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Previous reading blogs: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

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Quick Links to 2017 Posts
 
2017 Reading:
Books Read | Books Acquired | Selected Wishlist 

TBR Fiction:
A–B | C–D | E–GH–KL–NO–ST–Z

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

Reading Challenges:
Priority Reads | Gilmore Girls | 1001 | 1001 Children | 501 | Frankie and Poppyshake
 
Other Links:
TBR Books on Multiple Lists | My Favourite Books | Pics of My Library
 
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Goals for 2017
Read 15 Priority Reads (link)
Read 5 authors that I’ve never read before (link)

Possible Challenges
Complete 30 days of questions (link)
The Literary Art of Conversation (link)

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Read in 2017
 
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Books read:
2017: 9*
2016: 43
2015: 48
2014: 56
2013: 25
2012: 29
2011: 50
2010: 116
2009: 88
2008: 58

 

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 2017: 2106 (1426 fiction, 680 non-fiction)
TBR as at 17 March 2017: 2105 (6 from TBR, x re-reads, 3 ebooks | 5 acquired)

January (3)
Mark Stevens Broadmoor Revealed (ebook) 8/10
Suzy Becker All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat (and Then Some) 8/10
Various Round the Christmas Fire 9/10
 
February (2)
Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock 7.5/10
Charlottle Rogan The Lifeboat 9/10

 

March (4)

Erik Larson Isaac's Storm 9/10
Meik Wiking The Little Book of Hygge (ebook) 7/10

HG Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau 9/10

Ariane Sherine (ed) The Atheist's Guide to Christmas (ebook) 8/10

George Orwell Books v. Cigarettes

Carlo DeVito (ed) Mark Twain's Notebooks


Started
Jasper Fforde Shades of Grey
George RR Martin Game of Thrones #1: A Game of Thrones
Christopher Hitchens The Portable Atheist
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #2: The Turkish Gambit
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #4: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

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Acquired in 2017

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Books acquired:
2017: 125
2016: 165
2015: 42
2014: 143
2013: 281
2012: 427
2011: 543
2010: 400
2009: 290
2008: 199

Acquired in 2017: 125

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 (5)
Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock (9.1 from Frankie)
Suzy Becker All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat (and Then Some) (14.1 from Jess Z)

MRS Kasasian Gower Street 04: The Secrets of Gaslight Lane (24.1)

Marieke Hardy & Michaela McGuire Between Us (31.1)

VE Schwab A Darker Shade of Magic (31.1)

 

February (45)

Canberra Book Fair—Fiction (28)
Douglas Adams The Salmon of Doubt
Agatha Christie A Murder is Announced
Agatha Christie The Complete Short Stories: Miss Marple
Agatha Christie The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie Six Against the Yard
Agatha Christie Third Girl
Dave Eggers McSweeney’s Issue 46: Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America
Elena Ferrante My Brilliant Friend
Nina George The Little Paris Bookshop
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
Vasily Grossman Everything Flows
Emma Healey Elizabeth is Missing
Hugh Howey Wool
Marvin Kaye The Game is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes
Herman Koch The Dinner
Andrey Kurkov The President’s Last Love
Ann M Martin BSC #127: Abby’s Un-Valentine (n.a.)
Haruki Murakami Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Vladimir Nabokov Glory
Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
Marcel Proust Swann’s Way #1: In Search of Lost Time
Vita Sackville-West The Edwardians
Lionel Shriver We Need to Talk About Kevin
Robin Sloan Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Volume 3
Julian Symons A Three-Pipe Problem
Donna Tartt The Goldfinch
Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Evie Wyld All the Birds, Singing
Canberra Book Fair—Non-Fiction (12)
Douglas Adams The Deeper Meaning of Liff
Pierre Bayard Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
Brian Cox Human Universe
David Crystal Just a Phrase I'm Going Through
Simon Garfield On the Map
Steven Gilbar Bibliotopia
Steve Hare (ed) Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935–1970
David Hunt Girt
Joanna Rakoff My Salinger Year
John Reed Ten Days That Shook the World
David Sacks The Alphabet
Martin Toseland Infographica

Post Book Fair (5)

Agatha Christie The Hound of Death

Agatha Christie Sparkling Cyanide

Laura Miller Literary Wonderlands

Charlotte Rogan The Lifeboat

VE Schwab A Conjuring of Light

 

March–May

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June (4)

Matt Haig The Girl Who Saved Christmas

Dorothy L Sayers In the Teeth of the Evidence

Dorothy L Sayers Striding Folly

Bram Stoker and Valdimar Asmundsson Powers of Darkness

 

