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Kylie's Literary Adventures in 2012 :readingtwo:

 

Previous reading blogs: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

 

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Quick Links to 2012 Posts

 

January to June Reading | July to December Reading

 

Books Acquired January to June | Books Acquired July to December | Wishlist

 

TBR Fiction: A-B | C-D | E-G | H-J | K-L | M-O | P-R | S-V | W-Z

 

TBR Non-Fiction: Auto(bios), Letters, etc | Books about Books | English Language | The Rest

 

TBR Challenges: Gilmore Girls | 1001 | 1001 Children's | 701 Teen | 501

 

Photos of My Bookshelves (updated beginning, middle and end of 2012)

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Below is a 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 2012: 1289

TBR as at 28 March 2012: 1313 (19 from TBR, 2 re-reads | xxx acquired)

2012 peak: 1314 (7 March 2012)

2012 trough: 1387 (23 January 2012)

 

Julie Dawn Cole I Want It Now! 9/10

Jennifer Cruise Coffee at Luke's 6/10

Aubrey Dillon-Malone Literary Trivia: 300 Lists for Curious Bookworms 8/10

Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides 8/10

Janet Evanovich To the Nines 8/10

Justin Halpern Sh*t My Dad Says 8/10

Joseph Heller Catch-22 10/10

Patricia Highsmith The Talented Mr Ripley 9/10

Norton Juster Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys 8/10

Norton Juster The Dot & the Line 9/10

Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth 10/10

Lois Lowry Anastasia on Her Own 8/10

Judith Lucy The Lucy Family Alphabet 8/10

LM Montgomery Anne of Ingleside 8/10

Patrick Ness A Monster Calls 8/10

Simon Pegg Nerd Do Well 8/10

Daniel Pennac The Rights of the Reader 6/10

Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 9/10

Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society 9/10

Shel Silverstein Every Thing On It 8/10

Ali Smith The First Person and Other Stories 6/10

Yevgeny Zamyatin We

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January to June Reading

 

Total read January to June: 21 (re-reads: 2)

 

January (4)

Joseph Heller Catch-22

Janet Evanovich To the Nines

Simon Pegg Nerd Do Well

LM Montgomery Anne of Ingleside

 

February (5)

Julie Dawn Cole I Want it Now!

Jennifer Cruise Coffee at Luke's

Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

Norton Juster Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys

Justin Halpern Sh*t My Dad Says

 

March (4)

Norton Juster The Dot & the Line

Patrick Ness A Monster Calls

Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth

Lois Lowry Anastasia on Her Own

 

April (2)

Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides

Judith Lucy The Lucy Family Alphabet

Daniel Pennac The Rights of the Reader

 

May (1)

Virginia Holman Rescuing Patty Hearst

 

June (4)

Aubrey Dillon-Malone Literary Trivia: Over 300 Lists for Curious Bookworms

Yevgeny Zamyatin We

Shel Silverstein Every Thing On It

Ali Smith The First Person and Other Stories

Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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July to December Reading

 

Total read January to June: 21 (re-reads: 2)

Total read July to December: 7 (re-reads: x)

 

July (1)

Jeff Deck The Great Typo Hunt

 

August (0)

n.a.

 

September (0)

n.a.

 

October (1)

A Parody Sh!te's Original Miscellany

 

November (5)

Peter Haining Wrotten English

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

William S Burroughs The Cat Inside

Matte Jakobsen The Vanishing Act

Andrew Kaufman The Tiny Wife

 

December (1)

Patricia Highsmith The Talented Mr Ripley

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Books Acquired January to June 2012

 

Books acquired in:

2012: 161*

2011: 543

2010: 400

2009: 290

2008: 199

 

Acquired January to June: 161

Added to TBR as at 30 March 2012: xxx (less x selected non-fiction and x new editions)

 

New editions acquired: 5

 

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 (na).

 

January (1)

Julie Dawn Cole I Want It Now!

 

February (13)

Jennifer Crusie Coffee at Luke's

Ryu Murakami Piercing

Chris Priestley The Dead of Winter

Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion

Alberto Manguel News from a Foreign Country Came

Dan Rhodes Timoleon Vieta Come Home

Norton Juster Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys

Ayn Rand The Letters of Ayn Rand

Nicholas Karolides et al 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature

Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Terry Teachout The Skeptic: A Life of HL Mencken

Scarlett Thomas The End of Mr Y

Rick Wartzman Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

 

March (22)

Harry Mathews & Alastair Brotchie Oulipo Compendium

Lesley McDowell Between the Sheets

Georges Perec Things: A Story of the Sixties

Georges Perec W or the Memory of Childhood

William Styron Darkness Visible

Sylvia Beach Shakespeare & Company

Norton Juster The Dot & the Line

LM Montgomery Emily of New Moon

Vladimir Nabokov The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Virginia Nicholson Among the Bohemians

Patrick DeWitt The Sisters Brothers

Patrick Ness A Monster Calls

Virginia Woolf Flush

Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family and Editors

China Mieville King Rat

Patrick Ness The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness The Ask and the Answer

Patrick Ness Monsters of Men

Charles Bukowski The Continual Condition

​Charles Bukowski The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Maryrose Wood The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1: The Mysterious Howling

Charlaine Harris Dead Reckoning

 

April (65)

Neil Gaiman Smoke and Mirrors

Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #1: Cocaine Blues

Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #9: Raisins and Almonds

Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #11: Away with the Fairies

Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #16: Murder in the Dark

Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #17: Murder on a Midsummer Night

Norman Lindsay Bohemians at The Bulletin

Richard Yates Liars in Love

Lian Hearn Across the Nightingale Floor

Joseph Heller Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man

Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam

Judith Lucy The Lucy Family Alphabet

Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America

Stella Gibbons Starlight

Erich Segal Love Story

John Kennedy Toole The Neon Bible

Martin Amis The Old Devils

Honore de Balzac Eugenie Grandit

Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portugese

Mikhail Bulgakov Diaboliad

John Carey (ed) The Faber Book of Utopias

David Crystal A Little Book of Language

Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit

Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov

Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World

William Faulkner Sanctuary

F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night (na)

Vasily Grossman Life and Fate

Henry James The Turn of the Screw

W Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories Volume 4

Nancy Mitford Frederick the Great

Nancy Mitford The Sun King

Nancy Mitford Voltaire in Love

Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase (na)

Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart

John O'Hara Appointment in Samarra

Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Terry Pratchett Strata

Jonathan Stroud Bartimaeus #4: The Ring of Solomon (na)

Andy Warhol A: A Novel

Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet

David Gillespie The Sweet Poison Quit Plan: How to Kick the Sugar Habit and Lose Weight

Wilkie Collins The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories

James Doig Australian Ghost Stories

Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot

J Sheridan Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly

Alberto Manguel The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

Groucho Marx The Groucho Letters: Letters to and From Groucho Marx

John O'Hara BUtterfield 8

Andrey Platonov The Foundation Pit

PG Wodehouse Big Money (na)

PG Wodehouse The Girl in Blue

PG Wodehouse Hot Water

PG Wodehouse Laughing Gas (na)

PG Wodehouse Money for Nothing

PG Wodehouse The Small Bachelor

PG Wodehouse Uncle Fred in the Springtime

PG Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves (na)

PG Wodehouse Wodehouse at the Wicket

Daniel Pennac The Rights of the Reader

Michel Faber The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps

Patricia Highsmith Ripley's Game

Albert Sanchez Pinol Pandora in the Congo

Dan Rhodes Little Hands Clapping

Scarett Thomas Pop Co

The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion

Nancy Mitford Madame de Pompadour

Mervyn Peake The Gormenghast Trilogy

Nevil Shute Pied Piper

Jonathan Stroud The Amulet of Samarkand

 

May (48)

David Lodge The Campus Trilogy

Georges Perec Species and Spaces and Other Pieces

Bram Stoker The Lair of the White Worm & The Lady of the Shroud

Cassandra Clare Mortal Instruments #3 City of Glass

Alain de Botton Religion for Atheists

Norman Doidge The Brain that Changes Itself

Charles F Gritzner Earth Condensed

Grace Karskens The Colony: A History of Early Sydney

Diana Mitford A Life of Contrasts

Wiliiam Shakespeare As You Like It

Karin Boye Kallocain

Umberto Eco This is Not the End of the Book

Norton Juster The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth

Leanne Shapton The Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including Books, and Street Fashion, and Jewelry

John Brunner: The Sheep Look Up

Karel Capek: War with the Newts

Phillip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!

Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus

Benjamin Black A Death in Summer

WE Bowman The Ascent of Rum Doodle

John Boyne The Congress of Rough Riders

William S Burroughs And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Raymond Carver Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Charlie Chaplin My Autobiography

Edmund de Waal The Hare with Amber Eyes

Graham Greene The Quiet American

Charlaine Harris Harper Connolly #4: Grave Secret

MR James Ghost Stories

Tove Jansson Finn Family Moomintroll

Tove Jansson Comet in Moominland

Tove Jansson Moominvalley in November

Tove Jansson Moominpapa at Sea

Tove Jansson Moominsummer Madness

Tove Jansson Moominpappa's Memoirs

Tove Jansson Moominland Winter

Tove Jansson Tales from Moominvalley

Lois Lowry A Summer to Die

Carson McCullers The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

HL Mencken Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work

Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus

Haruki Murakami 1Q84 (3-book set)

Jamie O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys

HG Wells Love and Mr Lewisham

Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

PG Wodehouse Pigs Have Wings

Patty Heart: Her Own Story

 

June (12)

Joseph Heller Catch as Catch Can

Joseph Heller Picture This

Dan Rhodes Anthropology

Sun Tzu The Art of War

Jared Diamond Why is Sex Fun?

David Malouf Johnno

LM Montgomery Chronicles of Avonlea

LM Montgomery Further Chronicles of Avonlea

Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve

Astrid Lindgren Karlson Flies Again

Claudine Monteil The Beauvoir Sisters

Wendy Jones The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

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Books Acquired July to December 2012

Books acquired in:
2012: 427
2011: 543
2010: 400
2009: 290
2008: 199

Acquired January to June: 161
Acquired July to December: 266
Added to TBR as at 1 July 2012: x
(less x selected non-fiction and x new editions)

New editions acquired: x

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 (na).

July (19)
Kingsley Amis The King's English
Morris Gleitzman Now
*Jasper Fforde One of Our Thursdays is Missing (na)
Alberto Manguel All Men are Liars
Dorothy Parker & Arnaud D'Usseau The Ladies of the Corridor
Terry Pratchett Discworld #21: Jingo
John Steinbeck The Pearl
Kurt Vonnegut Palm Sunday & Welcome to the Monkey House
Ben Crystal Shakespeare on Toast
Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America
Alberto Manguel With Borges
Groucho Marx The Essential Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx Groucho and Me
Terry Pratchett Discworld #9: Faust Eric
Haruki Murakami What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
Sarah Winman When God Was a Rabbit
Maurice Leblanc An Arsène Lupin Omnibus
Jennifer Byrne A Book To Love
Carolyn Cassady Off the Road
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tales of Unease

August (27)
Vincent van Gogh The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Lester Bangs Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Craig Brown One on One: 101 True Encounters

Italo Calvino The Literature Machine

Roger-Pol Droit Astonish Yourself

Sumner Locke Elliott Careful, He Might Hear You

Angelica Garnett Deceived with Kindness

Morris Gleitzman After

Terry Pratchett Discworld #14: Lords and Ladies

Don Marquis The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

Terry Pratchett Discworld #36: Making Money
Terry Pratchett Discworld #37: Unseen Academicals
Norah Vincent Self-Made Man

Lewis Carroll Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

EF Benson Mapp and Lucia
Stella Gibbons Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
Percy Bysshe Shelley Selected Poems

Russell Ash & Brian Lake Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities

Judy Parkinson I Before E (Except After C)

Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London

Ellen Bosworth Shelley Peters and the Bushfire Mystery
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Michel Faber The Courage Consort
Morris Gleitzman Two Weeks with the Queen
David Malouf Ransom
Groucho Marx Memoirs of a Mangy Lover
Harpo Marx & Rowland Barber Harpo Speaks!

 

September (110)

Brian Aldiss (ed) A Science Fiction Omnibus

Kinglsey Amis One Fat Englishman
Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson Started Early, Took My Dog
Jane Austen & Charlotte Bronte The Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
JG Ballard The Disaster Area
JG Ballard Hello America
Julian Barnes A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
John Birmingham Popeland
David Blair (ed) Gothic Short Stories
Richard Brautigan So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Anthony Burgess The Long Day Wanes
Anthony Burgess The Malayan Trilogy
Nick Cave And the Ass Saw the Angel
Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands
Agatha Christie The 13 Problems
Agatha Christie After the Funeral
Agatha Christie The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie Dead Man's Folly
Agatha Christie Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember
Agatha Christie The Moving Finger
Agatha Christie The Murder on the Links
Agatha Christie Peril at End House
Agatha Christie The Seven Dials Mystery
Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent
Simone de Beauvoir The Woman Destroyed
Michel Faber The Fahrenheit Twins
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner Light in August
Gustave Flaubert Three Tales
Graham Greene The Man Within
Jerome K Jerome Evergreens
Arthur Koestler Arrival and Departure
DH Lawrence Kangaroo
CS Lewis Voyage to Venus (na)
W Somerset Maugham Christmas Holiday
William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow
Shaun Micallef Smithereens
Jessica Mitford The Making of a Mudraker
Haruki Murakami The Elephant Vanishes
Iris Murdoch The Black Prince
Chuck Palahniuk Diary
Frederick Pohl Jem
Dan Rhodes This is Life
Muriel Spark The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
John Steinbeck Once There was a War
Amy Tan The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan Saving Fish from Drowning
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men
Jeanette Winterson Gut Symmetries
Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry
Virginia Woolf A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction

Autobiographies and Biographies (13)

Martin Amis Experience
Alan Bennett A Life Like Other People's
Pattie Boyd Wonderful Tonight
Anthony Burgess You've Had Your Time
Humphrey Carpenter The Inklings
Charlotte Chandler Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends
Bob Dylan Chronicles: Volume One
Rebecca Fraser Charlotte Bronte
Helene Hanff Q's Legacy
Jean-Paul Sartre Words
Gertrude Stein Paris France
George Woodstock The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell
Julia Briggs Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
Letters, Diaries and Essays (16)
Martin Amis The War Against Cliche
Truman Capote A Capote Reader
Richard Harwell (ed) Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Letters, 1936-1949
William Hazlitt On the Pleasure of Hating
Nick Hornby 31 Songs
Aldous Huxley Music at Night
CS Lewis Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories
HL Mencken Selected Prejudices
Regina Marler Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
Jon Ronson Them: Adventures with Extremists
Frederic Spotts Letters of Leonard Woolf
Tom Wolfe The New Journalism
Tom Wolfe The Purple Decades
Virginia Woolf The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 3 1925-1930
Virginia Woolf The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 4 1931-1935
Virginia Woolf Women and Writing
Books About Books (5)
Harold Bloom How to Read and Why
Carmen Callil & Colm Toibin The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950
Umberto Eco Misreadings
Neal T Jones (ed) A Book of Days for the Literary Year
Finlay Lloyd When Books Die: 15 Essays
Travelogues (4)
Aldous Huxley Jesting Pilate
Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon
Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad
Nicholas Rankin Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson
Humour (11)
Jane Austen The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen
Andrea Barham The Pedant's Revolt
Robert E Drennan (ed) The Algonquin Wits
Mardy Grothe Oxymoronica
Gideon Haigh (ed) Peter the Lord's Cat and Other Unexpected Obituaries from Wisden
Richard Lederer More Anguished English
Roger Lewis Seasonal Suicide Notes
Spike Milligan The Essential Spike Milligan
A Parody A Sh!te History of Nearly Everything
Maggie Pinkney The Devil's Collection: A Cynic's Dictionary
Ben Pobjie Superchef Australia
Language/Editing Textbooks (2)
Eric Partridge You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies
The Penguin Complete English Reference Collection (8 books) (na)
Mark Tredennick The Little Red Writing Book
Other (3)
Nerida Campbell (ed) Femme Fatale
Joseph de Maistre The Executioner
Steven Jay Schneider 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

 

October (33)

Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (na)

Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass
Patricia Highsmith Ripley Under Ground
Patricia Highsmith Ripley Under Water
Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train
Richard Kennedy A Boy at the Hogarth Press
Ransom Riggs Talking Pictures
John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
John Steinbeck Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath
Johann David Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson
EM Delafield The Diary of a Provincial Lady
Pamela Des Barres I'm with the Band
Philip K Dick Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Mark Dunn Under the Harrow
F Scott Fitzgerald Dream of Youth: The Letters of F Scott Fitzgerald
Tim Harford The Undercover Economist
Patricia Highsmith The Talented Miss Highsmith
HL Mencken The Diary of HL Mencken
Walter Moers The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books
Bill Morgan The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
Anne Sexton A Biography
Rainer Maria Wilke Letters to a Young Poet
Virginia Woolf Hyde Park Gate News

Jane Austen Jane Austen's Letters

Benjamin Black Elegy for April
Sally Brampton Shoot the Damn Dog
Suzanne Collins The Ladies of Grace Adieu

Jane Austen Emma (na)

Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio (eds) Stories
Peter Haining Wrotten English: A Celebration of Literary Misprints, Mistakes and Mishaps
A Parody Shite's Unoriginal Miscellany
A Parody Old Sh!te's Almanac
Dan Simmons Hyperion
Defining Moments in Science
Defining Moments in History

 

November (34)

Agatha Christie Postern of Fate

Agatha Christie Towards Zero
Don DeLillo White Noise
Mary Durack Kings in Grass Castles
Joseph Heller Good as Gold
Matte Jacobson The Vanishing Act
Paula McLain The Paris Wife

Paul Auster Winter Journal
William S Burroughs The Cat Inside

Peter Cave How to Think Like a Bat and 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy

Brian Selznick Wonderstruck

Walter Moers The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books

Woody Allan Without Feathers

JG Ballard Concrete Island
Simone de Beauvoir Letters to Sartre
Marieke Hardy You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead
Jessica Mitford The Making of a Muckraker
Georges Perec The Art and Craft or Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise
Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Gary Shteyngart Absurdistan
William Styron The Suicide Run

John Keats You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

Karl Pilkington Happyslapped by a Jellyfish

JG Ballard A User's Guide to the Millenium

Linda Gray Sexton Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
Alfred Hitchcock A Brief Darkness
Jack Jones Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of the Man Who Killed John Lennon
Astrid Lindgren Pippi Goes on Board
Alberto Manguel Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
LM Montgomery Emily Climbs
LM Montgomery Emily's Quest
Anne Sexton A Self-Portrait in Letters

Bill Brohaugh Everything You Know About English is Wrong

Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth
Veronica Roth Insurgent

 

December (43)

Quentin Bell Virginia Woolf: 1882-1912

John Hammerton Books and Myself: A Memoir
Jerome K Jerome My Life and Times
Jack Kerouac The Sea is My Brother
Virginia Woolf Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 1: 1915-1919

Harold Anderson Albert of Adelaide

David Hume On Suicide
Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales
Eowyn Ivey The Snow Child

John Lennon The John Lennon Letters

Fiction (13)

John Cheever Bullet Park
Colette The Last of Cheri
Jasper Fforde The Song of the Quarkbeast
Mervyn Peake Gormenghast (na)
Mervyn Peake Titus Alone (na)
Jean-Paul Sartre The Age of Reason
Nevil Shute A Town Like Alice (na)
JRR Tolkien Mr Bliss

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (na)
Misery Bear Misery Bear's Guide to Love and Heartbreak
Michael Chabon Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon Werewolves in Their Youth
Agatha Christie The Mousetrap and Seven Other Plays
David Lodge A Man of Parts
David Lodge Ginger, You're Barmy
David Lodge Small World
Leanne Shapton Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris (na)

Karen Thompson Walker The Age of Miracles

Non-Fiction (17)

Simone de Beauvoir Letters to Sartre (na)
Sigmund Freud Civilization and its Discontents
Scott McConnell 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand
Sir Ernest Shackleton South: The Endurance Expedition

JG Ballard Miracles of Life (na)

Quentin Blake The Life of Birds
Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table
Michael Chabon Manhood for Amateurs
Linda Flavell Dictionary of English Down the Ages
John Gray Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Walter Hooper CS Lewis: A Companion & Guide
Steven E Landsburg More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
Gregory Leland Am-Bushed
Ivan Moscovich More Logic Puzzles (na)
Hannah Nordhaus The Beekeeper's Lament
Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist
Mary Roach Packing for Mars
Jon Ronson Out of the Ordinary
Jon Ronson What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness
Connor Woodman The Adventure Capitalist

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Wish List

 

John Joseph Adams: Brave New Worlds

Sylvia Beach: Shakespeare and Company

Karin Boye: Kallocain

Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America

Brom: The Devil's Rose

William S Burroughs: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Carolyn Cassady: Off the Road

Neal Cassady: Collected Letters, 1944-1967

Cassandra Clare: Mortal Instruments #3: City of Glass

Ben Crystal: Shakespeare on Toast

Mark Dunn: Feral Park

Mark Dunn: Under the Harrow

Umberto Eco: This is Not the End of the Book

Noel Riley Fitch: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation

Charlaine Harris: Grave Surprise

Charlaine Harris: A Touch of Dead

Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf

Albert Hofmann: LSD: My Problem Child

Grace Karskens: The Colony: A History of Early Sydney

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden #38, #39

Ken Kesey: Sometimes a Great Notion

Erik Larson: In the Garden of Beasts

CS Lewis: The Screwtape Letters

Alberto Manguel: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

HL Mencken: The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States

China Mieville: King Rat

LM Montgomery: The Blythes are Quoted

Vladimir Nabokov: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Patrick Ness: The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness: The Ask and the Answer

Patrick Ness: Monsters of Men

Robert Owen: A New View of Society and Other Writings

Sylvia Plath: Collected Poems

Ayn Rand: The Letters of Ayn Rand

Dan Rhodes: Little Hands Clapping

William L Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Art Spiegelman: The Complete Maus

Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories

Vanessa Veselka: Zazen

Jann Wenner: Gonzo

Tom Wolfe: The New Journalism

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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 2012 are marked with an *.

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 138

TBR as at 8 June 2012: 130 (x read, x acquired)

 

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 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

Henri Alain-Fournier: The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie

Brian Aldiss: Non-Stop

Brian Aldiss (ed): The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus

Clare Allan: Poppy Shakespeare

Isabel Allende: Eva Luna

*Kingsley Amis: The Old Devils

Martin Amis: Money

Martin Amis: The Rachel Papers

Hans Christian Andersen: Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

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

Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride

Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood

Jane Austen: Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon

Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies

Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy

Murray Bail: Eucalyptus

Frank Baker: Miss Hargreaves

Duncan Ball: Selby Speaks

JG Ballard: The Complete Stories of JG Ballard

JG Ballard: Crash

JG Ballard: The Crystal World

JG Ballard: The Drought

JG Ballard: The Drowned World

JG Ballard: Empire of the Sun

JG Ballard: High-Rise

JG Ballard: Kingdom Come

John Banville: Athena

John Banville: Birchwood

John Banville: Doctor Copernicus

John Banville: Eclipse

John Banville: Ghosts

John Banville: The Infinities

John Banville: Kepler

John Banville: Mefisto

John Banville: The Newton Letter

John Banville: The Sea

John Banville: The Untouchable

Clive Barker: Weaveworld

Pat Barker: Regeneration

Pat Barker: The Eye in the Door

Pat Barker: The Ghost Road

*Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending

Stephen Baxter: Time

Stephen Baxter: Space

Stephen Baxter: Origin

Greg Bear: Eon

Frank Beddor: The Looking Glass Wars

Frank Beddor: Seeing Redd

Aphra Behn: Oroonoko

David Benedictus: Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

Gregory Benford: Timescape

Walter Benjamin: One-Way Street and Other Writings

Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader

EF Benson: Mrs Ames

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

Alfred Bester: The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination

John Birmingham: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

Benjamin Black: Christine Falls

Benjamin Black: The Lemur

Benjamin Black: The Silver Swan

*Benjamin Black: A Death in Summer

James Blish: Cities in Flight

Judy Blume: Deenie

T Boardman (ed): Connoisseur's Science Fiction

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

*WE Bowman: The Ascent of Rum Doodle

*Karin Boye: Kallocain

*John Boyne: The Congress of Rough Riders

John Boyne: Crippen

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

Alan Bradley: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

ER Braithwaite: To Sir, With Love

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders

Richard Brautigan: Sombrero Fallout

David Brin: Kil'n People

Brom: The Child Thief

Dan Brown: Deception Point

Dan Brown: Digital Fortress

*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

Pearl S Buck: The Good Earth

*Charles Bukowski: The Continual Condition

Charles Bukowski: Ham on Rye

*Charles Bukowski: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Heart of a Dog

