All posts tagged Book List

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)

1. Jane Boleyn: the True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox
2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
3. The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
5. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maquire
6. Blindness by Jose Saramago
7. Little Children by Tom Perrotta
8. The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave (as in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds …)
9. The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
10. Alone by Lisa Gardner
11. Black Creek Crossing by John Saul
12. Circle of Stones by Anna Lee Waldo
13. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through the Pearly Gates by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
14. Irish Fireside Tales by Leslie Conron
15. How to Train Your Dragon: How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm by Cressida Cowell
16. A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons by Cressida Cowell
17. How To Train Your Dragon: How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale by Cressida Cowell
18. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola Read January 11, 2013
19. Damaged by Pamela Callow
20. The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
21. The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
22. This Book Has Feelings by Dr. Neil Scott and Dr. Sandi Mann
23. Mystical Scotland by Ann Lindsay Mitchell
24. Thermopylae by Paul Cartledge
25. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
    
26. Brave New World Revisted by Aldous Huxley
27. How NOT to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmann and Sandra Newman
28. Favourite Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton
29. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
30. Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
31. Watchmen and Philosophy by Mark D. White
32. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
33. Little Stalker by Jennifer Belle
34. Where the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes
35. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
36. Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race by Bob Fenster
37. Modern Irish Short Stories by Ben Forkner
38. Wall of Shame
39. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
40. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
41. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Read December 30, 2012
42. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
43. The Chimes by Charles Dickens
44. The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
45. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
46. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
47. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
48. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
49. Persuasion by Jane Austen
50. The Man Who Wrote the Book by Erik Tarloff Read September 17, 2012
51. It by Stephen King
52. Plum Island by Nelson Demille
53. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
54. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks Read April 19, 2012
55. Lost and Found by John Glatt
56. Dead Run by Erica Spindler
57. Warriors 3 by George R.R. Martin, et al.
58. Eve by Iris Johansen
59. The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer
60. The French Executioner by C. C. Humphreys
61. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
62. The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi
63. Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George
64. Her Mother’s Daughter by Marylin French
65. Death at Sandringham House by C.C. Benson
66. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
67. The Sword of Attila by Michael Curtis Ford
68. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
69. Devices and Desires by P.D. James
70. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
71. The Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
72. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
73. Skywater by Melinda Worth Popham
74. When Satan Wore a Cross by Fred Rosen
75. Life Penalty by Joy Fielding
76. Crime and Punishment by F. Dostoevsky Read May 29, 2013
77. Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
78. Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
79. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
80. The Hollow by Agatha Christie
81. Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
82. The Nights the Gods Smiled by Eric Wright
83. Smoke Detector by Eric Wright
84. Death in the Old Country by Eric Wright
85. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (I’m combining all of these because my version is an omnibus!)
86. The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes (another omnibus!)
87. Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
88. The Soloist by Steven Lopez
89. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
90. Tales of the City by Armistad Maupin
91. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemiway
92. Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding Read July 25, 2013
93. Bridget Jones’ Diary: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
    
94. Without Conscience by Dr. Robert Hare
95. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
96. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
97. The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre Read August 11, 2012
98. Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
99. Room by Emma Donoghue Read July 27, 2012
100. The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho Read April 28, 2012
101. The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
102. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
103. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
104. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
105. The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
106. Dracula: The Undead by Dacre Stoker
107. Deception Point by Dan Brown
108. The Other Tudors by Philippa Jones
109. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
110. Hour Game by David Baldacci
111. American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
112. Left Behind by LaHaye and Jenkins
113. The Remnant by LaHaye and Jenkins
114. Glorious Appearing by LaHaye and Jenkins
115. The Queen by Steven James Read July 13, 2012
116. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
117. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
118. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
119. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
120. The Third Translation by Matt Bondurant
121. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
122. Exodus by Leon Uris
123. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
124. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
125. The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
126. Drood by Dan Simmons
127. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
128. Banting by Michael Bliss
129. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
130. The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
131. The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
132. Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
133. Secrets of the Code by Dan Burstein
134. Secrets of Angels and Demons by Dan Burstein
135. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
136. How The Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
137. Fear’s Empire by Benjamin R. Barber
138. Becoming Batman by Zehr
139. The Batman Handbook by Beatty
140. The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals, and Dirty Politics by Kim Long
141. Down These Strange Streets by George R.R. Martin et al.
142. Songs of Love and Death by George R.R. Martin et al.
143. The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
144. Attila the Hun by Christopher Kelly
145. The Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon
146. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
147. Rivals for the Crown by Kathleen Givens
148. A Brief History of the Celts by Peter Ellis
149. The Histories by Herodotus
150. Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory
151. Wideacre by Philippa Gregory
152. The Favoured Child by Philippa Gregory
153. Meridon by Philippa Gregory
154. Henry VIII by Alison Weir
155. The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
156. The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
157. The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
158. Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford
159. A Brief History of the Tudor Age by Jaspar Ridley
160. The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
161. Decoding the Celts by Claire Hamilton and Steve Eddy
162. The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
163. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
164. Agnes Grey by Anna Bronte
165. The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
166. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
167. Emma by Jane Austen
168. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
169. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
170. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
171. Bestseller by Olivia Goldsmith
172. The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin December 12, 2012
173. Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
174. Ray Bradbury Omnibus (3 novels)
175. H.G. Wells Omnibus (7 novels)
176. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin October 8, 2012
177. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
178. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
179. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
180. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
181. The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan
182. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt July 6, 2013
183. The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice
184. A Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
185. The Tiger by John Vaillant
186. Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
187. 5,000 Years of Royalty by Craughwell
     
188. Left-Handed History of the World by Ed Wright
189. The Trial by Sadakat Kadri
190. 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!