July

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August (25)

Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London #6: The Hanging Tree

Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Jane Austen and David M Shapard The Annotated Emma

Jane Austen and David M Shapard The Annotated Persuasion

Jane Austen and David M Shapard The Annotated Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen and David M Shapard The Annotated Sense and Sensibility

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos

Paul Du Noyer Conversations with McCartney

Mark Forsyth The Elements of Eloquence

Mark Forsyth Etymologicon

Claire Fuller Our Endless Numbered Days

Dan Green The Periodic Table in Minutes

Kate Grenville Thornhill Family #2: The Lieutenant

Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens

Tom Jackson Genetics in Minutes

CHB Kitchin Crime at Christmas

Richard Matheson The Shrinking Man

China Mieville This Census-Taker

Patrick Ness More Than This

Mary Roach Gulp

Jodi Taylor Chronicles of St Mary's #1: Just One Damned Thing After Another

Jodi Taylor Chronicles of St Mary's #2: A Symphony of Echoes

Jodi Taylor Chronicles of St Mary's #3: A Second Chance

Barbara W Tuchman The Guns of August

Richard Wiseman Night School—Wake Up to the Power of Sleep

 

September

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October (7)

Kenneth Cook Wake in Fright

Meg and Tom Keneally Monsarrat #1: The Soldier's Curse

Lauren Graham Talking as Fast as I Can

Nigel Jones Through a Glass Darkly

Agatha Christie 4.50 from Paddington

Patrick Hamilton Hangover Square

Patrick Hamilton Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

 

November (18)

Brian Bilston You Took the Last Bus Home

Simon Callow Orson Welles #3: One-Man Band

Becky Chambers A Closed and Common Orbit

Agatha Christie The Mystery of the Blue Train

Agatha Christie One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey (n.a.)

Carli Davidson Shake Cats

Thomas L Friedman The World Is Flat

Matt Haig Father Christmas and Me

Patrick Hamilton Craven House

Daniel A Ionazzi The Stage Management Handbook

Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner When to Rob a Bank
Vladimir Nabokov The Tragedy of Mr Morn

Ransom Riggs Tales of the Peculiar

Oliver Sacks An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks Awakenings

Oliver Sacks Hallucinations

Mary Shelley and Leslie S Klinger The New Annotated Frankenstein

David Welker Stagecraft: A Handbook for Organisation, Construction and Management

 

December (21)

Kathy Acker Blood and Guts in High School

Jane Austen and David M Shapard The Annotated Mansfield Park

Jane Austen and David M Shapard The Annotated Northanger Abbey

Agatha Christie (Mary Westmacott) Giant's Bread

Agatha Christie (Mary Westmacott) Unfinished Portrait

Agatha Christie Miss Marple's Final Cases

Agatha Christie Three Act Tragedy

John Connolly Nocturnes #1

John Connolly Nocturnes #2: Night Music

Edmund Crispin Gervase Fen #2: Holy Disorders

Peter FitzSimons Burke and Wills

Matt Haig How to Stop Time

Krista Halverson Shakespeare and Company: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart

Scott Hawkins The Library at Mount Char

Kevin Howlett The BBC Archives

Richard P Feynman and Ralph Leighton Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!

MRC Kasasian Gower Street Detective #5: Dark Dawn Over Steep House

HP Lovecraft and Leslie S Klinger The New Annotated HP Lovecraft

JK Rowling and Jim Kay Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Illustrated Edition) (n.a.)

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Pale Blue Dot

George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo

Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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Selected Wishlist
 
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Jorge Carrion Bookshops
Sara Crowe Campari for Breakfast
Clare Fuller Our Endless Numbered Days
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lauren Graham Talking as Fast as I Can
Thomas Ligotti Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Lawrence Lipton The Holy Barbarians
Rene Pol Nevils Ignatius Rising
Ransom Riggs Tales of the Peculiar
Hubert Selby Jr Requiem for a Dream
Donna Tartt The Goldfinch
Oliver Tearle The Secret Library

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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 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 194
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 194 (0 read, 0 acquired)


