List of Books I Own Which I Plan To Read Very, Very Soon (Like Next Week, Or Something)

Submitted by n2lect2el on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 04:18
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  1. Cryptonomicon--Neal Stephenson
  2. The Rig Veda--Anonymous
  3. The Blackbird--Richard Stark
  4. One Writer's Beginnings--Eudora Welty
  5. Cloud Atlas-- David Mitchell
  6. The Hero With a Thousand Faces--Joseph Cambell
  7. House Made of Dawn--N. Scott Momaday
  8. Invisible Man--Ralph Ellison
  9. Njal's Saga--Anonymous
  10. Arthurian Romances--Chretien de Troyes
  11. The Professor’s House--Willa Cather
  12. Pastoralia--George Saunders
  13. Wonder Boys--Michael Chabon
  14. Sophie's World--Jostein Gaarder
  15. King Rat--China Mieville
  16. Underworld--Don Delillo
  17. A Friend of the Earth--T.C. Boyle
  18. Religions of Star Trek--
  19. The Night Inspector--Frederick Busch
  20. Mr. Vertigo--Paul Auster
  21. Coyote Blue--Christopher Moore
  22. Carter Beats the Devil--Glen David Gold
  23. Across the Nightingale floor--Lian Hern
  24. Grass for his pillow--Hern (still need)
  25. Brillance of the Moon--Hern
  26. The Living--Annie Dillard
  27. A Model World--Michael Chabon
  28. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven--Sherman Alexie
  29. Little Children--Tom Perrotta
  30. Quicksilver--Neal Stephenson
  31. Mansfield Park--Jane Austen
  32. The Rebel--Camus
  33. Krakatoa--Simon Winchester
  34. Oryx and Crake--Margaret Atwood
  35. War and Peace--Tolstoy
  36. Dr. Bloodmoney--Philip K. Dick
  37. Counter Clock World--Philip K. Dick
  38. The Simulacra--Philip K. Dick
  39. Galactic Pot Healer--Philip K. Dick
  40. Puttering About in a Small Land--Philip K. Dick
  41. Mary and the Giant--Philip K. Dick
  42. A Maze of Death--Philip K. Dick
  43. All the King's Men--Robert Penn Warren
  44. Silent Joe--T. Jefferson Parker
  45. Just One Look--Harlan Coben
  46. The Effect of Living Backwards--Heidi Julavets
  47. Smilla's Sense of Snow--Peter Hoeg
  48. Life of Pi--Yann Martel
  49. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time--Mark Haddon
  50. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil--John Berent
  51. The Ciderhouse Rules--John Irving
  52. Waiting--Ha Jin
  53. The Amber Spyglass--Philip Pullman
  54. The Venetian’s Wife--Nick Bantock
  55. The Tao of Physics--Fritjof Capra
  56. The Wicked Day--Mary Stewart
  57. Refiner's Fire--Mark Helprin
  58. London Fields--Martin Amis
  59. The Street Lawyer--John Grisham
  60. The Perfect Storm
  61. The Name of the Rose--Umberto Eco
  62. The Road to Wellville--T. C. Boyle
  63. The World According to Garp--John Irving
  64. The French Lieutienet's Woman--John Fowles
  65. Their Eyes Were Watching God--Zora Neale Hurston
  66. Plainsong--Kent Haruf
  67. Dead Man Walking--Helen Prejean
  68. The Unberable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera
  69. The English Patient--Michael Ondotje
  70. A Civil Action--Harr
  71. A Widow for One Year--John Irving
  72. Killshot--Elmore Leonard
  73. Kitchen Confidential--Anthony Bourdain
  74. Seabiscut--Lauren Hillenbrand
  75. The Rapture of Canan--Sheri Reynolds
  76. The Golden Compass--Philip Pullman
  77. The Gaurdian--Nicholas Sparks
  78. Nights in Rodanthe--Nicholas Sparks
  79. Beach Music--Pat Conroy
  80. The Master of Petersburg--J. M Coetzee
  81. Bel Canto--Ann Patchett
  82. Dirt Music--Tim Winton
  83. Master and Commander--Patrick O'Brian
  84. The Rule of Four--Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
  85. Crossing to Safety--Wallace Stegner
  86. From Here to Eternity--James Jones
  87. My Harp is Turned to Mourning--A. Reimer
  88. Rain Fall--Barry Eisler
  89. The Golden Apples of the Sun--Ray Bradbury
  90. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn--Betty Smith
  91. Wyvern--A. A. Attanasio
  92. In the Cut--Suzannah Moore
  93. A Darkness More Than Night--Michael Connelly
  94. Peace Like a River--Leif Enger
