An ongoing, work-in-progress list of the books I want to read. They are in no particular order; I read them at whim, and sometimes it takes me years to get to them. As I read them, I will remove them from this page and put them on the page of books I’ve finished. Excelsior!
Charles Dickens, Michael Slater
Under the Dome, Stephen King
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
The City and the City, China Mieville
The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
Mortal Love, Elizabeth Hand
Night Watch, Sarah Waters
Lucia in London, E.F. Benson
The Gift of Wings, Mary Henley Rubio
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Messiah of Stockholm, Cynthia Ozick
A Civil Contract, Georgette Heyer
Acedia and Me, Kathleen Norris
Gatekeepers, Franca Iacovetta
Blasted, Kate Story
The Morville Hours, Katherine Swift
Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Aunt Maria, Diana Wynne Jones
Thursday’s Child, Sonya Hartnett
Daddy-Long-Legs, Jean Webster
The Wallet of Kai Lung, Ernest Bramah
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
The Pedant in the Kitchen, Julian Barnes
Nocturnes, John Connolly
Lady Into Fox, David Garnett
The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt
Brazilian Adventure, Peter Fleming
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
Dawn, Octavia Butler
To and Again (Freddy Goes to Florida), Walter Brooks
Goodbye, Chunky Rice, Craig Thompson
Jane Austen: A Life, Claire Tomalin
Ship of the Line, C.S. Forester
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby
The Inn at the End of the World, Alice Thomas Ellis
The Seance, John Harwood
The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love and Sleep (Aegypt Cycle), John Crowley
House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
Silence, Shusaku Endo
Doctor Glas, Hjalmar Soderberg
Child 44, Tom Robb Smith
Diary of a Provincial Lady, E.M. Delafield
The Family Roundabout, Richmal Crompton
High Rising, Angela Thirkell
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Jacques Bauby
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Rebecca West
Du côté de chez Swann, Marcel Proust
The Gathering, Anne Enright
Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
Embers, Sandor Marai
The Tale of the 1002nd Night, Joseph Roth
Kipling, Auden, & Co., Randall Jarrell
Second Sight, Charles McCarry
Shelley’s Heart, Charles McCarry
Grievance, K.C. Constantine
The Lunar Men, Jenny Uglow
Diaries, Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin
Metamorphoses, Ovid
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
The World in the Evening, Christopher Isherwood
Flashman, George Macdonald Fraser
The Man in the Window, Jon Cohen
Morte d’Urban, J.F. Powers
The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
The Bride Wore Black, Cornell Woolrich
Weep No More, Janet Stevenson
The Scramble for Africa, Thomas Pakenham
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
The Madness of Adam and Eve, David Horrobin
The Flight of the Iguana, David Quammen
The Weather in Berlin, Ward Just
Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg
Alone, Adml. Robert Byrd
The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Shackleton, Alfred Lansing
Drop City, T.C. Boyle
Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