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 #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 #6: The State Counsellor
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #7: The Coronation
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #8: She Lover of Death
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #9: He Lover of Death
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #10: The Diamond Chariot
Boris Akunin Pelagia #1: Pelagia and the White Bulldog
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 Life After Life
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 Book of Illusions
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
JG Ballard Rushing to Paradise
JG Ballard The Unlimited Dream Company
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 Arthur & George
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
Alfred Bester The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination
Earl Derr Biggers A Charlie Chan Omnibus
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 #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
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #7: As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
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
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 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 227
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 227 (0 read, 0 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
MR Carey The Girl with All the Gifts
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 Burning Your Boats
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
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 After the Funeral
Agatha Christie Appointment with Death
Agatha Christie At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie The Big Four
Agatha Christie The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie The Clocks
Agatha Christie Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
Agatha Christie Dead Man's Folly
Agatha Christie Death Comes at the End
Agatha Christie Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie Dumb Witness
Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember
Agatha Christie Endless Night
Agatha Christie Evil Under the Sun
Agatha Christie Five Little Pigs
Agatha Christie The Floating Admiral
Agatha Christie Hallowe’en Party
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie Hickory Dickory Dock
Agatha Christie The Hollow
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 Mrs McGinty's Dead
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 Mr Quin
Agatha Christie N or M?
Agatha Christie Ordeal by Innocence
Agatha Christie The Pale Horse
Agatha Christie Parker Pyne Investigates
Agatha Christie Partners in Crime
Agatha Christie Passenger to Frankfurt
Agatha Christie Peril at End House
Agatha Christie Poirot’s Early Cases
Agatha Christie Postern of Fate
Agatha Christie Sad Cypress
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 They Do It with Mirrors
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 Songs of Distant Earth
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
Edmund Crispin Gervase Fen 01 - The Case of the Gilded Fly
Edmund Crispin Gervase Fen 03 - The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin Gervase Fen 05 - Buried for Pleasure
Justin Cronin The Passage
Justin Cronin The Twelve
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 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Gyorgy Dalos 1985
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
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 Undermajordomo Minor
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 Dickens at Christmas
Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
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 Don’t Look Now and Other Stories
Daphne du Maurier Hungry Hill
Daphne du Maurier Jamaica Inn
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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TBR Pile E–G

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 161
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 161 (0 read, 0 acquired)


Umberto Eco Foucault’s Pendulum
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan Look at Me
Dave Eggers The Circle
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
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
Sebastian Faulks Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
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 Dragonslayer #3: The Eye of Zoltar
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
Stephen Fry The Hippopotamus
Stephen Fry The Liar
Stephen Fry Making History
Stephen Fry Paperweight
Stephen Fry The Stars' Tennis Balls
Anna Funder All That I Am
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 Smoke and Mirrors
Neil Gaiman Stardust
Neil Gaiman (ed) Stories
Ernest J Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
Robert Galbraith Cormoran Strike #1: The Cuckoo’s Calling
Robert Galbraith Cormoran Strike #2: The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith Cormoran Strike #3: Career of Evil
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 Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
George Gissing New Grub Street
Morris Gleitzman Two Weeks with the Queen
Dmitry Glukhovsky Metro 2033
Dmitry Glukhovsky Metro 2034
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
Lauren Graham Someday, Someday, Maybe
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 #6: Blood and Circuses
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
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #20: Murder and Mendelssohn
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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TBR Pile H–K

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 176
TBR as at 2 February 2017: 177 (1 read, 2 acquired)


Mark Haddon The Red House
H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines
H Rider Haggard She
Matt Haig The Last Family in England
Matt Haig The Radleys
Joe Haldeman The Forever War
Sarah Hall Daughters of the North
Steven Hall The Raw Shark Texts
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man
Knut Hamsun Hunger
Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure
Nick Harkaway The Gone-Away World
Deborah Harkness A Discovery of Witches
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
Emma Healey Elizabeth is Missing
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 The Blunderer
Patricia Highsmith Carol
Patricia Highsmith Deep Water
Patricia Highsmith Found in the Street
Patricia Highsmith Little Tales of Misogyny
Patricia Highsmith Nothing that Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #3: Ripley's Game
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #4: The Boy Who Followed Ripley
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #5: Ripley Underwater
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
Susan Hill The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories
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 Woman
Ted Hughes The Selected Poems
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
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 #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
Jonas Jonasson The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

*Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock

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
Norton Juster The Annotated The Phantom Tollbooth
Franz Kafka The Complete Novels
Franz Kafka The Complete Short Stories

*MRC Kasasian The Secrets of Gaslight Lane

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 Big Sur
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 Misery
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
Andrey Kurkov Penguin Lost

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TBR Pile L–N

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 228
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 228 (0 read, 0 acquired)


