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!
Throne of Jade, Naomi Novik
The Hanging Tree, Ben Aaronovitch
Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
Slow Horses, Mick Herron
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
In a Lonely Place, Dorothy Hughes
Monsters I Have Been, Kenji Liu
Dear Diaspora, Susan Nguyen
Just Kids, Patti Smith
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
All the Names They Used for God, Anjali Sachdeva
Pastoral, Andre Alexis
The Dry, Jane Harper
Sisters of the Vast Black, Lina Rather
The Ramayana
Journey to the West
The Mabinogion
The Lusiads
Shirley Jackson, Ruth Franklin
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, Tom Lin
Sistersong, Lucy Holland
Tamsin, Peter S Beagle
Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao
Phantom Pains, Mishell Baker
Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryaka Aoki
Everyone On the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian Jarboe
What Angels Fear, CS Harris
The Trees, Perceval Everett
A Phoenix First Must Burn, Patrice Caldwell
Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu
Essential Plays, Anton Chekhov
Make It Scream, Make It Burn, Leslie Jamieson
The Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli
Edinburgh, Alexander Chee
Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory
Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap
The Goat’s Song, Dermot Healy
No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
Glory, Vladimir Nabokov
Recursion, Blake Crouch
Hotel World, Ali Smith
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?, Jenny Diski
Only the Dogs, Jon McGregor
The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo
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
Kitchen, Banana Yamamoto
Greengage Summer, Rumer Godden
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, Sara Gran
Pleasantville, Attica Locke
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
The Liar’s Dictionary, Eley Williams
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
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
Master of Djinn, P. Djeli Clark
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Togarczuk
Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf (Night and Day, The Years)
Job, Joseph Roth
Strength to Love, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
The Garden Party and Other Stories (etc), Katherine Mansfield
The Mountains Wild, Sarah Stewart Taylor
All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks
The Group, Mary McCarthy
The Dog Stars, Peter Heller
Four Souls, Louise Erdrich
Department of Speculation, Jenny Offill
The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
We Need New Names, Noviolet Bulawayo
Invisible Library series, Genevieve Cogman
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
Old Filth, Jane Gardam
Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez
The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor (and others)
Sweet Home, Wendy Erskine
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)
The Pillow Friend, Lisa Tuttle
Lend Me Your Character, Dubravka Ugresic
Short stories, Jean Stafford
The Loft, Marlen Haushofer
Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser
Sous les vents de Neptune, Fred Vargas
Tell No Tales, Eva Dolan
As We Are Now, May Sarton*
Roughing It, Mark Twain
The Secret Vanguard, Michael Innes*
A Little Local Murder, Robert Barnard
Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa
Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann
Life of Johnson, Boswell
Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
Rash Resolve, Eliza Haywood
The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
Hi I looking for reviewers of our Non-Fiction Books. Pls. contact : buhejim@gmail.com
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!