Books sitting on my shelves, waiting to be read...

Submitted by burneyfan on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 06:04
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  1. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry, 1995)
  2. A New-England Nun: And Other Stories (Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1891)
  3. A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth, 1993)
  4. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Danilo Kis, 1976; trans. 1978)
  5. A Woman Named Anne (Henry Cecil, 1967)
  6. A Word Child (Iris Murdoch, 1975)
  7. All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque, 1929)
  8. Ammonite (Nicola Griffith, 1992)
  9. Aunt Blossom (Kristina Lugn, 1993)
  10. Burnt Orange (Eeva-Liisa Manner, 1968)
  11. Caleb Williams (William Godwin, 1794)
  12. Choke (Chuck Palahniuk, 2001)
  13. Cyteen (C.J. Cherryh, 1988)
  14. Dangling Man (Saul Bellow, 1944)
  15. Desolation Island (Patrick O’Brian, 1978)
  16. Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client (Dacia Maraini, 1978)
  17. Diderot (Arthur McCandless Wilson, 1957)
  18. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Anne Tyler, 1982)
  19. Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend (Gary L. Roberts, 2006)
  20. Domestic Manners of the Americans (Frances Trollope, 1832)
  21. Easy Now, Electra (Hrafnhildur Hagalín Gudmundsdóttir, 1998)
  22. Eden Cinema (Marguerite Duras, 1977)
  23. El Burlador (Suzanne Lilar, 1945)
  24. Farthing (Jo Walton, 2006)
  25. Fruit of the Lemon (Andrea Levy, 1999)
  26. Germinal (Émile Zola, 1885)
  27. Gilead (Marilynne Robinson, 2004)
  28. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, 1990)
  29. Hermsprong: or, Man as he is Not (Robert Bage, 1796)
  30. I, Robot (Isaac Asimov, 1950)
  31. Just Like a River (Muhammad Kamil Al-Khatib, 1984; Eng. trans. 2003)
  32. Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (Claire Tomalin, 1998)
  33. Lark Rise to Candleford (Flora Thompson, 1939-1943)
  34. Lauren’s Call (Paloma Pedrero, 1984)
  35. Legs (William Kennedy, 1983)
  36. Lincoln’s Dreams (Connie Willis, 1987)
  37. Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore, 1869)
  38. Lost in a Good Book (Jasper Fforde, 2002)
  39. Love (Toni Morrison, 2003)
  40. M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio (Peter Robb, 1998)
  41. Master Georgie (Beryl Bainbridge, 1998)
  42. Miss Marjoribanks (Margaret Oliphant, 1866)
  43. Morning and Evening (Astrid Saalbach, 1993)
  44. Music Lessons (Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, 1983)
  45. Night and Day (Virginia Woolf, 1919)
  46. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad, 1904)
  47. Odds Against (Dick Francis, 1965)
  48. Omeros (Derek Walcott, 1990)
  49. Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood, 2003)
  50. Outpost: John McLoughlin and the Far Northwest (Dorothy Nafus Morrison, 2005)
  51. Pendennis (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848-1850)
  52. Poems (Marianne Moore; complete Penguin edition pub. 2005)
  53. Quarantine (Jim Crace, 1997)
  54. Sacred Games (Vikram Chandra, 2006)
  55. Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (Claire Tomalin, 2002)
  56. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Judith Thurman, 2000)
  57. Silent Joe (T. Jefferson Parker, 2001)
  58. Snow (Orhan Pamuk, 2004)
  59. Sunday’s Children (Gerlind Reinshagen, 1976)
  60. Tell No One (Harlan Coben, 2001)
  61. The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow, 1953)
  62. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon, 2000)
  63. The Black Company (Glen Cook, 1984)
  64. The Blackmailer (Isabel Colegate, 1958)
  65. The Book of Masks (Hwang Sun-won, 1989)
  66. The Case of the Missing Books (Ian Sansom, 2007)
  67. The Castle (Franz Kafka, 1926)
  68. The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal, 1839)
  69. The Darling (Russell Banks, 2004)
  70. The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen, 1938)
  71. The Fountain Overflows (Rebecca West, 1957)
  72. The Fox (D.H. Lawrence, 1923)
  73. The Golden Harvest (Jorge Amado, 1944)
  74. The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans, 1995)
  75. The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (Daniela Fischerová, 1979)
  76. The Information (Martin Amis, 1995)
  77. The Japanese Film (Donald Richie & Joseph L. Anderson, 1959)
  78. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Anthony Trollope, 1867)
  79. The Longest Memory (Fred D’Aguiar, 1994)
  80. The Lost Garden (Helen Humphreys, 2002)
  81. The Morality of Mrs. Dulski (Gabriela Zapolska, 1906)
  82. The New Woman (Kalliroi Siganou-Parren, 1907)
  83. The Night Inspector (Frederick Busch, 1999)
  84. The Observations (Jane Harris, 2006)
  85. The Oregon Trail (Francis Parkman, 1847)
  86. The Philosopher's Pupil (Iris Murdoch, 1983)
  87. The Plague (Albert Camus, 1947)
  88. The Reserve (Russell Banks, 2008)
  89. The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2006)
  90. The Sandglass (Romesh Gunesekera, 1998)
  91. The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (Simone Benmussa, 1977)
  92. The Sot-weed Factor (John Barth, 1960)
  93. The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903)
  94. The Tenants of Time (Thomas Flanagan, 1988)
  95. The Tin Drum (Günter Grass, 1959)
  96. The Trip to Venice (Bjørg Vik, 1992)
  97. The Unicorn (Iris Murdoch, 1963)
  98. The Untouchable (John Banville, 1997)
  99. The Victim (Saul Bellow, 1947)
  100. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Horace McCoy, 1935)
  101. Thieves Like Us (Edward Anderson, 1937)
  102. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Tadeusz Borowski, 1948; Eng. ed. 1992)
  103. True History of the Kelly Gang (Peter Carey, 2000)
  104. Ulverton (Adam Thorpe, 1992)
  105. Underworld (Don DeLillo, 1997)
  106. Victory (Joseph Conrad, 1915)
  107. When Will There Be Good News? (Kate Atkinson, 2008)
  108. Yours for the Asking (Ana Diosdado, 1973)
Author Comments: 

+Highlight = what I'm reading just now (I usually keep a few going at a time)

11/10/08: the strikethrough lines don't seem to be working, so I've removed several titles that I've read, and added others

I was too lazy to do the "good librarian" thing and realphabetize all the books that begin with "A," "An," or "The." It's scary (or exhilarating?) that this is only a small number of the books at home that are always calling, "Read me!" If I could clone myself so that one of me goes to work and one of me stays home and reads all day, I'd be thrilled. (Actually, there's a good sci-fi novel about just that, if you're into interesting novels about "cloning": Kiln People by David Brin.)

JohnnyW02/06/2008

I also have a copy of Germinal sitting on my shelf, calling to be read. One of these days, a depressing novel about coal miners will be just the thing to pick up.

I have read Caleb Williams though and really enjoyed it. If you've read Frankenstein, you'll see how Godwin's novel influenced his daughter's as far as themes go.

Johnny Waco