  95. My Year of Meats--Ruth L. Ozenki
  96. Fast Food Nation--Eric Schlosser
  97. Downbelow Station--C. J. Cherryh
  98. East, West--Salman Rushdie
  99. The Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo--Friedrich Nietzsche
  100. The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster--E. M Forster
  101. Xenocide--Orson Scott Card
  102. The Color of Magic--Terry Pratchett
  103. Glory Season--David Brin
  104. The Bookman’s Promise--John Dunning
  105. Poison--Ed McBain
  106. Bones of Coral--James W. Hall
  107. The Orchid Thief--Susan Orlean
  108. The Magician’s Wife--Brian Moore
  109. Libra--Don Dellilo
  110. Herzog--Saul Bellow
  111. Of Love and Other Demons--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  112. I Am Charlotte Simmons--Tom Wolfe
  113. After the Plague--T. C. Boyle
  114. Maia--Richard Adams
  115. The Liars Club--Mary Karr
  116. The Secret Life of Lazlo, Count Dracula--Roderick Anscombe
  117. The Matarese Circle--Robert Lundlum
  118. Cold Mountain--Charles Frazier
  119. Brightness Falls--Jay McInnerny
  120. Black and Blue--Anna Quindlen
  121. The Greatest Generation--Tom Brokaw
  122. The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing--Mellisa Banks
  123. Centennial--James Michener
  124. Cat Chaser--Elmore Leonard
  125. The Snow Queen--Joan D. Vinge
  126. All the Pretty Horses--Cormac Mcarthy
  127. Oriental Mythology--Joseph Campbell
  128. She’s Come Undone--Wally Lamb
  129. The Tipping Point--Malcolm Gladwell
  130. Notes From a Small Island--Bill Bryson
  131. The Beach--Alex Garland
  132. White Teeth--Zadie Smith
  133. Bringing Out the Dead--Joe Connelly
  134. The Dive From Clausen’s Pier--Ann Packer
  135. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress--Dai Sijie
  136. The Palace Thief--Ethan Canin
  137. The Well of Lost Plots--Jasper Fforde
  138. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed--John Irving
  139. The Alchemist--Paul Coelho
  140. The October Country--Ray Bradbury
  141. Possesion--A. S. Byatt
  142. The Chancellor Manuscript--Robert Ludlum
  143. Description (Elements of Fiction Writing)--Monica Wood
  144. You Can Write a Mystery--Gillian Roberts
  145. The Kitchen God’s Wife--Amy Tan
  146. Night Fall--Nelson De Mille
  147. I Know This Much Is True--Wally Lamb
  148. The Norton Book of Nature Writing--Robert Finch and John Elder
  149. Freedom in Exile--The Dali Lama
  150. Look Homeward Angel--Thomas Wolfe
  151. Le Divorce--Diane Johnson
  152. The True History of the Kelly Gang--Peter Carey
  153. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains--Isabella L. Bird
  154. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman--Mary Wollstonecraft
  155. Empire Falls--Richard Russo
  156. The Reader--Bernhard Schlink
  157. Rum Punch--Elmore Leonard
  158. The Samurai’s Garden--Gail Tsukiyama
  159. The Good Old Stuff--John D. MacDonald
  160. The Valley of Fear--Arthur Conan Doyle
  161. His Last Bow--Arthur Conan Doyle
  162. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes--Arthur Conan Doyle
  163. Persuasion--Jane Austen
  164. Angela’s Ashes--Frank McCourt
  165. Ethan Frome--Edith Wharton
  166. Middlemarch--George Eliot
  167. The Woman in White--Wilkie Collins
  168. The Moonstone--Wilkie Collins
  169. Mao II--Don DeLillo
  170. Mrs. Dalloway--Virginia Woolf
  171. A Thousand Acres--Jane Smiley
  172. The Oxbow Incident--Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  173. Junky--William S. Burroughs
  174. A Burnt-Out Case--Graham Greene
  175. The Comedians--Graham Greene
  176. The Fixer--Bernard Malamud
  177. Angle of Repose--Wallace Stegner
  178. Chesapeake--James Michener
  179. Communion--Whitley Strieber
  180. This Gun for Hire--Graham Greene
  181. The Third Man--Graham Greene
  182. Our Man in Havana--Graham Greene
  183. The Honarary Consul--Graham Greene
  184. Enough Rope--Lawrence Block
  185. The Narrows--Michael Connelly
  186. The Golden Spiders--Rex Stout
