Kylie

Ooh, second episode was brilliant!! Can't wait for next week!

I'm watching it and loving it! I don't really understand a lot of people's criticisms. I think it's simply wonderful.

No way! He must have been quite young?

Ooh, those covers are lovely indeed! And I absolutely agree about Lady Chatterley's Lover. Argh! I had a similar problem! So frustrating! I'll have to try and read this book this year. Your comments about it last year got me interested! It's your favourite because it has part of your name on the cover, right? Aw no, that's a shame! Squeeee! The Phantom Tollbooth made your list three times!! (And I don't care if it was the only contender in each category...you still chose it!) It really does make it easier, doesn't it?!

Totally agree! Ooh! I'll have to go and see if you wrote a review for this. I love the Marx Brothers! Three by Dickens?! Very impressive! Aw, shame about The Trial. I thought it was rather clever, and I loved the ending, although I can totally understand the 'dull' comment. I've been wanting to re-read it because I don't think I read a very good translation. I bought this fairly recently, but I'm a bit intimidated by it. Is it fairly easy to get through? Interesting! I've been looking forward to reading this. Is it better than The Sisters Brothers, do you think? (I assume you've read that...)

Great stats, Janet! You've read an impressive number of classics recently. I need to take a leaf out of your book!

I read her book last year and found it quite helpful. Like others, I skipped over some of the stranger things (and anything where she dared to suggest getting rid of books!) I must admit that I haven't followed her method precisely (yet!) As I recall, she advocates doing one room at a time rather than a bit here and there, and I haven't been able to do that yet. But I managed to go through all of my clothes and get rid of a lot of stuff, and I've studied folding my underwear nicely. I've also been scanning loads and loads and loads of paperwork onto my computer and throwing out the originals. It's so satisfying getting rid of all that paper! I'm thinking of moving house this year, so if that eventuates, I'll be doing a much bigger overhaul before I move.

Coincidentally, I've read the exact same three books. I plan to read another one this year (although I haven't chosen which one yet). I think Highsmith is brilliant. I have some trouble engaging with her characters—the conversations often seem rather unreal (as in, you wouldn't hear people speaking like that in real life)—but I find that I'm easily able to overcome this and engage with the overall story.

I loved this book too! Do you think the illustrated version would be worth investing in, BB?