John Lanchester Capital
Lisa Lang Utopian Man
Reif Larsen The Selected Works of TS Spivet
Hugh Laurie The Gun Seller
DH Lawrence Kangaroo
Nam Le The Boat
JMG Le Clezio War
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Uncle Silas
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
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 Dexter #2: Dearly Devoted Dexter
Jeff Lindsay Dexter #3: Dexter in the Dark
Jeff Lindsay Dexter #4: Dexter by Design
Jeff Lindsay Dexter #5: Dexter is Delicious
Jeff Lindsay Dexter #7: Dexter's Final Cut
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
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
Isaac Marion Warm Bodies
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 South of Darkness
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
Eimear McBride A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
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 The Red House Mystery
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey
David Mitchell The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell Ghostwritten
David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Margaret Mitchell Lost Laysen
Nancy Mitford The Blessing
Nancy Mitford Christmas Pudding
Nancy Mitford Love in a Cold Climate and Other Stories
Nancy Mitford Pigeon 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
Alan Moore V for Vendetta
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

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TBR Pile O–S

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 242
TBR as at 1 February 2017: 243 (0 read, 1 acquired)


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
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
Laline Paull The Bees
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 Christmas Mysteries
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 Annotated Poe
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 Gateway
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 #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 #1: The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long Earth #2: The Long War
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long Earth #3: The Long Mars
Chris Priestley The Dead of Winter
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 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
Rainbow Rowell Eleanor & Park
JK Rowling Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
JK Rowling & Jim Kay Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Illustrated)
JK Rowling & Jim Kay Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Illustrated)
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
Geoff Ryman The Child Garden
Rafael Sabatini Captain Blood
Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse
JD Salinger For Esme - with Love and Squalor
JD Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Ian Sansom The Norfolk Mystery
Jean-Paul Sartre The Age of Reason
Dorothy L Sayers Hangman’s Holiday
Dorothy L Sayers Have His Carcase
Dorothy L Sayers The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L Sayers The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Dorothy L Sayers Whose Body?

*VE Schwab A Darker Shade of Magic

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
Diane Setterfield Bellman & Black
William Shakespeare As You Like It
William Shakespeare The Sonnets
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
Graeme Simsion The Rosie Effect
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 Novels of John Steinbeck
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
Bram Stoker The New Annotated Dracula
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 The Confessions of Nat Turner
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, the Battle of the Books and Other Satires
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

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TBR Pile T–Z

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 198
TBR as at 8 March 2017: 196 (2 read, 0 acquired)


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
Dalton Trumbo Johnny Got His Gun
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
Jeff VanderMeer Annihilation
Various Round the Christmas Fire
Vassilis Vassilikos Z
Timur Vermes Look Who’s Back
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
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
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 Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis
Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog
Jacqueline Wilson Best Friends
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 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 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
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 The Prisoner of Heaven
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 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 184
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 184 (0 read, 0 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
Beach | Noel Riley Fitch Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
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
Bly | Nellie Bly Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings
Bennett | Alan Bennett A Life Like Other People's
Bonnie & Clyde | Jeff Guin Go Down Together
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 Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess
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
Chaucer | Peter Ackroyd Chaucer
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 | Peter Ackroyd 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 | Andrew Wilson Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Highsmith | Joan Schenkar The Talented Miss Highsmith
Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock A Brief Darkness
Hitchcock | Peter Ackroyd Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchens | Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22
Hitchens | Christopher Hitchens Mortality
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!
Mawson | Peter FitzSimons Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
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 | Jessica Mitford Hons and Rebels
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)
Nitschke | Philip Nitschke Damned If I Do
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 | Peter FitzSimons Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
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 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 122
TBR as at 1 February 2017: 123 (0 read, 1 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 & Michaela McGuire Between Us

Hardy | Marieke Hardy & 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 And Yet...
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
Jacobson | Howard Jacobson Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It
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
Kerouac | Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1940–1956
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 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
Twain | Carlo DeVito (ed) Mark Twain's Notebooks
Usher | Shaun Usher (ed) Letters of Note
Usher | Shaun Usher (ed) Lists of Note
Usher | Shaun Usher (ed) More Letters of Note
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 Pump House Gang
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 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 73
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 73 (0 read, 0 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
Matthew Battles Library
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 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006)
Peter Boxall (ed) 1001 Books 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
Guy Haley Sci-Fi Chronicles
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
Bodleian Library The Book Lovers' Anthology
Finlay Lloyd When Books Die
Alberto Manguel A History of Reading
Alberto Manguel A Reading Diary
Alberto Manguel The City of Words
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 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 56
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 56 (0 read, 0 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 Dr Johnson’s Dictionary
David Crystal The Fight for English
David Crystal How Language Works
David Crystal A Little Book of Language
David Crystal Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation
David Crystal The Stories of English
David Crystal The Story of English in 100 Words
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
Simon Garfield Just My Type
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
Drummond Moir Just My Typo
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
Michael Rosen Alphabetical
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 2017 are marked with an *.