  187. Bleachers--John Grisham
  188. The Moon and Sixpence--W. Somerset Maugham
  189. The Dante Club--Mathew Pearl
  190. The Tortilla Curtain--T. Coraghessan Boyle
  191. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings--Maya Angelou
  192. A Fine Balance--Rohinton Mistry
  193. Animal Dreams--Barbara Kingsolver
  194. An American Tragedy--Theodore Dreiser
  195. The Fatal Shore--Robert Hughes
  196. The Feeling Good Handbook--David D. Burns
  197. Wicked--Gregory Maguire
  198. The Once and Future King--T. H. White
  199. Children of the Mind--Orson Scott Card
  200. Burmese Days--George Orwell
  201. The Good Earth--Pearl S. Buck
  202. The Marble Faun--Nathaniel Hawthorne
  203. The Caine Mutiny--Herman Wouk
  204. The Right Stuff--Tom Wolfe
  205. The Joy Luck Club--Amy Tan
  206. The Fourth Hand--John Irving
  207. Void Moon--Michael Connelly
  208. Freaky Deaky--Elmore Leonard
  209. The Andromeda Strain--Michael Crichton
  210. The Spy Who Loved Me--Ian Fleming
  211. The Talisman--Stephen King and Peter Straub
  212. Dolores Claiborne--Stephen King
  213. Carrie--Stepen King
  214. Cujo--Stephen King
  215. Christine--Stephen King
  216. The Witching Hour--Anne Rice
  217. The Hunt For Red October--Tom Clancy
  218. Seize the Night--Dean Koontz
  219. Devil in a Blue Dress--Walter Mosely
  220. Native Son--Richard Wright
  221. The Great and Secret Show--Clive Barker
  222. The Subtle Knife--Philip Pullman
  223. Magic--William Goldman
  224. Loyalty in Death--Nora Roberts (J. D. Robb)
  225. Reunion in Death--Nora Roberts (J. D. Robb)
  226. The Terminal Man--Michael Crichton
  227. City of Bones--Michael Connelly
  228. Gone, Baby, Gone--Dennis Lehane
  229. A Drink Before the War--Dennis Lehane
  230. Sacred--Dennis Lehane
  231. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon--Stephen King
  232. The Regulators--Stephen King
  233. Hearts in Atlantis--Stephen King
  234. Clockers--Richard Price
  235. The Switch--Elmore Leonard
  236. Jurrassic Park--Michael Crichton
  237. The Concrete Blonde--Michael Connelly
  238. Mr. Majestyk--Elmore Leonard
  239. The Hotel New Hampshire--John Irving
  240. The Pelican Brief--John Grisham
  241. Terms of Endearment--Larry McMurtry
  242. The Princess Bride--William Goldman
  243. When the Wind Blows--James Patterson
  244. The Villa--Nora Roberts
  245. The Client--John Grisham
  246. The Runaway Jury--John Grisham
  247. The Firm----John Grisham
  248. Space--James Michener
  249. Eaters of the Dead--Michael Crichton
  250. Rising Sun--Michael Crichton
  251. The Great Train Robbery--Michael Crichton
  252. Lasher--Anne Rice
  253. The Godfather--Mario Puzo
  254. The King of Torts--John Grisham
  255. The Testament--John Grisham
  256. The Chamber--John Grisham
  257. Chaos--James Gleick
  258. The Magus--John Fowles
  259. The Long Lavender Look--John D. MacDonald
  260. The Human Factor--Graham Greene
  261. The Lonesome Gods--Louis Lamour
  262. Force 10 From Navarone--Alistair Maclean
  263. Soft Touch--John D. MacDonald
  264. Tai-Pan--James Clavell
  265. All These Condemned--John D. MacDonald
  266. The Empty Trap--John D. MacDonald
  267. Cinnamon Skin--John D. MacDonald
  268. The Drowner--John D. MacDonald
  269. The Crack In Space--Philip K. Dick
  270. We Can Build You--Philip K. Dick
  271. Vulcan's Hammer--Philip K. Dick
  272. The Last One Left--John D. MacDonald
  273. Contrary Pleasure--John D. MacDonald
  274. Soft Come the Dragons--Dean R. Koontz
  275. Dark of the Woods--Dean R. Koontz
  276. The Thanatos Syndrome--Walker Percy
  277. Havana Bay--Martin Cruz Smith
  278. Love in the Ruins--Walker Percy
  279. Fear of Flying--Erica Jong
  280. Sick Puppy--Carl Hiaasen
  281. Murder For The Bride--John D. MacDonald
  282. The Voice of the Night--Dean R. Koontz
  283. Fear Nothing--Dean R. Koontz
  284. The Price of Murder--John D. MacDonald
  285. The Brass Cupcake--John D. MacDonald
  286. You Live Once--John D. MacDonald
