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!
Vintage Murder, Ngaio Marsh
Sylvia’s Lovers, Elizabeth Gaskell
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Shell Shaker, LeAnne Howe
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
As We Are Now, May Sarton
Version Control, Dexter Palmer
The Sin of Father Amaro, Eça de Queirós
Orley Farm, Anthony Trollope
Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
Roughing It, Mark Twain
Red April, Santiago Roncagliolo
The Language of Secrets, Ausma Zehanat Khan
The Secret Vanguard, Michael Innes
Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson
Cheerfulness Breaks In, Angela Thirkell
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
The Antelope Wife, Louise Erdrich
A Little Local Murder, Robert Barnard
An Angel at My Table, Janet Frame
Testosterone Rex, Cordelia Fine
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature, Helen Young
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
Pastoralia, George Saunders
Counternarratives, John Keene
The Mystics of Mile End, Sigal Samuel
The Evidence of Things Not Seen/ The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Passing, Nella Larsen
Upon Some Midnights Clear, K.C. Constantine
The Opposite House, Helen Oyeyemi
Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa
Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugrešic
The Girl With All the Gifts, M.R. Carey
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
Minaret, Leila Aboulela
Long Way Home, Eva Dolan
Typhoon, Charles Cumming
Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh
Life of Johnson, Boswell
Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
Rash Resolve, Eliza Haywood
Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
Zazie Dans le Métro, Raymond Queneau
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
Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Eva Ibbotson (whichever!)
The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
Sister Citizen, Melissa Harris-Perry
Stupeur et tremblements, Amélie Nothomb
Fly By Night, Frances Hardinge
HHhH, Lawrence Binet
Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
Promising Young Women, Suzanne Scanlon
Stranger on a Train, Jenny Diski
The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West
Pars vite et reviens tard, Fred Vargas
Les Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
We Others, Steven Millhauser
The Green Branch, Edith Pargeter
The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris
Le Lievre de Patagonie, Claude Lanzmann
Independent People, Halldor Laxness
Orlando, Virginia Woolf (Jacob’s Room, Between the Acts)
Robert Lowell: a Biography, Ian Hamilton
Truismes, Marie Darriussecq
Plays, Euripides
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As a librarian who appreciates reading lists put together by avid readers I wish you would organize your books to genre to give followers of your blog an opportunity to quickly find what they enjoy reading the most. It’s just my inner librarian, I do enjoy and appreciate the blog!
HI Jamie. If you look in the right sidebar of the blog, there are categories arranged by genre, so you can browse to your heart’s content. Enjoy!