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!
Unexplained Laughter, Alice Thomas Ellis
Long Way Home, Eva Dolan
Typhoon, Charles Cumming
Ocean of Fire, Amitav Ghosh
The Cruelest Month, Louise Penny
Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
Summer Half, Angela Thirkell
All Our Names, Dinaw Mengestu
The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, Monique Roffey
The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara
The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
The Accidental, Ali Smith
Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
Life of Johnson, Boswell
Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
Rash Resolve, Eliza Haywood
Tamberlaine, Christopher Marlowe
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Zazie Dans le Métro, Raymond Queneau
Stop Press, Michael Innes
Disquiet, Julia Leigh
Drowning Girl, Caitlin Kiernan
The Goddess Chronicle, Natsuo Kirino
The Abacus and the Cross, Nancy Marie Brown
In Persuasion Nation, George Saunders
A Coyote Columbus Story, Thomas King
The Stone Raft; The Double, Jose Saramago
Oblomov, Ivan Gontcharov
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Death in Ecstasy, Ngaio Marsh
Faithful Place, Tana French
Letters of John Keats
Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Eva Ibbotson (whichever!)
The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater
Tigerman, Nick Harkaway
So Many Ways to Begin, Jon McGregor
Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
The Bones of Paris, Laurie King
The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
The Sagas of Icelanders, intr. Robert Kellogg
Tales of Burning Love, Louise Erdrich
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
The Law and the Lady, Wilkie Collins
HHhH, Lawrence Binet
The Dinner, Herman Koch
Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
Promising Young Women, Suzanne Scanlon
Forever Rose, Hilary McKay
Stranger on a Train, Jenny Diski
The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm
The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West
The Blank Page, K.C. Constantine
Pars vite et reviens tard, Fred Vargas
The Hidden Gallery, Maryrose Wood
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
My Latest Grievance, Elinor Lipman
Les Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
Signs of Life, Anna Raverat
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice, A.S. Byatt
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
We Others, Steven Millhauser
Four Freedoms, John Crowley
The Green Branch, Edith Pargeter
The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino
At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
An Old School Tie, Andrew Taylor
The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt
The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
To the Is-land, Janet Frame
Le Lievre de Patagonie, Claude Lanzmann
Fools Crow, James Welch
Vinland, George Mackay Brown
The Carhullan Army, Sarah Hall
Independent People, Halldor Laxness
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (Orlando, Between the Acts)
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen
Random Family, Adrian Leblanc
Robert Lowell: a Biography, Ian Hamilton
Force of Spirit, Scott Russell Sanders
Truismes, Marie Darriussecq
The Observations, Jane Harris
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison
The Forest Horses, Byrna Barclay
An Elegy for Easterly, Petina Gappah
Nox, Anne Carson
Plays, Euripides
Travels in West Africa, Mary Kingsley
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, Isabella Bird
The Darkest Jungle, Todd Balf
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Amelia Edwards
Edie on the Warpath, E.C. Spykman
The Discoverers, Daniel Boorstin
Patrick O’Brian, Nikolai Tolstoy
Someone At a Distance, Dorothy Whipple
My Wars Are Laid Away In Books, Alfred Habegger
Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
Moo Pak, Gabriel Josipovici
Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred Taylor
Charles Dickens, Michael Slater
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Du côté de chez Swann, Marcel Proust