  287. A Key to the Suite--John D. MacDonald
  288. Cancel Our Vows--John D. MacDonald
  289. Into Thin Air--Jon Krakauer
  290. The Lost World--Michael Crichton
  291. Brothers--William Goldman
  292. Message in a Bottle--Nicholas Sparks
  293. Glitz--Elmore Leonard
  294. Marathon Man--William Goldman
  295. The Terminal Man--Michael Crichton
  296. Blood Work--Michael Connelly
  297. A Case of Need--Michael Crichton
  298. All These Condemned--John D. MacDonald
  299. Clemmie--John D. MacDonald
  300. The Penultimate Truth--Philip K. Dick
  301. Eye in the Sky--Philip K. Dick
  302. Zorba the Greek--Nikos Kaznatzakis
  303. No Second Chance--Harlan Coben
  304. The Last Coyote--Michael Connelly
  305. Hell to Pay--George P. Pelecanos
  306. Right as Rain--George P. Pelecanos
  307. Blue Highways--William Least Heat Moon
  308. Ragtime--E. L. Doctorow
  309. A Deadly Shade of Gold--John D. MacDonald
  310. Bright Orange for the Shroud--John D. MacDonald
  311. Light in August--William Faulkner
  312. The Viking Portable Nietzsche--Nietzsche
  313. The Man Who Japed--Philip K. Dick
  314. Dr. Futurity--Philip K. Dick
  315. Slavers of Space--John Brunner
  316. Border Town Girl--John D. MacDonald
  317. The Only Girl in the Game--John D. MacDonald
  318. Pale Gray for Guilt--John D. MacDonald
  319. The Hunt for Red October--Tom Clancy
  320. The Varieties of Religious Experience--William James
  321. Today We Choose Faces--Roger Zelazny
  322. Noble House--James Clavell
  323. The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper--John D. MacDonald
  324. Deadly Welcome--John D. MacDonald
  325. A Man of Affairs--John D. MacDonald
  326. Rebecca--Daphne Du Maurier
  327. More Good Old Stuff--John D. MacDonald
  328. The Scarlet Ruse--John D. Macdonald
  329. Fear That Man--Dean R. Koontz
  330. Toyman--E. C. Tubb
  331. Dragonfly--K. R. Dwyer (Dean Koontz)
  332. Seven--John D. MacDonald
  333. Texas--James Michener
  334. The Winds of War--Herman Wouk
  335. The Ganymede Takeover--Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson
  336. Time Out Of Joint--Philip K. Dick
  337. Shogun--James Clavell
  338. Triple-Ken Follett
  339. The Man From St. Petersburg--Ken Follett
  340. The Guns of Navarone--Alistair Maclean
  341. False Memory--Dean Koontz
  342. Hostage--Robert Crais
  343. Myths To Live By--Joseph Campbell
  344. A Prayer For Owne Meany--John Irving
  345. Tunnel in the Sky--Robert Heinlein
  346. Dead Low Tide--John D. Macdonald
  347. The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything--John D. Macdonald
  348. Majipoor Chronicles--Robert Silverberg
  349. Running Blind--Desmond Bagley
  350. Love Story--Erich Segal
  351. Icebound--Dean Koontz
  352. As I Lay Dying--William Faulkner
  353. Roughing It--Mark Twain
  354. One More Sunday--John D. MacDonald
  355. Valentine Pontifex--Robert Silverberg
  356. The Smoke Ring--Larry Niven
  357. The Deceivers--John D. MacDonald
  358. Please Write For Details--John D. MacDonald
  359. Where is Janice Gentry?--John D. MacDonald
  360. Animal Farm--George Orwell
  361. No Deadly Drug--John D. MacDonald
  362. April Evil--John D. MacDonald
  363. A Flash of Green--John D. MacDonald
  364. Night Chills--Dean Koontz
  365. Condominium--John D. MacDonald
  366. Farnham's Freehold--Robert A. Heinlein
  367. The Neon Jungle--John D. MacDonald
  368. The Bridge at Andau--James Michener
  369. The Unteleported Man--Philip K. Dick
  370. Solar Lottery--Philip K. Dick
  371. Our Friends From Frolix 8--Philip K. Dick
  372. The Eyes of Darkness--Dean Koontz
  373. Ballroom of the Skies--John D. MacDonald
  374. Area of Suspicion--John D. MacDonald
  375. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
  376. The Greeks--H. D. F. Kitto
  377. Anything for Billy--Larry McMurtry
  378. Green Hills of Africa--Ernest Hemingway
  379. Wine of the Dreamers--John D. MacDonald
  380. The Beach Girls--John D. MacDonald
  381. Judge Me Not--John D. MacDonald
Author Comments: 

