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!
Delicious Foods, James Hannaham
The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis
An Honest Living, Dwyer Murphy
Ballad of Black Tom, Victor Lavalle
The Paper Wasp, Lauren Acampora
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Down the Rabbit Hole, Juan Pablo Villalobos
Leech, Hiron Ennes
American War, Omar El Akkad
The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli
H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Muppets in Moscow, Natasha Lance Rogoff
Into the Beautiful North, Luis Alberto Urrea
The Books of Jacob, Olga Togarczuk
Fairy Tale, Stephen King
Thistlefoot, GennaRose Nethercott
God on the Rocks, Jane Gardam
The List, Real Tigers, Mick Herron
I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett
Erasure, Percival Everett
The Hidden Keys, André Alexis
Golden Hill, Francis Spufford
Ride the Pink Horse, Dorothy Hughes
Yukio Mishima (Spring Snow?)
A Simple Story, Elizabeth Inchbald
The Elementals, Michael McDowell
The Gone World, Tom Sweterlisch
Germinal, Zola
Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey
Mazebook, Jeff Lemire
Melusine, Sarah Monette
Raising Raffi, Keith Gessen
Season of Migration to the North
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
The Sympathizers, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Patrick Modiano
Journal of a Disappointed Man, W. Barbellion
iQ84, Haruki Murakami
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
Africa Is Not a Country, Dipo Faloyin
Dans les bois éternels, Fred Vargas
Burntcoat, Sarah Hall
The Black Powder War, Naomi Novik
Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
Monsters I Have Been, Kenji Liu
Dear Diaspora, Susan Nguyen
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
Sisters of the Vast Black, Lina Rather
The Ramayana
Journey to the West
The Lusiads
Phantom Pains, Mishell Baker
Everyone On the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian Jarboe
Edinburgh, Alexander Chee
Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap
The Goat’s Song, Dermot Healy
No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
Hotel World, Ali Smith
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?, Jenny Diski
The Good House, Tananarive Due
The Dark Fantastic, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Disfigured: on Fairy Tales and Disability, Amanda Leduc
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
Bitter Orange, Claire Fuller
Greengage Summer, Rumer Godden
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Pleasantville, Attica Locke
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
Waterlog, Roger Deakin
Outpost, Dan Richards
The Yield, Tara June Winch
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone, Heather McGhee
The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi
Master of Djinn, P. Djeli Clark
Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf (Night and Day, The Years)
Job, Joseph Roth
Strength to Love, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
The Garden Party and Other Stories (etc), Katherine Mansfield
The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
The Funnies, J. Robert Lennon
Hex, Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Book of Harlan, Bernice McFadden
The Book of Ebenezer LePage, G. B. Edwards
It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s, Lisa Blower
The Prince of West End Avenue, Alan Isler
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, Kate Clanchy
The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth
Miss Buncle’s Book, D.E. Stevenson
Time Lived, Without Its Flow, Denise Riley
Of Walking In Ice, Werner Herzog
The Orchard on Fire, Shena Mackay
Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez
The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor (and others)
A Song for Summer, Eva Ibbotson (Madensky Square, The Morning Gift)
Roughing It, Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann
Life of Johnson, Boswell
Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
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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!