The reading that might come after…

Current, ever growing wishlist:

1. Wilkie Collins – Peter Ackroyd
2. Alys, Always – Harriet Lane
3. Bone and Cane – David Belbin
4. The Uninvited Guests – Sadie Jones
5. Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate – Gail Carriger
6. Gold – Chris Cleave
7. The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey
8. Rabbit, Run – John Updike.
9. The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach.
10. Angelmaker – Nick Harkaway.
11. The Duke’s Children – Anthony Trollope.
12. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin.
13. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
14. The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes.
15. Before I Go to Sleep – S J Watson.
16. The Somnambulist – Essie Fox. Pants.
17. Tell Me Everything – Sarah Salway.
18. The Thirteen Treasures – Michelle Harrison.
19. Thursbitch – Alan Garner. I’ve always been put off by the title, but re-reading Moon of Gomrath revealed it’s a place name. So that seems ok then.
20. Authenticity – Deirdre Madden. Because I loved Molly Fox’s Birthday.
21. Nocturnes – Peter Connolly. Because apparently there’s a scary ass clown story in there. Yes, there bloody well is.
22. Safe from the Sea – Peter Geye
23. Sea Room – Adam Nicolson
24. Have You Anything to Declare? – Maurice Baring
25. Samuel Pepys – Claire Tomalin
26. Who is Mr Satoshi? – Jonathan Lee (Me & My Big Mouth)
27. Arabesque – Theresa de Kerpely
28. Tea with Mr Rochester – Frances Towers
29. The Expendable Man – Dorothy B. Hughes
30. Tony and Susan – Austin Wright.
31. Conceit – Mary Novik.
32. Troubles – J.G Farrell
33. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography – Serena Hastings.
34. The Skeptical Romancer – W. Somerset Maugham. Because, gradually, I will read all of Maugham.
35. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age – Clay Shirky. May as well read the occasional industry relevant title.
36. The Nether World – George Gissing.
37. Thus was Adonis Murdered – Sarah Caudwell. Bookclub book that I missed.
38. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien. Tried and failed on audio, but it keeps coming up. There’s something I’m missing.
39. The Magus – John Fowles. I read this a long time ago, but it’s been brought to my attention again.
40. Blindfold Games – Alan Ross (Slightly Foxed)
41. Eagle in the Snow – Wallace Breem (Slightly Foxed)
42. The Leopard and the Cliffs – Wallace Breem (Slightly Foxed – they slipped up and accidentally let someone write about a book that is back in print. OMFG.)
43. A High-Pitched Buzz – Roger Longrigg (Slightly Foxed, which claims it may be compared to Simon Raven’s The Rich Pay Late but without the nastiness. They’d better be walkin’ the walk.)
44. A Sort of Life – Graham Greene (Slightly Foxed edn)
45. Faithful Place – Tana French.</span. Which I will totally be buying and reading while in Dublin.
46. The New Best Recipe – Cook’s Illustrated
47. We Are Now Beginning our Descent – James Meek
48. James Bond Modern Classics. (Especially if they come with a free Daniel Craig.)
49. Penguin Clothbound Classics. All of them. Except Jane Eyre, Sense & Sensibility and Little Women, which I own courtesy of the wonderful Zoesmom.
50. The Tapestry of Love – Rosy Thornton (Charlotte’s Web)
51. The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas (Charlotte’s Web)
52. The Peacock Summer – Rumer Godden (Vintage Reads)
53. Light Reading – Aliya Whiteley (Me&MyBigMouth)
54. A Preparation for Death – Greg Baxter (The Asylum)
55. Still Missing – Beth Gutcheon (Dovegrey Reader)
56. Boy A – Jonathan Trigell (Books I Done Read)
57. The Passage – Justin Kronin (Hobgoblin),. Sounds like enjoyable nonsense.
58. So Much for That – Lionel Shriver (Bookstack)
59. When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro (Bookstack)
60. The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman (MS) Thanks to Dor for sending it over from the US! Like this a lot.
61. The Surrendered – Chang Rae Lee (MS)
62. Richard – Ben Myers (Me & My Big Mouth)
63. Any Human Face – Charles Lambert (Me & My Big Mouth)
64. In Praise of Older Women – Stephen Vicinczey (The Asylum) Loved it!
65. East Lynne – Ellen Wood
66. Eothen – Alexander Kinglake
67. The Image of a Drawn Sword – Jocelyn Brooke (The Asylum)
68. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray (Slightly Foxed)
69. Blaming – Elizabeth Taylor
70. The BBC Talks of EM Forster, 1929-1960: A Select Edition – EM Forster
71. Admission – Jean Hanff Korelitz
72. The Lost Books of the Odyssey – Zachary Mason – which I now really, really want because it’s Scott Pack’s book of the year for 2010.
73. The rest of John Harvey’s DCI Charlie Resnick series from Bloody Brits Press. I’m at Cold Light.
74. A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – James William Johnson
75. The Very Thought of You – Rosie Alison. This was rubbish.
76. Horns – Joe Hill. Oh, c’mon! Heart-Shaped Box was greatly spooky. And in this one, a guy grows horns?! Hill might just pull that off. Not according to the reviews. Off the list. Ok, picked it up in pb.