*Mikhail Bulgakov: Diaboliad

Katharine Burdekin: Swastika Night

Anthony Burgess: 1985

Anthony Burgess: A Dead Man in Deptford

Anthony Burgess: The Complete Enderby

Anthony Burgess: Earthly Powers

Anthony Burgess: The Wanting Seed

Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy

*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 as at 1 January 2012: 147

TBR as at 8 June 2012: 142 (x read, x 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: The Complete Stories

Truman Capote: Music for Chameleons

Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms

Truman Capote: Summer Crossing

Truman Capote: A Tree of Night and Other Stories

Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game

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

Lewis Carroll: Sylvie and Bruno

Angela Carter: Black Venus

Angela Carter: Heroes and Villains

Angela Carter: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Angela Carter: The Magic Toyshop

Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter: Wise Children

*Raymond Carver: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Michael Chabon: Summerland

Raymond Chandler: Killer in the Rain

Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels

GK Chesterton: The Complete Father Brown Stories

GK Chesterton: The Strange Crime of John Boulnois

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders

Agatha Christie: The Clock

*Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie: The Floating Admiral

Agatha Christie: The Murder in the Mews

*Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie: The Secret Adversary

Agatha Christie: Taken at the Flood

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 #2: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Angel

Arthur C Clarke: Against the Fall of Night

Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter: Firstborn

Arthur C Clarke: Prelude to Space

Arthur C Clarke: The Space Trilogy

Susanna Clarke: The Ladies of Grace Adieu

Pearl Cleage: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

JM Coetzee: Disgrace

Eoin Colfer: And Another Thing

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl #1: Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl #2: The Arctic Incident

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl #3: The Eternity Code

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl #5: The Lost Colony

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl #6: The Time Paradox

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl #7: The Atlantis Complex

Eoin Colfer: The Supernaturalist

*Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone

John Connolly: The Gates

Wendy Cooling (ed): D is for Dahl

Alfred Duff Cooper: Talleyrand

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

Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park

Justin Cronin: The Passage

John Crowley: Little, Big

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

Mark Z Danielewski: House of Leaves

James Dashner: The Maze Runner

James Dashner: The Scorch Trials

David Stuart Davies: The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories

*Honore de Balzac: Eugenie Grandet

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

Patrick Dennis: Auntie Mame

Joyce Dennys: Henrietta Sees it Through

Joyce Dennys: Henrietta's War

*Patrick DeWitt: The Sisters Brothers

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa: The Leopard

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: The Man in the High Castle

Philip K Dick: Solar Lottery

Philip K Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

*Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

Cory Doctorow: Little Brother

EL Doctorow: Ragtime

*James Doig: Australian Ghost Stories

*Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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

Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha

Margaret Drabble: The Gifts of War

Margaret Drabble: The Millstone

Daphne du Maurier: The Birds and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca

Carol Ann Duffy: The Christimas Truce

Alexandre Dumas: The Last Cavalier

Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

Sarah Dunant: In the Company of the Courtesan

Mark Dunn: Ibid

Mark Dunn: Welcome to Higby

Jeanne DuPrau: The City of Ember

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TBR as at 1 January 2012: 104

TBR as at 8 June 2012: 106 (2 read, x acquired)

 

Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Dave Eggers: The Wild Things

M Barnard Eldershaw: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Brett Easton Ellis: American Psycho

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: The Virgin Suicides

Janet Evanovich: To the Nines

Michel Faber: The Apple

Michel Faber: The Fire Gospel

*Michel Faber: The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps

Michel Faber: Under the Skin

John Meade Falkner: Moonfleet

John Fante: The Bandini Quartet

Philip Jose Farmer: Dayworld

Philip Jose Farmer: Dayworld Rebel

Philip Jose Farmer: Dayworld Breakup

*William Faulkner: Santuary

William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong

Raymond E Feist: Magician

Rachel Ferguson: The Brontes Went to Woolworths

Jasper Fforde: The Fourth Bear

Jasper Fforde: The Last Dragonslayer

Jasper Fforde: One of Our Thursday's is Missing

Jasper Fforde: Shades of Grey

Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary

Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

F Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned

F Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night

Zelda Fitzgerald: Save Me the Waltz

Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

Richard Flanagan: Gould's Book of Fish

Gustave Flaubert: Sentimental Education

Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Ford Maddox Ford: The Good Soldier

John Fowles: The Collector

Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin: My Career Goes Bung

Esther Freud: Hideous Kinky

Robert Frost: The Poetry of Robert Frost

Stephen Fry: The Hippopotamus

Stephen Fry: The Liar

Stephen Fry: Paperweight

Cornelia Funke: Inkheart

Cornelia Funke: Inkspell

Cornelia Funke: Inkdeath

Neil Gaiman: American Gods

Neil Gaiman: Fragile Things

Neil Gaiman: M is for Magic

Neil Gaiman: Odd and the Frost Giants

*Neil Gaiman: Smoke and Mirrors

Neil Gaiman: Stardust

Paul Gallico: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

Alex Garland: The Beach

Elizabeth Garner: The Ingenious Edgar Jones

Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South

Stella Gibbons: Conference at Cold Comfort Farm

*Stella Gibbons: Starlight

Stella Gibbons: Westwood

William Gibson: Neuromancer

William Gibson: Count Zero

William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson: Burning Chrome

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

Morris Gleitzman: Once

Morris Gleitzman: Then

Dmitry Glukhovsky: Metro 2033

Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol: The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Other Stories

Glen David Gold: Carter Beats the Devil

*Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha

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 Quiet American

Graham Greene: Travels with My Aunt

*Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher #1: Cocaine Blues

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher #2: Flying Too High

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher #3: Murder on the Ballarat Train

*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 #13: The Castlemaine Murders

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher #14: Queen of the Flowers

*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

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 as at 1 January 2012: 104

TBR as at 8 June 2012: 88 (2 read, x acquired)

 

H Rider Haggard: She

Joe Haldeman: The Forever War

Sarah Hall: Daughters of the North

Dashiell Hammett: The Thin Man

Knut Hamsun: Hunger

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure

Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches

Charlaine Harris: Dead and Gone

Charlaine Harris: Dead in the Family

*Charlaine Harris Dead Reckoning

Charlaine Harris: Harper Connelly #1: Grave Sight

Charlaine Harris: Harper Connelly #2: Grave Surprise

Charlaine Harris: Harper Connelly #3: An Ice Cold Grave

Charlaine Harris: Harper Connelly #4: Grave Secret

Joanne Harris: Chocolat

Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs

Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!

Harry Harrision: A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

Harry Harrison: Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables

Robert Heinlein: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers

Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land

Joseph Heller: Closing Time

Joseph Heller: God Knows

*Joseph Heller: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

Joseph Heller: Something Happened

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms

Emma Henderson: Grace Williams Says It Loud

Frank Herbert: Dune

*Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr Ripley

*Patricia Highsmith: Ripley's Game

Susan Hill: The Battle for Gullywith

Susan Hill: I'm the King of the Castle

Susan Hill: The Mist in the Mirror

Susan Hill: Mrs De Winter

Susan Hill: The Small Hand

Barry Hines: A Kestral for a Knave

SE Hinton: Hawkes Harbor

SE Hinton: Tex

SE Hinton: That Was Then, This Is Now

Homer: The Odyssey

Nick Hornby: High Fidelity

Michel Houellebecq: Atomised

Michel Houellebecq: The Possibility of an Island

Katherine Howe: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

Ted Hughes: The Iron Man

Ted Hughes: The Iron Woman

Ted Hughes: The Selected Poems

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Aldous Huxley: Ape and Essence

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow

Aldoux Huxley: The Doors of Perception, and Heaven and Hell

Aldous Huxley: Island

Aldous Huxley: Those Barren Leaves

John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany

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

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

Tove Jansson: #1: Comet in Moominland

Tove Jansson: #2: Finn Family Moomintroll

*Tove Jansson: #3: Moominpappa's Memoirs

*Tove Jansson: #4: Moominsummer Madness

*Tove Jansson: #5: Moominland Winter

*Tove Jansson: #6: Tales from Moominvalley

Tove Jansson: #7: Moominpappa at Sea

*Tove Jansson: #8: Moominvalley in November

Tove Jansson: The Summer Book

Jerome K Jerome: Three Men on a Bummel

Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip

Terry Jones (Douglas Adams): Starship Titanic

Nicholas Jose (ed): Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature

*Norton Juster: Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys

*Norton Juster: The Dot & the Line

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TBR as at 1 January 2012: 94