OK, I wrote up my answer not long after I started the thread, but my computer crashed and I lost most of my response (luckily I had copied some of it into another document beforehand). I just couldn't be bothered redoing it all until now! Favourite read? I only had two 10/10 reads for the year, and they were Alexandre Dumas' The Story of a Nutcracker and Erik Larson's Dead Wake, a non-fiction book about the sinking of the Lusitania. Larson is an amazing researcher and writer. In fact, I've been in such a reading slump lately that I picked up another of Larson's books to see if it would help, and it has! I would never usually seek out a non-fiction book to help with my missing mojo, but Larson is just that talented! Runners up: Matt Haig's A Boy Called Christmas, Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed, David Mitchell's Slade House, Sarah Murgatroyd's The Dig Tree, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, John Hersey's Hiroshima, Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, PG Wodehouse's Jeeves in the Offing and Bill Bryson's The Road to Little Dribbling. Favourite author? Agatha Christie and PG Wodehouse are perennial favourites. Most read author? I read the first four books in Morris Gleitzman's Once series. I also read three books by PG Wodehouse. Favourite book cover? Book you abandoned (if there was more than one, the one you read least of)? I've started but not finished many books this year, but it's mostly been my lack of mojo rather than any fault of the books. The only one that I wasn't enjoying that much was Boris Akunin's The Turkish Gambit, but I still plan to finish it one day. Book that most disappointed you? Boris Akunin's The Turkish Gambit. From what I've read so far, it's very different from the first book in the series. It's much more political and I'm having a hard time following it. Hopefully it will pick up eventually. Funniest book? All three books I read by PG Wodehouse: Jeeves in the Offing, Meet Mr Mulliner (which turned out to be a reread) and Mr Mulliner Speaking. Bill Bryson's The Road to Little Dribbling and Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them were also brilliant. Favourite literary character? Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce in 'A Red Herring Without Mustard'—she's so wonderfully precocious! Also, Jeeves and Wooster in PG Wodehouse's 'Jeeves in the Offing'—a wonderful double act. Favourite children's book? Matt Haig's A Boy Called Christmas and Alexandre Dumas' The Story of a Nutcracker. Favourite classic? Alexandre Dumas' The Story of a Nutcracker. Favourite non-fiction book? Erik Larson's Dead Wake. I actually had a brilliant year for non-fiction reading. Sarah Murgatroyd's The Dig Tree, about a famous exploring tragedy in modern (European) Australian history, was excellent. Other runners up were Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Bill Bryson's The Road to Little Dribbling. Favourite biography? An autobiography by John Elder Robison called Look Me in the Eye. Woof. Favourite collection of short stories? I suppose the Mr Mulliner stories by PG Wodehouse would count here. They're all brilliant! Favourite poetry collection? No poetry. Favourite illustrated book? The Walking Dead Compendium #1 and Joanna Eliot's Infographic Guide to Literature (I love infographics ). Favourite publisher? As always, I'm a huge fan of Penguin and Vintage. I love that they pay special attention to the classics and are continually re-releasing them in drool-worthy new editions with beautiful covers. Favourite audiobook? No audiobooks. Favourite re-read? This might sound like a strange one. Many years ago I went through a period where I was interested in reading Beatles fan fiction. Among all of the stories out there, there was one epic story (truly the length of a long book) that I read several times during that period. It was called Into My Life by Diane Huberty. I've always held onto the ebook file (it's freely available online) and I decided to re-read it in 2016. It was just as wonderful as I remembered, and I was surprised how much detail I could remember all these years later.

Here's The Guardian's lists of fiction and non-fiction releases for 2017.

This is a very inspiring thread! I first heard about bullet journals a few months ago...I can't remember how now (brown cow )...and I spent ages looking at Instagram pics. I thought about starting one, but I would stress too much about it looking good. I'm hyper-critical of my own writing and (lack of) creative ability. This thread is getting me excited though. Kell and Brian, your BuJos are fabulous! Ooh, I love your pretty new journal, Frankie! You should totally put that inspirational quote somewhere you can see it every day. I can't wait to hear about your journalling adventures. ETA: Oh, and I love washi tape too. It's so cute! I have to restrain myself from buying it whenever I see some.

Happy reading in 2017, Gaia! Like Frankie, I noticed that your thread was simpler this year. Mine has become simpler over the years too. For the read-a-thon, if you still want to participate you could perhaps change your focus from reading as many books as you can to just focusing on one or two longer books that also don't require as much processing?

I've been slowly getting through Mark Twain's Notebooks, which are quite interesting, and Broadmoor Revealed by Mark Stevens, which is great. I also started reading Round the Christmas Fire late last year, and even though the season is now over, I plan to keep reading it. I'm only up to the second story so far...at this rate I'll be finished by Christmas this year!

Huzzah! I'm done! My lists got quite out-of-date during 2016, so I had to spend ages fixing them. New Year's resolution: keep up-to-date with lists so I don't have all this bother this time next year! I know I say this every year, but in 2017 I simply must spend more time reading and less time watching TV! Happy reading in 2017 everyone!

