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