TBR as at 8 June 2012: 97 (1 read, x acquired)

 

Franz Kafka: The Complete Novels

Franz Kafka: The Complete Short Stories

Andrew Kaufman: The Tiny Wife

James Kelman: How Late It Was, How Late

Stephen Kelman: Pigeon English

Thomas Keneally: Three Cheers for the Paraclete

Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden #37: The Pet Show Mystery

Andrew Keogh: twentytwelve

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: Satori in Paris

Jack Kerouac: The Subterraneans and Pic

Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

*Ken Kesey: Sometimes a Great Notion

Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees

Clive King: Stig of the Dump

Stephen King: The Bachman Books

Stephen King: IT

Stephen King: Needful Things

Stephen King: The Stand

Stephen King: Under the Dome

Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible

Damon Knight (ed): A Pocketful of Stars

John Knowles: A Separate Peace

Christopher Koch: The Year of Living Dangerously

Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon

Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian

Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia

Lisa Lang: Utopian Man

*Reif Larsen: The Selected Works of TS Spivet

Erik Larson: The Devil in the White City

Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played with Fire

Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Hugh Laurie: The Gun Seller

Nam Le: The Boat

JMG Le Clezio: War

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: Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

Fritz Leiber: Gather, Darkness

Stanislaw Lem: The Cyberiad

Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress

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

Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

*Lauren Liebenberg: The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam

Astrid Lindgren: The Brothers Lionheart

Astrid Lindgren: Pippi in the South Seas

Astrid Lindgren: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

John Ajvide Lindqvist: Harbour

John Ajvide Lindqvist: Let the Right One In

Jeff Lindsay: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeff Lindsay Dearly Devoted Dexter

Jeff Lindsay: Dexter in the Dark

Jeff Lindsay: Dexter by Design

Jeff Lindsay: Dexter is Delicious

Joan Lindsay: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Saci Lloyd: The Carbon Diaries 2015

Saci Lloyd: The Carbon Diaries 2017

*David Lodge: The Campus Trilogy

Jack London: The Call of the Wild and Other Stories

Jack London: The Iron Heel

HP Lovecraft: The Best of HP Lovecraft

Lois Lowry: Anastasia #5: Anastasia on Her Own

*Lois Lowry: A Summer to Die

Lois Lowry: Anastasia #7: Anastasia’s Chosen Career

Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry: Messenger

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TBR as at 1 January 2012: 115

TBR as at 8 June 2012: 137 (1 read, x acquired)

 

Michelle Magorian: Goodnight Mister Tom

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

David Malouf: An Imaginary Life

David Malouf: The Conversations at Curlow Creek

David Malouf: Remembering Babylon

Alberto Manguel: The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories

*Alberto Manguel: News from a Foreign Country Came

Wolf Mankowitz: A Kid for Two Farthings

Katherine Mansfield: The Collected Stories

Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall

Melina Marchetta: Finnikin of the Rock

Melina Marchetta: Froi of the Exiles

Melina Marchetta: The Piper's Son

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

John Marsden: The Great Gatenby

John Marsden: The Journey

John Marsden: Out of Time

John Marsden: Winter

George RR Martin: A Game of Thrones

Valerie Martin: Property

Richard Matheson: The Shrinking Man

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

Cormac McCarthy: Border Trilogy #1: All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy: Border Trilogy #2: The Crossing

Mary McCarthy: The Group (given up for now)

*Carson McCullers: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Colleen McCullough: The Thorn Birds

Ian McEwan: Black Dogs

Ian McEwan: The Innocent

Ian McEwan: Solar

Jon McGregor: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

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

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: Un Lun Dun

Walter M Miller Jr: A Canticle for Leibowitz

Spike Milligan: Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall

AA Milne: Now We Are Six

AA Milne: The Red House Mystery

David Mitchell: Ghostwritten

Nancy Mitford: The Blessing

*Nancy Mitford: Frederick the Great

Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate and Other Stories

*Nancy Mitford: Madame de Pompadour

Nancy Mitford: Pudding & Pie

Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love

*Nancy Mitford: The Sun King

*Nancy Mitford: Voltaire in Love

Walter Moers: The Alchemaster's Apprentice

Walter Moers: The City of Dreaming Books

Walter Moers: Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

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: Emily of New Moon

Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time

Thomas More: Utopia

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

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: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Haruki Murakami: Dance Dance Dance

Haruki Murakami: 1Q84

Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood

*Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

*Ryu Murakami: Piercing

Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea

Iris Murdoch: Under the Net

Paul Murray: Skippy Dies

Vladimir Nabokov: Ada or Ardor

Vladimir Nabokov: Bend Sinister

Vladimir Nabokov: Despair

Vladimir Nabokov: Invitation to a Beheading

Vladimir Nabokov: Mary

Vladimir Nabokov: Nabokov's Dozen

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: A Monster Calls

*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

David Nicholls: One Day

Audrey Niffenegger: The Night Bookmobile

William F Nolan & George Clayton Johnson: Logan's Run

Mary Norton: Bedknob and Broomstick

Mary Norton: The Borrowers

Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien: The Hard Life

Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman

Robert C O'Brien: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find

Frank O'Connor: The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland

Rohan O'Grady: Let's Kill Uncle

*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

Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor

Sofi Oksanen: Purge

Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel

George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier

Joanne Owens: Puppet Master

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TBR as at 1 January 2012: 99

TBR as at 8 June 2012: 108 (x read, x acquired)

 

Chuck Palahniuk: Choke

Chuck Palahniuk: Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk: Pygmy

Chuck Palahniuk: Rant

Chuck Palahniuk: Survivor

Ruth Park: Poor Man's Orange

Dorothy Parker: The Penguin Dorothy Parker

Ann Patchett: Bel Canto

Banjo Paterson: The Man from Snowy River

Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country

*Mervyn Peake: The Gormenghast Trilogy

Matthew Pearl: The Dante Club

Matthew Pearl: The Poe Shadow

Iain Pears: An Instance of the Fingerpost

Otto Penzler (ed): The Big Book of Pulps

Georges Perec: A Void

Georges Perec: Life: A User's Manual

*Georges Perec: Things: A Story of the Sixties

*Georges Perec: W or the Memory of Childhood

Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Club Dumas

Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little

*Albert Sanchez Pinol: Pandora in the Congo

Sylvia Plath: Collected Children's Stories

Sylvia Plath: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

*Andrey Platonov: The Foundation Pit

Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems

*Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

Anthony Powell: Books Do Furnish a Room

Terry Pratchett: The Carpet People (standalone)

Terry Pratchett: The Dark Side of the Sun (standalone)

*Terry Pratchett: Strata (standalone)

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #6 - Wyrd Sisters

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #7 - Pyramids

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #8 - Guards! Guards!

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 #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 #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 #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 #38 - I Shall Wear Midnight

*Terry Pratchett: Discworld #39 - Snuff

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 and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens

*Chris Priestley: The Dead of Winter

Chris Priestley: Tales of Terror from the Black Ship

Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials #1 - Northern Lights

Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials #2 - The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials #3 - The Amber Spyglass

Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49

Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel

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

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: The Yearling

Beth Revis: Across the Universe

Mack Reynolds: Towers of Utopia

Dan Rhodes: Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love

Dan Rhodes: Gold

*Dan Rhodes: Little Hands Clapping

*Dan Rhodes: Timoleon Vieta Come Home

Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice: The Vampire Lestat

Ransom Riggs: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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 Human Stain

Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint

Veronica Roth: Divergent

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

Jed Rubenfeld: The Interpretation of Murder

Gillian Rubinstein: Space Demons

Gillian Rubinstein: Skymaze

Gillian Rubinstein: Shinkei

Salman Rushdie: Fury

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie: The Moor's Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses

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TBR as at 1 January 2012: 102

TBR as at 8 June 2012: 105 (2 read, x acquired)

 

Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood

JD Salinger: For Esme - with Love and Squalor

JD Salinger: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

WG Sebald: Austerlitz

*Erich Segal: Love Story

Erich Segal: Oliver's Story

George Selden: The Cricket in Times Square

Will Self: The Book of Dave

Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

*William Shakespeare: As You Like It

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets

*Leanne Shapton: Important Artifacts and...