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My Favourite Books NEW books are those I've added in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Fiction Jane Austen Emma Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice John Banville The Book of Evidence Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange Italo Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveller John Connolly The Book of Lost Things Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Great Expectations Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Daphne du Maurier Rebecca NEW Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Christo Mark Dunn Ella Minnow Pea Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Michel Faber The Crimson Petal and White F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated George Grossmith Diary of a Nobody Joseph Heller Catch-22 Susan Hill The Woman in Black Jack Kerouac On the Road Jack Kerouac The Town and the City Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Erich Maria Marquez All Quiet on the Western Front Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Vladimir Nabokov Lolita George Orwell Animal Farm Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Mary Shelley Frankenstein John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men Bram Stoker Dracula Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray Tim Winton Cloudstreet Markus Zusak The Book Thief Young Adult Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower Suzanne Collins Hunger Games (trilogy) Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth John Marsden Tomorrow, When the War Began (series) A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh Walter Moers The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear Lucy M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables J. K. Rowling Harry Potter (series) Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Non-Fiction Bill Bryson Down Under Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods Byll Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything Truman Capote In Cold Blood AB Facey A Fortunate Life Tim Flannery The Explorers Tim Flannery The Birth of Sydney Anne Frank The Diary of Anne Frank Helene Hanff 84 Charing Cross Road Erik Larson Dead Wake NEW Erik Larson The Devil in the White City NEW Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon Martin Toseland A Steroid Hit the Earth

Frankie and Poppyshake's Must Read Books TBR as at 1 January 2017: 51 (23 Frankie, 28 Poppyshake) TBR as at 8 March 2017: 51 (1 read, 1 acquired) TBR Pile (read, currently reading, TBR): Read in 2017: 1 ***Frankie*** (Updated 2013 List) Fiction (38) Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale Read Jane Austen Northanger Abby Read Iain Banks Wasp Factory Robert Bloch Psycho John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Read John Boyne Crippen TBR Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange Read Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's Read Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay TBR Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower Read Agatha Christie And Then There Were None Read Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Read Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World TBR Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince Read Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Read Emma Donoghue Room Read Daphne du Maurier My Cousin Rachel Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Read Michel Faber Under the Skin Read Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Read Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary TBR Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe TBR John Grogan Marley and Me Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Read Matt Haig The Last Family in England TBR Daniil Harms Incidences Joanne Harris Gentlemen & Players Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises Siri Hustvedt The Summer Without Men Kazuo Ishiguro A Pale View of Hills Lloyd Jones Mister Pip TBR Stephen King Green Mile Andrey Kurkov Death and the Penguin Read Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Read Jeff Lindsay Dexter series TBR Väinö Linna The Unknown Soldier Jennifer Lynch The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Read LM Montgomery The Blue Castle Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Watchmen TBR Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart Read Sofi Oksanen Purge TBR Ann Patchett Bel Canto Dan Rhodes Gold Read Anne Rice Interview with a Vampire TBR Sapphire Push! Diane Setterfield Thirteenth Tale Read Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Read Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Anita Shreve The Weight of Water Linda Lay Shuler She Who Remembers Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain Read John Steinbeck The Wayward Bus Robert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Read Bram Stoker Dracula Read Patrick Süskind Perfume TBR Vikas Swarup Q&A Donna Tartt The Secret History Read Voltaire Candide Read Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five Read Sarah Waters Fingersmith TBR Irvine Welsh Trainspotting TBR Elie Wiesel Night Read Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind Read Markus Zusak The Book Thief Read Young Adult (6) Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden Read Georgia Byng Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock Read Astrid Lindgren The Bill Bergson series Astrid Lindgren Brothers Lionheart TBR Lois Lowry Anastasia Krupnik series Read Lois Lowry The Giver Read LM Montgomery Emily of New Moon series TBR Chris