Well, it’s been a couple of years since I started this blog, and my first posting was to show my unending love for books (or obsession, as some would call it). It was a list of books, that despite being on my bookshelf, had yet to be read. Has anyone else ever gotten themselves into this kind of situation? This would be the third time for me, despite telling myself the first time that it would never happen again. That first posting listed 89 novels to read, without touching on those that were recommended to me, or lent to me. Well, I have no more borrowed books; let’s see if the list has shrunk (I’m thinking it hasn’t :S)
- Jane Boleyn: the True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maquire
Blindness by Jose Saramago
- Little Children by Tom Perrotta
- The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave (as in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds …)
- The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Alone by Lisa Gardner
Black Creek Crossing by John Saul
Circle of Stones by Anna Lee Waldo
- Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through the Pearly Gates by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
- Irish Fireside Tales by Leslie Conron
- How to Train Your Dragon: How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm by Cressida Cowell
- A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons by Cressida Cowell
- How To Train Your Dragon: How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale by Cressida Cowell
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola Read January 11, 2013
Damaged by Pamela Callow
- The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
- The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
This Book Has Feelings by Dr. Neil Scott and Dr. Sandi Mann
- Mystical Scotland by Ann Lindsay Mitchell
- Thermopylae by Paul Cartledge
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Brave New World Revisted by Aldous Huxley
- How NOT to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmann and Sandra Newman
- Favourite Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton
- Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
- Watchmen and Philosophy by Mark D. White
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Little Stalker by Jennifer Belle
- Where the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race by Bob Fenster
- Modern Irish Short Stories by Ben Forkner
Wall of Shame
Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
- A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Read December 30, 2012
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Chimes by Charles Dickens
- The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Man Who Wrote the Book by Erik Tarloff Read September 17, 2012
It by Stephen King
- Plum Island by Nelson Demille
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks Read April 19, 2012
Lost and Found by John Glatt
Dead Run by Erica Spindler
- Warriors 3 by George R.R. Martin, et al.
Eve by Iris Johansen
The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer
- The French Executioner by C. C. Humphreys
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
- The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi
Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George
Her Mother’s Daughter by Marylin French
Death at Sandringham House by C.C. Benson
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- The Sword of Attila by Michael Curtis Ford
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Devices and Desires by P.D. James
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
- Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
- Skywater by Melinda Worth Popham
When Satan Wore a Cross by Fred Rosen
Life Penalty by Joy Fielding
Crime and Punishment by F. Dostoevsky Read May 29, 2013
- Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
- Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
- Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
- The Hollow by Agatha Christie
- Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
- The Nights the Gods Smiled by Eric Wright
- Smoke Detector by Eric Wright
- Death in the Old Country by Eric Wright
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (I’m combining all of these because my version is an omnibus!)
- The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes (another omnibus!)
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
The Soloist by Steven Lopez
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- Tales of the City by Armistad Maupin
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemiway
Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding Read July 25, 2013
Bridget Jones’ Diary: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
Without Conscience by Dr. Robert Hare
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre Read August 11, 2012
- Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Room by Emma Donoghue Read July 27, 2012
The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho Read April 28, 2012
The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
- Dracula: The Undead by Dacre Stoker
Deception Point by Dan Brown
- The Other Tudors by Philippa Jones
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Hour Game by David Baldacci
- American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
Left Behind by LaHaye and Jenkins
The Remnant by LaHaye and Jenkins
Glorious Appearing by LaHaye and Jenkins
The Queen by Steven James Read July 13, 2012
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Third Translation by Matt Bondurant
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Exodus by Leon Uris
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
- The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
- Drood by Dan Simmons
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- Banting by Michael Bliss
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
Secrets of the Code by Dan Burstein
Secrets of Angels and Demons by Dan Burstein
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- How The Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
Fear’s Empire by Benjamin R. Barber
- Becoming Batman by Zehr
- The Batman Handbook by Beatty
The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals, and Dirty Politics by Kim Long
- Down These Strange Streets by George R.R. Martin et al.
- Songs of Love and Death by George R.R. Martin et al.
- The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
- Attila the Hun by Christopher Kelly
- The Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon
- An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
- Rivals for the Crown by Kathleen Givens
- A Brief History of the Celts by Peter Ellis
- The Histories by Herodotus
- Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory
- Wideacre by Philippa Gregory
- The Favoured Child by Philippa Gregory
- Meridon by Philippa Gregory
- Henry VIII by Alison Weir
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
- The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
- The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
- Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford
- A Brief History of the Tudor Age by Jaspar Ridley
- The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
- Decoding the Celts by Claire Hamilton and Steve Eddy
- The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Agnes Grey by Anna Bronte
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Villette by Charlotte Bronte
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Bestseller by Olivia Goldsmith
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin December 12, 2012
- Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
- Ray Bradbury Omnibus (3 novels)
- H.G. Wells Omnibus (7 novels)
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin October 8, 2012
- A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
- A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
- Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
- The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt July 6, 2013
- The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice
- A Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
- The Tiger by John Vaillant
- Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
- 5,000 Years of Royalty by Craughwell
- Left-Handed History of the World by Ed Wright
- The Trial by Sadakat Kadri
- Criminal Shadows by David Canter
Well, with the omnibuses not combined, I have over 200 novels to read! :S Oh geez, I think I’m on a book ban until at least HALF of these are read. Despite appearances, I did actually read novels last year!