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

*Shel Silverstein: Every Thing On It

Shel Silverstein: Where the Sidewalk Ends

Georges Simenon: Maigret at the Crossroads

Michael Sims (ed): The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

Ali Smith: The First Person and Other Stories

Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle

Zadie Smith: White Teeth

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #5: The Austere Academy

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #6: The Ersatz Elevator

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: The Vile Village

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #8: The Hostile Hospital

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: The Carnivorous Carnival

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #10: The Slippery Slope

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #12: The Penultimate Peril

Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events #13: The End

Natasha Solomons: A Novel in the Viola

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Olaf Stapledon: Last and First Men

Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker

Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children

John Steinbeck: East of Eden

John Steinbeck: The Long Valley

John Steinbeck: The Moon is Down

John Steinbeck: The Red Pony

Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: The Curse of the Gloamglozer (Book 1, Quint Saga)

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: The Winter Knights (Book 2, Quint Saga)

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: The Last of the Sky Pirates (Book 1, Rook Saga)

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Vox (Book 2, Rook Saga)

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Freeglader (Book 3, Rook Saga)

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Beyond the Deepwoods (Book 1, Twig Saga)

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Stormchaser (Book 2, Twig Saga)

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax (Book 3, Twig Saga)

Kathryn Stockett: The Help

*Bram Stoker: The Lair of the White Worm and Other Stories

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Charles Stross: Halting State

*Jonathan Stroud: Bartimaeus #1: The Amulet of Samarkand

Jonathan Stroud: Bartimaeus #2: The Golem's Eye

Jonathan Stroud: Bartimaeus #3: Ptolemy's Gate

Jonathan Stroud: Bartimaeus #4: The Ring of Solomon

William Styron: Sophie's Choice

Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Jacqueline Susann: Valley of the Dolls

Patrick Suskind: Perfume

Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels

Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems

Kousun Takami: Battle Royale

Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club

Donna Tartt: The Secret History

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

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 Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Sue Townsend: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend: True Confessions of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Lynne Truss: A Certain Age

Lynne Truss: Going Loco

Lynne Truss: The Lynne Truss Treasury

Lynne Truss: Tennyson's Gift

Nancy Turner: Sarah's Quilt

Nancy Turner: The Star Garden

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

John Updike: Rabbit, Run

John Updike: The Witches of Eastwick

Carl-Johan Vallgren: The Horrific Sufferings of Hercules Barefoot

Jack Vance: Emphyrio

Vassilis Vassilikos: Z

Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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: Welcome to the Monkey House

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TBR as at 1 January 2012: 133

TBR as at 8 June 2012: 136 (x read, x acquired)

 

SA Wakefield: Gumbles on Guard

SA Wakefield: Gumbles in Summer

Dorothy Wall: Blinky Bill

*Andy Warhol: A: A Novel

Daniel Waters: Generation Dead

Daniel Waters: Passing Strange

*Daniel Waters: Kiss of Life

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: Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh: Waugh in Abyssinia

Charles Webb: Home School

Orson Welles: Mr Arkadin

HG Wells: Ann Veronica

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: Selected Short Stories

HG Wells: The Shape of Things to Come

HG Wells: The Sleeper Awakes

Irvine Welsh: Filth

Irvine Welsh: Porno

Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

Eudora Welty: Moon Lake

Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan

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

Gene Wilder: What Is This Thing Called Love?

Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays

Connie Willis: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Jacqueline Wilson: Best Friends

Jacqueline Wilson: The Illustrated Mum

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: Full Moon

*PG Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue

PG Wodehouse: The Heart of a Goof

PG Wodehouse: Hot Water

PG Wodehouse: Ice in the Bedroom

PG Wodehouse: Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

PG Wodehouse: Jeeves in the Offing

PG Wodehouse: Leave it to Psmith

PG Wodehouse: Laughing Gas

PG Wodehouse: The Luck of the Bodkins

PG Wodehouse: The Mating Season

PG Wodehouse: Money for Nothing

PG Wodehouse: Mr Mulliner Speaking

PG Wodehouse: Mulliner Nights

PG Wodehouse: Piccadilly Jim

*PG Wodehouse: Pigs Have Wings

PG Wodehouse: Ring for Jeeves

PG Wodehouse: Service with a Smile

*PG Wodehouse: The Small Bachelor

PG Wodehouse: Something Fishy

PG Wodehouse: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

PG Wodehouse: Summer Lightning

PG Wodehouse: Summer Moonshine

PG Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings

PG Wodehouse: Ukridge

PG Wodehouse: Uncle Dynamite

*PG Wodehouse: Uncle Fred in the Springtime

PG Wodehouse: Uneasy Money

PG Wodehouse: Very Good, Jeeves!

*PG Wodehouse: Wodehouse at the Wicket

PG Wodehouse: Young Men in Spats

Bernard Wolfe: Limbo '90

Gene Wolfe: The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Tom Wolfe: The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Tom Wolfe: The Pump House Gang

Jack Womack: Ambient

Jack Womack: Elvissey

Jack Womack: Going Going Gone

Jack Womack: Heathern

Jack Womack: Let's Put the Future Behind Us

Jack Womack: Random Acts of Senseless Violence

Jack Womack: Terraplane

*Maryrose Wood: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1: The Mysterious Howling

Virginia Woolf: A 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

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 Ruis Zafon: The Angel's Game

Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

Roger Zelazny: The Lord of Light

Emile Zola: Nana

Markus Zusak: Fighting Ruben Wolfe

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Non-Fiction: Autobiographies and Biographies, Letters, Diaries and Essays

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 120

TBR as at 30 June 2012: 130 (3 read, 7 acquired)

 

 

Harold Acton: Nancy Mitford: A Biography

Saint Augustine: Confessions

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

JG Ballard: Miracles of Life

Sylvia Beach: The Letters of Sylvia Beach

*Sylvia Beach: Shakespeare & Company

Quentin Bell: Bloomsbury

Quentin Bell: Virginia Woolf 1912-1941

Graeme Blundell: King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy

Jackson Bryer & Cathy Barks: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Augusten Burroughs: Magical Thinking

Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors

Augusten Burroughs: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Paula Byrne: Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

Simon Callow: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles biography, Vol 1)

Simon Callow: Hello Americans (Orson Welles biography, Vol 2)

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Gerald Clarke: Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

Gerald Clarke: Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote

*Julie Dawn Cole: I Want It Now!

Simone de Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking

Frances Donaldson: PG Wodehouse

Ursula Doyle: Love Letters of Great Men and Women

Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell: The Overloaded Ark

Chris Welles Feder: In My Father's Shadow

Michael J Fox: Lucky Man

James Frey: A Million Little Pieces

Stephen Fry: The Fry Chronicles

Stephen Fry: Moab is My Washpot

Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat Pray Love

Allen Ginsberg: The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952

Germaine Greer: Daddy, We Hardly Knew You

John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me

Che Guevera: The Motorcycle Diaries

Che Guevara: Guerrilla Warfare

Jonathan Guinness: The House of Mitford

Pat Hackett (ed): The Andy Warhol Diaries

Justin Halpern: Sh!t My Dad Says

Oliver Harris: The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945-59

Ronald Hayman: The Death & Life of Sylvia Plath

Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway: Green Hills of Africa

Virginia Holman: Rescuing Patty Hearst

Ted Hughes: Letters of Ted Hughes

Jan Lars Jensen: Nervous System

Franz Kafka: The Diaries of Franz Kafka

*Franz Kafka: Letters to Friends, Family and Editors

Susanna Kaysen: Girl, Interrupted

Anita Kermode (ed): The Oxford Book of Letters

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev: A Lover of Unreason

Hermione Lee: Virginia Woolf

Tommy Lee et al: The Dirt

Donovan Leitch: The Hurdy Gurdy Man

John Lellenberg et al: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

Primo Levi: If This is a Man & The Truce

Mary S Lovell: The Mitford Girls

Mary S Lovel: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

Katherine Mansfield: Letters and Journals

Hilary Mantel: Giving Up the Ghost

Alexander Masters: Stuart: A Life Backwards

Joyce Maynard: At Home in the World

Robert McCrum: My Year Off

Robert McCrum: Wodehouse

*Lesley McDowell: Between the Sheets

William McKeen: Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S Thompson

Jenny McMorris: The Warden of English: The Life of HW Fowler

Marion Meade: Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This?