Priestley Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror Read JK Rowling Harry Potter series Read Angela Sommer-Bodenburg The Little Vampire Sue Townsend The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ Read Non-fiction (10) Sylvia Beach Shakespeare and Company TBR Charles Bukowski Ham on Rye TBR Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors Read Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table TBR Mötley Crüe The Dirt Read Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life TBR Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Read Ronald Hayman The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath TBR Lesley McDowell Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers TBR Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Mary Roach Stiff: The Life of the Human Cadavers Read Ann Rule The Stranger Beside Me Read Flora Rheta Scheiber Sybil TBR Deborah Spungen And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder ***Poppyshake*** (Updated 2013 List) Fiction (25) Joe Abercrombie The First Law Trilogy Clare Allen Poppy Shakespeare TBR Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Read Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice Read Julian Barnes Arthur & George TBR David Benioff City of Thieves Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Read Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Read John Connolly The Book of Lost Things Read Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers Read Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Read Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Read Charles Dickens Great Expectations Read Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Read Daphne du Maurier Rebecca Read Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Read Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Read Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated Read Neil Gaiman Neverwhere Read George & Weedon Grossmith Diary of a Nobody Read Joseph Heller Catch 22 Read Emma Henderson Grace Williams Says it Loud TBR John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany TBR Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go TBR Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle Read Stephen Kelman Pigeon English TBR Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible TBR Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Read Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam TBR Karen Maitland Company of Liars Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall TBR Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude TBR Cormac McCarthy The Road Read Herman Melville Moby Dick TBR Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Read Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love Read Toni Morrison Beloved TBR Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea TBR Paul Murray Skippy Dies TBR Annie Proulx The Shipping News Dan Rhodes Gold Read Willy Russell The Wrong Boy Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Read Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle TBR Kathryn Stockett The Help TBR Mari Strachan The Earth Hums in B Flat Donna Tartt The Secret History Read Sarah Waters The Little Stranger TBR Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse TBR Markus Zusak The Book Thief Read Young Adult (5) Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Read Stephen Chbosky The Perks of being a Wallflower Read Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series Cornelia Funke Inkheart Read Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book Read Sally Gardner I Coriander Kenneth Grahame Wind in the Willows Read ​Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Read CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe Read AA Milne Winnie the Pooh Read Mary Norton The Borrowers TBR Terry Pratchett Wintersmith TBR Chris Priestley Tales of Terror series Read JK Rowling The Harry Potter series Read Jonathan Stroud The Bartimaeus trilogy TBR JRR Tolkien The Hobbit Read JRR Tolkien Lord of the Rings Read Sue Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ Read Non-Fiction (12) Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire John Bayley The Iris Trilogy William Blacker Along the Enchanted Way Bill Bryson Notes from a Big Country TBR Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island Read Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors Read Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Read Susan Hill Howards End is on the Landing TBR Nick Hornby The Complete Polysyllabic Spree Read Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie TBR Mary S Lovell The Mitford Girls TBR Mary S Lovell The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters TBR Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards TBR Sylvia Plath The Journals of Sylvia Plath Read Lorna Sage Bad Blood Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal TBR Frankie and Poppyshake Combined (including updated lists) Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Read Jane Austen Persuasion Read Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Read Roald Dahl Matilda Read Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Read Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Read Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Read Cornelia Funke Inkheart Read Nick Hornby The Complete Polysyllabic Spree Read Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Read Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Read Dan Rhodes Gold Read Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Read Kathryn Stockett The Help TBR Donna Tartt The Secret History Read ​Markus Zusak The Book Thief Read

