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!
Mink River, Brian Doyle
News of the World, Paulette Jiles
Sunshine Enemies, K.C. Constantine
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
The Book of Harlan, Bernice McFadden
Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
Circe, Madeline Miller
The Changeling, Victor Lavalle
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
Thrush Green, Miss Read
The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth
Miss Buncle’s Book, D.E. Stevenson
Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
Blue Lightning, Ann Cleeves
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
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
Corregidora, Gayl Jones
Copsford, Walter J.C. Murray
The Breaking Point, Daphne du Maurier (and others)
The Years, Annie Ernaux
The Fated Sky, Mary Robinette Kowal
A Song for Summer, Eva Ibbotson (and others)
Rachel Ray, Anthony Trollope
Wishing For Tomorrow, Hilary McKay
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
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 Master Butchers Singing Club, Louise Erdrich
Jane and Prudence, Barbara Pym
Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi
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
Sylvia’s Lovers, Elizabeth Gaskell
Shell Shaker, LeAnne Howe*
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
As We Are Now, May Sarton*
The Sin of Father Amaro, Eça de Queirós
Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
Roughing It, Mark Twain
The Secret Vanguard, Michael Innes*
A Little Local Murder, Robert Barnard
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature, Helen Young
The Evidence of Things Not Seen, James Baldwin
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa
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
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
A Coyote Columbus Story, Thomas King
The Double, Jose Saramago
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Sister Citizen, Melissa Harris-Perry
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!