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 245
TBR as at 8 March 2017: 244 (2 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
Les Carlyon The Great War
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
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 (17)
Jane Austen The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen
Andrea Barham The Pedant's Revolt
Andrea Barham The Pedant's Return
*Suzy Becker All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat (and Then Some)
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
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 (16)
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
John Locke Of the Abuse of Words
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
 

Poetry (2)

Michael Best (ed) William Shakespeare on the Art of Love

Robert Frost The Poetry of Robert Frost
 

Politics (6)
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
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
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
Marcus Weeks Psychology in Minutes
 
Religion/Philosophy (32)
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
Ian Crofton Big Ideas in Brief
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 News
Alain de Botton The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Alain de Botton Religion for Atheists
Daniel C Dennett Science and Religion
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 (25)
Jack Challoner 1001 Inventions That Changed the World
Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species
Richard Dawkins The Ancestor’s Tale
Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins Climbing Mount Improbable
Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins (ed) The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Richard Dawkins River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins Unweaving the Rainbow
Norman Doidge The Brain that Changes Itself
Norman Doidge The Brain’s Way of Healing
Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time
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 Cosmos
Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Mark Steer Defining Moments in Science
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 (5)
Nick Brownlee Vive Le Tour! Wiggo and the Amazing Tales of The Tour de France
Paul Donnelley Firsts, Lasts and Onlys of Cricket
Paul Hansford The Tour de France: The Good, the Bad and the Just Plain Weird
Simon Rae It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game
Andrew Ramsey The Wrong Line
 
Travel (14)
Ian Brodie Lord of the Rings Location Guide
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 Green River, Running Red
John Silvester and Andrew Rule Leadbelly
 
World History (46)
Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography
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
Craig Bullock Quake Cats
Deborah Cadbury Chocolate Wars
Ann Charters The Portable Beat Reader
Ann Charters The Portable Sixties Reader
Nicholas Crane Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy
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
Erik Larson Isaac's Storm
Erik Larson Thunderstruck
Patricia Chapman Meder The True Story of Catch-22
Virginia Nicholson Among the Bohemians
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell The Road to Wigan Pier
Ronald Rosbottom When Paris Went Dark
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
Simon Winchester Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Simon Winchester Pacific
Simon Winchester The River at the Centre of the World
Tat Wood World History in Minutes

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This is a list of the books I'd most like to read this year. In 2015, I read 20 books (17 fiction, 3 non-fiction) out of the 81 on the list. In 2016, I read 14 books (12 fiction, 2 non-fiction) out of 77 on the list. I haven’t yet added extra books to the list for 2017.

 

I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2017 are marked with an *.
 
Fiction (Read 1 of 42)
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #2: The Turkish Gambit
Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #3: Murder on the Leviathan
JG Ballard Crash
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #3: A Red Herring Without Mustard
Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #4: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Raymond Chandler The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels
Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop
Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Jasper Fforde Thursday Next #6: One of Our Thursdays is Missing
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
Patricia Highsmith Ripley #3: Ripley’s Game
Homer The Odyssey
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen The Rabbit Back Literature Society
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
Astrid Lindgren The Brothers Lionheart
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 #7: Pyramids
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Good Omens
Dan Rhodes This is Life
Maria Semple Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
John Steinbeck East of Eden
Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
John Kennedy Toole The Neon Bible
HG Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau

Non-Fiction (Read 0 of 21)
Lester Bangs Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Bill Bryson At Home
Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter
Augusten Burroughs Magical Thinking
Pamela des Barres I'm with the Band
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel
Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Peter FitzSimons Batavia
Stephen Fry The Fry Chronicles
David Gillespie The Sweet Poison Quit Plan
Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch
Stephen Hawking My Brief History
Patty Hearst Her Own Story
Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great
Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs
Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts
Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression
Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation

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The books listed below are only those that I have on my TBR pile.

Total read to 1 January 2017: 97/416
 
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 97
TBR as at 15 February 2017: 98 (0 read, 1 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
Kate Chopin The Awakening
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
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
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
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

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

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

*Marcel Proust Swann's Way

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
Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
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 those that I have on my TBR pile.
 