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

501 Must-Read Books The books listed below are only those that I have on my TBR pile. Total read to 8 March 2017: 77/501 TBR as at 1 January 2017: 108 TBR as at 8 March 2017: 107 (1 read, 0 acquired) TBR Pile (read, currently reading): Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography Henri Alain-Fournier Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate) Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Saint Augustine Confessions Paul Auster The New York Trilogy JG Ballard The Crystal World Pat Barker The Regeneration Trilogy Alfred Bester The Demolished Man Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones Pierre Boulle Planet of the Apes Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley's Secret John Brunner The Sheep Look Up William S Burroughs The Naked Lunch AS Byatt Possession Italo Calvino Cosmicomics Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales JM Coetzee Disgrace Wilkie Collins The Moonstone Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Edmund Crispin The Moving Toyshop Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa The Leopard Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose Michael Ende The Neverending Story William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury Sebastian Faulks Birdsong Henry Fielding Tom Jones Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier Elizabeth Gaskell North and South Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire William Gibson Neuromancer Gunter Grass The Tin Drum John Howard Griffin Black Like Me H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines Knut Hamsun Hunger Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land Frank Herbert Dune Homer The Iliad Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore Victor Hugo Les Misérables John Irving The World According to Garp Christopher Isherwood Berlin Stories Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Henry James The Portrait of a Lady Franz Kafka Diaries 1919-1923 Stephen King It Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Ursula Le Guin Left Hand of Darkness Stanislaw Lem Solaris Primo Levi The Periodic Table Ira Levin Stepford Wives CS Lewis Out of the Silent Planet David Malouf An Imaginary Life Katherine Mansfield Bliss and Other Stories Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Mary McCarthy The Group Robert McCrum et al. The Story of English Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Herman Melville Moby Dick Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz AA Milne The Red House Mystery Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Thomas More Utopia Sally Morgan My Place Toni Morrison Beloved Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory E Nesbit Five Children and It Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London Mervyn Peake Gormenghast Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allan Poe Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Marco Polo Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit Philip Pullman Northern Lights Anne Radcliffe A Sicilian Romance Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire Philip Roth The Human Stain Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse Jean-Paul Sartre Words WG Sebald Austerlitz Hubert Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children William Styron Sophie's Choice Patrick Suskind Perfume Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Leo Tolstoy War and Peace PL Travers Mary Poppins Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited HG Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau Edith Wharton The House of Mirth TH White The Sword in the Stone Oscar Wilde De Profundis Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse

1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up The books listed below are only the books from the challenge that I have on my TBR pile. Total read to date: 91/1001 TBR as at 1 January 2017: 53 TBR as at 1 January 2017: 53 (0 read, 0 acquired) TBR Pile (read, currently reading): Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy Italo Calvino The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino The Cloven Viscount Italo Calvino Italian Folktales Italo Calvino The Nonexistant Knight Isobelle Carmody The Gathering Danie Defoe Robinson Crusoe Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers Michael Ende Neverending Story Morris Gleitzman Two Weeks with the Queen Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Lian Hearn Across the Nightingale Floor Susan Hill I'm the King of the Castle Barry Hines A Kestrel for a Knave Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda Tove Jansson The Summer Book Judith Kerr When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Clive King Stig of the Dump Ursula K Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea Maurice Leblanc Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Astrid Lindgren The Brothers Lionheart Astrid Lindgren Ronia, the Robber's Daughter Joan Lindsay Picnic at Hanging Rock Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mister Tom Wolf Mankowitz A Kid for Two Farthings Lucy Maud Montgomery Emily Climbs E Nesbit Five Children and It E Nesbit The Railway Children Mary Norton The Borrowers Robert C O'Brien Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Beatrix Potter The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck Beatrix Potter The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit Terry Pratchett The Carpet People Terry Pratchett Johnny and the Bomb Terry Pratchett Only You Can Save Mankind Philip Pullman Nothern Lights Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling George Selden The Cricket in Times Square Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle John Steinbeck The Red Pony Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Jonathan Stroud The Amulet of Samarkand Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Mildred D Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry William Makepeace Thackeray The Rose and the Ring Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Around the World in 80 Days Dorothy Wall Blinky Bill TH White The Sword in the Stone John Wyndham Chocky

