TBR: Jenny

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!

Pars vite et reviens tard, Fred Vargas

The Hidden Gallery, Maryrose Wood

Boy Meets Girl, Ali Smith

Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

The Shahnameh

Hard Times, Charles Dickens

Caddy Ever After, Hilary McKay

The Likeness, Tana French

My Latest Grievance, Elinor Lipman

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Les Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir

The House of Silk, Anthony Horowitz

Findings, Kathleen Jamie

Signs of Life, Anna Raverat

This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, Jon McGregor

Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice, A.S. Byatt

A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood

We Others, Steven Millhauser

The Examined Life, Stephen Grosz

The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope

A Sad Heart at the Supermarket, Randall Jarrell

Four Freedoms, John Crowley (Otherwise)

Death of an Outsider, M.C. Beaton

Plausible Prejudices, Joseph Epstein

Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon

The Green Branch, Edith Pargeter

The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino

Family from One End Street, Eve Garnett

At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien

The Entail, John Galt

Malice Aforethought, Francis Iles

Between the Woods and the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor

An Old School Tie, Andrew Taylor

August Folly, Angela Thirkell

Tallula Rising, Glen Duncan

The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris

The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt

Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa

The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth

The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald

To the Is-land, Janet Frame

Fables series, Bill Willingham

The Return of Captain John Emmett, Elizabeth Speller

Le Lievre de Patagonie, Claude Lanzmann

Linda Hogan, Solar Storms

Fools Crow, James Welch

Vinland, George Mackay Brown

The Carhullan Army, Sarah Hall

Independent People, Halldor Laxness

Enter a Murderer, Ngaio Marsh

Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Reisen

Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (Orlando, Between the Acts)

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen

How to Breathe Underwater, Julie Orringer

Random Family, Adrian Leblanc

Robert Lowell: a Biography, Ian Hamilton

Force of Spirit, Scott Russell Sanders

The Wilder Life, Wendy McClure

How to Live: a Life of Montaigne, Sarah Bakewell

Uncommon Arrangements, Katie Roiphe

Truismes, Marie Darriussecq

Love, Toni Morrison

A Time to Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Fermor

Persian Fire, Tom Holland

The Observations, Jane Harris

Tracks, Louise Erdrich

Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison

The Forest Horses, Byrna Barclay

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, Lola Shoneyin

An Elegy for Easterly, Petina Gappah

Skating to Antarctica, Jenny Diski

The Man Who Liked to Look At Himself, K.C. Constantine

Nox, Anne Carson

Plays, Euripides

Travels in West Africa, Mary Kingsley

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, Isabella Bird

Patricia Highsmith

The Darkest Jungle, Todd Balf

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Amelia Edwards

Hamlet, Revenge!, Michael Innes

Wartime, Juliet Gardiner

Terrible, Horrible Edie, E.C. Spykman (Edie on the Warpath)

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell

Alone in Berlin, Hans Fallada

The Discoverers, Daniel Boorstin

Patrick O’Brian, Nikolai Tolstoy

Someone At a Distance, Dorothy Whipple

My Wars Are Laid Away In Books, Alfred Habegger

Little Face, Sophie Hannah

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Far North, Marcel Theroux

Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace

Needle in the Blood, Sarah Bower

The World Beneath, Cate Kennedy

The Danger Game, Kalinda Ashton

Butterfly, Sonya Hartnett

Truth, Peter Temple

The White Witch, Elizabeth Goudge

Moo Pak, Gabriel Josipovici

The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker

Testament, Alis Hawkins

Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred Taylor

Charles Dickens, Michael Slater

Wise Children, Angela Carter

The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies)

Acedia and Me, Kathleen Norris

Gatekeepers, Franca Iacovetta

Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

Ship of the Line, C.S. Forester

The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West

Du côté de chez Swann, Marcel Proust

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