HL Mencken: My Life as Author and Editor

David Michaelis: Schulz and Peanuts

Nancy Milford: Zelda

Spike Milligan: Depression and How to Survive It

Christopher Milne: The Enchanted Places

Jessica Mitford: A Fine Old Conflict

Charlotte Mosley: The Letters of Nancy Mitford

Charlotte Mosley: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

Charlotte Mosley: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters

Vicki Myron: Dewey

Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977

*Virginia Nicholson: Among the Bohemians

Anais Nin: The Journals of Anais Nin, Volume 3

Rosalind Ormiston: The Life of Works of Michelangelo

Rosalind Ormiston: Vincent Van Gogh: A Life in Letters & Art

George Orwell: Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 1

George Orwell: Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 2

George Orwell: Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 3

George Orwell: Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 4

George Orwell: Diaries

George Orwell: Some Thoughts on the Common Toad

Simon Pegg: Nerd Do Well

Robert M Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Sylvia Plath: Letters Home

Marco Polo: Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan

*Ayn Rand: The Letters of Ayn Rand

Jon Ronson: The Men Who Stare at Goats

Ann Rule: The Stranger Beside Me

Flora Rheta Schreiber: Sybil

David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Nigel Smith: I Think There's Something Wrong With Me

Dava Sobel: Longitude

Hilary Spurling: The Girl from the Fiction Department

Ralph Steadman: The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S Thompson

Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

Irving Stone: Lust for Life

Jan Stradling: Bad Girls & Wicked Women

*William Styron: Darkness Visible

Peter Y Sussman (ed): The Letters of Jessica Mitford

Daniel Tammet: Born on a Blue Day

Katherine Tarbox: Katie.com

*Terry Teachout: The Skeptic: A Life of HL Mencken

Anita Thompson (ed): Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S Thompson

Hunter S Thompson: Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie

Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hunter S Thompson: Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers Vol 2

Hunter S Thompson: The Great Shark Hunt

Hunter S Thompson: Hell's Angels

Hunter S Thompson: Kingdom of Fear

Lynne Truss: Get Her off the Pitch!

Lynne Truss: Talk to the Hand

Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1

Jeanette Walls: The Glass Castle

Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Rebecca West: The Essential Rebecca West

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Diary

Virginia Woolf: Moments of Being

Virginia Woolf: Selected Diaries

Virginia Woolf: Selected Letters

Malcolm X: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Non-Fiction: Books About Books

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 37

TBR as at 6 March 2012: 40 (x read, 3 acquired)

 

 

Nicholas A Basbanes: Every Book Its Reader

Erin Blakemore: The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder

Italo Calvino: Why Read the Classics?

Michael Chabon: Maps & Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

Des Crowley and Clare Williamson: The World of the Book

Gary Dexter: Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola

Gary Dexter: Why Not Catch-21?

Umberto Eco: Serendipities

George Eliot: Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

Anne Fadiman: Ex Libris

Anne Fadiman: Rereadings

John Gross: The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

Michael Heyward: The Ern Malley Affair

Susan Hill: Howards End is on the Landing

Martin Hopkinson: Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates

Henry James: Selected Literary Criticism

*Nicholas Karolides et al: 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature

Melissa Katsoulis: Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes

Aubrey Malone: Literary Trivia

Alberto Manguel: A History of Reading

Alberto Manguel: Homer's The Iliad & The Odyssey

Alberto Manguel: Into the Looking-Glass Wood

*Harry Mathews & Alastair Brotchie: Oulipo Compendium

Jeremy Mercer: Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs

Sandra Newman: Read This Next

George Orwell: Books v. Cigarettes

Alice Ozma: The Reading Promise

Nancy Pearl: Book Lust

Nancy Pearl: More Book Lust

Bill Peschel: Writers Gone Wild

Henry Petroski: The Book on the Bookshelf

Marcel Proust: Days of Reading

Charles Rembar: The End of Obscenity

Ransom Riggs: The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

CH Rolph (ed): The Trial of Lady Chatterley

Julie Rugg & Lynda Murphy: A Book Addict's Treasury

Ammon Shea: Reading the OED

John Saumarez Smith (ed): The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73

John Sutherland: Curiosities of Literature

*Rick Wartzman: Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

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Non-Fiction: English Language

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 33

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 33 (x read, x acquired)

 

 

Chris Baker & Jacob Hansen: The Elements of hmmming Style: A Helpful Parody

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary

Melvyn Bragg: The Adventure of English

Bill Bryson: Made in America

Bill Bryson: Mother Tongue

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 Fight for English

David Crystal: How Language Works

David Crystal: The Stories of English

David Crystal: Words Words Words

Jeff Deck & Benjamin D Herson: The Great Typo Hunt

Susan Drake and Monica Davidson: Freelancing for Australians for Dummies

Mark Dunn: Zounds!

Elizabeth Flann and Beryl Hill: The Australian Editing Handbook

Stephen Fry: The Ode Less Travelled

Mark Garvey: Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style

Philip Gooden: The Story of English

Bruce Kaplan: Editing Made Easy

Stephen King: On Writing

Richard Lederer: Anguished English

John Man: The Gutenberg Revolution

Robert McCrum: Globish

Robert McCrum et al: The Story of English

Eric Partridge: Usage and Abusage

Shirley Purchase (ed): The Australian Writers' and Editors' Guide

Michael Quinion: Port Out, Starboard Home and Other Language Myths

Strunk and White: The Elements of Style

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

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 62

TBR as at 27 March 2012: 64 (1 read, 1 acquired)

 

 

HE Bates: A Country Life

Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the 20th Century

Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the World

Jorge Luis Borges: The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986

Bill Bryson: At Home

Bill Bryson: Notes from a Big Country

Vincent Bugliosi: Helter Skelter

Ann Charters: The Portable Sixties Reader

Graham Coleman and Thupten Jinpa (eds): The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Alastair Cooke: The Vintage Mencken

*Jennifer Crusie: Coffee at Luke's

Paul Davies: The Mind of God

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

Leon Edel: Bloomsbury: A House of Lions

Dave Eggers: Zeitoun

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

HV Evatt: Rum Rebellion

Susan Faludi: Backlash

Niall Ferguson: Empire

Tim Flannery: Here on Earth

Tim Flannery: The Weather Makers

Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged)

Gary Greenberg: Manufacturing Depression

Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch

David Hill: Gold!

Robert Hughes: The Fatal Shore

Dr Spencer Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese?

Thomas Keneally: Australians: Origins to Eureka

Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner: Superfreakonomics

John Lloyd and John Mitchinson: The QI Book of Animals

Charles Mackay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto

HL Mencken: A Mencken Chrestomathy

HL Mencken: In Defence of Women

Nancy Mitford (ed): The Noblesse Oblige

PJ O'Rourke: Driving Like Crazy

PJ O'Rourke: Holidays in Hell

Joshua Piven et al: The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History

Gershon Portnoi: Why Are You So Fat? Cricket's Best Ever Sledges

David Rakoff: Don't Get Too Comfortable

Ayn Rand: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Ayn Rand: The Early Ayn Rand

Mary Roach: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Mary Roach: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Arthur Schopenhauer: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion

Bernard Shaw: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism & Facism

John Silvester and Andrew Rule: Leadbelly

Andrew Solomon: The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression

Ian Stewart: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

Michael Swift: Mapping the World

Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism

Alan Weisman: The World Without Us

Simon Winchester: Atlantic

Simon Winchester: A Crack in the Edge of the World

Simon Winchester: Bomb, Book & Compass

Simon Winchester: Krakatoa

Simon Winchester: The Map that Changed the World

Simon Winchester: The Meaning of Everything

Simon Winchester: The Surgeon of Crowthorne

Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid

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Gilmore Girls Challenge

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 82

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 80 (2 read, x acquired)

 

TBR Pile (read, currently reading):

 

Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie

Isabel Allende: Eva Luna

Judy Blume: Deenie

Pearl S Buck: The Good Earth

Vincent Bugliosi: Helter Skelter

Michael Chabon: Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Pearl Cleage: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Simone De Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Don Miguel De Cervantes: Don Quixote

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking

Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca

Bret Easton Ellis: Less than Zero

Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides

Susan Faludi: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

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

Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast

Virginia Holman: Rescuing Patty Hearst

Nick Hornby: High Fidelity

Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

Shirley Jackson: The Lottery and Other Stories

Henry James: Daisy Miller and Other Stories

Dr Spencer Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese?

Susanna Kaysen: Girl, Interrupted

Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees

Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible

John Knowles: A Separate Peace

Erik Larsson: The Devil in the White City

Tommy Lee: The Dirt

Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby

Andrea Levy: Small Island

Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Valerie Martin: Property

Mary McCarthy: The Group

Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Emma McLaughlin: The Nanny Diaries

Herman Melville: Moby Dick

HL Mencken: A Mencken Chrestomathy

HL Mencken: My Life as Author and Editor

Grace Metalious: Peyton Place

Toni Morrison: Beloved

Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon

Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory

Joyce Carol Oates: We Were the Mulvaneys

Dorothy Parker: The Portable Dorothy Parker

Ann Patchett: Bel Canto

Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

Mario Puzo: The Godfather

Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: The Yearling

Mary Roach: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets

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

Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

Kurt Vonnegut: Galapagos

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway

David Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

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1001 Books To Read Before You Die

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 205

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 205 (x read, x acquired)

 

TBR Pile (read, currently reading):

 

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

Douglas Adams: The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul

Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger

Martin Amis: Money: A Suicide Note

Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Isaac Asimov: Foundation

Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride

Margaret Atwood: Cat’s Eye

Margaret Atwood: Surfacing

Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy

JG Ballard: The Atrocity Exhibition

JG Ballard: Empire of the Sun

JG Ballard: Crash

JG Ballard: The Drowned World

JG Ballard: High-Rise

John Banville: The Newton Letter

John Banville: The Sea

John Banville: The Untouchable

Muriel Barbery: Elegance of the Hedgehog

Pat Barker: Regeneration

Pat Barker: The Ghost Road

Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot

Aphra Behn: Oroonoko

Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths

Tadeusz Borowski: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anthony Burgess: Inside Mr Enderby

William Burroughs: Naked Lunch

William Burroughs: Junkie

AS Byatt: The Children's Book

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: Wise Children

Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

JM Coetzee: Disgrace

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

Michael Cunningham: The Hours

Mark Z Danielewski: House of Leaves

Louis de Bernieres: Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss

Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Charles Dickens: Bleak House

Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

EL Doctorow: Ragtime

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca

Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

George Eliot: Middlemarch

George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss

Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man

Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate

Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides

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

Nikolay Gogol: Dead Souls

Nikolay Gogol: The Nose

Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum

Graham Greene: The Quiet American

H Rider Haggard: She

Dashiell Hammett: The Thin Man

Knut Hamsun: Hunger

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy: The Woodlanders

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land

Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms

Herman Hesse: Steppenwolf

Barry Hines: A Kestrel for a Knave

Michel Houellebecq: Atomised

Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow

John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving: The World According to Garp

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World

Henry James: The Ambassadors

Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James: What Maisie Knew

Tove Jansson: The Summer Book

Franz Kafka: Amerika

Franz Kafka: The Castle

James Kelman: How Late It Was, How Late

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

Ursula K Le Guin: The Dispossessed

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

W Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses

Ian McEwan: Black Dogs

Herman Melville: Moby Dick

Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love

William Morris: News from Nowhere

Toni Morrison: Beloved

Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon

Alice Munro: The Beggar Maid

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

Chuck Palahniuk: Choke

Jack Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago

Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country

Georges Perec: Life: A User's Manual

Georges Perec: A Void

Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Dumas Club

DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little

Edgar Allan Poe: The Purloined Letter

Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher

Mario Puzo: The Godfather

Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49

Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel

Anne Rice: Interview With the Vampire

Philip Roth: The Plot Against America

Philip Roth: The Human Stain

Philip Roth: Portnoy’s Complaint

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

Salman Rushdie: Fury

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie: The Moor's Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie: Shame

WG Sebald: Austerlitz

Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice

Zadie Smith: White Teeth

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children

Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Patrick Süskind: Perfume

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub

Donna Tartt: The Secret History

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

John Updike: Rabbit, Run

Vassilis Vassilikos: Z

Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days

Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur

Sarah Waters: Fingersmith

Winifred Watson: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies

HG Wells: The Island of Dr Moreau

Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth

John White: The Once and Future King

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

Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

Émile Zola: Nana

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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 42

TBR as at 29 March 2012: 42 (x read, x acquired)

 

TBR Pile (read, currently reading):

 

Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy

Isobelle Carmody: The Gathering

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl

Susan Coolidge: What Katy Did

Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

Michael Ende: Neverending Story

Cornelia Funke: Inkheart

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Barry Hines: A Kestrel for a Knave

Tove Jansson: Comet in Moominland

Tove Jansson: Finn Family Moomintroll

Tove Jansson: The Summer Book

Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Clive King: Stig of the Dump

Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea

Astrid Lindgren: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

Joan Lindsay: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Michelle Magorian: Goodnight Mister Tom

AA Milne: Now We Are Six

E Nesbit: Five Children and It

E Nesbit: The Railway Children

Mary Norton: The Borrowers

Robert O'Brien: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

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

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels

Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Sue Townsend: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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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701 Teen Books

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 106

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 106 (x read, x acquired)

 

TBR Pile (read, currently reading):

 

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

Henri Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaulnes

Martin Amis: The Rachel Papers

Virgina Andrews: Flowers in the Attic

Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Issac Asimov: The Foundation trilogy

Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye

JG Ballard: Complete Short Stories

JG Ballard: Empire of the Sun

Clive Barker: Abarat

Clive Barker: Weaveworld

Pat Barker: Regeneration

Frank Beddor: The Looking Glass Wars

John Berendt: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine

Trudi Canavan: The Black Magican trilogy

Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game

Angela Carter: The Magic Toyshop

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer: The Supernaturalist

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park

Michael Cunningham: The Hours

Roald Dahl: Tales of the Unexpected

Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Phillip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Phillip K Dick: The Man in the High Castle

Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca

Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals

George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss

Ben Elton: Dead Famous

Michael Ende: The Neverending Story

Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong

Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary

F Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night

Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career

Stephen Fry: The Liar

Stephen Fry: Moab is My Washpot

Alex Garland: The Beach

Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries

H Rider Haggard: She

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Joanne Harris: Chocolat

Robert A Heinlein: Starship Troopers

Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast

Frank Herbert: Dune

Susan Hill: I'm the King of the Castle

Barry Hines: A Kestral for the Knave

Nick Hornby: Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby: High Fidelity

Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving: The World According to Garp

Henry James: Daisy Miller

Henry James: The Turn of the Screw

Stephen King: The Long Walk

John Knowles: A Separate Peace

Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia

Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness

Joan Lindsay: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Jack London: The Call of the Wind

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses

Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate

Toni Morrison: Beloved

Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds

Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase

Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Boris Pasternak: Dr Zhivago

DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little

Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Terry Pratchett: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Terry Pratchett: Discworld #31 - Monstrous Regiment

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens

Phillip Pullman: His Dark Materials trilogy

Anne Rice: Interview with a Vampire

JD Salinger: For Esme - With Love and Squalor

JD Salinger: Franny and Zooey

Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice

Georges Simenon: The Maigret books

Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped

Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell: Beyond the Deepwoods

Patrick Suskind: Perfume

Donna Tartt: The Secret History

Mildred D Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Here Me Cry

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

Sue Townsend: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13.5

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisted

HG Wells: Short Stories

Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

TH White: The Once and Future King

Jacqueline Wilson: The Illustated Mum

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf: Orlando

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501 Must Read Books

 

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 95

TBR as at 1 January 2012: 95 (x read, xx acquired)

 

TBR Pile (read, currently reading):

 

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

Henri Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate)

Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales

Margaret Atwood: Surfacing

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

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

Simone de Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa: The Leopard

Philip K Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca

Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals

George Eliot: Middlemarch

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

Knut Hamsun: Hunger

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land

Frank Herbert: Dune

Robert Hughes: The Fatal Shore

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

Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love

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

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

Philip Pullman: Northern Lights

Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons

Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire

Philip Roth: The Human Stain

Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses

WG Sebald: Austerlitz

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 Dr Moreau

Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth

TH White: The Sword in the Stone

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

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