1001 Books To Read Before You Die The books listed below are only those that I have on my TBR pile. Total read to 1 January 2017: 113/1294 (3 editions) TBR as at 1 January 2017: 240 TBR as at 8 March 2017: 241 (1 read, 2 acquired) TBR Pile (read, currently reading): Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Douglas Adams The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Douglas Adams Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Aravind Adiga The White Tiger Kingsley Amis The Old Devils Martin Amis Money: A Suicide Note Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Isaac Asimov Foundation Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Alias Grace Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood Surfacing Paul Auster The Book of Illusions Paul Auster The New York Trilogy James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain JG Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition JG Ballard Empire of the Sun JG Ballard Cocaine Nights JG Ballard Crash JG Ballard The Drowned World JG Ballard High-Rise John Banville The Newton Letter John Banville The Sea John Banville Shroud John Banville The Untouchable Muriel Barbery Elegance of the Hedgehog Pat Barker Regeneration Pat Barker The Ghost Road Julian Barnes Flaubert’s Parrot Aphra Behn Oroonoko Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinths Tadeusz Borowski This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anthony Burgess Inside Mr Enderby William Burroughs Naked Lunch William Burroughs Junkie AS Byatt The Children's Book AS Byatt Possession Italo Calvino The Castle of Crossed Destinies Italo Calvino Our Ancestors Albert Camus The Plague Karel Capek War with the Newts Angela Carter Nights at the Circus Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve Angela Carter Wise Children Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands Kate Chopin The Awakening Jean Cocteau Les Enfants Terribles JM Coetzee Disgrace Wilkie Collins The Moonstone Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham The Hours Honore de Balzac Eugenie Grandet Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Don DeLillo White Noise Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Charles Dickens Bleak House Charles Dickens The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens Oliver Twist EL Doctorow Ragtime Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero Ralph Ellison Invisible Man Laura Esquivel Like Water for Hot Chocolate William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury Sebastian Faulks Birdsong Henry Fielding Tom Jones F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier John Fowles The Collector Esther Freud Hideous Kinky Paul Gallico Mrs Harris Goes to Paris Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Elizabeth Gaskell North and South William Gibson Neuromancer George Gissing New Grub Street Nikolay Gogol Dead Souls Nikolay Gogol The Nose Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha Gunter Grass The Tin Drum Graham Greene The Quiet American H. Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines H Rider Haggard She Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man Knut Hamsun Hunger Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy The Woodlanders Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Herman Hesse Steppenwolf Barry Hines A Kestrel for a Knave Michel Houellebecq Atomised Victor Hugo Les Miserables Aldous Huxley Antic Hay Aldous Huxley Crome Yellow John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving The World According to Garp Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World Henry James The Ambassadors Henry James The Portrait of a Lady Henry James The Turn of the Screw Henry James What Maisie Knew Tove Jansson The Summer Book Franz Kafka Amerika Franz Kafka The Castle James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late Thomas Keneally Schindler’s Ark Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard Sheridan Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu Uncle Silas Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie Stanislaw Lem Solaris Primo Levi If Not Now, When? Primo Levi If This is a Man Andrea Levy Small Island Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Jack London The Iron Heel Jack London The Call of the Wild HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness David Malouf Remembering Babylon Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party Charles Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer W Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses Ian McEwan Black Dogs Herman Melville Moby Dick Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Nancy Mitford Love in a Cold Climate William Morris News from Nowhere Toni Morrison Beloved Toni Morrison Song of Solomon Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch Under the Net Vladimir Nabokov Ada Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God Flann O’Brien At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman Jamie O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys Chuck Palahniuk Choke Jack Pasternak Doctor Zhivago Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country Mervyn Peake Gormenghast Mervyn Peake Titus Groan Georges Perec A Void Georges Perec Life: A User's Manual Georges Perec Things: A Story of the Sixties Georges Perec W: Or the Memory of Childhood Arturo Perez-Reverte The Dumas Club DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher *Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past Mario Puzo The Godfather Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel Anne Rice Interview With the Vampire Philip Roth The Plot Against America Philip Roth The Human Stain Philip Roth Portnoy’s Complaint Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things Salman Rushdie Fury Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie Shame Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse Dorothy L. Sayers The Nine Tailors WG Sebald Austerlitz Nevil Shute A Town Like Alice Zadie Smith White Teeth Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas John Steinbeck Cannery Row Lawrence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Patrick Süskind Perfume Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy War and Peace John Updike Rabbit, Run Vassilis Vassilikos Z Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days *Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle Alice Walker The Color Purple Lew Wallace Ben-Hur Sarah Waters Fingersmith Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet Winifred Watson Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies HG Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau HG Wells Tono-Bungay Irvine Welsh Trainspotting Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton The House of Mirth TH White The Once and Future King Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Orlando Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf The Years John Wyndham Chocky Émile Zola Nana

