I have lists all over the place of books I want to read all . There’s a list saved on my computer, a list in my phone, a few random lists in different diaries/notebooks. And none of these lists even include all the books that are currently sitting on my book shelf unread.
At an attempt to consolidate the lists into one place, I shall list away here with a few sub categories.
Books in my current ‘to read’ pile
The following books are in a giant pile on my dining room table. I’ve decided that I simply can’t borrow or buy any new books until I get through these ones. I am hoping to read them within the next couple of months:
- Oryx and Crake, a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood
- Fluke, the story of a dog who somehow remembers his previous life as a human being by James Herbet
- The Bone Man of Benares, by Terry Tarnoff. It’s described as a lyrical travelogue of the author’s acid trip through the early 1970s Europe, Africa, India, and South East Asia, where he finds and loses love, and ultimately finds himself.
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, an autobiographical family history by Chinese writer Jung Chang
- Changeless and Heartless, the second and third books in Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate series.
- A song in the daylight, by Paulina Simmons. This one’s been sitting there for about two years. I really need to get to it!
- The Scarpetta Factor and Port Morturary by Patricia Cornwell. These are also books I’ve had a while and just haven’t got to yet.
Books to read once I finish the ‘to read’ pile above
- Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts
- A million little pieces, by James Frey
- A fraction of the whole, by Steve Toltz
- Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
- A thousand splendid suns, by Khaled Hosseini
- The curious incident of the dog in the night time, by Mark Haddon
- The Boat, by Nam Le
- Life of Pi, by Yann Marte
- Tinkers, by Paul Harding
- The Children’s Book, by A.S. Byatt
- Water for Elephants (and the other book by Sara Gruen that Leigh recommended but which title I can’t remember)
- Red Square Blues, by Kim Traill
- The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
- The Tomorrow when the war began series, by John Marsden
- The Hunger Games series, by Suzanne Collins
- The Twilight books, by Stephanie Meyer
- The Millenium series, by Stieg Larsson
- Cellist of sarajevo, by Stephen Galloway
- Tattoos on the heart, by Gregory Boyle
- Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, by Richard Bach
- Ransom, by David Malouf
- Parrot and Oliver, by Peter Carey
- My brilliant career, by Miles Franklin
- Female Enuch, Germaine Greer
- Love, lost and what I wore, by Illene Beckham
- A fortunate life, by AB Facey
- Nocturnes, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Never let me go, Kazuo Ishiguro
- 100 years of solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
- Tess of the dubervilles, by Thomas Hardy
- A childhood at green hedges, by Enid Blyton’s daughter!!
- Castle in the air, by Diana Wynne Jones
- Dog on it, by Spencer Quinn
- Old Man and the Sea, Earnest Hemingway
- Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- Perfume, a story of murder, Patrick Süskind
- The Lake of Dreams, Kim Edwards
- The Gourmet, Muriel Barbery
- Dirt Music & Cloud Street, by Tim Winton
- Everything by Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters, Truman Capote, Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald & Oscar Wilde.
The random musings of Neen 