77. All the Modesty Blaise books I don’t already have. Not the ones with pictures, the ones with words.
78. Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty – Catherine Bailey
79. Letty Fox, Her Luck – Christina Stead
80. Fathom – Cherie Priest
81. The Nebuly Coat – John Meade Falkner
82. Lost in Music – Giles Smith
83. Another Self – James Lee-Milne Just a bit precious for my liking.
84. 84 Charing Cross Road – Helen Hanff From Thomas at My Porch, and a vastly belated recognition of that fact on my part. Much guilt, many apologies. Loved it.
85. Mortal Love – Elizabeth Hand
86. Black Juice – Margo Lanagan
87. Grave Goods – Ariana Franklin
88. The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith
89. Nightmare Abbey – Thomas Love Peacock
90. Tristram Shandy – Lawrence Sterne
91. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
92. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
93. Sybil – Benjamin Disraeli
94. Haunted Ground – Erin Hart Got in on audio.
95. The Poison Tree – Erin Kelly
96. Skippy Dies – Paul Murray. Bought it, that’s a start. Read it!
97. Heliopolis – James Scudamore
98. Hyddenworld – William Horwood
99. Cheap Jack Zita – Sabine Baring Gould. Apparently completely unavailable unless one has hundreds of dollars. Publishers! Come on! POD, guys, POD.
100. An Imam in Paris – Rifa’a Rafi’al Tahtawi.
101. Love, Sex and Tragedy – Simon Goldhill
102. An Attic in Greece – Austen Kark
103. Over the Hills and Far Away – Candida Lycett Green Off the list, didn’t like the other book by her that I read enough to read more.
104. Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia – John Dickie From Chris, for Xmas 2009.
105. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
106. A Biography of Latin – Nicholas Ostler
107. Seven Types of Ambiguity – Elliott Perlman
108. Utopia – Thomas More
109. Murther and Walking Spirits – Robertson Davies
110. Aeschylus – Louis MacNeice. Yes! Yes! Finally found, completely by happenstance, in the window of a second-hand bookshop somewhere in Dublin.
111. To Charles Fort, with Love – Caitlin Kiernan
112. A Field Guide to Getting Lost – Rebecca Solnit
113. The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa – Michael Kimmerman
114. Hercules: Scenes from an Heroic Life – Alastair Blanshart
115. The Stone Quartet – Alan Garner Lovely. Not what I was expecting at all, but wonderfully spare writing.
116. The Woman who Waited – Andrei Makine.
117. Too Close to the Sun – Sarah Wheeler
118. The Seas – Samantha Hunt
119. Cooking with a Poet – Paul Roche (Slightly Foxed)
120. The Dark of Summer – Eric Linklater (Slightly Foxed)
121. Small Talk of Wreyland – Cecil Torr (Slightyl Foxed)
122. The Rich Pay Late
123. Friends in Low Places
124. The Sabre Squadron
125. Fielding Gray And thank you, Mr W, for the first 4. Now we just need Random House/Vintage to shake a leg and republish vol II.
126. The Judas Boy
127. Places Where They Sing
128. Sound the Retreat
129. Come Like Shadows
130. Bring Forth the Body
131. The Survivors
132. Twilight of the Superheroes – Deborah Eisenberg
133. Departure Lounge – Chad Taylor
134. A Civil Action – Jonathan Harr
135. The Futurist – James Othner
136. St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves – Karen Russell
137. The Fabric of Night – Christoph Peters
138. The Parasites – Daphne du Maurier
139. The Diary of a Provincial Lady – E M Delafield
140. Nomad’s Hotel – Cees Nooteboom (Slightly Foxed)
141. Fangland – John Marks
142. The Lying Tongue – Andrew Wilson
143. The Ministry of Special Cases – Nathan Englander from Zoesmom, Xmas 2008
144. Margrave of the Marshes – John Peel
145. The Game – Diana Wynne Jones
146. Virtue in the Cave – Roslyn Weiss
147. Rifleman Dodd – C S Forrester
148. Moralia – Plutarch
149. Day – A L Kennedy
150. A History of Reading – Alberto Manguel
151. Midnight in Sicily – Peter Robb
152. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony – Roberto Calasso
153. On Bullfighting – A L Kennedy
154. The Prospect Before Her – Olwen Hulton
155. The Summer Book – Janssen Tove
156. The Box of Delights – John Masefield
157. Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
158. The Children of Green Knowe – L M Boston
159. Quieter than Sleep – Joanne Dobson
160. The Greengage Summer – Rumer Godden
161. A Mystery for Ninepence – P Gegan
162. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
163. My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier
164. Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne du Maurier
165. Farewell, Leicester Square – Betty Miller
166. We Danced All Night – Martin Pugh
167. Maddy Alone – Pamela Brown
168. Blue Door Venture – Pamela Brown
169. Golden Pavements – Pamela Brown
170. Maddy Again – Pamela Brown
171. The Unburied – Charles Palliser
172. Betrayals – Charles Palliser
173. Isabel and the Sea – George Millar
174. The Worm Forgives the Plough – John Stewart Collins
175. The Man Who Sold Death – James Munro.
176. Delicate, Edible Birds – Lauren Groff. Have sneaky suspicion that I want this because the cover is so pretty, not because I am so overwhelmed with her writing talent. Judging a cover by its book?
177. Wanderlust – Rebecca Solnit. Borrowed but as yet unread. And thus, returned because if I’ve had it for this long without reading it, I could take a long time.