Gilmore Girls The books listed below are only those that I have on my TBR pile. Total read to 1 January 2017: 97/416 TBR as at 1 January 2017: 97 TBR as at 15 February 2017: 98 (0 read, 1 acquired) TBR Pile (read, currently reading): Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Inferno Isabel Allende Eva Luna Judy Blume Deenie Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portugese Pearl S Buck The Good Earth Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter Charles Bukowski Notes of a Dirty Old Man Michael Chabon Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Kate Chopin The Awakening Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Simone de Beauvoir Second Sex Don Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Pamela des Barres I'm with the Band Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose Bret Easton Ellis Less than Zero Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women William Faulkner As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Light in August William Faulkner Sanctuary William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier James Frey A Million Little Pieces Ernest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast Homer The Iliad Nick Hornby High Fidelity Nick Hornby Songbook (31 Songs) Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner Shirley Jackson The Lottery and Other Stories Henry James Daisy Miller and Other Stories Jan Lars Jensen Nervous System Dr Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese? Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible John Knowles A Separate Peace Ira Levin Rosemary's Baby Andrea Levy Small Island Mojo Magazine Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Valerie Martin Property Mary McCarthy The Group Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Emma McLaughlin The Nanny Diaries Herman Melville Moby Dick HL Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy HL Mencken My Life as Author and Editor Grace Metalious Peyton Place Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Toni Morrison Beloved Toni Morrison Song of Solomon Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory Joyce Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaneys Dorothy Parker The Portable Dorothy Parker Ann Patchett Bel Canto Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems *Marcel Proust Swann's Way Mario Puzo The Godfather Ayn Rand The Fountainhead Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet Elisabeth Robinson True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things JD Salinger Franney and Zooey Flora Schreiber Sybil Erich Segal Love Story William Shakespeare The Sonnets Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn John Steinbeck East of Eden Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin William Styron Sophie's Choice Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan The Opposite of Fate Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Sun-tzu The Art of War Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos Irvine Welsh Trainspotting Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Elizabeth Wurtzel Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Priority Reads This is a list of the books I'd most like to read this year. In 2015, I read 20 books (17 fiction, 3 non-fiction) out of the 81 on the list. In 2016, I read 14 books (12 fiction, 2 non-fiction) out of 77 on the list. I haven’t yet added extra books to the list for 2017. I've marked books that have been read and books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2017 are marked with an *. Fiction (Read 1 of 42) Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #2: The Turkish Gambit Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #3: Murder on the Leviathan JG Ballard Crash Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #3: A Red Herring Without Mustard Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #4: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Raymond Chandler The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes Jasper Fforde Thursday Next #6: One of Our Thursdays is Missing Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #2: Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #3: Murder on the Ballarat Train Matt Haig The Radleys Patricia Highsmith Ripley #3: Ripley’s Game Homer The Odyssey Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen The Rabbit Back Literature Society Henry James The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums Stephen King The Stand Reif Larsen The Selected Works of TS Spivet Astrid Lindgren The Brothers Lionheart Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Mary McCarthy The Group Walter Moers Zamonia #3: The City of Dreaming Books LM Montgomery Anne of Green Gables #6: Anne of Ingleside Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London Terry Pratchett Discworld #7: Pyramids Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Good Omens Dan Rhodes This is Life Maria Semple Where'd You Go, Bernadette Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress John Steinbeck East of Eden Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels John Kennedy Toole The Neon Bible HG Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau Non-Fiction (Read 0 of 21) Lester Bangs Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung Bill Bryson At Home Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter Augusten Burroughs Magical Thinking Pamela des Barres I'm with the Band Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Peter FitzSimons Batavia Stephen Fry The Fry Chronicles David Gillespie The Sweet Poison Quit Plan Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch Stephen Hawking My Brief History Patty Hearst Her Own Story Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation