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!
The Antelope Wife, Louise Erdrich
A Little Local Murder, Robert Barnard
An Angel at My Table, Janet Frame
Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
Borderline, Mishell Baker
Testosterone Rex, Cordelia Fine
White Tears, Hari Kunzru
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature, Helen Young
Super Black, Adilifu Nama
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
Pastoralia, Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
Hild, Nicola Griffith
Counternarratives, John Keene
A Kind of Intimacy, Jenn Ashworth
The Quickening, Michelle Hoover
The Mystics of Mile End, Sigal Samuel
The Evidence of Things Not Seen/ The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
The Prime Minister, Anthony Trollope
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Passing, Nella Larsen
Upon Some Midnights Clear, K.C. Constantine
Before Lunch, Angela Thirkell
Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (maybe short stories?)
The Opposite House, Helen Oyeyemi
Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugrešic
The Girl With All the Gifts, M.R. Carey
The Wild Places, Robert Macfarlane
Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann
The Clothes in the Wardrobe, Alice Thomas Ellis
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Small World, David Lodge
American Copper, Shann Ray
The Whole Story and Other Stories, Ali Smith
The Dickens World, Humphrey House
Martin Chuzzlewit, Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens
Minaret, Leila Aboulela
The Heirs of Columbus, Gerald Vizenor
Long Way Home, Eva Dolan
Typhoon, Charles Cumming
Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh
Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
Life of Johnson, Boswell
Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
Rash Resolve, Eliza Haywood
Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
Zazie Dans le Métro, Raymond Queneau
Stop Press, Michael Innes
Disquiet, Julia Leigh
Drowning Girl, Caitlin Kiernan
The Abacus and the Cross, Nancy Marie Brown
A Coyote Columbus Story, Thomas King
The Stone Raft; The Double, Jose Saramago
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
Death in Ecstasy, Ngaio Marsh
Letters of John Keats
Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Eva Ibbotson (whichever!)
So Many Ways to Begin, Jon McGregor
The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
Sister Citizen, Melissa Harris-Perry
Stupeur et tremblements, Amélie Nothomb
Fly By Night, Frances Hardinge
The Grass Dancer, Susan Power
Redemption in Indigo, Karen Lord
HHhH, Lawrence Binet
Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
Promising Young Women, Suzanne Scanlon
Forever Rose, Hilary McKay
Stranger on a Train, Jenny Diski
The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West
Pars vite et reviens tard, Fred Vargas
Les Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
Signs of Life, Anna Raverat
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
We Others, Steven Millhauser
The Green Branch, Edith Pargeter
At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris
Le Lievre de Patagonie, Claude Lanzmann
Vinland, George Mackay Brown
The Carhullan Army, Sarah Hall
Independent People, Halldor Laxness
Orlando, Virginia Woolf (Jacob’s Room, Between the Acts)
Random Family, Adrian Leblanc
Robert Lowell: a Biography, Ian Hamilton
Truismes, Marie Darriussecq
Plays, Euripides
Someone At a Distance, Dorothy Whipple
My Wars Are Laid Away In Books, Alfred Habegger
Charles Dickens, Michael Slater
