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!
Cold Earth, Ann Cleeves
Job, Joseph Roth
Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune
My Real Children, Jo Walton
Strength to Love, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Summerwater, Sarah Hall
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Rosalie Lightning, Tom Hart
The Garden Party and Other Stories (etc), Katherine Mansfield
The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson
Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy
The Mountains Wild, Sarah Stewart Taylor
Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde
All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
The Group, Mary McCarthy
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher
The Dog Stars, Peter Heller
Long Bright River, Liz Moore
Four Souls, Louise Erdrich
Waverley, Walter Scott
The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans
The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal
Department of Speculation, Jenny Offill
Travesties, Tom Stoppard
The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
We Need New Names, Noviolet Bulawayo
The Fisherman, John Langan
Invisible Library series, Genevieve Cogman
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
The Funnies, J. Robert Lennon
Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam
Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
Hex, Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Real Life, Brandon Taylor
The Crime of Father Amaro, Eca de Queiros
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley
News of the World, Paulette Jiles
Sunshine Enemies, K.C. Constantine
The Book of Harlan, Bernice McFadden
Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
An Episode of Sparrows, Rumer Godden (and others)
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
Old Filth, Jane Gardam
Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez
Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie
The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor (and others)
Sweet Home, Wendy Erskine
Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
Copsford, Walter J.C. Murray
The Breaking Point, Daphne du Maurier (and others)
The Years, Annie Ernaux
A Song for Summer, Eva Ibbotson (and others)
Rachel Ray, Anthony Trollope
The Pillow Friend, Lisa Tuttle
Jane: A Murder, Maggie Nelson
Lend Me Your Character, Dubravka Ugresic
Short stories, Jean Stafford
The Loft, Marlen Haushofer
Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser
The Sixties, Jenny Diski (In Gratitude)
Sous les vents de Neptune, Fred Vargas
Tell No Tales, Eva Dolan
The Sin Eater, Alice Thomas Ellis
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand
The Beth Book, Sarah Grand
As We Are Now, May Sarton*
The Sin of Father Amaro, Eça de Queirós
Roughing It, Mark Twain
The Secret Vanguard, Michael Innes*
A Little Local Murder, Robert Barnard
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature, Helen Young
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa
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
Life of Johnson, Boswell
Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
Rash Resolve, Eliza Haywood
Zazie Dans le Métro, Raymond Queneau
The Abacus and the Cross, Nancy Marie Brown
The Double, Jose Saramago
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Stupeur et tremblements, Amélie Nothomb
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
Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf (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!