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!
Exhalation, Ted Chiang
The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal
Travelers, Regina Porter
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Master Butchers Singing Club, Louise Erdrich
Jane and Prudence, Barbara Pym
Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi (What is Yours Is Not Yours)
The Sixties, Jenny Diski (In Gratitude)
Stitches, David Small
Sous les vents de Neptune, Fred Vargas
White Nights, Ann Cleeves
The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
Tell No Tales, Eva Dolan
The Sin Eater, Alice Thomas Ellis
Joey’s Case, K.C. Constantine
In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand
Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
The Beth Book, Sarah Grand
The Red Tree, Caitlin Kiernan
Vintage Murder, Ngaio Marsh
Sylvia’s Lovers, Elizabeth Gaskell
The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory
Shell Shaker, LeAnne Howe
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
As We Are Now, May Sarton
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 Secret Vanguard, Michael Innes
A Little Local Murder, Robert Barnard
An Angel at My Table, Janet Frame
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature, Helen Young
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
The Mystics of Mile End, Sigal Samuel
The Evidence of Things Not Seen, James Baldwin
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa
Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugrešic
Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
American Copper, Shann Ray
The Whole Story and Other Stories, Ali Smith
The Dickens World, Humphrey House
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
The Abacus and the Cross, Nancy Marie Brown
A Coyote Columbus Story, Thomas King
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
The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
Les Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris
Le Lievre de Patagonie, Claude Lanzmann
Orlando, Virginia Woolf (Jacob’s Room, Between the Acts)
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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!