 17 November 2015: 94 (3 read, x acquired)

TBR Pile (readcurrently reading, *read in 2015):

 
 
Read in 2015:

Patrick DeWitt The Sisters Brothers (Poppyshake)

Daphne du Maurier Rebecca (Poppyshake)

Jeff Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter (from Dexter series) (Frankie)

Voltaire Candide (Frankie)

 

***Frankie*** (Updated 2013 List)

Fiction (38)
Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale
Jane Austen Northanger Abby

Iain Banks Wasp Factory
Robert Bloch Psycho
John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
John Boyne Crippen TBR
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's

Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay TBR
Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World TBR
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Emma Donoghue Room

Daphne du Maurier My Cousin Rachel
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Michel Faber Under the Skin TBR
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair
Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary TBR
Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe TBR
John Grogan Marley and Me
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Matt Haig The Last Family in England TBR
Daniil Harms Incidences
Joanne Harris Gentlemen & Players
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
Siri Hustvedt The Summer Without Men
Kazuo Ishiguro A Pale View of Hills
Lloyd Jones Mister Pip TBR
Stephen King Green Mile
Andrey Kurkov Death and the Penguin
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird

Jeff Lindsay Dexter series TBR
Väinö Linna The Unknown Soldier
Jennifer Lynch The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
LM Montgomery The Blue Castle
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Watchmen TBR
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye
Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart
Sofi Oksanen Purge TBR
Ann Patchett Bel Canto
Dan Rhodes Gold
Anne Rice Interview with a Vampire TBR
Sapphire Push!
Diane Setterfield Thirteenth Tale
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
Anita Shreve The Weight of Water
Linda Lay Shuler She Who Remembers
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
John Steinbeck The Wayward Bus
Robert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Bram Stoker Dracula

Patrick Süskind Perfume TBR
Vikas Swarup Q&A
Donna Tartt The Secret History
*Voltaire Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five

Sarah Waters Fingersmith TBR
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting TBR
Elie Wiesel Night
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
Markus Zusak The Book Thief

 
Young Adult (6)
Lois Lowry Anastasia Krupnik series
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg The Little Vampire
LM Montgomery Emily of New Moon series TBR
Astrid Lindgren Brothers Lionheart TBR
Sue Townsend The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾
Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock
Lois Lowry The Giver
Georgia Byng Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Chris Priestley Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
JK Rowling Harry Potter series

Astrid Lindgren The Bill Bergson series

Non-fiction (10)
Deborah Spungen And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
Sylvia Beach Shakespeare and Company TBR
Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life TBR
Ronald Hayman The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath TBR
Ann Rule The Stranger Beside Me TBR
Mötley Crüe The Dirt
Mary Roach Stiff: The Life of the Human Cadavers

Flora Rheta Scheiber Sybil TBR
Charles Bukowski Ham on Rye TBR
Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Lesley McDowell Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers TBR
Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table TBR

***Poppyshake*** (Updated 2013 List)

Fiction (25)
Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle TBR
Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love

Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse TBR
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair
Neil Gaiman Neverwhere
Donna Tartt The Secret History
Dan Rhodes Gold
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment

*Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated

Paul Murray Skippy Dies TBR
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird

Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea TBR
Mari Strachan The Earth Hums in B Flat
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go TBR
Clare Allen Poppy Shakespeare TBR
Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam TBR
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall TBR
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Emma Henderson Grace Williams Says it Loud TBR
Joe Abercrombie The First Law Trilogy
John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany TBR
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger TBR
Julian Barnes Arthur & George
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible TBR
John Connolly The Book of Lost Things
George & Weedon Grossmith Diary of a Nobody

Toni Morrison Beloved TBR
Joseph Heller Catch 22
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude TBR
Willy Russell The Wrong Boy
David Benioff City of Thieves
Karen Maitland Company of Liars
Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Annie Proulx The Shipping News
Herman Melville Moby Dick TBR
Cormac McCarthy The Road
Kathryn Stockett The Help TBR
*Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English TBR

Young Adult (5)
JK Rowling The Harry Potter series
Jonathan Stroud The Bartimaeus trilogy TBR
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series TBR
Stephen Chbosky The Perks of being a Wallflower
Chris Priestley Tales of Terror series
Cornelia Funke Inkheart

Mary Norton The Borrowers TBR
AA Milne Winnie the Pooh
Kenneth Grahame Wind in the Willows
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
JRR Tolkien The Hobbit

Terry Pratchett Wintersmith TBR
JRR Tolkien Lord of the Rings
Sue Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾
CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book

Sally Gardner I Coriander
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Non-Fiction (12)
Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal TBR
Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors
Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson Notes from a Big Country TBR
Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie TBR
Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards TBR
William Blacker Along the Enchanted Way
Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling
John Bayley The Iris Trilogy
Nick Hornby The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Susan Hill Howards End is on the Landing TBR
Sylvia Plath The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Mary S Lovell The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters TBR
Mary S Lovell The Mitford Girls TBR
Lorna Sage Bad Blood

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My Favourite Books

 

NEW books are those I've added in 2014 and 2015.

 

Fiction
Jane Austen Emma
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
John Banville The Book of Evidence
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Italo Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
John Connolly The Book of Lost Things
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

Daphne du Maurier Rebecca NEW

Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Christo
Mark Dunn Ella Minnow Pea
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Michel Faber The Crimson Petal and White
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
George Grossmith Diary of a Nobody
Joseph Heller Catch-22
Susan Hill The Woman in Black
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Jack Kerouac The Town and the City
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Erich Maria Marquez All Quiet on the Western Front
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
George Orwell Animal Farm
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Bram Stoker Dracula
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tim Winton Cloudstreet
Markus Zusak The Book Thief

Young Adult
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suzanne Collins Hunger Games (trilogy)
Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
John Marsden Tomorrow, When the War Began (series)
A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
Walter Moers The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Lucy M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter (series)
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Non-Fiction
Bill Bryson Down Under
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods
Byll Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
Truman Capote In Cold Blood
AB Facey A Fortunate Life
Tim Flannery The Explorers
Tim Flannery The Birth of Sydney
Anne Frank The Diary of Anne Frank
Helene Hanff 84 Charing Cross Road

Erik Larson The Devil in the White City NEW

Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics
Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon
Martin Toseland A Steroid Hit the Earth

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