Total read to 1 January 2017: 113/1294 (3 editions)
 
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 240
TBR as at 8 March 2017: 241 (1 read, 2 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 Book of Illusions
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 Shroud
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
Kate Chopin The Awakening
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
Honore de Balzac 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
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers
Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum
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
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 King Solomon’s Mines

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
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
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
Sheridan Le Fanu Uncle Silas

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
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
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
*Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past

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
Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse

Dorothy L. Sayers The Nine Tailors

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
John Steinbeck Cannery Row
Lawrence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
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
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther

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 Doctor Moreau
HG Wells Tono-Bungay
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
TH 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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1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
 
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The books listed below are only the books from the challenge that I have on my TBR pile.
 
Total read to date: 91/1001
 
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 53
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 53 (0 read, 0 acquired)

 
TBR Pile (read, currently reading):
Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy
Italo Calvino The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino The Cloven Viscount
Italo Calvino Italian Folktales
Italo Calvino The Nonexistant Knight
Isobelle Carmody The Gathering
Danie Defoe Robinson Crusoe

Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers

Michael Ende Neverending Story

Morris Gleitzman Two Weeks with the Queen

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Lian Hearn Across the Nightingale Floor
Susan Hill I'm the King of the Castle
Barry Hines A Kestrel for a Knave
Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda
Tove Jansson The Summer Book

Judith Kerr When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Clive King Stig of the Dump
Ursula K Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea
Maurice Leblanc Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Astrid Lindgren The Brothers Lionheart
Astrid Lindgren Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Joan Lindsay Picnic at Hanging Rock
Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mister Tom
Wolf Mankowitz A Kid for Two Farthings
Lucy Maud Montgomery Emily Climbs
E Nesbit Five Children and It
E Nesbit The Railway Children
Mary Norton The Borrowers
Robert C O'Brien Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Beatrix Potter The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

Beatrix Potter The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher

Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Terry Pratchett The Carpet People
Terry Pratchett Johnny and the Bomb
Terry Pratchett Only You Can Save Mankind
Philip Pullman Nothern Lights
Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling

George Selden The Cricket in Times Square

Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends

Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle
John Steinbeck The Red Pony
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Jonathan Stroud The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Mildred D Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
William Makepeace Thackeray The Rose and the Ring
Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne Around the World in 80 Days
Dorothy Wall Blinky Bill

TH White The Sword in the Stone

John Wyndham Chocky

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501 Must-Read Books
 
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The books listed below are only those that I have on my TBR pile.
 
Total read to 8 March 2017: 77/501
 
TBR as at 1 January 2017: 108
TBR as at 8 March 2017: 107 (1 read, 0 acquired)

TBR Pile (read, currently reading):


Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography
Henri Alain-Fournier Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate)
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
Saint Augustine Confessions
Paul Auster The New York Trilogy
JG Ballard The Crystal World
Pat Barker The Regeneration Trilogy
Alfred Bester The Demolished Man
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones
Pierre Boulle Planet of the Apes
Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles
Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley's Secret
John Brunner The Sheep Look Up
William S Burroughs The Naked Lunch
AS Byatt Possession
Italo Calvino Cosmicomics
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
JM Coetzee Disgrace
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
Edmund Crispin The Moving Toyshop
Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa The Leopard
Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
Michael Ende The Neverending Story
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Henry Fielding Tom Jones
Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
William Gibson Neuromancer
Gunter Grass The Tin Drum
John Howard Griffin Black Like Me
H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines
Knut Hamsun Hunger
Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
Frank Herbert Dune
Homer The Iliad
Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore
Victor Hugo Les Misérables
John Irving The World According to Garp
Christopher Isherwood Berlin Stories
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
Franz Kafka Diaries 1919-1923
Stephen King It
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ursula Le Guin Left Hand of Darkness
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
Primo Levi The Periodic Table
Ira Levin Stepford Wives
CS Lewis Out of the Silent Planet
David Malouf An Imaginary Life
Katherine Mansfield Bliss and Other Stories
Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mary McCarthy The Group
Robert McCrum et al. The Story of English
Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz
AA Milne The Red House Mystery
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
Thomas More Utopia
Sally Morgan My Place
Toni Morrison Beloved
Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea
Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory
E Nesbit Five Children and It
Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman
Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
Mervyn Peake Gormenghast
Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Marco Polo Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan
Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Philip Pullman Northern Lights
Anne Radcliffe A Sicilian Romance
Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons
Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire
Philip Roth The Human Stain
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse
Jean-Paul Sartre Words
WG Sebald Austerlitz
Hubert Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn
Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men
Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children
William Styron Sophie's Choice
Patrick Suskind Perfume
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
PL Travers Mary Poppins
Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
HG Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
TH White The Sword in the Stone
Oscar Wilde De Profundis
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse

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TBR Books on Multiple Lists
 
Gilmore Girls Challenge GG
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 1001
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up 1001C
501 Must-Read Books 501
 
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart 1001 501
Paul Auster New York Trilogy 1001 501
Pat Barker Regeneration Trilogy 1001 501
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones 1001 501
William Burroughs The Naked Lunch 1001 501
AS Byatt Possession 1001 501
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay GG 1001
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales GG 501
JM Coetzee Disgrace 1001 501
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone 1001 501
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White 1001 501
Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter GG 501
Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin 1001 501
Don Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote GG 1001
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1001 1001C 501
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa The Leopard 1001 501
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist GG 1001
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose GG 1001 501
Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero GG 1001
Michael Ende The Never-ending Story 1001C 501
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury GG 1001 501
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong 1001 501
Henry Fielding Tom Jones 1001 501
F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night GG 1001
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier GG 1001 501
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South 1001 501
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire GG 501
William Gibson Neuromancer 1001 501
Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls GG 1001
Gunter Grass The Tin Drum 1001 501
Knut Hamsun Hunger 1001 501
Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure 1001 501
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter GG 1001 1001C 501
Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1001 501
Barry Hines A Kestrel for a Knave 1001 1001C
Homer The Iliad GG 501
Victor Hugo Les Miserables 1001 501
John Irving The World According to Garp 1001 501
Christopher Isherwood Berlin Stories 1001 501
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day 1001 501
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady 1001 501
Tove Jansson The Summer Book 1001 1001C
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible GG 1001
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1001 501
Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1001 501
Andrea Levy Small Island GG 1001
Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude 1001 501
Mary McCarthy The Group GG 501
Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter GG 501
Herman Melville Moby Dick GG 1001 501
Toni Morrison Beloved GG 1001  501
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon GG 1001
Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea 1001 501
Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory GG 501
E Nesbit Five Children and It 1001C 501
Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman 1001 501
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country GG 1001
Mervyn Peake Gormenghast 1001 501
Edgar Allan Poe Various Stories GG 1001 501
Philip Pullman Northern Lights 1001C 501
Mario Puzo The Godfather GG 1001
Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons 1001C 501
Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire 1001 501
Philip Roth The Human Stain 1001 501
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things GG 1001
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses 1001 501
WG Sebald Austerlitz 1001 501
Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children 1001 501
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped 1001 1001C
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin GG 1001
William Styron Sophie's Choice GG 501
Patrick Süskind Perfume 1001 501
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels 1001 1001C 501
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina GG 1001
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace GG 1001 501
Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days 1001 1001C
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited 1001 501
HG Wells The Island of Dr Moreau 1001 501
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth 1001 501
TH White The Sword in the Stone 1001 501
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway GG 1001
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse 1001 501
John Wyndham Chocky 1001 1001C

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Frankie and Poppyshake's Must Read Books

TBR as at 1 January 2017: 51
(23 Frankie, 28 Poppyshake)
TBR as at 8 March 2017: 51 (1 read, 1 acquired)

TBR Pile (readcurrently reading, TBR):

Read in 2017: 1

 
***Frankie*** (Updated 2013 List)

Fiction (38)
Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale Read
Jane Austen Northanger Abby Read
Iain Banks Wasp Factory
Robert Bloch Psycho
John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Read
John Boyne Crippen TBR
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange Read
Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's Read
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay TBR
Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower Read
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None Read
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Read
Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World TBR
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince Read
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Read
Emma Donoghue Room Read
Daphne du Maurier My Cousin Rachel
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Read
Michel Faber Under the Skin Read
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Read
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 Read
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 Read
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Read
Jeff Lindsay Dexter series TBR
Väinö Linna The Unknown Soldier
Jennifer Lynch The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Read
LM Montgomery The Blue Castle
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Watchmen TBR
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye
Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart Read
Sofi Oksanen Purge TBR
Ann Patchett Bel Canto
Dan Rhodes Gold Read
Anne Rice Interview with a Vampire TBR
Sapphire Push!
Diane Setterfield Thirteenth Tale Read
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Read
Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
Anita Shreve The Weight of Water
Linda Lay Shuler She Who Remembers
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain Read
John Steinbeck The Wayward Bus
Robert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Read
Bram Stoker Dracula Read
Patrick Süskind Perfume TBR
Vikas Swarup Q&A
Donna Tartt The Secret History Read
Voltaire Candide Read
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five Read
Sarah Waters Fingersmith TBR
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting TBR
Elie Wiesel Night Read
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind Read
Markus Zusak The Book Thief Read
 