This is a work in progress. I have several shelves of books to go and I'll surely end up with over 500 books on this list by the time I'm done. But since I'm always buying books, I'll probably always be updating this list (which I plan to do sporadically, if not even less often).

Ultimately, I'd like to be able to say that the first hundred books on this list are the ones that I plan to read in the next year or so, but I don't think I'm there yet. Right now, there's some sense of "sooner" than "later" to the first hundred books listed here, but it's all pretty rough. I've never really been good about deciding what I was going to read next so the idea of queing them up here seems a little hard to me. But, at the same time, I think that I'd like to give queing them up a good, solid try . . . so we'll just have to see how this list develops.

listology4712/17/2005

You have Atwood's Oryx and Crate on your list twice.

n2lect2el12/17/2005

Fixed. Thanks.

misscurly12/17/2005

I thought that book was one of her best. Good choice on buying it, I'm sure you'll enjoy it when you get the chance!
:)

n2lect2el12/18/2005

Yeah. I've heard a lot of good things about it. I think it is one that I'm definitely going to knock off as soon as possible. But I've had it for a while and haven't gotten around to it yet, so we'll just have to see how it goes.

idzan.ismail11/14/2008

Hi

Most of the books listed I owned it too. Some have read. Some yet to read.
But the one I'm looking for is A tree In Brooklyn. I already told my girl who is a sophomore at University of Chicago to ge it.
But it hasnt been found yet. Cheers Idzan Ismail
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
idzan.ismail@gmail.com

dashforcover06/18/2009

The English title is "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Wonderful, wonderful book.