Young Adult (6)
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden Read
Georgia Byng Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock Read
Astrid Lindgren The Bill Bergson series
Astrid Lindgren Brothers Lionheart TBR
Lois Lowry Anastasia Krupnik series Read
Lois Lowry The Giver Read
LM Montgomery Emily of New Moon series TBR
Chris Priestley Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror Read
JK Rowling Harry Potter series Read
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg The Little Vampire
Sue Townsend The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ Read
 
Non-fiction (10)
Sylvia Beach Shakespeare and Company TBR
Charles Bukowski Ham on Rye TBR
Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors Read
Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table TBR
Mötley Crüe The Dirt Read
Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life TBR
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Read
Ronald Hayman The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath TBR
Lesley McDowell Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers TBR
Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Mary Roach Stiff: The Life of the Human Cadavers Read
Ann Rule The Stranger Beside Me Read
Flora Rheta Scheiber Sybil TBR
Deborah Spungen And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder
 
***Poppyshake*** (Updated 2013 List)

Fiction (25)
Joe Abercrombie The First Law Trilogy
Clare Allen Poppy Shakespeare TBR
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Read
Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice Read
Julian Barnes Arthur & George TBR
David Benioff City of Thieves
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Read
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Read
John Connolly The Book of Lost Things Read
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers Read
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Read
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Read
Charles Dickens Great Expectations Read
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Read
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca Read
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Read
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Read
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated Read
Neil Gaiman Neverwhere Read
George & Weedon Grossmith Diary of a Nobody Read
Joseph Heller Catch 22 Read
Emma Henderson Grace Williams Says it Loud TBR
John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany TBR
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go TBR
Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle Read
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English TBR
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible TBR
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Read
Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam TBR
Karen Maitland Company of Liars
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall TBR
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude TBR
Cormac McCarthy The Road Read
Herman Melville Moby Dick TBR
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Read
Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love Read
Toni Morrison Beloved TBR
Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea TBR
Paul Murray Skippy Dies TBR
Annie Proulx The Shipping News
Dan Rhodes Gold Read
Willy Russell The Wrong Boy
Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Read
Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle TBR
Kathryn Stockett The Help TBR
Mari Strachan The Earth Hums in B Flat
Donna Tartt The Secret History Read
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger TBR
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse TBR
Markus Zusak The Book Thief Read
 
Young Adult (5)
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Read
Stephen Chbosky The Perks of being a Wallflower Read
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series
Cornelia Funke Inkheart Read
Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book Read
Sally Gardner I Coriander
Kenneth Grahame Wind in the Willows Read
​Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Read
CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe Read
AA Milne Winnie the Pooh Read
Mary Norton The Borrowers TBR
Terry Pratchett Wintersmith TBR
Chris Priestley Tales of Terror series Read
JK Rowling The Harry Potter series Read
Jonathan Stroud The Bartimaeus trilogy TBR
JRR Tolkien The Hobbit Read
JRR Tolkien Lord of the Rings Read
Sue Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ Read

Non-Fiction (12)
Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire
John Bayley The Iris Trilogy
William Blacker Along the Enchanted Way
Bill Bryson Notes from a Big Country TBR
Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island Read
Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors Read
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Read
Susan Hill Howards End is on the Landing TBR
Nick Hornby The Complete Polysyllabic Spree Read
Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling
Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie TBR
Mary S Lovell The Mitford Girls TBR
Mary S Lovell The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters TBR
Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards TBR
Sylvia Plath The Journals of Sylvia Plath Read
Lorna Sage Bad Blood
Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal TBR
 
 
Frankie and Poppyshake Combined (including updated lists)
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Read
Jane Austen Persuasion Read
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Read
Roald Dahl Matilda Read
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Read
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Read
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Read
Cornelia Funke Inkheart Read
Nick Hornby The Complete Polysyllabic Spree Read
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Read
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Read
Dan Rhodes Gold Read
Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Read
Kathryn Stockett The Help TBR
Donna Tartt The Secret History Read
​Markus Zusak The Book Thief Read

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My Favourite Books
 
NEW books are those I've added in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
 
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 Dead Wake NEW
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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